Digital Prepress--The Need to Diversify

Economically Paced Growth
Variable printing aside, two factors will pace the growth of digital printing over the next two years. The first is economics. Significant cost and productivity improvements have been made in the monochrome segment on high-speed sheetfed machines, such as the DocuTech 6180, as well as webfed presses such as the Océ DemandStream 8090DI. These advances are bringing digital printing into new mainstream markets, such as book publishing. On the color front, Xeikon and