Digital Presses--Making the Grade

Who started all this? That merit award is shared by Heidelberg and Indigo. Heidelberg's GTO-DI caught great industry attention at PRINT 91, followed by Indigo's 1993 introduction of the E-Print 1000—recognized as the industry's first fully digital, four-color offset press.

With Indigo, perhaps, the fervor for print-on-demand took new meaning—a more viable meaning, based on a more tangible technology. The E-Print, a sheetfed machine that uses a liquid toner to produce a very fine dot for high-quality output, captured the attention and imagination of the digital printing world.