Trend Alert: The Evolving Role of Production Inkjet

Trend Alert: The Evolving Role of
Production Inkjet
Dr. Mark Bohan
Vice President, Technology and Research
Jim Workman
Assistant Vice President, Center for Technology and Research

Session
Overview
▶ Inkjet technology
▶ Evolution
▶ Solution set
▶ Today and in the future
▶ Market segments
▶ Business opportunities
▶ Technical solutions
▶ Use cases
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Digital printing
General comments
▶ Increasing market share
▶ New applications
▶ Variability
▶ It is “relatively nice” to the
fluids
▶ Categories
▶ Toner based systems
▶Commercial applications
▶ Inkjet
▶Wide range of applications

Inkjet marketplace
What is happening
▶ Majority of heads still developed
for the home environment
▶ Industrial increasing
▶ Consider piezoelectric heads
▶ Majority are going into wide format
▶ Production Inkjet
▶Growth potential
▶ Packaging and label
▶Growth potential

Inkjet market
Different sectors
▶ Home market
▶ Proofing
▶ Wide format
▶ Label
▶ Mailing and addressing
▶ Production
▶ Low to high speed
▶ Industrial

Inkjet Technologies
Continuous
Nozzle technology
Inkjet Printing
Drop-on-Demand
Thermal Piezoelectric
Kodak

Stand alone systems
Industrial engineering
▶ Combine different system
components
▶ Modular design
▶ Heads
▶ Drivers
▶ Being done by
▶ System integrators
▶ Print companies
▶ Industrial applications
Sources Xennia and Integrity Industrial Ink Jet Integration

Communication is key
How do you present your data!
▶ Resolution
▶ dpi and variable dot size
▶ Quality
▶ Speed
▶ Impacts resolution
▶ Print volume
▶ What is included in the overall
time
▶ Where are items classified
▶ How do you run at start up?
▶ What is acceptable quality?
6pl Sub-Drop
42pl drop 24pl drop 12pl drop
Source Xaar

Workflow
Driving the presses
▶ Different solutions and
workflows available
▶ Dependent on application
▶ Color management
▶ Variable content
▶ Can you fill the press?

Variable data
Different solutions
Dov Isaacs, Adobe, Automation Solutions Network Meeting, February 2012

Production inkjet
Industry acceptance
▶ Print quality
▶ Speed
▶ Cost of production
▶ Cost of ownership

Production inkjet presses
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▶ Canon Océ JetStream and ColorStream Series, used in transactional, direct mail and
commercial solutions
▶ Delphax ELAN™ SERIES, Packaging using memjet heads
▶ FUJIFILM Jet Press 720, sheetfed.
▶ HP T Series web press, utilizing thermal drop generation
▶ KBA RotaJET 76, piezo inkjet technology
▶ Kodak Prosper Series, stream inkjet head technology.
▶ Kodak Versamark Series, high-volume variable solutions, transactional
▶ Komori Impremia, web and sheetfed inkjet presses
▶ Landa Technologies, novel technology
▶ Konica Minolta KM-1, sheetfed B2-format
▶ Ricoh InfoPrint 5000, direct mail, transactional, and by service bureaus
▶ RICOH Pro VC60000, commercial print
▶ RISO ComColor series, cut sheets, applications in medium-volume production
▶ Screen Truepress Jet520, piezoelectric drop-on-demand water-based inks
▶ Timsons TPrint, piezoelectric drop-on-demand
▶ TKS JetLeader, piezoelectric focusing on the newspaper market
▶ Xerox CiPress™, resin-based ink formulation, piezoelectric
▶ Xerox Impika, piezoelectric, transactional, direct mail

Substrate developments
Inkjet and offset
▶ Inkjet requirements very
different from offset
▶ Specialty papers developed
▶ Marketplace not there yet
▶ Characteristics include
▶ Coating, binder, show
through, gloss, water
fastness ….
▶ New papers are here
▶ Different inkjets have
different requirements

Coatings
Affecting the paper and improving quality
▶ Added value to the prints
▶ Development of coatings
to apply
▶ Pre and post printing
▶ Use the same technology
▶ Flood anilox coaters
▶ Broaden scope of
products available

Market opportunities
Inkjet
▶ Transactional
▶ Transpromo
▶ Books
▶ Newspaper
▶ Direct mail
▶ General commercial
▶ Packaging
▶ Specialty
▶ Hybrid applications

Where is the business coming from?
Production Inkjet
▶ Offset
▶ Sheetfed
▶Web
▶ EP
▶ Cut sheet based
▶ Pre-print
▶ New business

Print quality
Expectations for different markets
Direct mail
Books
Packaging
Commercial
Transactional
Newspaper
Transpromo
Quality
Newsletters

Market Segments
The potential and where the sales challenges are
▶ Transactional
▶ Statements, personal
communication, checks ..
▶ Increase in color
opportunities
▶ Very specific market
segment
▶ Transpromo
▶ Taking market from EP,
offset shells / EP

RICOH InfoPrint 5000 series
Transactional printing
▶ Focus on transactional,
service bureaus, direct
mail and mono books
▶ 7 Unique Models
▶ 5 Different Ink Types
▶ MICR configurations
▶ Variable droplet size
▶ AFP, PS and PDF solutions
▶ Wide range of different
solutions
▶ Simple and robust design
▶ Utilizes robust technologies Booth 1931

Canon Océ Jetstream and ColorStream
Overview
▶ Proven technology using piezoelectric heads
▶ Wide range solutions within the family
▶ Full MICR capability
▶ Variable drop size
▶ Used in many transactional applications
▶ Books
▶ Transpromo
▶ Commercial printing Booth 613

Xerox Impika
Overview
▶ Piezoelectric drop on
demand
▶ HD inks
▶ Up to 6 colors
▶ Small footprint
▶ Compact design
▶ Modular
▶ Also applications in direct
mail
Booth 1213

Market Segments
▶ Books
▶ Market for digital on
short run
▶ Mono or color
▶ Manuals
▶ Educational
▶ Personalization

HP T Series Web Presses
Overview
▶ Presses are installed
worldwide
▶ Wide range of configurations
▶ Up to 42” wide
▶ Color or mono
▶ Multiple heads used
▶ K C M Y + Bonding Agent (BA)
▶ 7 thermal printheads on each
printbar
▶ Tandem printbars
Booth 1913

Timsons TPrint
Overview
▶ Book centric solution
▶ Uses Kodak S-Series heads, 52” wide web
▶ Integrated finishing
▶ Different signatures
▶ Leverages ZMR technology

Xerox CiPress
▶ Novel ink technology
▶ Waterless technology
▶ Wide range of stocks
▶Light weight
Overview
▶ Web width up top 20.4”
▶ Books & manuals, direct
mail, transactional
promotional
Booth 1213

Customer highlight
Hudson Printing
▶ Purchased HP T330 Color Inkjet Web Press
in fall 2013 to meet demand for shorter run
books, magazines, catalogs.
▶ Reached 70% capacity on one shift within
a few months of beginning production.
▶ Press produces posters, catalogs,
brochures, flyers…almost every type of work
typically produced on the company’s web
offset presses.
▶ The variable capabilities opens up new
customer conversations, such as highly-variable
magazines.

Customer highlight
Documation
▶ Sought a way to deliver journals, books,
children’s books, newsletters, magazines
faster and more cost effectively to
publishing and association clients.
▶ Installed two HP T230 Color Inkjet Web
Presses.
▶ Migrated color book blocks for children’s
books from offset and digital sheetfed
presses for more efficient printing.
▶ UV in-line coating enabled digital
production of high-quality postcards, a
new application.
▶ Plans to leverage presses to grow direct
mail business.

Market Segments
▶ Packaging
▶ Cartons
▶ POP
▶ Flexible packaging
▶ As long as we use “things”
packaging is never going away
▶ Prototypes
▶ Personalization
▶ Regionalization
▶ Growth in international markets

FUJIFILM Digital Inkjet J Press 720
Overview
▶ Strong focus on the short run
market
▶ Prints on sheets
▶ Targets both litho and digital
operations
▶Packaging
▶ Pre-coat to allow
conventional litho substrates
▶ Water based inks
▶ Samba print heads from
Dimatix Booth 3213

Market segments
▶ Newspapers
▶ Short run versions
▶ Replace offset
▶ Inserts
▶ Advertising opportunities
▶ Personalization
▶ Regionalization
▶ Competitions

TKS JetLeader
▶ Focus on newspaper
Overview
▶ 2014 InterTech Technology
Award
▶ In line finishing
▶ Books and commercial
printing
▶ Piezoelectric drop-on-demand
water based inks
Booth 3248

Kodak Prosper 6000P
Overview
▶ Utilizes novel continuous inkjet technology
▶ Aqueous inks
▶ Publishing, targeting high speed applications
▶ Low to medium coverage
▶ Different substrates
▶ Typical 42 gsm – 125 gsm
Booth 831

Market Segments
▶ Direct mail
▶ Targeted direct mail
▶ Metrics are critical
▶ Brochures
▶ Take from different
markets
▶ Newsletters
▶ Lower quality

Market Segments
▶ General commercial
printing
▶ Primarily roll feed
▶Increase in the sheetfed
solutions
▶ Appropriate use of
personalization
▶ Static short run

Kodak Prosper 6000C
Overview
▶ Utilizes novel continuous inkjet technology
▶ Aqueous inks
▶ Targeting high speed applications
▶ Typical 650 fpm Glossy substrates
▶ Different substrates
▶ Typical 42 gsm – 270 gsm
Booth 831

Screen Truepress Jet520
Overview
▶ Piezoelectric heads
▶ 20.4” web width
▶ 720 dpi resolution
▶ Varied for different applications
▶ New higher resolution available
▶ Magazines, newspapers,
small-lot printing, textbooks
and transactional printing
▶ Packaging press option
with UV
▶ Sheetfed inkjet press
▶ 810 duplex sheets per hour

RICOH Pro VC60000
Commercial printing marketplace
▶ Focus on commercial, direct
mail and color book
▶ Announced before the show!
▶ Offset, EP and inkjet markets
▶ Higher quality
▶ 1200x1200, x600, 600x600
▶ High volume
▶ 40M A4 pages per month
▶ Wider substrate range
▶ Offset coated, matte, uncoated
▶ Thickness 40-250 gsm
Booth 1931

Customer highlight
Inkjet and offset: bonprix
▶ Issue
▶ Increase catalogue impact
▶ Traditionally all offset catalogue
▶ Introduced variable cover
▶ Personalized the cover to demographics and data
▶ Significant increase in after market sales

Customer highlight
Gilson Graphics
▶ First US installation of sheetfed J
Press 720 (half-size 28”) in late
2011, outputting a range of
commercial work.
▶ Work has migrated from Gilson’s
offset presses and also coming
from applications that previously
were impossible to print.
▶ Gilson has since installed the J
Press 540W web press (600 dpi)
for booklet and coupon jobs, as
well as monochrome book work.

Market Segments
▶ Hybrid applications are challenging this market
▶ Ink costs for offset are significantly less
▶ Fast production speeds
▶ Integrate into many areas
▶ Newspaper
▶ Commercial
▶ Transactional

Customer highlight
The Sun (UK)
▶ Using inkjet imprinting to promote premium
online content
Reference

Landa technologies
Overview
▶ New technology showcased
▶ Innovative technology
▶ Inkjet that is offset from a heated blanket and then
adhered to the substrate

KBA RotaJET 76
Overview
▶ Utilizing strengths from
offset
▶ Web widths up to 30.74
▶ 500 ft./ min
▶ Small footprint
▶ Produces through start up
▶ Minimizing waste
Booth 213

Komori Impremia/Konica Minolta KM-1
Overview
▶ Partnership between
the companies
▶ Cut sheet device
▶ 29” sheet size
▶ UV ink
▶ LED Curing
Booth 1231 / 654

Adoption
Challenges ahead
▶ Inertia and status quo
▶ Market readiness
▶ New technology
▶ There will be some failures!
▶ Existing equipment
▶ Just because you can do it
– should you?
▶ Your USP
▶ Handle data at high speed

Production inkjet
Closing thoughts

Thanks for listening!
Dr. Mark Bohan
Vice President,
Technology & Research
412 259 1782
mbohan@printing.org
Jim Workman
Assistant Vice President
412 259 1710
jworkman@printing.org
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