Later this year PrintReleaf is introducing new software at Print 2017, a major exhibition in the USA, to help brands and print buyers to perform their own calculations. Printers can use this software to measure customers’ environmental performance and how well or otherwise they meet specific goals. This idea seems to be much more credible than carbon offsetting schemes, in that there is a direct link between printing companies and tree planting. And if PrintReleaf and SGS can build a viable revenue stream on the back of it, so much the better because environmental protection and commerce are inextricably entwined.
CCP Solutions, a Farmingdale-based copier company, plants 10K trees.
CCP Solutions is on a quest to help the planet. Two years ago, the company began working with a technology platform, PrintReleaf, aiming to counteract the negative impact of paper usage on the environment through reforestation. CCP recently announced that it had planted its 10,000th tree.
PrintReleaf Brings Verified Reforestation to Commercial Printing and Packaging
At PRINT 17, the quadrennial commercial printing and packaging exposition in Chicago--PrintReleaf will introduce a product that enables commercial and package printers to offer their customers verified reforestation to offset the paper used in their projects.
5 Colorado startups shaping the future of green technology
Coloradans are especially mindful of the impact their businesses, homes and lives have on the environment. As an established and innovative home for technology, we’d be amiss if we didn’t direct some of that energy toward preserving the planet and building a more sustainable future. Fortunately, a number of local startups are using technology to reduce waste, offset consumption and keep Colorado green. Here’s how they do it.
PrintReleaf founder Jordan Darragh has been named a Difference Maker in the Document Imaging Industry by ENX Magazine. Darragh was honored for his vision in establishing PrintReleaf, a solution for print service providers and commercial printers that enables end users to specify that the paper used in their projects is offset by equivalent reforestation.
Sustainability and New Technology Platform Highlights of Toshiba's LEAD 2017
Bill Melo, chief marketing executive at TABS and TGCS, spoke about Toshiba’s successful relationship with PrintReleaf, developer of PrintReleaf Exchange. The cloud-based solution hooks in with popular fleet monitoring platforms and tracks paper consumption across a customer’s fleet in real time to determine their paper footprint. Each month, the customer’s footprint is replanted through the reforestation project of their choosing. Since agreeing to distribute PrintReleaf last May, Melo told the audience that the company has planted 57,000 trees.
PrintReleaf Certifies First Reforestation Project in the United States
PrintReleaf’s Certified Global Reforestation Partner, Trees, Water & People [TWP], has activated the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation as PrintReleaf’s first US-based reforestation project. Located in South Dakota, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Wazí Aháŋhaŋ Oyáŋke in Lakota) is an Oglala Lakota Native American Reservation encompassing 3,468.85 square miles and is the eighth-largest reservation in the United States, larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
University of Colorado’s Masters of the Environment Program Partners with PrintReleaf
PrintReleaf has partnered with the University of Colorado’s Masters of the Environment Program to facilitate Capstone Projects for its Masters students interested in working in the private sector to contribute to solutions to current global environmental problems.
More than 2500 end customers have “releafed” 1.5 billion pages which is 180,000 trees within PrintReleaf’s certified global forestry system. This is a milestone for the company. PrintReleaf have “conducted a vertical market review that includes end user segmentation and case studies”, with the goal of the study to “further understand which types of organisations have already connected to PrintReleaf”, which created a “road map” for partners to “target prospective customers” that respond positively to the company.
Butler Street Chief Marketing Officer Jefferson Allen Joins PrintReleaf Advisory Board
Butler Street, a leading consulting, training and research firm focused on client and talent development, announced that its Chief Marketing Officer, Jefferson Allen, has joined the advisory board of PrintReleaf – an organization that empowers businesses to certifiably reduce the environmental impact of using paper products by automatically planting trees across a global network of reforestation projects. Allen was appointed to the board in order to bring marketing and public relations guidance and perspective to the company.
D’Youville signs on to ‘releaf’ reforestation effort
Beginning this fall, each time students, faculty and staff at D’Youville College use a collective 8,333 sheets of paper from printers and copy machines on campus, a new tree will be planted in an area of the world that needs to be reforested. The college of about 3,000 students, working with Toshiba Business Solutions’ Buffalo office, has signed on to a software platform called PrintReleaf Exchange that will monitor paper use on campus.
Mary Free Bed announces reforestation partnership with PrintReleaf, through Lasers Resource
As part of its commitment to sustainability, Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, the fifth largest free-standing rehabilitation hospital in the United States, has subscribed to the PrintReleaf Exchange (PRX). This strategic partnership allows Mary Free Bed an innovative and authentic way to promote sustainable business practices and reduce the environmental impacts that can result from the use of forest products. Grand Rapids-based managed print service provider Lasers Resource made the partnership possible.
