Digital Color Printing — Ink-jet in Line for Takeoff

The HC5500 uses piezo-electric ink-jet heads to output 120 ppm (A4 size) with a top resolution of 300x600 dpi and 123⁄8x185⁄16? maximum print area. RISO has positioned the device as enabling everyday documents to be output with a “communications color” level of print quality.

This range of currently available printing systems reflects one of the main points raised during the On Demand panel discussion—ink-jet production printing systems will not be a homogeneous category of products. That’s because vendors can trade off speed for quality or quality for speed to keep the capital cost down, or they can develop a solution that offers high speed and quality at a greater cost.