Digital Color Printing — Ink-jet in Line for Takeoff

• potential to offer print speeds comparable to offset and that EP (electrophotography) can’t match;

• flexible deployment, both in standalone printers/presses and hybrid applications such as in-line with offset presses; and

• high quality imaging, particularly for images.

Today, there are two “inhibitors” to wider adoption of ink-jet for page production, Corr asserts. One, it’s currently hard to get all three of the prerequisite characteristics—low cost, high speed and high quality—in the same box. Two, is the lag in “time to market” compared to EP systems.