The ‘Print Buyer Drupa’ —Sherburne

A speaker at one of the press conferences mentioned that 2000 was considered the digital Drupa; 2004 was considered the workflow Drupa; and 2008 was indeed the ink-jet Drupa. Of course, this supplier was unveiling some significant ink-jet announcements, so there may have been some bias! But if you think about it, from a trends perspective, 1995 was the digital Drupa. That’s when production color digital devices really began to gain steam; by 2000, digital was already here.