DIGITAL FINISHING: Go With the Flow

The winds of change are upon us though. Newer, higher-speed continuous feed printing technologies from companies such as Delphax, Nipson, Océ and Xerox, along with promising new developments in ink-jet technology from Océ, Kodak and Hewlett Packard, are on the horizon. These technologies should continue to increase the trend of digital book manufacturing to move away from near-line and off-line approaches—and increase the widening trend toward an in-line finishing approach.