DIGITAL PRINTING WILL BE UNIVERSAL AROSS BRAZIL WITHIN 10 YEARS SAYS FINISHING BOSS

THE OWNER of a major digital printing business in Brazil has predicted that the country’s finishing sector will abandon traditional colouring techniques by 2027. Marcelo Castelão, the sole owner of La Estampa, a Rio de Janeiro-based printing company, told WTiN.com: “Within five to 10 years, the cylinders will be gone. In the last four years, the market has turned. Even at Sedatex, our partner in Spain, a 120-year-old company, income is now 70 percent digital. The advantages are many: exclusive prints are easily done, the cost price is now the same, it’s ...


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