Make Way for Ink-jet

For 2006, the big story in ink-jet printing was industrial printing applications. It seemed as if every vendor was talking about flatbed machines capable of printing on a wide range of substrates. There have already been some signs of a shift in product focus back to page production this year.

Agfa Graphics, for one, had cited the opportunities in industrial applications as the primary motivation for several investments it made in developers of ink-jet technology. This February, however, the company introduced a new page printing system designed for “transpromotional” and direct mail applications.