Bridging the Gap

An eye toward the environment

Sustainability initiatives are catching on, consumers are beginning to get the idea, and printers are addressing this market demand.

GS, Inc.’s own initiatives cover the gamut of printing supplies. “Currently we are in the process of testing many of the new ‘green’ materials that are being released,” explains Mountford. These include paper facestocks with a percentage of post-consumer waste, and “once [we complete] testing, we will be able to offer these materials as an option to our customers,” he adds. GS has also been working with its ink supplier, Water Ink Technologies, which has been developing new water-based inks and UV flexo inks that use renewable resources in their formulations. “The inks are both soy-content-compliant and replace 85 percent of the petroleum-based raw materials used in conventional inks with materials derived from renewable resources,” comments Mountford.