“Printing” Tag

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Myth Vs. Fact – Is Using Paper Bad for the Environment?

FSSI logo Kelly McConville on May 3, 2018

Is Paper as Environmentally Damaging as People Think? There are a lot of misconceptions about paper and paper products. Our landfills are filling up fast, and it’s mostly with paper, right? Wrong. Most paper isn’t recycled, right? Wrong. Paper recycling isn’t all that efficient, right? Wrong....

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Myth Vs. Fact – Will Going Paperless Save the Environment?

FSSI logo Kelly McConville on March 19, 2018

Will Replacing Print and Mail with Electronic Media Save the Environment? What could be more environmentally friendly than just sending electrons over wires where they magically form into documents on your desktop, laptop, or cell phone? The answer is in what it takes to get those little electrons to line up...

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Myth Vs. Fact – Can Recycled Paper be Used Indefinitely?

FSSI logo Kelly McConville on January 31, 2018

Surprising Facts About Paper Recycling People often assume that we can recycle paper over and over indefinitely. The truth is not so simple. Think of it this way, there is a limit to how many times shirts can be laundered. At some point, they lose so much of their fiber that they start to come apart. Paper...

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How Color Can Improve Boring Financial Statements?

FSSI logo Kelly McConville on January 12, 2018

Benefits of Adding Color to Statements and Customer Documents? There are many advantages of adding color to financial statements and other documents. Many companies still haven't realized just how valuable a well-designed document is to their business. If your print and digital statements are not the most...

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Myth Vs. Fact – The Paper Industry’s Carbon Footprint

FSSI logo Kelly McConville on December 20, 2017

Myth Vs. Fact: What is Paper's True Carbon Footprint? Do you feel guilty when you ask your bank for paper statements and not just eDelivery? Electronic banking helps banks save money on printing, mailing, and postage. However, don’t confuse their paperless marketing with environmental awareness. The...

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Myth Vs. Fact – Paper and the Environment

FSSI logo Kelly McConville on October 17, 2017

Is Paper a Renewable Resource? Avoiding the use of wood is not the way to protect forests for the long term. It is precisely the areas of the world that consume the least wood that continue to suffer the greatest forest loss. Myth: Paper is bad for the environment Fact: Recycled Paper is one of the few...

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Myth Vs. Fact – Is The Paper and Packaging Industry Destroying Forests?

FSSI logo Kelly McConville on August 16, 2017

Is the Paper and Packaging Industry Really Destroying Forests? Myth Vs. Fact Blog Series Part 1/8 We all want to be environmentally sensitive, and yet there are some myths that have grown up like bacteria in a broken refrigerator that have given print and mail a bad smell. We’d like to wipe those moldy...

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Benefits of Outsourcing Print and Mail – Reduce Costs, Risks, Increase Efficiency

FSSI logo Kelly McConville on April 21, 2017

Benefits of Outsourcing Print and Mail There are many benefits to print outsourcing. But first of all, we need to define the term print outsourcing. Outsourcing printing is when all printing, mailing, document management, multichannel delivery, and even marketing is handled by a third-party company....

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