PRINT 01 WRAP-UP -- Lasting Impressions

Heidelberg claims to have sold 70 NexPress 2100s worldwide. Since commercial shipments of the DocuColor iGen 3 are not slated to begin until the second half of 2002, Xerox also touted its forays into new markets, including announcing the first sales of its direct imaging color offset presses.

PRINT 01 also didn't end up being quite the showdown between violet and thermal platesetters that was anticipated. Some of the companies that had been expected to introduce violet systems either were absent from the show floor all together or had a very low key presence. (See the article on page 40 for more on platesetters.)