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Laurel Brunner's Blog

Laurel Brunner's Blog

Laurel Brunner started her career in 1978 as an accountant for a printing company. Since then she has worked exclusively in the prepress and publishing industries, with a particular specialisation in prepress production and digital technologies. She is managing director of Digital Dots, an international consulting group, and publisher of Spindrift, an independent, subscriber supported newsletter for the graphic arts, printing and publishing industries.


Laurel Brunner is active in standards development through her work with ISO committes and is the convenor of ISO’s task force looking at carbon footprinting standards for print media products. She provides private consulting and editorial services to a wide cross section of publishers and industry associations. Her work regularly appears in newspapers and magazines around the world, and Laurel is a regular speaker at industry conferences in Europe, the United States and Asia.

Written by 20th May 2013
After what feels like forever but what is really only a couple of years, ISO 16759 (Quantification and communication of the carbon footprint of print media...
Written by 13th May 2013
The European Commission is turning up the heat on its sustainability policies, so the rest of the world should take note since it will affect international...
Written by 8th May 2013
When standards makers started working on ISO 16759 for quantifying the carbon footprint of print media, there were two primary reference documents: PAS 2050...
By 29th April 2013
Agfa Graphics has had a sustained commitment to improving its carbon footprint for many years. Now the company has announced that it has achieved ISO...
Written by 22nd April 2013
Scientists at Sony Japan are working on a far more interesting development. They have come up with a bio battery powered by waste paper.
Written by 16th April 2013
We recently came across a new take on the idea of certified green products. To help drive home the importance of environmental impact reduction.
Written by 10th April 2013
The news that ISO16759 (calculating the carbon footprint of print media) is galloping towards its final furlong prior to publication has caused a flurry of...
By 3rd April 2013
Since we started the Verdigris project in 2008, obviously much is different in the printing industry.
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