Green Challenge.(printing industry)

Graphic Arts Monthly, April, 2007 by Vruno, Mark

By Mark Vruno, Executive Editor

How one big printer manages heatset web and sheetfed emissions in Southern California's green scene.

The state of California's Environmental Protection Agency: Twenty, ten, even five years ago, just a mention of its name made many a Golden State printer cringe. As the regulatory force behind some of the most stringent environmental laws in the country, the Cal/EPA can make doing business more complicated for print shops.

For example, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), the smog-control agency for all or portions of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, has proposed a new law, set to take effect in 10 months, to reduce the concentration of pollution-producing...

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