Remember, when you print, print reponsibly.

Let's face it, in environmental terms, printing has a bad name. Is the pulp and paper industry guilty of serious eco-crimes? Most definitely. Is Red Sun aware of the problems and working to support sustainable forestry and to fight polluting technologies? You know it. Don't print with dead trees. Print with Red Sun Press.

Our collective choices about resource usage matter enormously when it comes to industrial applications like printing. Paper businesses have been slowly yielding to the environmentally-conscious demands and greater awareness of their customers, participating in forest-saving programs such as those of the Forest Stewardship Council and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. While not perfect, these programs are helping to help sway the direction of paper manufacturing worldwide.

Red Sun long ago realized the need to stop destructive forestry and eliminate pollution from practices in the pulp industry . We chose to focus on offering high quality recycled paper to our customers, including many that are composed of 100% post-consumer waste and produced without toxic chlorine. Additional steps like using vegetable-based ink and reducing toxics in our own work environment came naturally.

Calculating the impact of your print jobs on the environment isn't the simplest equation around, but thanks to a resource from the Environmental Paper Network your environmental footprint is a few clicks away. The Paper Calculator can be used to evaluate the comparative effects of using paper stocks with recycled content vs. those without. We find, for instance, that if you print 50,000 4-page newsletters per year on our 100% post-consumer waste paper, you'll save over 2 tons of trees and 1,642 pounds of greenhouse gases over printing the same job on virgin paper.

Of course, the art and science of printing with a low-impact process requires a little more thought and finesse than traditional print operations. The paper needs more babying at every stage, from storing it to rolling it through the presses. With our years of experience, you can count on Red Sun to get low-VOC vegetable inks to look great even on the most challenging recycled paper surfaces.