Complementary Future of Offset, Digital Printing to Be Seen at Drupa

So far, the majority of high-speed inkjet presses have been sold to transactional printers; few commercial printers have invested in this technology. In the United States in particular, some book printers have installed such systems, predominantly from HP and Kodak. They have used them to change the business models of publishers so run lengths of color books up to 5,000 copies now become viable on this technology, allowing print buyers to reduce their levels of inventory.