Advantage/Disadvantage

ADVANTAGES

 

  • Eliminates the expense and time of screen printing preparation,
  • Eliminates color registration of plates or screens,
  • Reduces the risk,
  • Can virtually eliminate the threat of design theft before market release,
  • Facilitates the increase in the number of fashion seasons,
  • Easily prints directly from stored, transmitted and transported computer files,
  • Reduces the space necessary for archiving art, films, plates, and screens,
  • Is more cost effective for proof and short-run printing than analog printing methods,
  • Reduces proofing time from weeks to hours, thus accelerating design and product development,
  • Permits customization and personalization. Changing each print on the fly does not increase costs substantially,
  • Allows for design correction and modification at any time without significant schedule delays or cost increases,
  • Reduces the over-run waste which analog volume-print pricing promotes,
  • Eliminates the design and process distortions associated with on-contact analog printing,
  • Is cleaner, safer, generally less wasteful and less environmentally hazardous than analog textile printing methods.

 

DISADVANTAGES

  • Glitter can not be printed,
  • In high volume jobs the prices are more expensive than rotatation prints.