Digital Printing Observations — The Technology Race Is On

PrintCom forecasts that Drupa ’08 will be the benchmark beginning of a process battle between digital toner and ink-jet—a battle that will focus on the competitive inter-relationship of speed and image quality.

Xerox, best known for its sheetfed lines of digital equipment, kicked off the coming toner vs. ink-jet press battle last summer with a 223 fpm, 600 dpi toner-xerographic engine continuous-feed press from Fuji Xerox. Now available in Japan and Australia, arrival in the North American market is anticipated in the third quarter of 2008.