One hears talking a lot about digital printing, but what is it really?
Digital printing was born a few years ago, after many years in which the only way to print, was by using the offset technique. Offset printing is still in use today, but is mostly convenient for large numbers of flyers/posters and other products that are printed on paper.
The advent of digital printing has strongly changed the whole printing industry. We ourselves have had to change and reinvent ourselves due to this new technology. Dardanelli worked successfully in the pre-prining sector for many years (the offset printers would use our services to prepare the printing work and obtain high quality printing plates they would then use) and we saw first hand how our industry almost disappeared overnight. We have managed to turn around and start a digital printing business, specialised in the extra large format prints.
Digital printing is a kind of printing where the information that needs to be transmitted to the printer, is all in a file and no longer on plates. The digital printers interprete the files and can print these directly to the material that is in the machine.
It is always interesting to see where certain words come from ... The word ?digital' comes from Latin 'digitus', meaning finger. In English digit means number and this is because we use to use our fingers to count. Since machine language is in 0s and 1s, it was called 'digital'.
Digital printing is stillis development, with printers that are ever becoming more fast and more accurate. We are following all developments in the large format printing industry very closely both regarding the new types of materials that are being invented and brought to market, as well as regarding the new large format printers.