How to choose a commercial litho print service

A few years back, offset printing was the clear and natural choice when you needed to get a print job done. But with the growing reputation of digital printing, the choice has become more puzzling. Digital printing and litho printing tend to be the two to choose from and the main two to choose from when businesses may be looking for the ideal printing service.

Offset printing is a high-volume commercial printing technology. It uses a similar methods to producing photos from negatives, whereby the image that appears on the printed material is first created on a computer before being relocated onto plates and then onto a printed surface, such as paper.

The latter is known well to be able to help produce sharp, high quality and dependable images for a professional result. It is also known well to be able to do so in a quick turnaround time. Given the speed with which prints can be made, lithography (specifically offset lithography) is the cheapest way to produce large-scale commercial print runs. It also prints and is able to be able to print colours are precisely how they should appear. This is done by using pantone inks. This is a given in and across this overall type of commercial printing that a business will tend to use. With this option, you can also print metallic on offset printers which you cannot do on digital ones. There is a downside to this though in that a lot of businesses tend to have to spend a lot of time proofing the work off.

Digital printing works by sending a file from a computer to a digital printer, which instantly prints it onto paper. High quality digital printers use lasers. This is for sure the faster and more seemingly straightforward type of printing of the two. This is easier too for people of less technical competence. It is, for the end user, speedy and economical for smaller jobs compared to offset printing, running your job on a digital press can be faster, depending on how many jobs the printer has in the queue before yours.