The latest new additions to the site are some pages on carbon footprints - I'll be adding to these over time.
We started 2010 with the follow up article on soft proofing by Colour Management expert Paul Sherfield, supplementing his feature on how you can save money with colour-managed workflows.
If you've not read them yet, do take a look at two pieces added at the end of last year. Technotrans offer an explanation of what IPA actually does in the fount and why you need extra filtration if you stop using it. A case study by Richard Gray from Vision in Print shows how you can save money on materials costs by involving staff in seeking out waste.
Envirowise estimates are that waste, on average, costs 4% of turnover. With material costs being such a large part of any printer's spend, this is well worth looking at further.
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The first of these would involve measuring greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) related to your activities as a company, and the second involves measuring the GHGs over the life cycle of a product.
As mentioned in the introduction to this section, fount filtration plays an important part in successfully changing to printing without alcohol.
The IPA in the fount not only changes the way the fount solution and ink react to each other, but also masks the effect of dirt in the fount. Adding extra filtering prevents many of these problems from arising in the first place, so you don't need the effect of the alcohol.
The following article, kindly provided by Technotrans, explains this in detail.
The idea of 'lean' manufacturing really took off after Toyota redesigned their production system, taking them from being a small, almost bankrupt manufacturer in 1948 to what they are today. Out of their system, 'lean' was developed - although the principles go much further back in time.
The IPA in the fount not only changes the way the fount solution and ink react to each other, but also masks the effect of dirt in the fount. Adding extra filtering prevents many of these problems from arising in the first place, so you don't need the effect of the alcohol.