InfoTrends Forecast: Inkjet Targets Commercial

SOHO use of inkjet is long-established, with hundreds of millions of drop-on-demand printers having been placed during the past 20 years. Most of these devices are thermal inkjet-based, but piezo technologies are also available.

The long-term goal is for inkjet to compete against offset in terms of speed and print quality. Inkjet technology observers should not judge the field's first steps toward the long-term goal of offset replacement too harshly. Too much money has been invested by too many companies for inkjet to fail.