ISO Certification for Printing Industry

Printing Industry is an emerging industry. The printing industry includes manufacture, merchants, printers (large format printing, digital printing, inkjet printing, packaging printing, 3D printing), solution provider (ink, paper, machine) and etc. Over the last two decades, print use has decreased, but that ended a few years ago. The industry is transformed and grow, especially people start facing privacy issues in digital and the oversaturation of digital platforms.

The printing industry has been pushing for new transformation, embraced innovation, and changed. In such a challenging and competitive environment, how printing company can ensure they can keep the quality, continue improvement, stay competitive and catch the market demand?

ISO 9001 is a Quality Management System which is developed by ISO. There are over a million companies or organizations from over the world are adopting this ISO standard and it is also wildly implemented in printing industries many years back. This is a management system based on principles of strong customer focus, motivation and commitment of top management, the process approach, and continual improvement.

How ISO 9001 can benefit Printing Industry?

Give Quality Assurance – Quality policy and quality objective set by the certified company to safeguard the organization’s quality product or services. Quality objective and Policy will be measure on the effectiveness by the accredited certification body every year.

Improve efficiency and productivity – Operation process SOP set for the daily operation to reduce error, corrective action, and preventive action to prevent the error happened again.

Cost Savings – Optimize to operate efficiently, cutting out overhead costs, reduce error, or rework.

Increase Customer Satisfaction – An organization required to follow guidelines for quality assurance in order to offer good customer service and high-quality products or services. Customer satisfaction needs to be measured to continually improve customer satisfaction and impression.

Meet regulatory and statutory requirements – Statutory requirements and regulations included in the operation process ensure the organization follows and meets.

Continuous improvement – Measure and monitoring process set to analyze the organization objectives, customer requirements, statutory requirements, resources and etc. If there is any error, non-achievable target or any issue happened in the organization, the correction process and corrective action process will be executed for improvement purposes.

Branding – ISO 9001 certificate is an international quality standard which can prove that the organization with ISO 9001 certified to have a quality management system implemented in the organization and more proper and systematic.

Here is the general explanation of ISO 9001:2015 requirement.

Besides quality, environment issue is also a big issue in the printing industry. In our daily lifecycle, we can commonly see many items are gone through printer included: books, newspapers, food packaging, wallpaper, leaflet, product packaging, plastic bags, etc. The ink, paper, material, waste, and chemicals used in the printing industry can cause pollution to the environment.

While many printing companies implemented ISO 14001 (Environment Management System) as a guide to help them identify the environmental aspects in their operations and decide which of the associated environmental impacts are significant to them.

How ISO 14001 can benefit Printing Industry?

Reduce environmental impact & environmental footprint – Organization required to define the environmental aspect of the company’s activities, products/services. They find out the environmental impact results from the companies activities, products/services, then find solutions to eliminate the negative impact.

Increase environmental awareness – Management and worker are well aware of the environmental issue and commit to it 

Comply with environmental laws and regulations – The organization required to identify, monitor the environmental laws and regulations and local authority regulation.

Cost Saving – An organization required to look into energy-saving, resources saving which able to help the organizations for cost-saving.

Continue Improvement – Organization required to improve environmental performance and to prevent environmental pollution.

ISO 9001 Quality Management System (QMS)

ISO 9001:2015 Requirements

How to apply ISO 9001 in Malaysia

ISO 14001 Environment Management System (EMS)