FRONTLINE: Operation Print Greener

The National Environmental Health & Safety Conference for the graphic arts industry, March 10-12, in Indianapolis—the only event specifically addressing a criteria for sustainable green printing—will feature groundbreaking research on how the trend to green has influenced the attitudes, decision making and activities of printing and packaging companies.

In a special keynote address, Mark DiVito, group research director of Reed Business Information (publishers of Graphic Arts Monthly), will present a report titled "The State of Sustainability in Graphic Communications", based on the results a thousands of industry firms surveyed.

The event will also serve as the venue to launch the sustainable green printing registry, a certification program to identify green printers to print buyers, organized by the SGP (Sustainable Green Printing) Partnership. Also on the agenda: becoming a sustainable green printer, how to join SGP, compliance updates, carbon foot printing and more.sgppartnership.org and nehsconference.org.