Digital Colour Printing
Digital Color Printing
Vibrant Color Prints on Paper, Card and Sticker Sheets
- Walk-in colour prints, typically ready in 30-40 minutes when the machine is free
- Super vibrant colours and extremely high resolution that a home or office printer can’t match
- Choice of paper weights (100-300 GSM), textured and metallic papers, and sticker sheets
- Several designs can share one order; minimum order ₹3,000 + GST
- Range of applications like posters, brochures, invitations, letterheads, greeting cards, discount coupons, etc.
- Prices from ₹30 per 12 x 18 in sheet + 18% GST
Shipping: Free across India on orders of ₹3,000 + GST.
Pricing: Digital colour prints from ₹30 per 12 x 18 in sheet + 18% GST
Digital Color Printing: A Complete Explanation
Imagine this – It’s your daughter’s birthday/parents’ anniversary or boss’ farewell party and you’ve designed a beautiful invite. You then print it on your home/office inkjet or laser color printer… And a horror unravels in front of your eyes…
- The print looks faded and botched
- The paper you have used is not as thick as an invite needs to be and feels flimsy
- The edges of the letters seem to spread / bleed out on the sheet.
To sum it up, the print quality and the colors are nowhere near as good as they look on the screen. What you saw on the screen, isn’t what you’re holding in your hand.
A Digital Color Print Provider Is the One Person Who Can Help You
To solve your problem, what you need is –
- A high-resolution digital color printer
- A choice of thick, thin, and textured papers to choose from, and…
- Most of all, a crisp and vibrant print that does justice to your beautiful and elegant design.
The answer to all this and a lot more lies with Digital Color Printing.
Why Go for Digital Color? Why Not Choose Good Old Offset Printing?
The need for colour prints has become ubiquitous. People are increasingly asking for prints of flyers, brochures, posters, postcards, newsletters, etc. To get its business started, any office needs stationery such as letterheads and coupons.
The problem is that these print runs are usually limited to a few hundred or a thousand at most. And these quantities do not justify four-colour offset printing. This limited numbers game is where digital colour printing triumphs.
Digital printing technology needs no plates or set-up, so short runs make sense.
Without getting into too many technicalities, a digital press takes your design file straight from a computer and prints full-colour copies of it within minutes.
Digital Color Printing at Orchid Digitals
Digital printing opens up multiple avenues when it comes to getting designs and artwork into physical forms. No matter your use case and requirement, there’d most likely be a digital solution to solve it. Some of the strongest points in digital printing’s favour are:
Fast Output – a Digital Press’s Biggest Advantage
When it comes to colour printing, we are fast. At our shop in Pune, we print paper jobs on our Konica Minolta 3080 digital colour press.
The process is straightforward:
- Bring your file over on a pen drive. Alternatively, email it to us at [email protected].
- Wait while we print your job and create the job order.
- Walk out with your colour prints.
Walk-in prints are typically ready in 30-40 minutes when the machine is free, longer when it is busy. There are no colour plates, positives or screens to prepare before going to press.
Print Quality
Our digital press gives super vibrant colours and extremely high resolution. Very small fonts and other fine details in your artwork are reproduced sharply, and the colour stays consistent from the first copy to the last.
Clear, Fixed Prices
Colour prints are priced per 12 x 18 in sheet: ₹30 for one side and ₹40 for both sides, on any paper from 100 to 300 GSM, + 18% GST. Textured and metallic papers, non-tearable paper and sticker sheets are listed in the price table below. Our minimum order is ₹3,000 + GST, and several designs can share it.
For flyers, brochures, books and stickers with an instant price calculator, browse our online shop.
Wide Choice of Papers for Color Printing on a Digital Machine
The secret to creating different kinds of colour prints is quite often in the media we use. When you walk into Orchid Digitals, you’re presented an album where you can choose between:
- Thin paper stock – Choose from 100 to 170 GSM papers. Ideal for flyers and leaflets, handouts and letterheads.
- Thick card stock – Use 250 to 300 GSM card, best suited for brochure covers, postcards, invites, posters, etc.
- Textured and metallic finish prints – Textured and metallic finish papers add a rich, tactile finish to invites, greeting cards, certificates, etc.
- Sticker sheets – glossy paper stickers, transparent stickers, non-tearable plastic stickers and gold or silver metallic stickers for labels and packaging.
- Specialty media like non-tearable (NT) paper – Certificates and documents that need to last can be printed on non-tearable media, which doesn’t tear or degrade easily. Marathon bibs and restaurant menu cards that resist sweat, dust, oil and food stains are other applications of this stock.
We print only on papers we stock; we don’t print on paper or sheets that clients bring in. If you need a special paper we don’t stock, ask us: we can often source it.
Digital Color Printing Has a Wide Range of Applications
Traditional printing technologies like offset and screen printing are giving way to digital presses for short runs, because a digital press needs no plates and handles many kinds of paper and personalised prints.
Some of the things we print on our digital press:
Letterheads
Gift & Discount coupons
Danglers & Wobblers
Wristbands
Invitation cards
Event tickets
VDP – Get Hyper-Personalized Color Prints
There are two ways to print a job of 100 certificates –
- The standard way – Print out 100 copies of the same design with a blank space for the name field. Get a friend/team-mate with good handwriting to fill in the names by hand.
- The smart way – Print 100 copies of the same design with different names incorporated on each of those prints by the printing machine itself.
This is possible using Variable-data printing (VDP). VDP is an extremely powerful advantage of modern digital color printers. It is a process whereby you can define standard fields like names, marks, ranks, etc on a standard design template. You then connect a database containing the relevant data to this template. On run-time, the printing press pulls each different name and other information from the database. It then prints out this data on the standard template stored in its memory.
Obviously, the two main advantages of VDP technology are –
- Significantly reduces your workload, wherein the machine generates a ready to distribute print.
- It personalizes the print to an extent where the recipient feels that the job was exclusively generated for them. This is because the data fields are reproduced in the same fonts and colors as the rest of the template and do not stand out like an eye-sore as they would on a hand-written job. (Especially if that friend/team-mate of yours has terrible handwriting.)
How to Choose the Right Thickness of Paper for Your Print Job
We also offer a very wide range of papers to choose from. Printing paper stock is generally categorized on the basis of the weight/thickness of the sheet. This weight is defined as GSM or grams per square meter.
Here is a table which recommends the thickness of the paper according to different print applications:
| 100 gsm – 170 gsm thick paper | 250 gsm – 300 gsm thick card | Textured and metallic tint papers | Sticker paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flyers | Posters | Invitations | Labels |
| Pamphlets | Greeting cards | Certificates | Stickers |
| Mass mailers | Book covers | Restaurant menus | |
| Letterheads | Invites | ||
| Tickets | |||
| Coupons | |||
| Danglers |
Finishing We Do In-House
A printed sheet is often only half the job. We finish your prints in-house, so they come back ready to use:
- Lamination – a gloss or matte film protects the printed face from splashes, dust and scratches. Read about print lamination.
- Cutting – sheets are cut to the finished size on our cutting machine.
- Creasing and folding – for brochures, leaflets and cards, so folds stay clean and don’t crack.
- Binding – centre-pinned brochures and catalogues and perfect-bound books and manuals.
- Kiss-cutting – stickers cut to shape on the sheet, so they peel off easily. See our custom-shape stickers.
Finishing is quoted with your job.
FAQs | Frequently Asked Questions
Digital colour prints can be used to create a variety of promotional material like brochures, flyers, leaflets, posters, letterheads, bookmarks, danglers, wobblers, event tickets, invites, greeting cards, etc.
We provide both options to our clients.
Most colour digital prints come off the press on sheets of size 12 x 18 inches (A3 extra). These printed sheets are then cut, creased, bound, laminated, etc., to create promotional material like brochures, manuals and invites.
Some of our clients prefer doing the finishing themselves and simply buy the printed sheets. Others ask for a complete job. We cater to both.
Walk-in prints are typically ready in 30-40 minutes when the machine is free, longer when it is busy. Larger jobs typically take 2-3 days after payment and artwork approval, plus delivery time. We don’t promise a fixed time.
Not always. The cost depends on how much ink your design uses, so a full-page greyscale print can cost about the same as a colour print.
Usually because the artwork was low resolution. Send print-ready PDFs with images at 300 DPI or more at the printed size, ideally built in vector software, and your logos and photos will print sharp.
We stock papers from 80 GSM thin paper all the way up to 300 GSM thick card. Check our paper guide to understand the papers available and what each one suits best.
Yes.
We also stock a wide variety of textured and metallic papers for invites, greeting cards, certificates, photo posters, etc. Browse our collection on the textured paper prints page.
No. We print only on papers and sheets we stock; we don’t print on paper or media that clients bring in.
If you need a special paper we don’t stock, ask us: we can often source it for your job.
Our digital press can print on size:
A. 12 inches X 18 inches
B. 13 inches X 19 inches
C. 12 inches X 24 inches
D. 12 inches X 36 inches
400 gsm thick card sheet is the maximum thickness our machine can handle.
No. We do not work with handmade paper. Do check our textured papers as an alternative.
Yes, on synthetic paper and sticker films: non-tearable (NT) plastic stickers, transparent stickers and gold or silver metallic stickers all run on our digital press. Plastic sheets and boards are printed on our wide-format printers instead.
Send us your artwork; we’ll check and prepare it so it prints perfectly. We don’t offer design as a service, but we can recommend designers, DTP operators and other resources.
Print-ready PDF, TIFF, JPEG or PNG files work best; vector files can be sent as EPS, and CorelDRAW (.cdr) or Illustrator (.ai) originals are welcome. Images at 300 DPI at the printed size give the best result.
Our minimum order is ₹3,000 + GST per order. For example, 100 sheets printed on one side (₹30 x 100) or 75 sheets printed on both sides (₹40 x 75) reach it. For a small job, we can suggest increasing the quantity to reach the minimum.
Yes. You can lay out multiple different designs or artworks in one order. As long as the order reaches our ₹3,000 + GST minimum, we will be happy to process the job.
We take 100% payment in advance, online or at our shop. Email us your artwork along with the size, paper, single or double side and number of copies.
After evaluating your job, we send you an estimate (a Proforma Invoice) with a UPI QR code. You can pay by UPI (Google Pay and other apps) or bank transfer (NEFT/RTGS).
Once the payment is received, we process the job and then ship it to you.
Yes. Delivery is free in Pune and anywhere in India on orders of ₹3,000 + GST and above. We don’t offer express or air delivery; for an urgent job, you can collect it from our shop.
Costs for Digital Color Printing in Pune
Colour prints are priced per sheet of 12 x 18 inches (often called A3 extra). Any paper from 100 to 300 GSM costs ₹30 for one side and ₹40 for both sides, + 18% GST. Textured and metallic papers, non-tearable paper and stickers cost a little more (see the table below).
To work out the cost of one piece, divide the sheet price by the number of pieces that fit on one sheet. For example, two A4 pieces fit on one 12 x 18 inch sheet, so an A4 pamphlet printed on one side works out to ₹15 a piece; four A5 pieces fit, so an A5 flyer works out to ₹7.50 a piece.
The smaller your print size, the more copies fit on one sheet. The exact number depends on the size and bleed of your design; we confirm it with your quote.
Given below is a table listing the costs for colour printing on various types of paper –
| Sheet of size – 12 x 18 inches (A3 extra) | Nature of the Print | |
|---|---|---|
| Paper Type | Single Side Print | Both-Side Print |
| 100, 170, 250 or 300 gsm paper and card | ₹30 | ₹40 |
| Textured and metallic papers | ₹40 | ₹50 |
| Non-tearable (NT) paper | ₹40 | ₹50 |
| Paper stickers (glossy mirrorcote) | ₹30 | – |
| Non-tearable (NT) plastic stickers | ₹40 | – |
| Transparent stickers | ₹40 | – |
| Gold / silver metallic stickers | ₹60 | – |
* Please Note:
- Prices are per 12 x 18 in sheet and exclude 18% GST.
- Minimum order: ₹3,000 + GST per order (for example, 100 sheets printed on one side, or 75 sheets printed on both sides). Several designs can share the minimum.
- Cutting, creasing, lamination and binding on request.
Shipping and Delivery
- Free delivery in Pune and anywhere in India on orders of ₹3,000 + GST and above.
- We don’t offer express or air delivery; for an urgent job, you can collect it from our shop in Pune.
- Walk-in prints are typically ready in 30-40 minutes when the machine is free; larger jobs typically take 2-3 days after payment and artwork approval, plus delivery time.
Worked Examples: What Will Your Job Cost?
- 400 A5 flyers, one side, 170 GSM paper: 4 flyers fit on a 12 x 18 in sheet, so 100 sheets x ₹30 = ₹3,000 + 18% GST.
- 150 A4 leaflets, both sides: 2 leaflets fit on a sheet, so 75 sheets x ₹40 = ₹3,000 + 18% GST.
- 300 invitations of 5 x 7 in on textured paper, one side: 4 fit on a sheet, so 75 sheets x ₹40 = ₹3,000 + 18% GST.
The exact number of pieces per sheet depends on the size and bleed of your design; we confirm it with your quote. Cutting, creasing, lamination and binding are on request.
Want finished flyers and leaflets or brochures priced in one go? Our shop pages have an instant price calculator.
See Our Digital Prints in Action
How to check the quality of a digital print: two simple checks – vivid colour and fine detail, down to very small text.
Is black and white always cheaper? Not always. The cost depends on how much ink your design uses (in Hindi).
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