Ink-jet Printing -- Coming Up Heads and Tales

InfoPrint Solutions soon jumped on board by launching its own branded version of the print engine: the InfoPrint 5000. Last month, the company announced it would begin offering higher-speed models in the second quarter of this year, matching the 420 fpm output of the Screen press.

Screen, meanwhile, was one of two companies to show sheetfed ink-jet presses at Drupa. The Truepress JetSX piezo DOD machine (shown in Germany) used water-based pigment inks to print a maximum 20.8x29.1? sheet at up to 1,440x720 dpi with a rated speed of 1,600 sph.