Abstract
Printing Service LCCO2e is schematized during the process of the set-in of Carbon Footprint of Products and then developed as Printing Service Integrated LCA to evaluate not only CO2e emission but also other impact categories such as natural recourses, energy drain, waste disposal and so forth. While some printers try to start calculating environmental load for printed matters, they can select either one of two quantification methods which are approved to be utilized; one is "allocation method" based on corporate activity based manner and the other is "cumulative method" based on product based manner. LCA study usually does not allow organizations to compete each other by numerical number of environmental load, but most of print-buyers or consumers might accept everything for what it is whenever they have a look. A case study of paper package production is attempted to be validated by the scale of CO2e emission for long⁄mid⁄short-run jobs to understand actual difference in practice. In conclusion, printers ideally can utilize allocation method for calculating organizational load to reduce corporate environmental load and cumulative method for calculating the load from actual product production. It is significant for all levels of printers to be able to utilize both allocation and cumulative methods for reducing existing environmental load and taking future outside pressure off from print-buyers to improve corporate and product performance.
