Digital Finishing — Where to Draw the Line?

UV and aqueous coatings provide acceptable protection, but those approaches limit the ability to finish a piece in a “hybrid” production environment that includes ink-jet addressing/messaging, notes the digital printing executive. “Therefore, only a printer consistently doing full variable data applications will get maximum utilization out of these solutions. Cutting a blanket for a 500-piece mailing run that needs to go through ink-jet addressing is not fast, or cost-effective.”