Industrial print, broadly speaking, is printing as part of a manufacturing process — print that is applied to a product to add decoration or functionality. It is not meant to communicate, as traditional printing is. Another term for industrial print is functional print.
Examples of functional print include:
Much of this work today is being done by analog screen printing technology. But screen printing cannot adapt to the changing manufacturing landscape of just-in-time production, customization, and unlimited chemistry and substrates.