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HP Indigo:​ Sustainable printing solutions

HP Indigo:​ Sustainable printing solutions

Key areas:​

Data reliability

Carbon emission management

Circularity support

Regulation compliance

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Beyond talk, into action

HP Indigo’s mission: to reduce the environmental impact of our products and empower our customers to achieve their sustainability goals

HP Indigo

Sustainability leader and your trusted partner

The printing press

Productivity = sustainability

The printed product

Support brands and customers to meet their sustainability goals

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FAQ Indigo Sustainability

This brochure answers frequently asked questions about HP Indigo’s sustainability value.

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Leading a new era of sustainable print

Innovation can only be considered progress if we protect our natural resources and the foundations of the earth.

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Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)

A third-party LCA study: HP Indigo has the lowest environmental impact.

Packaging

Commercial

Ensuring regulatory and environmental responsibility​

HP Indigo Partners

Regulation compliance

Regulation compliance

HP Indigo ensures compliance with legal regulations, and promotes environmental responsibility by meeting standards set by authorities and by adopting sustainable practices.

Carbon neutrality
HP Indigo Partners

Collaboration with experts in recycling processes

Collaboration with experts in recycling processes

HP Indigo partners with top recycling experts including independent testing centers and research teams at leading recycling machinery manufacturers.

HP Indigo Partners

Environment Alliances membership

Environment Alliances membership

HP Indigo is a member of leading environmental alliances continually exploring sustainable technologies to create positive environmental impact while seizing market opportunities.

“Integrating the HP Indigo 100K Digital Press, which is carbon-neutral manufactured, our company advances its commitment to sustainability. Notably, the press enhances Hemlock's waste reduction with its material efficiency, achieving over 90% reductions in makeready and run waste. This results in a final product with a low environmental footprint.”​

Richard Kouwenhoven
President & CEO of Hemlock Printers

“With HP Indigo, we're not only saving the majority of analog media setup waste, a significant component of a print job's CO2 emissions, but we've also eliminated analog plates and tooling. In doing so, we're actively contributing to the effort to preserve our planet while concurrently cutting our costs.”​

Asheen Sharatkumar,​
Repro Manager – Technical, First Impression Labels​

“While some companies may not value the long-term benefits of sustainability, we know better, so we want to be better. We want to BGreen. That's why our business is built around sustainable HP Indigo printing equipment and technology.”

Brian Benson
CEO of Benson Integrated Marketing Solutions

“We’ve made a commitment in the industry to make environmental consciousness in packaging the highlight of our priorities by addressing the full packaging life cycle. With the HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press, we’re manufacturing fully compostable packaging made with 100%compostable films with up to 75% less waste than conventional packaging manufacturing.”

Philippe St-Cyr
Rootree General Manager

Discover more about HP Indigo digital presses

Technology

In a world where customers demand highly crafted solutions, only HP Indigo technology gives you the agility to meet any need for any type of print job.

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Flexible packaging

HP Indigo offers the most sustainable and efficient way to produce on-demand flexible packaging. High quality, non-stop, value jobs that emerging brands want, and big brands need.

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HP Indigo

Sustainability leader and your trusted partner

  • Ensure your supply chain validation with HP Net Zero target validated by SBTi
  • HP Indigo’s commitment to carbon neutral operation by 2025 supports CO2 emission reduction across your value chain.
  • Get full support with the Sustainability Amplifier program for accounting, consulting and waste management options.
  • Choose HP for CDP and Ecovadis acknowledgment of accountability, sustainability practices and fulfillment of customer requests.

The printing press

Productivity = sustainability

  • Gauge your CO2 emissions with HP Indigo job CO2 calculator.
  • Reduce process CO2 emissions by cutting media waste, using consumables with extended life spans, employing economical printing modes such as EPM, and utilizing automation features via PrintOS to save energy.
  • Improve your value chain circularity by choosing HP Indigo press products containing more than 18% recycled content.
  • Cut your operational waste by reducing 80%-90% media waste and eliminating analog plates, participating in take-back programs and utilizing an in-press recycling system for the ink carrier.

The printed product

Support brands and customers to meet their sustainability goals

  • Comply with the EU REACH regulation with HP Indigo's ElectroInk, which is free from Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs).
  • Produce food packaging applications, on the non-food-contact side in compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
  • Help brands to drastically reduce inventory and obsolescence (waste and cost) by printing on demand, printing multiple SKUs in one run, and placing small orders.
  • Print on sustainable media and support circular economy with a variety of solutions developed with our industry partners.
  • Reduce shipment sustainability costs by allocating the closest printing site using Site flow.