Hi,
I am currently a small digital print provider and looking to upgrade my machine shortly...
My question is not relating to which machine to buy, as i have read about as many opinions as i can take!
My question is an observation sort of... I come from an off-set printing background traditionally... and reading some of the posts on your forums talking about large digital print volumes of 500,000 to 1,000 000 + clicks per month... I am struggling to work out what exactly you guys are printing to achieve these volumes, as surely with these sorts of volumes would it not be more cost effective to print offset...
The purchase price of a lot of these top end machines is equivalent and sometimes in excess of what you can buy a good used 4 or 5 colour offset press with, and you won't have as many issues with quality, especially degradation over time and the machines value after 5+ years...
So i am just curious, what are you printing that needs to be digital at these volumes ??? is it mostly direct mail and VD or heavily versioned print ??? or is it a turn-around time issue or ???
I am currently a small digital print provider and looking to upgrade my machine shortly...
My question is not relating to which machine to buy, as i have read about as many opinions as i can take!
My question is an observation sort of... I come from an off-set printing background traditionally... and reading some of the posts on your forums talking about large digital print volumes of 500,000 to 1,000 000 + clicks per month... I am struggling to work out what exactly you guys are printing to achieve these volumes, as surely with these sorts of volumes would it not be more cost effective to print offset...
The purchase price of a lot of these top end machines is equivalent and sometimes in excess of what you can buy a good used 4 or 5 colour offset press with, and you won't have as many issues with quality, especially degradation over time and the machines value after 5+ years...
So i am just curious, what are you printing that needs to be digital at these volumes ??? is it mostly direct mail and VD or heavily versioned print ??? or is it a turn-around time issue or ???