Ingede, the international association of the deinking industry has given the Fuji Xerox Iridesse digital production press an ideal deinkability score of 100/100 for CMYK as well as gold, silver, clear and white.
This makes deinkability, a key part of the recycling process, possible for all of the Iridesse’s coloured and metallic dry inks. Fuji Xerox says this makes the Iridesse the ideal press for sustainability-minded printers that do not want a large quantity of their output one day contributing to landfill.
Ingede says that paper recycling saves energy and saves water, which together with a reduction in the requirement for new resources, lowers the environmental impact of using paper. Deinking and recycling provide the print industry with raw fibres for reprinting and forms a key part of efforts to improve the sustainability of the print industry and reduce our carbon footprint as a society.
The European Paper Recycling Council uses the ‘deinkability score’ to assess the recyclability of a printed product. Crucial to produce a bright pulp suitable for reuse in a wide range of recycled paper and board, deinkability is tested using Ingede Method 11, the results of which form Deinkability Scores covering five parameters: luminosity, colour, cleanliness, ink elimination and filtrate darkening. The pulp quality needs to reach such a standard to make recycled products of a similar quality to the original ones. So, if you can de-ink well, you can recycle into high-grade products.
