Digital Printing vs Traditional Offset Printing

Ever since the early 80’s, digital printing has gained in speed, quality and capabilities. During this time, the cost to print a digital page has continued to drop to the point where many people consider digital printing cost effective for print runs as large as 1,000 and above. Here at AlphaGraphics on Camelback, we have always embraced digital printing as it was a natural evolution from our base photo copy business. Today, digital printing is everywhere. Many customers ask us what is the main difference between digital printing and offset printing? Well, in short, not much. The quality of digital printing is impressive. Today even seasoned printing professionals can not tell the difference. We coach our clients to let us help them come up with the most cost effective way to produce their project, and we will take care of the production methods. The best part about this approach? The quality never suffers. Our HP Indigo 5500 digital press offers best-in-class image quality, 120 pages per minute and full bleed printing.

Another advantage of digital printing is that with a properly prepared print-ready PDF file, we can show you a final printed sample without costly setup fees or plates costs like offset printing. (no PMS ink wash up fees as well!)

And who doesn’t want to see your masterpiece in print before you order 1,000 . . .  and notice the glaring typo! Stop by and ask us to give you a tour of our business center. We would be happy to demonstrate the benefits of digital printing.

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