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Article: Pressing ahead: Liz Grahame gives an update on the latest issues in digital printing and how it will effect the work you produce. (Digital Print).
- Article from:
- Design Week
- Article date:
- June 28, 2001
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ACCORDING to Printing World, 20 per cent of all print will be digital by 2001. Some say the proportion could be even higher at 50 per cent. So like it or not, the digital age has arrived.
Digital printing, first introduced eight years ago, has had a tough time fighting against the stigma associated with it. Both designers and printers have reservations as to its effectiveness and ability to satisfy expectation of creativity.
The image in most designers' minds is that digital printing is little more than a glorified colour laser proof. Typical problems cited include colour inaccuracy, banding, inconsistency, quality, inability to reproduce certain colours ...