I really appreciate the comment. Since I am not doing in-house offset or lithography, it becomes a matter for me to discuss the options available with the printers in the area. What I want to know for my own in-house printing is whether, or if ever, these friendlier technologies can be used for in-office equipment.

I have looked into green printing companies, and the ones I found were not local. This brings up the question of whether it would be environmentally friendly when it comes to shipping or delivery. It also brings up whether it would violate my personal principle of attempting to keep one’s money local. If there are any in the local area, I certainly DO want to hear about it.

One problem I had also encountered when doing research with the offset soy/natural inks is that the colors are more limited, just as any natural pigments are more limited when dying cloth naturally. If the technology for natural inks has improved, I’d also be interested to hear about it.

It’s very difficult to find a compromise between the quality of life we’ve come to expect, and the environmentally responsible methods we can use to obtain it. It’s hard to compare whether it’s more harmful to the environment to ship something from out of the country that’s organic versus buying something locally produced that is not. This is the type of information I would love to see provided to the public, and is outside of my personal realm of expertise to produce or evaluate.

It is certainly my responsibility to research this information, and employ it to the best of my ability. I would love if others could help me find it, because all of our time on earth is finite, and I research and perform all kinds of things each day, so time always runs away from me. It’s not forgivable, but it is, I think, understandable.

Good luck, and I’ll see you again, in some forum or other, very soon!

Criss