A Wide Open Opportunity

In-plants that have wide-format ink-jet printers say the devices have quickly paid for themselves in increased business.

by Caroline Miller

According to Joe Goss, if there is one thing that has had an impact on the wide-format ink-jet printing market, it's the PowerPoint presentation.

"We never realized the kind of demand there would be for charts and posters to accompany PowerPoint presentations," says Goss, director of university printing and materials management at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Ind. "The professors don't want to keep redoing the charts. They need something that is printed on a flexible material that they can roll up, place in a tube, get on a plane with and reuse several times for presentations. We never realized the demand that professors would have for the ColorSpan."