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In Drupa 2004, the outstanding progress of digital printing lies in printing quality and printing speed. Specifically reflected in the quality of digital printing has been approaching offset printing, and in some aspects has even surpassed offset printing products. Suppliers of digital printing equipment such as HP Indigo, Xerox, Canon, and Xeikon continued to maintain their leading position in the industry. At the same time, such as Agfa and Kodak, they also entered the digital printing field through acquisitions, making the competition even more intense.

1. Digital printing quality close to offset printing

Let us remember these models, because their print quality has approached offset printing, and some, even beyond the traditional offset - NexPress 2100, HP Indigo Press 5000/3050, DucoColor 6060, Xeikon 5000, Canon CLC3220, etc. , all have extremely excellent performance.

In order to make color digital printers further meet the needs of commercial printing and packaging printing, digital printing equipment manufacturers have increased the adaptability of equipment to paper and other substrates. It is precisely because of the continuous improvement of the quality of digital printing equipment and the adaptability of printing materials, it has developed rapidly and has been accepted by the mass market faster.

2. Significant increase in printing speed

At present, the speed of color digital printers can generally reach 100 pages/minute; the market space and competitive strength of digital printing equipment have been expanded. For example, the HP Indigo Press 5000 can print 4,000 colored A4 pages per hour, and the Xeikon 5000 can print 130 A4 pages per minute. The black-and-white digital printers can reach a maximum of 2,000 pages per minute. There are general sheet-fed offset presses that are very close to each other, providing the possibility for printing companies to undertake large-volume personalization jobs.

3. Postpress processing equipment is more perfect

Digital printing equipment suppliers place more emphasis on the integration of post-press processing equipment to provide users with more complete solutions, such as the HP Indigo Press 3050 forming a variable data ticket printing solution; Xerox's iGen 3 equipped with on-demand printing Book solutions; Xeikon 5000 can achieve personalized packaging and printing, producing a beautiful carton; label printing solutions, so that the market awareness of digital printing has greatly improved.

4. Successful application of inkjet digital printing equipment

Inkjet printing has been very successful in the field of variable data printing such as traditional transaction bills; this time, it also showed significant advantages in large-format and super-large-format printing. This trend has become a growing threat to screen printer technology, the dominant player in this market.