HP Indigo: Sustainable printing solutions
Key areas:
Data reliability
Carbon emission management
Circularity support
Regulation compliance

Beyond talk, into action
HP Indigo’s mission: to reduce the environmental impact of our products and empower our customers to achieve their sustainability goals
HP Indigo
Sustainability leader and your trusted partner
The printing press
Productivity = sustainability
The printed product
Support brands and customers to meet their sustainability goals
FAQ Indigo Sustainability
This brochure answers frequently asked questions about HP Indigo’s sustainability value.
Leading a new era of sustainable print
Innovation can only be considered progress if we protect our natural resources and the foundations of the earth.
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
A third-party LCA study: HP Indigo has the lowest environmental impact.
Ensuring regulatory and environmental responsibility

Regulation compliance
Regulation compliance
HP Indigo ensures compliance with legal regulations, and promotes environmental responsibility by meeting standards set by authorities and by adopting sustainable practices.

Collaboration with experts in recycling processes
Collaboration with experts in recycling processes
HP Indigo partners with top recycling experts including independent testing centers and research teams at leading recycling machinery manufacturers.

Environment Alliances membership
Environment Alliances membership
HP Indigo is a member of leading environmental alliances continually exploring sustainable technologies to create positive environmental impact while seizing market opportunities.
“Integrating the HP Indigo 100K Digital Press, which is carbon-neutral manufactured, our company advances its commitment to sustainability. Notably, the press enhances Hemlock's waste reduction with its material efficiency, achieving over 90% reductions in makeready and run waste. This results in a final product with a low environmental footprint.”
Richard Kouwenhoven
President & CEO of Hemlock Printers
“With HP Indigo, we're not only saving the majority of analog media setup waste, a significant component of a print job's CO2 emissions, but we've also eliminated analog plates and tooling. In doing so, we're actively contributing to the effort to preserve our planet while concurrently cutting our costs.”
Asheen Sharatkumar,
Repro Manager – Technical, First Impression Labels
“While some companies may not value the long-term benefits of sustainability, we know better, so we want to be better. We want to BGreen. That's why our business is built around sustainable HP Indigo printing equipment and technology.”
Brian Benson
CEO of Benson Integrated Marketing Solutions
“We’ve made a commitment in the industry to make environmental consciousness in packaging the highlight of our priorities by addressing the full packaging life cycle. With the HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press, we’re manufacturing fully compostable packaging made with 100%compostable films with up to 75% less waste than conventional packaging manufacturing.”
Philippe St-Cyr
Rootree General Manager
Discover more about HP Indigo digital presses
Technology
In a world where customers demand highly crafted solutions, only HP Indigo technology gives you the agility to meet any need for any type of print job.
Flexible packaging
HP Indigo offers the most sustainable and efficient way to produce on-demand flexible packaging. High quality, non-stop, value jobs that emerging brands want, and big brands need.
THE “GO TO” FOR BRANDS
The future is now — ensuring the planet thrives, while your profits soar
A STRONG LINK IN A LONG CHAIN
Working with all stakeholders to achieve industry sustainability goals
CIRCULAR ECONOMY MINDSET
A trusted global partner transforming the entire business for a circular, low-carbon economy:
- Millennials have major sustainability demands, meet them head on —The generation makes up approximately 30% of the world’s population and are arguably the driving force in the race to sustainability.
- The world relies on us, and you can too — Sustainability was a critical criteria in HP being named #1 in Newsweek’s rankings of “America’s Most Responsible Companies,” and globally, Forbes ranked HP in the top 50 “Most Sustainable Corporations in the World”.
- Leverage decades of HP Indigo innovation and investment to thrive as a leader in the new era of responsible print.
- Improve plastic recyclability — HP Indigo helps you support comprehensive plastic recyclability requirements of label and packaging (L&P) applications from print process to packaging process, on the store shelf, end use and after use, enabling your HP Indigo printed L&P products to be fully recyclable.
- Print with environmentally certified media — More than 1,500 media with environmental certifications are available for HP Indigo customers to use on HP Indigo commercial presses, and dozens are available for HP Indigo labels and packaging presses.
- Leverage HP’s deinking research — HP collaborates with industry partners, such as Cadel Deinking of Spain, which verified that HP Indigo digital printed flexible packaging, including coding, can be fully deinked, which is an essential stage in the recycling process.
- Choose a partner with presses that are manufactured and certified carbon neutral — using renewable energy.
- Recover and reuse materials with product recycling, print supplies closed-loop recycled plastic content, hardware recycled content.
- Reuse, refurbish and reimagine your profit center — Through HP Indigo’s reconditioning program, 70% of all spare-parts are fixed and reused. End of life trade-in options are widely available for HP Indigo digital press. Presses taken back are either remanufactured or their materials are recycled.
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