High-Speed Inkjet Presses: Next Round of Investments

In the high-speed, high-resolution marketplace, the list of players with presses in production environments remains familiar—GSS, HP, Kodak, Océ, Ricoh (InfoPrint), Screen, TKS, Xeikon, Xerox and Fuji-film (sheetfed). And then there's RR Donnelley, which opted to develop its own technology.

What is striking about the round of installations this year over last, we are hearing about far fewer installation problems and challenges with substrates. We are hearing more about the costs and need to expand post-processing capabilities rather than installation or performance of the presses themselves. Business cases are still strong but, unlike the earliest adopters, those needs were not as acute, so they had the luxury of hanging back and biding their time until that time was right.