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Green Wedding Invitations

Recycled Paper: A Primer : Part III

April 21, 2008 Green Wedding Business

Post Consumer Recycled Paper: Use it or Not?? Unfortunately, it’s not easy to find 100% postconsumer recycled paper. Last year, one of our suppliers actually went into bankruptcy. (They have since stabilized their finances.) Until the markets for recycled paper expand and become commonplace, trees will continue to be cut down to  make paper. This, [...]

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Recycled Paper: A Primer : Part 2

April 11, 2008 Green Wedding Business

Recycled paper. What does it mean, exactly? There are 3 basic kinds of commercial recycled paper. First is mill broke, or mill waste. This is just all the excess created by the papermaking and fabrication process. Next is pre-consumer waste, which is paper that goes back to the pulper, having never been sold. Third is [...]

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Recycled Paper + Eco Invitations: a Primer : Part 1

April 9, 2008 Green Wedding Business

Okay, Greenwashing is hitting the invitation market bigtime. One of the large invitation manufacturers has launched a line of eco invitations. Their hook: 30% post consumer fiber. Better than nothing, of course. What about the ink? Wastage, process? So, we figure it’s time to focus on what to look for. HARDCORE GREEN: The most eco [...]

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More Lush

February 22, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

Okay, back to the lush life – these are some of our garden eco wedding invitations From a recent bridal show — our first after being in business in for 13 years!

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The Glory of Hemp

October 3, 2007 Green Wedding Invitations

Timothy posted some great information about hemp oil yesterday. (check out his comment) Both flax and hemp could be considered the printer’s plants. There is more than a little elegance here: Flax oil (linseed oil) for printing and the flax (linen) fiber for papermaking. Hemp is a superior (and the original) fiber for papermaking. Hemp [...]

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Vegetable Inks

September 28, 2007 Green Wedding Invitations

Ok. So Scott wrote a whole post about Soy Inks. All true. But, he didn’t know about a fabulous Vegetable ink our ink rep just recommended. It uses a linseed oil base and the company has been making ink for 85 years. We’re trying in out this weekend on our offset press and letterpress. Yipee!! [...]

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Soy Ink Is Not Green

June 21, 2007 Green Wedding Invitations

InviteSite is a green business, so customers sometimes ask if we print with soy inks. Common printers inks are either rubber or oil based and soy was invented decades ago as an attempt at an environmental substitute for these. The idea was to replace petroleum based oil with soy based oil. This does not work [...]

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Post Office Teller Confusion

May 21, 2007 Green Wedding Invitations

This month we have been receiving letters from customers who completed the assembly of their invitations and then went to the Post Office to get them weighed and priced. We are hearing that tellers seem to be confused about how to handle the special charge the Post Office levies on “non-machinable” mail. Mail is considered [...]

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Recycled Paper: Use it or Lose it

December 7, 2006 Green Wedding Invitations

An Invitesite customer wrote us the other day about a three-fold invitation design with a tear-off rsvp postcard. My first response was Ugh! how ugly. It would look like an invitation to a tag sale. (paper-snob that I am…) No stature. No specialness. But the customer brings up an interesting issue. She wants to do [...]

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Dedication Post

December 3, 2006 Green Wedding Invitations

HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet, Tread softly because [...]

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