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Colemans Printing expands its market lead in the Northern Territory as the first to achieve Sustainable Green Print certification level two.

Environmental accreditation has been on the Darwin-based printer’s wish list for years, said Coleman's printing manager, Tony Coleman. “We have always been moving in this direction but it wasn’t until we hired a HR staffer 12 months ago to help us along that we started to get traction.

“We have been pushing hard in the past six months to get here and hopefully we will go all the way to ISO. That’s our ultimate goal,” says Coleman. “This will go a long way in showing our commitment to the environment. We just want to be ahead of the game.”

Pictured: Coleman’s Printing's production manager Andrew Hodges (l) and Jared Cardno, senior printer.

The third-generation printer hopes his two new Indigo 5500s will improve the company’s sustainability position with less waste.

“I think these certifications are becoming the expectation. Even though we are the only printer to be SGP2 certified up here, there are a lot of multinational companies who won’t do business with printers without proof of sustainable environmental practices,” he adds.

Peter Mansfield, Printing Industries general manager for SA/NT, sees the certification of Colemans Printing as a great achievement. “It may be the first printer to receive formal environmental accreditation of any sort in the area.

“I hope that a SGP2 certified Colemans will trigger other printers in the area to pursue environmental accreditation. Certified printers can improve their performance and save a lot of money through efficiencies,” he says.

Colemans Printing is one of just 30 printers in Australia to have achieved Printing Industries’ environmental accreditation, SGP level 2.