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Kindle, Kobe as well as other e-book readers have become staples in homes across the country. The very fact that e-books are cheap, and you will download podcasts, articles and blog posts at the drop of a hat, has many individuals wondering if digital books are going to eventually run digital printing right out of town.

It is a valid concern. I know I personally haven't bought a newspaper in almost 2 years. The sweet smell of newsprint has long since been replaced through the convenience of Yahoo! Headlines and Google's instant access to CNN.com. Would I say that digital media is running digital printing out of town? As well as offset printing, which has been around a whole lot more than its digital counterpart? Absolutely not.

Above all, the health sector is all abuzz with the potential hazards of being wired 24 hours a day. Between the radiation from your telephone causing cancer and also the glare through your computer causing permanent damage to your vision, they are going to start pushing people to unplug sooner rather than later. When that happens, those paperbacks on the shelves and newspapers in the corners are going to start looking awfully good.

Secondly, a massive amount of the digital printing we do is focused on business marketing. Essentially, I know postcards, business cards, posters and brochures aren't the only things printers are printing, but they are a fairly large portion of it. Until Blackberries, PDAs and e-online book portals readers become a part of everyone's daily life, they're never going to top the power of a convention handout or a street-side poster with regards to sharing knowledge and news about upcoming events.

What about magazines? How long do you think it's going to take for digital magazines to line the edges of your grocer's counter? With the cost linked to the Harry Potter-like images haunting the digital ads in today's magazines, it's going to be quite a while before companies begin to jump on board. Until then, you may guarantee printers all over the world are going to continue to churn out copies of Elle, Vogue, GQ, Sports Illustrated and Home & Garden, just the way they do today.

There are a hundred reasons why digital printing is never going to go out of style, and I am sure if we put our minds to it we could come up with that many and after that some. The bottom line, in contrast, is this; as long as the necessity for a tangible, printed product is there, digital printing will be too.