DIGITAL PRINTING — SUCCESS BY DEVICE

Hybrid printing—using separate color and black-and-white devices to produce a finished piece—was another digital production strategy that developed early on. There are two variations of this approach—digital/digital and offset/digital.

Books, again, were a leader in the first case. Color covers and inserts can be produced on one device and then fed into a black-and-white digital production line, via the bypass unit, to produce a finished piece.