Digital Printing Observations — The Technology Race Is On

Ink-jet has a speed advantage over toner and its water-based dye inks can be an order of magnitude less expensive than toner. What production color ink-jet has lacked is commercially acceptable print quality.

All of the established boundaries are now changing.

Ink-jet Taxiing to Take Off

Digital color product announcements since Graph Expo, Drupa previews and progress reports from recent conferences on ink-jet developments all indicate advancements in product functionality, cost performance and print quality. Samples of digital print futures are impressive! PrintCom’s digital production printing forecast is for major new and improved digitalography product announcements and introductions to be made leading up to what many industry analysts believe will be the “Ink-jet Drupa.”