In the traditional color market, color printing technology is mainly divided into three categories, they are: production color, image color and commercial color. This classification is mainly determined by the customer's output requirements. Producing color is suitable for high volume production, where higher production speed and lower unit printing cost are very important. Image color live parts must be of high quality (usually accurate color matching), but the amount of printing for such live parts is generally small. Commercial color is a fast growing area because color documents are becoming more and more common in office environments.
But now, the quality of image color and the high speed and low cost of producing color and other features have been weakened to a certain extent, so the difference between various color printing technologies has become less obvious.
No single traditional technology can dominate in all the areas mentioned above. Printing enterprises must take image quality, output speed, equipment cost and operation cost into consideration when choosing technology. Among these factors, print buyers must make a choice according to their actual situation.
While different print buyers have different metrics for "acceptable quality," speed and cost are important factors in their purchase decisions, as high-end printing is a small part of many companies' product portfolios.
