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Printing Arts has been in the business of providing quality printing since 1975. Our success is based on our professionalism in quality service. We are an established, forward thinking, quality driven organization, who aspires to provide the highest quality print service with our knowledge and skills. We have the capabilities to service any print project. From large volume Offset printing through to "Print on demand" digital printing. We offer 1-9 color printing, with complete prepress, press, finishing services, in-house bindery and fulfillment, mailing, on-demand, warehouse and distribution services.

Year Established:

1975

Products and Services We Want to Sell:

• corporate marketing and product rollout materials

Sustainability Issues

Description of Our Sustainability Program:

Prepress Practices:

• Exclusively utilize computer to plate technology, eliminating film and film processing chemistry from the production process
• Employ digital inkjet proofers that produce less waste, utilize less energy and employ recyclable ink cartridges
• Employ digital soft proofing technology that enables internet-based transfer of proofing files to customers; reducing proofing paper and ink usage as well as transportation costs of hard proofs
• Recycle/Reuse all plastic plate chemistry containers
• Recycle/Repurpose electronic components that have surpassed their productive life
• This includes: computers, monitors, scanners, printers
• Employ more efficient, longer life plate chemistry that reduces the amount chemistry required to process a plate
• Recycle all printing plates after use

Press Practices:

• Utilize no Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) ultraviolet printing inks
• Utilize vegetable based conventional inks
• Utilize no VOC ultraviolet coatings
• Utilize low VOC water-based coatings
• Utilize tubed-ink and tub dispensing ink technology to eliminate residual can ink and ink skinning (oxidation) waste.
• Employ an in-house ink lab to mix required PMS colors, minimizing waste from over-ordering
• Employ ink inventory software that allows us to re-employ excess ink in new ink formulations
• Recycle blankets and blanket bars
• Recycle plate packing
• Internally recycle and re-utilize press wash up chemistry, eliminating press wash-up chemical disposal
• Internally filter press fountain solution, drastically reducing the amount of press fountain waste that is sent out for chemical recovery
• Utilize corn based spray powers that are recovered in a spray powder recovery system or filtered, minimizing fugitive dust discharge to the environment
• We have invested in state of the art printing equipment that eliminates environmental waste generated by the printing process, for example:
• Fewer make-ready and spoilage sheets
• More-efficient, lower chemical usage wash-up systems
• More-efficient, lower energy consumption equipment

Finishing Practices:

• We have invested in automated equipment that reduces material production and setup paper spoilage
• We recycle all machine oil waste

Digital Practices:

• Utilize digital color and black technology which includes:
• Environmentally safe toner
• Recyclable waste toner and fuser cartridges
• Have reduced or eliminated production and setup paper spoilage
• Do not use plates or chemistry in the printing process
• Smaller equipment manufacturing footprint

Recycle Program:

• 100% of all paper waste generated in our office and manufacturing spaces
• Printed and unprinted; coated and uncoated; corrugate and chip board; web, wrap and tape cores
• 100% of our plastic waste
• Printing plastic material, shrink film, stretch film, bottles, banding and other plastic items
• 100% of our used batteries, steel strapping, light bulbs, machine oils, ink waste, oil socks and company cell phones
• 100% of our chemical containers are recycled or re-used
• 100% of paper skids, paper wrapping materials, paper cartons, stub rolls are recycled or re-used

Our complete Recycling Program has enabled us to reduce garbage disposal by nearly 70%

Federal and State EPA compliant manufacturing facility:
Printing Arts’ facilities are EPA compliant meeting all licensing, reporting, and emissions criteria. By objective tracking, we have the ability to measure our environmental practices, and thus take initiatives to improve upon them.

Environmentally Friendly Partners and Vendors:
Printing Arts partners with environmentally conscious vendors and manufacturers that are committed to environmentally friendly manufacturing processes and facilities, reduced energy consumption and green house gas emissions, and increased recycling, re-utilization, and re-manufacturing processes.

Certifications and Memberships:

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  FSC Forest Stewardship Council Chain of Custody Certification
  
  Certification ID: SW-COC-002928