Plastics Printing — Handle with Care

Though a great profit center, material costs are not insignificant. “The costs are quite a bit more than paper, so when a job starts to go sour, it can be very expensive,” LaForest cautions.

Substrates are not the only profit encroachers. Fisher notes that printing on plastics is a learned skill, and even the most common of occurrences can result in major problems. One bad plastic jam, for example, can dent a cylinder.