VDP: Debunking Urban Legends

• The papers available for digital printing are way too limited.

In 1999, most of the available papers for digital color printing were uncoated, white stocks in a narrow range of weights, which were all the leading xerographic printers could handle. The industry has come a long way since then.

First, today’s leading digital presses perform better, printing a wide range of coated and uncoated substrates, from the very light to the very heavy—60 to 350 gsm for uncoated stocks, 90 to 350 gsm for coated stocks.