Digital Printing-Production Inkjet - Continuous Feed (Color)

The State of Tennessee’s Document Solutions division recently joined other state printing operations across the country by installing a production inkjet press.

What had been a smaller, focused event for Ricoh's continuous-feed inkjet press user base, INTERACT 2019 marked the second year that the user conference was expanded to include Ricoh cut-sheet digital toner, wide-format printing, and software customers.

Back in 2014 when the State of Colorado's in-plant installed one of the first inkjet presses, the technology was not yet as proven as it is today. What convinced State Printer Mike Lincoln that inkjet was the right direction for his operation to go?

What is becoming clearer is that the old ways of doing business are becoming less and less tenable.

For in-plants, solid outcomes often require hard decisions about staffing, technology and services offered. This university print center made them — and prospered by sticking to them.

Much has changed since the first Inkjet Summit in 2013. Inkjet technology has not only proven itself, it’s becoming more mainstream, so the opportunity to use inkjet to get ahead of the competition is fading fast.

After a relatively calm start to the year, April took off with a bang when two of the busiest events — the Inkjet Summit and the Association of College and University Printers conference — took place in the same week, forcing me to race from one to the other. It was not easy.

Solimar's presentation “Three Keys to Rapidly Improve Operations and Grow Your Business” was selected by in-plant attendees as the best case study. In its presentation, Solimar explored how optimizing data, documents and workflow enabled customers to reap the full benefits of inkjet printing.

As printers contemplate getting a production inkjet press it’s important they analyze the total cost of ownership of this investment.

Marco Boer outlines his latest takeaways about production inkjet printing and what’s prompting the ‘second wave’ of adopters to invest.