Printing industry suppliers, as well as printers, are working to become more environmentally friendly. Most suppliers have green products, such as soy based inks, products with low VOC content and water based products. Here are a few companies that are working to reduce their environmental impact.

Because of the pulp and paper industry's history, manufacturing sites are often cast in an unfair light for their environmental responsibility. Paper mills have the potential to serve as industry beacons for sustainable development. Sappi's Somerset Mill in Skowhegan, Maine has implemented a $49 million dollar capital improvement project to upgrade the mill's evaporators and recovery boiler. The boiler has the ability to recover more black liquor from the pulping process. Mills use black liquor as a fuel. The more black liquor that they can process and burn the less fossil fuel is needed to support the mill.

Paper mills have the potential to serve as industry beacons for sustainable development.

In Cloquet, MN Sappi is reducing the amount of material sent to the landfill. Bottom ash and fly ash, by-products from pulp and paper manufacturing, are being diverted from landfills and are reused by neighboring farmers who capitalize on the ash's alkaline pH content to make their soil viable for dairy farming. From 2004 to 2009 the Cloquet mill has reduced its landfill by 75% and has significantly extended the life of the on-site landfill.