One of Australia’s largest printing groups, Finsbury,
is also our greenest. The only commercial printer in Australia to achieve quality and environmental management certification simultaneously, Finsbury is unique in the printing trade.
 
Sustainable print production is more than recycled paper and vegetable inks.
 
Finsbury’s digital proofing and computer to plate system eliminates the need for film which reduces energy consumption and the use of film processing chemicals. To further reduce energy use, their state of the art presses use water for cooling which is then recycled.
 
Their plant is housed in a renovated wool store which is flooded with natural light and they have replaced fluorescent lights with low mercury triphospher tubes.
 
Finsbury separates its waste materials for reuse and recycling including aluminium printing plates, blocks, dies and press blankets; low and high grade paper waste; plastics; timber pallets; and office and computer equipment.

Economist, Richard Florida, believes creativity holds the key to economic growth and urban regeneration in the twenty-first century. His book The Rise of the Creative Class was a best seller in the USA and an Australian edition was released this year.
 
The Harvard Business Review named the book one of the top breakthrough ideas for 2004.
 
Described as a cartographer of talent, Florida charts what he sees as the growing role of creativity in the economies of developed countries. He argues that in the future, the creative workforce will determine how work is organised, which companies will prosper and which cities will thrive.  

Cities, Florida says, are most attractive to the creative workforce and especially those that encourage tolerance, diversity, artistic expression, authenticity and outdoor activity.