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It seems from the chart below that jobs with the phrase “Digital Printing” in the job description (being precise here) were definitely trending up, even ignoring the anomalous spike in Summer ’07. Of course, the trend has turned down now.
The situation for prepress jobs is far more dismal, as this chart shows:
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Thanks for sharing the “digital printing” Job Trends graph .
Yeah so true digital printing is dynamic.From black and white reproduction to high-resolution 6-color printing,digital print technology enables clients to print what they want when they want it.
Even we providing printing services.
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thank you so much
voyance
This is a challenge to digital printing.. Because now.. Digital media is so popular today.. I can see a competition here..
Digital media may pose a challenge for the printing industry. But I still think there’s no need to fear. So many people still acknowledge the importance of digital printing and offset printing. Even tith the rising popularity of e-books, e-mail, and other computer and Internet-related stuff, a lot of people still prefer the more traditional medium. And this is because the traditional ones are the ones that we can connect with physically.
Thanks for the comment. There is a LOT of hand wringing right now in the print industry and a lot of barriers to growth for them: the growth of digital media is, in my opinion, the biggest challenge we face. Traditional methods for delivering information (newspaper, magazine, etc) and the advertising business model that have supported them are losing eyeballs to digital media, for sure. I don't think people are all that willing to PAY for access to info, but advertisers may support it. The disintegration of newspapers is especially troubling. In American society, we've always relied on professional journalism to dig up issues that our government may not want us to know about, and in that way newspapers have had a tremendous positive effect on the way our democracy works. News is important, and the way news has been presented has only recently changed a little. Physical printing has a place, but there is no question that its value to people is changing at a really rapid pace. To me, it's sad. More a symptom of an unhealthy culture than a full-blown disease.
Physical printing in my opinion is going to be a thing of the past very shortly. Although saying that the newspapers seem to be fighint back by proposing people pay for the access of the news online instead of having it free. Therefore they either get the physical paper or the digital medium, but this time they are making money from both areas
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