The company said benefits of the standard include the procedure to control and maintain environmental hazards throughout the printing process.

Director and co-owner Andre Philpot said: "We’ve always tried to be careful with waste and as digital printing encourages a clean environment, we decided to adopt a strong environmental stance and boost our environmental credentials by going for the certification."

The 60-staff company has a turnover of £3m and it is also looking at becoming FSC and PEFC accredited.

Reading-based KnowledgePoint specialises in the development, design, production, printing, packaging and distribution of training and reference work.