Digital Printing is the process of producing digital images on physical surfaces such as paper, photographic paper, film, cloth and plastic. Using this technology, one can print directly without using any intermediate mediums, such as a film negative or a plate-making machine. This is not only becoming the most popular way to print and photograph, but is also environmentally friendly since it avoids all the chemicals that traditional photography uses.

Digital printing interconnects printing presses to computers. The first step in digital printing is formatting the images on a computer. A wide range of mechanical processes is eliminated with digital printing including the need to make films and plates.

Digital printing is classified into two major divisions depending on the means of printing. These divisions are variable imaging and direct imaging. Variable imaging uses the laser printer, inkjet printer or digital press for printing. In direct imaging, electronic files are used to create films or plates for printing. Computer-to-Imagesetter, computer-to-plate (commonly known as digital plate making) and computer-to-plate-on-press are the various digital imaging techniques.

Digital printing technology has many advantages over traditional printing including faster turn around times, cost effectiveness and accurate proofing. Filmmaking is not required in digital printing, and, you can personalize documents. It is capable of producing high definition images. Digital printing is the fastest and most affordable printing technique for a quantity of 500 prints or less. It is often used in preparing cards, multi page documents, brochures, sell sheets, ad slicks, flyers, video boxes and CD packaging.