Inkjet's Age, a print supplement to Quick Printing, is a business and technology brand dedicated to corporate and senior management and focusing on issues surrounding inkjet printing technology in all its forms. Inkjet's Age covers the industry news,
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Canon Solutions America's "Niagara" Featuring a four-color ink system, Niagara-based systems will provide B3 sheetfed color inkjet printing on standard coated and uncoated offset media at anticipated production speeds of up to 3,800 du- plexed B3 sheets per hour and up to 8,500 duplexed letter sheets per hour, with volumes of up to 10 million letter size images per month. The press also will offer in- tegrated end-to-end digital workflow built atop the Océ PRISMA software platform, along with robust feeding, output and online finishing capabilities, managed by full process quality controls. Anticipated to come to market late 2014. MyPRINTResource.com/11140849 PRODUCTION INKJET PRESSES In the production inkjet market, the hardware certainly takes center stage. Additional color production inkjet presses can be found in our online Buyers' Guide on MyPRIN- TResource.com. To fnd out more about a specifc product listed, visit the link at the bottom of the product item. As of a year earlier, at the end of 2012, the global production continuous-feed color inkjet installed base was some 1,600 print engines (800 or so systems), reported the company's "2012-2017 Global Print On Demand" forecast. The US had approxi- mately 500 of those engines, or approxi- mately 250 systems. By this time next year, color production inkjet could account for 40 percent of all digital color pages printed, a separate InfoTrends study asserted, going on to call this market segment the fastest growing sector in the printing industry. "Inkjet is exploding," agreed Mike Poulin, senior marketing manager for continuous- feed production at Canon Solutions Ameri- ca (CSA), the company formed a year ago after Canon USA finally acquired Océ North America for some $1 billion. "There has been a huge adoption of ink- jet print technologies." Poulin's colleague Francis McMahon, marketing VP for pro- duction printing, added, "Virtually every customer has inquired about how to put inkjet into their operations. CSA's custom- ers alone printed nearly 70 billion pages in 2013, "representing nearly one-quarter of all production pages in the US," he reported. "Most of those pages were done on inkjet," added McMahon. By Canon's industry-wide count, 176 roll-to-roll inkjet units were sold in the US in 2013; the firm expects nearly 200 more to be sold this year. From Zero to 30% Putting these numbers in perspective, McMahon's boss, executive VP Mal Baboy- ian, added that inkjet print now represents nearly 30 percent of Canon's total revenues While inkjet may not be the answer for every print firm, visionary owners and managers should not under-estimate the output technology in 2014 and beyond. By MARK VRUNO 10 MARCH 2014 • INKJET'S AGE www.MyPRINTResource.com Impact of Inkjet Continues to Impress L ast year was a "turning point" for inkjet production, according to Jim Hamilton, group director at print industry market research firm InfoTrends. "Inkjet print applications now can be found en- croaching nearly everywhere across the graphic arts—from docu- ment printing to labels and packaging to decorative to functional and 3D printing," he blogged in December 2013. "The range of jetted materials and substrates is staggering." QPsupp_10-13_0314 Impact Inkjet.indd 10 2/18/14 11:40 AM