Printing for the Environment

It ain't easy being green. Especially in the printing business. Currently, hundreds of millions of trees in North America are cut down annually just to supply fiber for writing and printing papers. This deforestation alone is detrimental to the woodlands, air quality and water reserves, not to mention how its affecting the way we live.

Helping Make the Earth Greener

Shoreline Press and our partners at Allegra Networks, are keenly aware of our responsibility to help make the Earth a greener, cleaner place to live. Our company operates in San Diego, as well as San Diego is our home, one of the most beautiful city's anywhere, where we can't help but be keenly aware of our precious resources. We're also aware of what we need to do to reduce our ecological footprint. By working closely with ego-conscious customer and vendors, like you, we can:

- Increase the use of recyclable materials

- Reduce toxins and waste

- Decrease emissions and energy consumption

- Develop waste prevention and reduction processes.

Thinking Green is Printing Smarter

The printing process can be resource intensive, but there are many "green practices" we can incorporate in our daily work routines to help diminish the amount of waste we generate. Here are some of the methods we are currently using:

Recycling Programs

From Paper to ink to money and everything in between, recycling saves. Period. It also reduces air pollution and waster to landfills. And that's a good thing.

Controlling Waste

Being an control freak has its advantages. By establishing inventory controls, we reduce waste and save cash. Sequencing print jobs by ink color saves ink changes and labor while eliminating waste.

Using resources Wisely

Incorporating recycled papers - with high levels of post-consumer content - into your communications projects helps keep a lot of paper out of landfills. Using paper from responsibly or scientifically managed forests goes even further in reducing the damage to our world's natural resources.

Choosing "Smart" Inks

Using vegetable-or soy-based inks means less toxins and VOC's (volatile organic compounds) are released into the air and soil. Avoiding inks containing heavy metals, like lead, cadmium and mercury, is also better for the environment.

Educating Consumers

By helping you understand the nature of "green" printing, you're really helping us producing a "greener" product for you.

Keeping it Green Together

At Shoreline Press, we create print projects that are not only environmentally responsible, but are higher quality, more affordable and produce results for your print and imaging budget.

In addition to green printing processes, we are also dedicated to adopting environmentally-friendly business practices. Here are a few things we can all do to help make our Earth a better place to live.

- Start a recycling program at your home our business.

- Reuse one-sided office forms or documents as scratch paper.

- Consider printing your next project utilizing recycled paper.

- Turn off the lights, computers and other equipment when not in use.

- Use ceramic cups and silverware instead of foam or plastic.

- Reuse boxes two or three times before you send them off for recycling.

Shoreline Press working with our customers for a greener planet.

San Diego, truly America's Finest City!