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Digital_Printing_Press_An_Update
| Digital Printing Press: An Update
Way back in 1998, the digital printing world refined its
processes and made significant production operating cost
reductions, as well as introduced various new equipment and
technology in printing. This revolutionary trend is expected to
accelerate as the industry moves in the coming years. Digital
printing progress is being made in both the fixed-imaging
on-press plate making approach, as well as the direct-to-paper
technology (plateless variable imaging) alike. The popular "I
can do it better, faster and cheaper than you can," was the
battle cry of Indigo, Xeikon, IBM, Xerox and Agfa, as the
variable imaging digital color printing press pioneers
intensified their maneuvering for market share. A good sign of
variable digital color printing's expanding reach into the
traditional print market is the press dealerships.
The association of new models and the noticeable modifications
on existing modern machineries opens a better and less expensive
production performance which will provide a better service to
the general customers. All moving at the direction where cost of
digital variable printing has declined considerably. And a
decline in cost is enlarging the market.
Xeikon one of the leading provider of hi-tech digital printing
services recently announced strategic partnership with Varis
which is expected to result in sophisticated full-color digital
printing software becoming available early this year. Indigo has
announced two new press configurations, one at each end of the
cost and performance spectrum.
Today with high-speed color copiers are beginning to look more
like low-end variable imaging digital printing presses. Xerox
has split its DocuColor 40 copier/printer line into two basic
versions--the 40 CP and the 40PRO. The 40CP is a network
connected copier/ printer equipped with a digital controlled
from EFI. It's suitable for walk-up copying as well as
low-volume network printing. The 40PRO is intended for
sophisticated color document production, which emphasizes speed
and color quality.
As printers look at re-equipping their plants for the 21st
century, difficult choices between conventional and an emerging
digital press must be made. A mistake can put a firm's survival
at risk, but failure to re-equip to meet client expectations
will almost certainly be fatal. Knowing when to harness
available pressroom technology has become printing management's
most difficult task.
Digital press development is proceeding at an accelerating pace
for both fixed image and fully variable imaging presses. Fixed
image developments are being led by direct-to-platemaking
on-press technologies. Full-color, 100 percent variable
capability presses are entering the production mainstream as
their operating costs decline, while output quality improves and
the presses become wider and faster.
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