Print-on-Demand is a new way of producing documents that enables significant cost savings when compared with traditional methods. The core idea in print-on-demand is that there is no need to print more documents than are needed at the present time.
With offset printing, if you need 1,000 units of a document now and 1000 more units in 6 months the best choice is to print all 2000 units now. Why? Because if you print some now and some later you'll need to pay the press set-up costs twice! That means an extra 1000 copies of the document that have to be paid for and stored (even though they're not needed for another six months).
Digital technology has enabled businesses to produce the exact number of documents needed today, and no more. This saves production costs, storage costs, and most importantly, this saves the consumer from needing to guess how many copies of a given document they will need in the coming weeks or months. You print exactly what you need exactly when you need it. |