So, Kyocera has developed an inkjet head capable of producing 1,000 full-colour A4 pages a minute.
I admit, I almost did a cartoon-like double take when I saw the story and had to check that I hadn’t misread it. (As I’m sure a number of printweek.com readers did, for example perhaps those employed, oh I don’t know, say by German or Japanese press firms.)
Essentially, what this breakthrough means is that there is a digital technology now commercially available that can produce 60,000 A4 pages per hour - in other words an inkjet head capable of giving a 15,000 sheets per hour B2 press a serious run for its money.
Of course, offset still has the edge in the quality stakes, certainly to my mind - the Kyocera head for example only offers a maximum of 600dpi.
However, with inkjet technology advancing at a seemingly exponential rate, I wonder how long it will be before it matches or even, dare I say, overtakes offset in the quality stakes?