Printing for Corrugated Packaging: What's Ahead for Color Digital Printing?

As good as color digital printing is for the corrugated market, such printing has its own limitations. When asked to name the top barrier for color digital printing of corrugated, cost per image ranks first, chosen by 36 percent, followed by speed/productivity, chosen by 27 percent (Fig. 3). Notably, print quality ranked last as a barrier (17 percent), a tribute to the technical advances that suppliers have made. InfoTrends' judgment is that the overall response cited here is fair: color digital printing needs to cost less and to be more productive, but today its print quality is compelling for most users.