Digital Printing Observations — The Technology Race Is On

The Océ JetStream uses piezoelectric drop-on-demand ink-jet heads. Jetting of small, variable-size drops (which Océ has trademarked as DigiDot) is the key to the system’s print quality. In a recent technology demonstration, the Océ ink-jet unit ran at full speed producing a medium quality print—not as good as digital sheetfed, but at least on a par and perhaps better than other available ink-jet systems.