What is the main difference between digital presses and traditional offset presses?

From the mid-1980s small offset printing in China began to develop. To the mid-to-late 1990s into a high-speed development stage of small offset printing initially appeared as a light printing in the printing market. This equipment is characterized by small investment, quick return, low cost, excellent quality and simple operation and maintenance. In the usual rapid short-run commercial printing field. 500 to 5,000 copies between the largest demand for live printing traditional offset printing methods whether in print quality, printing costs, cost-effective and so on currently have a clear advantage. Therefore, some experts expect. In the future a long time the traditional small offset press will still dominate the field of short-run printing.

We are discussing the digital printing press is generally divided into several categories: a version of the digital printing press. The advantages of such equipment is mainly expressed in variable data printing can be achieved in a start printing, personalized printing: another category is in the machine direct plate making digital printing machine. Their advantage is that they can optimize the process, for the print run of 300 to 5000 sheets of business is very suitable. There are also digital presses with inkjet technology. Mainly used for printing large quantities of bills, commercial paper, etc.. The advantage is lower printing costs. It can be seen. The advantages of digital printing is concentrated in the speed, information and layout variable, process simplification, short cycle and so on.

One of the advantages of digital printing over traditional printing is that in the print volume of about 5000 is both economical and efficient. Nowadays, digital printing is roughly divided into books (about 6%). Catalogs (about 16%), trademarks (about 12%), product flyers (about 6%), manuals (about 16%), political propaganda / security printing / ID cards (about 5%), etc., almost all of the traditional printing of printed materials can now be done by digital printing.