The digital printing process involves printing on various media such as paper fabric acrylic plastic etc. directly from a digital image. It is a professional print job and small desktop publishing and other digital sources that are printed with large format or high volume inkjet printers.
Digital printing is certainly more expensive than conventional methods but the production cost of printed forms is eliminated which reduces the overall cost. Digital printing can also be done on demand and in a short time images can also be easily modified for each print. Thanks to huge labour savings and rapid capacity improvement digital printing is slow to match offset printing capabilities. With digital printing thousands of sheets can now be printed at low cost. The most popular printers using digital printing are inkjet and laser printers that drop pigments or toners onto multiple substrates such as paper glass canvas metal fabric marble and plastic. Typically the ink or toner only forms a thin layer on the surface without penetrating the substrate which is traditional. For toner thermal process fuselage liquid is used and for ink a UV curing process is used whereby the ink adheres firmly to the substrate.