Pat Sloan discusses the qualities of digitally printed fabrics, and some of the differences between them and traditionally printed fabrics here on Youtube....beginning at the 4:00 minute mark or so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbShXmV_Kj0
she mentions things like traditionally printed fabrics usually have fewer colors, they can have embellishments (extra sparkle) like metalic or glow in the dark - digitally printed fabrics aren't embellished...yet. Things like that. And yes, those color blocks are absent in the digital fabrics...they're not necessary for the printers
Lots of info there.
Oh BTW she discusses Benartex fabrics.