Wide Format Imaging

Recycling, volatile organic compounds, fair trade, and waste management. These issues have a large impact on your business operations. As we explore sustainability in the next few pages, you'll learn how this in-demand corporate strategy can help your business drive profits and new growth opportunities.

With more specialty imaging customers choosing products and services from socially and environmentally responsible companies, now is the time to examine your operating procedures and see how sustainability can complement them. Sustainability doesn't have a one-size-fits-all plan. It's up to management and employees to lay the groundwork for procedures and programs that will address issues affecting the environment and communities while ensuring the continued growth of your company.

SGIA offers sustainability's outlying principles and examples of how successful imagers have started this journey, which has no end goal. Also, we've posted additional resources on SGIA.org, including details about how to become a certified printer with the Sustainable Green Printing (SGP) Partnership. This partnership provides objective, third-party verification to printing companies that have truly demonstrated sustainable efforts.

SGIA will devote an entire Future Forum discussion panel about corporate sustainability at SGIA '08. Industry experts will discuss the ins and outs of the SGP Printer status program. Plus, you'll see how the specialty imaging marketplace is responding to the "green" call with more environmentally conscious products and services.

Join the specialty imaging community in Atlanta, where you'll see innovative technologies, the latest market trends and fresh ideas for incorporating sustainability in everyday operations.

Michael Robertson, President/CEO