Digital Destination

"When you see the print quality coming off a Digimaster product, it is so finely laid down on the paper that you really feel it is some kind of near-offset quality," Khan contends.

For some jobs, vendors feel that the quality of digital printing is already as good as offset.

"When it comes to quality, it depends on the type of application," says David Sigler, director of the print and publishing group for Océ Printing Systems U.S.A. "If you are printing a book, digital will match offset quality."