Everything you need to know about Digital Printing – part 1
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009Everything you need to know about Digital Printing – part 1 – 2nd July 2009
What is ‘digital print’ anyway? It is a term used for whole group of technologies that don’t fit neatly into a single definition. However, a good description would be one of a number of printing processes where a marking engine applies an image to a substrate based on digital input, with no permanent intermediary such as an offset plate, raised flexographic plate, or engraved cylinder.
What is often called ‘true’ digital process generates a fresh image for very copy, so content of the print can be changed every time, a concept called variable data printing (VDP).
The need for using the word ‘true’ is that there is a grey area with DI presses – offset litho presses that have integral plate imagers. These share many of the pre-press and operating characteristics of ‘true’ digital printers, but the use of litho plates means that the image cannot be varied from copy to copy.
The most common true digital print processes over the past 20 years have been dry toner (best known as laser printers), HP Indigo’s digital offset colour process, and inkjets. All have progressed by leaps and bounds over two decades, but there is still a vast future potential for improvements in speed, productivity, quality, flexibility, consumables and running costs.
To be continued…
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