{"id":2,"date":"2011-08-01T16:36:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T16:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acecommercial.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-02-18T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:00:48","slug":"page-one","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acecommercial.com\/index.php\/printing-services\/page-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is Digital Printing?<\/h2>\n

Short-Runs, Quick Turn-Arounds, etc.<\/em>\u00a0If your quantities are small, if you need a quick turnaround, and\/or you’ve got a tight budget, we sometimes recommend printing it “Digital”. Digital-Printing is often the best and most cost-effective way to go. The quality is still very good, but there is much less setup associated with digital printing, so it allows us to produce it quicker and for a lower price.<\/p>\n

Digital printing<\/strong>\u00a0refers to methods of\u00a0printing\u00a0from a\u00a0digital\u00a0based image directly to a variety of media, this often involves the use of professional equipment, like a laser printer<\/a>.\u00a0It usually refers to professional printing where small run jobs from\u00a0desktop publishing\u00a0and other digital sources are printed using large format and\/or high volume\u00a0laser\u00a0or\u00a0inkjet\u00a0printers. Digital printing has a higher cost per page than more traditional\u00a0offset printing\u00a0methods but this price is usually offset by the cost saving in avoiding all the technical steps in between needed to make printing plates. It also allows for on demand printing, short turn around, and even a modification of the image (variable data) with each impression.\u00a0The savings in labor and ever increasing capability of digital presses means digital printing is reaching a point where it will match or supersede offset printing technology’s ability to produce larger print runs at a low price.<\/p>\n

The main difference between digital printing and traditional methods such as\u00a0lithography,\u00a0gravure, or\u00a0letterpress\u00a0is that no\u00a0printing plates\u00a0are used, resulting in a quicker and less expensive turn around time. The most popular methods include\u00a0inkjet\u00a0or\u00a0laser printers\u00a0that deposit pigment or toner onto a wide variety of substrates including paper, photo paper, canvas, glass, metal, marble and other substances.<\/p>\n

Consumer and professional printers such as\u00a0inkjet\u00a0or\u00a0laser printers\u00a0use the most common examples of digital printing. Professional companies now use those practices to go green by using better quality ink and better laser etching to get a more crisp picture that is displayed through digital printing.<\/p>\n

In many of the processes the\u00a0ink\u00a0or\u00a0toner\u00a0does not permeate the substrate, as does conventional ink, but forms a thin layer on the surface and may in some systems be additionally adhered to the substrate by using a fuser fluid with heat process (toner) or UV\u00a0curing\u00a0process (ink).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is Digital Printing? Short-Runs, Quick Turn-Arounds, etc.\u00a0If your quantities are small, if you need a quick turnaround, and\/or you’ve got a tight budget, we sometimes recommend printing it “Digital”. Digital-Printing is often the best and most cost-effective way to go. The quality is still very good, but there is much less setup associated with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149,"parent":98,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acecommercial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acecommercial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acecommercial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acecommercial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acecommercial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.acecommercial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/www.acecommercial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/333"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acecommercial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acecommercial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acecommercial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}