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The first digital press was introduced in 1993.

Digital printing is the reproduction of digital images on a physical surface, such as common or photographic paper or paperboard-cover stock, film, cloth, plastic, vinyl, magnets, labels etc.

It can be differentiated from litho, flexography, gravure or letterpress printing.

Examples of major commercial digital printing systems are the HP Indigo press by Hewlett-Packard, the Océ VarioPrint 6250 from Océ, the InfoPrint system from InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh and the iGen 3 from Xerox.

Digital printing is widely used in personalized printing with the advent of variable data printing (VDP or VI). One example of this would be personalized children’s books from companies such as Wildfire Publishing who are using technologies from Xerox and XMPie to create "one of" or "single copy" digital books, which are customized with the children's image and name(Print On Demand). Other POD production would be short run books and booklets of varying page quantities, and binding techniques(saddle stitched, perfect bound, GBC, wire-o or plastic spiral), which are most cost effectively produced in digital print shops. Many digital printers today produce sheets of postcards where each card contains different images, different type and each card is also addressed in presorted order in a single pass, which after cutting and finishing, they are ready for mailing. Other typical digital production would be decals, magnets and labels with variable data (images and/or addressing); self-mailers printed and addressed; cross media marketing materials using PURLs and order forms or carbonless sets, using sequential numbering.