Japanese Current Status of Digital Printing

Abstract

There are increasing scenes where digital printing is done in the printing industry in Japan. However, it is not an exaggeration to say that there is no significant increase trend. For example, in publications, there are increasing cases in which books are certainly made by digital printing, especially in small copies of 100 copies or less. But, the proportion is less than 0.1% by the author's imagination.

In the United States I hear that digital printing is successful, but in Japan it is not like the United States. Why do not prints by digital printing or digital printing increase?

In this paper, we will consider how digital printing is used. And we will also introduce examples of printing companies working on digital printing.