What is Digital Printing
Digital printing is a process that consists of direct printing of a digital file to paper or other materials by various means, the most common being ink in an inkjet printer (cartridges), and toner in a laser printer. This process, usually offered professionally by small businesses, is ideal for low-volume printing projects and / or extremely short delivery times, since one of the main advantages it offers is the almost immediate availability of the forms, since it does not It requires drying or cooling time as it does not work with inks as dense as those used in the analog offset printing process. This graphic arts sector is experiencing great growth, which has led the different manufacturers and suppliers to launch digital equipment with increasing features, prepared to meet the new requirements imposed by the market.
Digital Printing Aspects
Digital printing has two aspects: the small and the large format. The first still suffers from a lack of certain reliability and has some shortcomings (among them, not having a 50 × 70 format). The large format, for its part, offers certain ecological and cost problems. This means that digital printing has to be further developed. However, one of the added values ​​that digital printing offers is product customization. Custom printing is a growing market.
Advantages
Nowadays, digital printing with home or office equipment has forked its course as ink jet printers are being used in the textile industry, more precisely for sublimation of fabrics or various objects. Also some laser printers to stamp transfer on fabrics.
Regarding large format prints known as Gigantographies, today we can find printing equipment with latex inks that are less environmentally harmful than the previous ones with solvent inks
