The Future Of Offset

And in the end, notes Sakurai's Surch, "you just cannot replace squeezing ink onto a piece of paper versus battering toner on it. Ink will always produce a higher quality image, and with a digital press your first sheet costs as much as your last sheet, whereas with an offset press the cost to produce that sheet of paper always decreases as the run length continues. Even if we're in a 100-sheet run, on an offset press that's automated, we can be competitive, and the customer will see the benefits of an offset press."