Sustainable Environment:
Last year we moved to a different type of printer. It uses ink which it sprays onto the page at high speed. It can print an A4 sheet at over 6000 sheets per hour and can collate, staple, fold or both at slightly less than this speed. We have two of these printers so if we have a breakdown you will always get your magazine on time.
This technology uses no toners which was a major factor in our choosing this machine. Toners are quite environmentally suspect, the particles are of a size which can affect respiration and the process uses a great deal of heat and therefore electricity which is generally produced from burning carbon. There is also a great deal of unused bi-product in the form of waste toner which has to be disposed of in the environment when using toner printers.
While our process produces a very good quality reproduction of colour pictures we do appreciate that some high quality laser printers produce higher quality. We took the decision when purchasing the machine that the reproduction of images, which are still higher quality than newsprint, would not outweigh that of the toner’s environmental ‘incredibility’.
We feel that our market of printing Parish Magazines, church magazines and newsletters is ideally suited to the process which we had chosen.