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PRINT SERVICE NEW YORK CITY

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This is your destination for printing, document services and much more. Take advantage of our products and services to meet your personal and business marketing needs. You can trust your project to us!

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New York City Print Shop Services
  • New York City Commercial Printing -
    East Coast Graphics serves the commercial printing needs of organizations of every size, from small family-run businesses to large corporations. From one-color letterheads to eight-color consumer catalogs with die-cutting, perfect binding and UV laminating, East Coast Graphics’ committed professionals deliver on every job.
  • New York City Business Forms Printing -
    Business Forms are your company’s link with all the people that make your business a success – your suppliers, your customers, your financial backers. Printed forms help you communicate and receive vital information. It is very important that your forms function well and represent your company in the best possible way. East Coast Graphics can help you accomplish the designing and printing of forms that work for you.
  • New York City Digital Printing -
    Variable, on-demand digital printing is shaping the next generation of direct marketing. Companies/organizations of all sizes and industries now have the ability to customize and target materials by individual—helping them communicate with customers, clients and partners on a truly one-to-one basis. Because materials can be produced on demand, digital printing provides a huge cost benefit to clients through increased control and predictability. The process avoids the waste, obsolescence and storage costs that come with traditional commercial printing methods. From the simplest black and white mailer to multi-piece membership packages, East Coast Graphics is your one-stop source for on-demand digital printing.
  • New York City Label Printing -
    With a vast array of pressure sensitive products, East Coast Graphics is ready to handle any label printing requirement- whether your labels are targeted for consumer or industrial goods, used in the healthcare environment or part of a warehousing and distribution system. Our goal is to meet the growing need for a custom label source utilizing the latest technologies blended with old fashioned quality and customer care. We offer a complete range of custom printed labels. Our commitment is to meet your most demanding label printing needs.
  • New York City Print Management Services -
    We do more than design and produce award-winning work! We make sure you maintain control of the storage and distribution of your printed products. East Coast Graphics manages inventory, ensuring that our customers have adequate supplies, sparing them time and administrative costs. Our print management services gives you the extra edge you need for improved work flow, greater satisfaction, lower costs, and freedom to focus on your business. We organize, store, and monitor all your printed materials. Your materials are labeled and kept in a secure atmosphere, ready for easy retrieval. When you need a product, one phone call or e-mail is all that it takes.
  • New York City Stationery Printing -
    Stationery for Business, Social and Commercial Use – In this competitive world, your company’s brand image is more important than ever. At the same time, every dollar you spend has to deliver real value. Stationery is an essential business need. East Coast Graphics can assist you in producing stationery that conveys the image you want.
  • New York City Eco-Friendly Printing -
    East Coast Graphics is working to protect our environment through sustainable business practices that are protecting our world for present and future generations. By working with FSC-certified vendors, using recycled papers, vegetable-based inks, and implementing environmentally responsible practices in our printing operations, we are bettering our world today for a healthier tomorrow. Our recycled papers and eco-friendly business practices can help you achieve your mission of sustainability. Discover our fast, friendly service and professional quality with your next printing project, and start today!

 

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Post Consumer Waste Paper and Eco-Friendly Printing

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FSC Certified Paper

Corporate social responsibility issues are becoming a core component of corporate brands.  Dealing responsibly with your company’s footprint cannot only reduce risk, but can enhance your brand if you walk the walk and know how to talk about it.  Carrying the FSC-certification logo on your print products tells the world that you support the highest social and environmental standards in the market where you use paper.  Your purchase of FSC-certified paper and print products contribute to conservation, responsible management, and community level benefits for people near the forests that provide your paper.

The U.S. is the largest market for paper products in the world, producing 90 million tons of paper annually and, in-turn, consuming about 100 million tons.  Despite improved technologies for refining post consumer pulp, virgin fiber is still a significant requirement, as only 35% of current consumption is met by using recycled fiber; in addition, approximately 25% of recovered fiber is exported out of US markets.   Roughly 25% by volume of timber cut annually in the US is used for paper production. 

While recycled fiber is a key element of the traditional model for responsible consumption, it is becoming increasingly clear that forest management in the production of the wood used in paper manufacturing, has more fundamental importance than even recycled fiber.  The use of alternative fibers, chemical treatment and resulting effluence are other factors important to the responsible purchasing of paper and board.

Certification

Any product made of pulp or paper has the potential to be certified as long as the wood used in the product originates from FSC-certified sources.  Wood is an important material for all paper manufacturers.  The FSC certification system allows these professionals to know they are doing the right thing, and taking business away from other companies that may still be supporting illegal, unsustainable, unverified logging activities.  The intent of the FSC system is to shift the market to eliminate habitat destruction, water pollution, displacement of indigenous peoples and violence against people and wildlife that often accompanies logging.

Just like other forest products, in order to use the FSC logo as an “environmental claim” on paper, the product must have flowed through the FSC “chain-of-custody” from the FSC-certified forest, to a paper manufacturer, merchant, and finally printer who have FSC chain-of-custody certification.  To learn more about certification

Post-Consumer Waste Printing : The New Environmentally Friendly Way to Print

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There is no such thing as a bad time to go green. Our environment should always be taken into consideration both in our personal and professional lives. Where there’s an opportunity to do something differently and thereby help prevent damage to Mother Nature, we should look into it and probably do it.

One thing that is easily overlooked, especially in business, is what materials we use for printing. While the printing of brochures and pamphlets and other miscellaneous reports might help inform both your colleagues and the public alike, the paper and ink you’re using might be hurting the environment. In fact, the production and use of paper is one of the largest contributors to air pollution and the consumption of fossil fuels. So looking into more eco-friendly printing isn’t all that bad of an idea.

Post-consumer waste paper (PCW) is an environmentally healthy and morally aware way to purchase and use paper without nearly as many wasteful setbacks. PCW paper uses only recycled product in production. This prevents the unnecessary destruction of virgin tree fiber and helps preserve forestland and biodiversity. In the United States, currently 90% of our paper comes from virgin tree fiber, meaning that 90% of our paper is destroyed forest. Using PCW paper can help cut that number down.  Much of the paper we use is bleached with chlorine or chlorine derivatives. These chemicals can cause toxins and pollutants under certain circumstances. So also look to try and use paper that is Process Chlorine Free (PCF).

But of course, paper is not the only instrument implemented in printing. There is also the ink. Petroleum-based ink contains VOCs, harmful toxins that can cause cancer and birth defects. VOCs are emitted when the ink dries on printed paper and can even leach into soil when printed paper is disposed of in a landfill. A better alternative is soy ink. It has a significantly less amount of VOCs and is already a regularly used product by magazines and companies alike.

Using eco-friendly printing is not only good for the environment – It’s good for business as well. Customers are more likely to take interest in your business when they know about your efforts put forth in helping the environment. You’ll attract attention from like-minded businesses. By using eco-friendly printing, you help contribute to a change for the better. Your actions will influence fellow businesses and customers alike to make greener improvements to their living.

Eco-friendly printing is the wave of the future. Having your company become one of the first to make use of it will benefit both your business and the environment. Go green!