Digital printing is the reproduction of digital images on physical surface, such as common or photographic paper, film, cloth, plastic, etc. A digital image is a representation of a two-dimensional image as a finite set of digital values, called picture elements or pixels. ... Piece of A4 paper Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the amalgamation of plant fibres, which are subsequently held together without extra binder, largely by hydrogen bonds and to a small degree by fiber entanglement. ... Until the advent of digital photographic processes, the sole meaning of Photographic Paper was paper coated with light-sensitive chemicals. ... Undeveloped Arista black and white film, ISO 125. ... It has been suggested that Textile be merged into this article or section. ... Plastic covers a range of synthetic or semisynthetic polymerization products. ...

Commercial Digital Printing

Since the early nineties, a growing sector of global print production has been Digital, as distinguished from Litho print. Digital Print is used by those requiring the following: Negative litography stone and positive print of a map of Munich Lithography is a method for printing on a smooth surface. ...

• Short to medium run colour and mono work
• Fast turnaround
• Personalisation (As the image is reproduced each time, variations can be easily introduced)
• Print on Demand (ie. with an automated ordering system)

The advantage over Litho for short run work is that no plates are needed therefore reducing the initial set-up costs substantially. Print on demand or publish on demand (POD) is a publishing methodology in which a copy is not created until after an order is received. ... Offset lithography printing process Offset printing is a widely used printing technique where the inked image is transferred (or offset) from a plate first to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface. ...

See also

• Variable Data Printing
• Digital image acquisition
• Digital image processing
• Digital image display
• Digital photography
• Graphical output device
• Indigo Digital Press

Variable Data Printing or VDP (also known as Variable Information Printing, or VIP) is a form of on-demand printing in which elements such as text, graphics and images may be changed from one printed piece to the next without stopping or slowing down the press, using information from a... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into image processing. ... The Canon EOS 350D The Canon PowerShot A95 Digital photography, as opposed to film photography, uses electronic devices to record the image as binary data. ... A graphical output device is a computer output device that produces visual material. ... The HP Indigo Press 1050, which uses a Series 1 Engine Introduction Indigo is a the name given to a series of Digital Offset Printing Presses made by Hewlett-Packard in Israel. ...

Photo Lab Digital Printing

• Digital Contact Printing: [1]