On Demand Conference

In his keynote, Pesko heralded the next generation of production color devices, which he said will exceed 100 pages per minute. Analog high-speed copiers are becoming obsolete, he said, and in the future we'll see more hybrid devices that output both black-and-white and color pages.

The products unveiled at On Demand seemed to bear out Pesko's predictions; Indigo, Xeikon and Xerox all announced new color devices, and Nexpress, a Heidelberg/Kodak joint venture, hinted at a Drupa release of a digital color printer. To tell the world about their innovations, the Big Four of the digital printing world got together on stage for a discussion: Alfons Buts, of Xeikon; Anshoo Gupta, of Xerox; Benny Landa, of Indigo; and Wolfgang Pfizenmaier, of Nexpress.