Hybrid production merges screen printing’s strength for durable, thick-layer specialty inks and primers with digital printing’s efficiency for short runs and variable details. This combination maximizes quality and efficiency, enabling complex graphic and industrial applications like textiles, packaging, and electronics, which are often difficult with a single technology.

Hybrid production combines screen printing and digital printing, a process that required the two previously competitive technologies to converge. Historically, digital printing absorbed much of the print volume from screen printing, leading to friction where digital specialists viewed analogue methods as dated, and screen printers criticized early digital print quality. Now, they are reconciled to maximize efficiency.

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