A High-Speed Inkjet Press (Reality) Check —Michelson

The authors are also quick to point out that too much money has been invested by too many digital press manufacturers, paper suppliers, in-line finishing system vendors—and even end customers—for the technology to fail. As such, InfoTrends estimates that high-volume inkjet placements will increase at more than 35 percent per year over the next five years, outpacing electrophotographic device installations by a factor of three. Color print volume, they predict, will nearly quadruple by 2013. Thus, with so much skin in the game, continuous-feed inkjet printing is an emerging technology that has several industry suppliers in overdrive to make sure they capture a piece of the action.