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Article: Di presses find their (sweet) spot: printers turn to direct-imaging sheetfed systems to capitalize on growth in short-run color. (Profiting from Technology).
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- Graphic Arts Monthly
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Direct-imaging (DI) sheetfed presses remain a niche market within the niche market of digital printing, even as short-run color printing takes off at a fast clip.
These machines--which image printing plates directly on a sheetfed offset press using either Presstek, Creo, or proprietary imaging technology--compete with off-press computer-to-plate (CTP) technology in the high-volume market, and with toner-based digital printing on the low-volume side.
According to Presstek, Inc., worldwide installations of DI presses total 2,700. In its most recent study on digital printing, TrendWatch Graphic Arts estimates that within the U.S. there are 755 ...