Digital Printing Observations — The Technology Race Is On

With the introduction of Océ’s ink-jet, which is manufactured by Myakoshi using imaging heads from Brother/Kyocera, it joins Screen, Ricoh/IBM InfoPrint Solutions and Kodak Versamark in the ink-jet vs. toner contest. Screen and InfoPrint utilize the same Screen-built engine based on Epson drop-on-demand imaging heads, with the prime difference between the two machines being the operating software. Both presses produce at just more than 200 fpm. Kodak Versamark is the ink-jet speed leader at 500 fpm, but currently with output at a lesser quality level than some of its competitors.