Digital Printing-Production Inkjet - Continuous Feed (Color)

Xerox has opened its newest innovation facility bringing aqueous inkjet products and services to the forefront. The Impika Inkjet Innovation Centre in Aubagne, France, is a 91,000-square-foot showroom featuring Impika’s inkjet devices.

Continuous-feed production inkjet is an exciting, evolving market. Average annual growth since 2010 has been at 93 percent, according to IT Strategies; in 2013 alone, 146 billion pages were printed globally with continuous-feed inkjet. Market-Intell estimates that this represents 350,000 tons of paper in North America in 2013.

Adding a high-speed, production inkjet press is not a "build it and they will come" endeavor. Before moving forward, you'll need a formal strategy in place that anticipates more than simply transferring jobs from existing offset or toner-based presses.

In this webinar, market research firm InfoTrends shares the trends, impact, and key considerations in determining the ROI for inkjet.

More than 200 people flocked to the Ponte Vedra Inn for the second annual Inkjet Summit. These included almost 90 senior managers and business executives interested in purchasing a production inkjet press—in some cases their second or third machine.

Memjet has released Aspen, a page-wide color inkjet print engine that is optimized for on-demand, high-quality color printing label and commercial presses. Aspen enables print shops to ensure the accuracy of the data pipeline, in which information is transferred to the actual printer, with full dot control.

IPG recently visited The World Bank's Printing & Multimedia Services operation for a closer look at the in-plant's new inkjet production press.

Heidelberg is extending its digital and software portfolio and pooling activities in its Digital division. Rapid expansion is planned, with the existing range to be enhanced with new products. In addition, it has also established an Advisory Council.

When will an inkjet production press make its way into your in-plant? The technology is advancing steadily, and a handful of in-plants have already invested in it, but for most managers, inkjet means wide-format, not high volumes and high speeds.

Though direct mail, books and transactional work seem to be the holy trinity of the production inkjet digital printing church, there are murmurs of a fertile ground beyond the big three that will open the door for commercial printing, package printing and beyond.