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How Green Are We?
The Green Pagoda Press Ltd. providing truly eco-friendly green printing services
At Green Pagoda, we care for the environment. Our directors are chairman of the Printer Association and Graphic Arts Association. For more than 10 years, we have been promoting green printing to the printing industry in Hong Kong. GPP is one of the printing companies to implement green printing long time ago. To take one step further and to prove our commitment, we have recently achieved FSC Certification - Forest Stewardship Council Chain of Custody.

Action speaks louder than words. This is what we have been doing, even before getting the FSC certification:

Use the most eco-friendly papers available and recommend customers to use recycled paper.
Promote the use of FSC Certified paper, 100% recycled paper or paper containing recycled fiber.
Use eco-friendly ink that does not harm the environment and provide safe working conditions for employees.
Reduce chemical waste - offer quality Digital Print solutions whenever jobs are appropriate.
Promote print on demand. No overprinting.
Recycle - Waste paper and used aluminum printing plates are collected for recycling.
Assessed regularly by independent auditors to ensure everything should be done properly and continue to improve as a requirement of our 5S certification.
Without any price premium; educate customers about how to reduce a project's environmental impact.
With our reputation in the printing industry for over 50 years, paper chosen is guaranteed with no mixing of recycled paper with non recycled paper.

Value to our customer: being green and protect the environment without paying cost premium or sacrifice in quality.

FSC Certification
FSC is an independent, non-governmental, not for profit organization established to promote the responsible management of the world’s forests.

FSC Approved Printing Company Certification is the environmental award and acknowledges that we have been audited and are deemed complied with the FSC Chain of Custody Process.

Only FSC Approved Printers with the FSC Chain of Custody Certification may print the FSC Logo onto customer orders when using FSC Certified Paper or FSC Recycled Paper. This provides customers a guaranteed FSC product that has been tracked from its point of origin to the point of it being printed and dispatched.

For more information, please visit FSC web site www.fsc.org

The Green Pagoda Press Ltd. supports green living with offering on choices of paper media. Paper can be considered as environmental friendly either if they contain recycled materials or if measures have been taken to protect the environment in the process the paper is made. Quality of environmental friendly paper and recycled paper is just as good as any fine paper. Large range is available, in woodfree paper and art paper.

A glossary on environmental friendly/recycled paper:

Acid Free

Acid-free papers are manufactured in an alkaline environment, which prevents the internal chemical deterioration (yellow and become brittle) of the paper overtime. The addition of calcium carbonate as a buffer is considered archival and also makes the paper resistant to the effects of natural aging.

Cotton Fibers

Cotton fibers is from cotton linters: in cotton ginning process, the longer fibers have been removed for use in fabric, leaving short fibers which cannot be used to make textiles.

ECF (Elemental Chlorine Free)

Paper made from virgin or recycled fiber that is bleached using alternative chlorine compounds such as Chlorine Dioxide as a substitute for Elemental Chlorine. This reduces harmful by-products such as dioxin.

FSC (Forest Stewardship Council)

An international non-profit organization that sets management standards to certify “Forest Management” for sustainable forestry practices, and to certified a complete “Chain of Custody” from paper manufacturer, merchant to printer for management practices. The intent of the FSC system is to encourage the environmentally responsible, socially beneficial and economically viable way.

PCF (Process Chlorine Free)

Paper made with fiber recycled from post-consumer waste and bleached without chlorine compounds, using alternatives such as ozone, oxygen, hydrogen peroxide to eliminate the production of dioxin. PCF paper is generally considered the most environmental-friendly.

TCF (Totally Chlorine Free)

Paper made from 100% virgin fiber (including alternative fiber from sources other than trees) that bleached with non-chlorine compounds. Similar bleaching process as PCF, the different is that TCF refers to virgin fiber while PCF refers to recycled fiber.

Alternative Fibers

Any fiber sources other than wood. This includes crops grown specifically for fiber, such as hemp and bamboo. It is also derived from agricultural by-products such as sugarcane bagasse and cotton linters.

List of Non-wood Fibers:

Cotton Fibers
Bamboo Fibers
Kenaf Fibers
Bark Fibers
Rag Fibers
Straw Fibers
Mulberry Fibers
Rayon Fibers
Manila Hemp Fibers

Quick summary:

PCW - Post-Consumer Waste Fibers
ECF - Elemental Chlorine Free
PCF - Process Chlorine Free
TCF - Total Chlorine Free
FSC - Forest Stewardship Council

What is On-Demand digital printing? Is it a new photocopying service?
On-Demand digital printing means direct printing from your file at the exact required quantity. It is a 600 dpi high quality laser printing, not a photocopying service.

What machine do you use to provide this service?
Our DocuTech Production Publishing systems have revolutionized document publication. They are high volume, self contained computer-to-press printing devices, that can receive files from desktop PC, Apple Macintosh and networks via modem/Internet/ISDN.

How can I benefit from it?
Fast - you will have your job printed in a few hours.
Economical - print exact quantity you require, no excess storage, no more obsolete stock.
Flexible - you can submit digital file or hard copy original, photos can also be scanned in.

What kind of jobs are better to apply this new technology?
Financial Report, Research Report, Personalized printing, Training Manual, Installation Manual, Users Manual, Conference Manual, Short-Run Books, Educational Manuals, Mass Mailing Letters, Corporate Forms, Data Management Letters, Proposal, Invitation Cards, Photo Book and others.

Do you support Mac or PC?
We can handle files from desktop PC, Apple Macintosh and all PostScript compatible documents.

What software do you support?
We support all file formats like Microsoft Office, Word & Excel, Database Program, CorelDraw, Adobe Creative Suite, PageMaker, QuarkXpress, Publisher, etc.

Can you support multilingual document?
We can handle multilingual document in English, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, etc.

How do I prepare my file? Anything I need to take care?
No special format is required, while the document is prepared in Window or Mac platform.

I want to print customized data on each page, can you do that?
Yes, it is one of the strength of DocuTech Production Publishing systems. We support all database file format.

Can I send a file to you through the Internet?
You can send a file to us by FTP or Internet E-mail.

Can you do design and artwork for me?
We are a one-stop printer and offer a complete line of services. Green Pagoda's pre-press department provides creative and exciting design ideas. Our comprehensive plate-making and printing facilities mean that we can meet the requirements of co-ordinating colour into digital printing.

Can I choose different paper to print?
We can print on paper from 70 gsm to 300 gsm.

Do you provide binding service?
Document can be stapled, wire stitched, spiral bound, wire-O bound, thermal bound and case bound.

The benefit sounds great, is it expensive?
Digital printing is most suitable for short-run job, the price is much lower than offset printing.

Will you provide packaging and delivery service?
We have set up a special unit to handle complex collations, labelling, mass mailing and packaging of your products. This unit also has the ability to control term storage of document components. We are on-line with major international freight organization that will provide all the necessary paper work for worldwide distribution of your products.

Can you quote a job for me?
Please click here to send us your job detail.

Who is Green Pagoda? Tell me more about your company?
Established in 1957, we have more than half a century's experience in serving customers. Our watchwords are quality, speed and reliability. And we make it a point of understanding your business. Because only in that way we can respond to your needs. For more information please click here to have a look on our company profile.