The State of On-demand Printing

While the quality of high-speed, color ink-jet presses is improving at a more rapid pace then the electrophotographic devices, it is not in the same league as high-quality electrophotographic or offset printing. On the other hand, these color ink-jet presses are printing “acceptable” color. This, combined with the lower price per page, will help steal market share from other printing technologies and create new applications, such as transactional, transpromo, tag, ticket and label printing. IPG