The West Molesey-based firm, which received two highly commendeds in last year’s Printing World Awards, is keen to push its environmental practices following a £150,000 switch to digital plate production.

Joint managing director David Harrison said: “Buyers are getting more interested in what your environmental policies are, which is something that has only happened in the past three years or so.

“We’ve been doing things like using vegetable-based inks for the past four or five years, but we never really publicised it because people didn’t care.”

The firm, which produces a range of print for the luxury goods, cosmetics, design and construction industries,
said that the environmental benefits from its latest investment were particularly impressive.

Harrison’s fellow joint managing director, David Houghton, said: “We are saving approximately 15,000 litres of water a month and have zeroed our plate chemical usage. This also creates less waste and reduces our carbon footprint as that waste no longer needs to be collected.”

D2 said that it had won several “significant contracts” since installing the Avalon platesetter.