After digesting a week of meetings at drupa 2016 along with plenty of good German food and beer, the InfoTrends analyst team believes the show can be characterized by five major themes. Those are Inkjet 3.0, Digital Printing of Packaging, B1 Digital, Special Effects and Industry 4.0.
The latest offering from thINK and Canon Solutions America is "The Inkjet Edge: How to Transition Your Business to Inkjet," a new book that will be a valuable tool for print service providers of all types. The book follows in the footsteps of "The Designer’s Guide to Inkjet," which was published last year. "The Inkjet Edge" takes a more business-oriented approach in an effort to help print service providers that are considering, or are in the midst of, an inkjet transition.
With the announcement of the Brenva HD production inkjet press, Xerox is showing its first product to be jointly developed from start to finish by the combined Xerox and Impika development teams. The device is a cut-sheet color inkjet printer capable of speeds of up to 182 letter/197 A4 images per minute. At first glance, it looks like an iGen, and though it is built on an iGen frame, it will become clear that under the covers the differences are extensive.
One of the most active areas for inkjet is in the “Zone of Disruption.” It’s a busy segment, and it will only get busier.
More than the general print sector, newspapers in general have been heavily impacted by the internet and mobile devices.
Earlier this month, HP invited a group of customers and prospects to its Corvallis, Oregon, facility to show them the latest developments in the newly renamed PageWide web press (formerly known as the Inkjet web press) product line. The facility tour began with a visit to HP’s Corvallis "Fab" lab, the fabrication laboratory where the silicon wafers used in inkjet print heads are made using micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) manufacturing techniques.
In a huge manufacturing building in the Eastman Business Park in Rochester, New York, Kodak is printing sensors that can be used in touch screens for tablets, computer screens, kiosks, and industrial equipment. The process uses technologies that print service providers will find familiar, but they are being used to achieve a very different end result.
InfoTrends' Group Director Jim Hamilton shares eight short videos (each is between two and five minutes long) that highlight some interesting print samples from GRAPH EXPO 15 in Chicago.
This was another great year for GRAPH EXPO in Chicago. Although the hype was low key, there were many new inkjet technologies.
Pitney Bowes’ AcceleJet fits well in the gap between existing cut-sheet electrophotographic and continuous-feed inkjet color products.
