How far is digital printing from us?

With the digitization and networking of publishing, the digital publishing process is gradually becoming a reality. As an important part of the digital publishing process, the output part of the back-end, there are currently two requirements: the scale of production and personalized production. In a large-scale printing factory process, expanding the scale is a prerequisite for winning high profits. Therefore, for this part of the market, the commercial CTP system is the first choice to solve the digital output of India. For a large number of small-scale printing companies, personalized printing is the future development path. On-demand printing, personalized printing, and digital printing are printed on demand—printed according to the needs of the user (PRINTON DEMAND). The consequence of this is the individuality of the printing, while the realistic, rapid and economical means of achieving it is Digital Printing. The earliest realization of personalized printing began in 1990, the United States XEROX developed DO-CUTECH rapid printing equipment. Print electronic documents as needed. This kind of equipment that utilizes the principle of copiers to personalize printing is eye-opening. The AGFA, XEIKON, and INDIGO digital printing equipment introduced at the IPEX show in 1993 made people feel that the era of on-demand printing has arrived. However, when the concept of digital printing was introduced into the country 10 years ago, we discovered that on-demand printing is still only a concept that stays with us and does not really enter our lives. What is the reason? The digital printing market is currently The domestic printing market is broadly divided into: (1) Long offset printing market; originating from traditional printing companies. (2) Short-run printing market: Small offset printing companies that account for a large share of the short-lived market, emerging on-demand printing companies. (3) Special printing market: It includes traditional special printing markets such as gravure printing, screen printing and anti-counterfeiting. With the formation of the traditional long-run offset printing market, the market has moved from disorderly competition to orderly monopoly. The huge investment in the transformation of digital equipment has also discouraged small and medium-sized investors, so more people are turning their attention to the on-demand printing market. According to estimates by experts, the annual on-demand printing business in China is around 1.5 billion yuan, and it is still rising. From this point of view, the market potential is still huge, but the current national conditions are hot on the one hand, and the concept of on-demand printing is hot. On the other hand, in our office space, short-lived areas still have inefficient copying. Printing is even a small offset. The reason for this is that our concept is seriously disconnected from our market. Starting from the market, we can see that the current on-demand printing market is mainly composed of the following two requirements: (1) Industrial production (2) Office automation, network output equipment in the traditional printing production, due to a large number of processes and complex processes , And the cost of plate making is expensive, so the economy starts from En and it should be over 1000 copies. With the advent of networking and electronics, more and more personalized products have emerged. Customers often need hundreds, tens, or even a few black and white, color prints, so there is an on-demand printing market. In the industrialized on-demand market, people are pursuing speed, personalization, and standardization. Often customer demand is the output of 100-1000 copies. Therefore, the speed of printing equipment has become the preferred choice of manufacturers. As an industrialized on-demand printing device, the output capacity should be at least 50 pages per minute. The currently represented models include: (1) Digital printing equipment that uses flush-free plates, represented by the Heidelberg DI series. (2) A digital press using a polyester rubber roller, represented by Israel's INDIGO digital printing equipment. (3) Using Manroland's Dicoweb, its drum can be reused. (4) Digital printing equipment using toner electrostatic technology. Representatives are XIKON, Xerox products.