Digital Color Printing — Ink-jet in Line for Takeoff

EP is not going away, also predicts Larry Tracy, marketing manager, graphic arts, at Hewlett-Packard. He, too, believes that the trade-offs mean ink-jet solutions will be specific to the application.

Tracy expects to see a variation of Moore’s Law (which says computer power will double every 18 months) in the development of ink-jet technology. He notes that HP’s new Edgeline technology, which was recently rolled out in multifunction printers for the enterprise printing market, already reduces the drop size to four picoliters.