Digital & Offset Printing

Digital and offset printing are the two main printing methods used to created printed materials. While they essentially achieve the same end result, the methods that they both use to create said product is vastly different. Offset printing has a long history spanning over 100 years. Printed materials are created using metal plates which have ink applied to them with rubber rollers that is then transferred to impression blankets and finally applied onto paper. Digital printing is a relatively new method of printing that deposits the ink directly onto the paper in the printing machine. Due to recent advances in the digital printing space, it is difficult for an untrained eye to spot the difference between an offset printed piece and a digital one.