Myths about inkjet are impeding its growth. One expert busts them wide open.

By Pat McGrew

Will every inkjet press from every manufacturer work with every paper stock? No. But the odds are that there is an appropriate paper available at a reasonable cost for most projects.

One of the big advances in getting rich color in the high-speed production inkjet web press environment is ensuring that the ink stays as close to the surface as possible. When the ink is absorbed into the paper the image and text usually lose their sharpness.

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Pat McGrew, M-EDP, CMP is the Director and Evangelist for the Production Workflow Service at InfoTrends. As an analyst and industry educator, McGrew works with InfoTrends customers and its clients to promote workflow effectiveness. She also has a background in data-driven customer communication, and production printing with offset, inkjet, and toner. Co-author of eight industry books, editor of "A Guide to the Electronic Document Body of Knowledge," and regular writer in the industry trade press, McGrew won the 2014 #GirlsWhoPrint Girlie Award for her dedication to education and communication in the industry, and the 2016 Brian Platte Lifetime Achievement Award from Xplor International. Find Pat on Twitter as @PatMcGrew and LinkedIn.

Inkjet Myths Exposed