Inkjet: Ready and Waiting

Though inkjet quality has drastically improved, he said, it is not offset quality. He pointed out, however, that not every application needs offset quality.

“There’s a market for any kind of quality,” he said.

Still, some attendees were impressed with how far inkjet quality has come.

“Looking at some of the samples that were provided by the vendors during our case studies, I was pretty shocked at the level of quality of some of the devices,” admitted Jeff Blue, printing manager at The University of Texas at Austin, one of 12 in-plant managers who attended.