Award Winning Green Credentials

With 28 years experience we offer the best quality 'green print' and the highest environmental standards available in the printing industry. No other Australian printer can match our 'green' credentials!

Green Credentials

• Australia’s first green printers, still setting international benchmarks for environmentally responsibile printing.
• Top 10 position in worldwide Heidelberg Int'l Eco Printing Awards - 2008 (For Most Environmentally Responsible)
• Specialise in the use of recycled, alternative fibre and reclaimed papers and environmentally responsible stocks
• Thoroughly research the origin of paper and the authenticity of manufacturers environmental claims.
• Use only vegetable based inks, non toxic chemicals and chemical free CTP printing plates.
• Fully recycle 100% of all paper waste in our paper recovery program.
• Harvest in situ 100% of all water used with no mains supply required.
• Use 100% solar power for all Black Rainbow's business requirements.
• Reduce, re-use, recycle in all aspects of our business operations.
• Lobbied paper manufacturers (1980's) to supply responsible stocks resulting in first Australian availability.
• Carbon positive through ownership, preservation,and management of 100 acres of native forest in East Gippsland.
• Black Rainbow regularly sponsor environmental groups and campaigns.

In the early 1980’s when Charley Daniel (Founder - Black Rainbow) first began campaigning he quickly recognised that public pressure was, and still remains the most powerful tool to influence change. He was the first to campaign and lobby at a Governmental level for the availability of recycled paper in Australia.

In 1987, as a printer with a personal commitment to this cause, he established Black Rainbow, an environmentally responsible printing service which avoids the use of paper derived from the unsustainable logging of our old growth native forests. Combining 100% recycled paper, non-chlorine bleached, alternative fibre papers and organic based non toxic inks to further reduce environmental impacts.

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BUYER BEWARE! - Green Frogs are not Always What they Seem!

This little fellow now features prolifically along with all sorts of 'green' imagery in product and company marketing material making all sorts of environmentally beneficial claims or imlying an eco-friendly ethic to the product or service.

Sadly, in far too many examples, use of his image to imply some sort of environmental responsibility is simply little short of marketing spin! A misleading attempt to persuade consumers that products or services with little or no preferable environmental performance are environmentally sound.

Unfortunately, there is still no regulation requiring the use of 'green' and 'clean' images to comply with any environmentally preferable product or service ethic whatsoever! And the ACCC has little resource to investigate the multitude of claims!

If you want to be sure that any and all 'green' claims are legitimate then you need to do your homework and ask questions about authenticity?

With 28 years experience as Australia's first 'green' printers we have established a great list of clients who trust our claims with many of the leading environmental groups amongst Black Rainbow's customer list such as: ACF, The Wilderness Society, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, ATA, EDO, Landcare, Trust for Nature, Going Green Expo - Australia, Going Green Solutions, Eco-Chic, The Greens, The Really Green Shop, Earth Greetings, and many others.

When it comes to print, Black Rainbow Printing is the 'green' brand you can trust!