Article: Steadily, digital presses extend their reach.(the market for digital and direct-to-color printing equipment)

Vendors continue to enhance the performance of color printing devices in familiar applications - short runs and variable-data printing - plus in the packaging field.

The growth of the market for digital and direct-to color presses, initially expected to experience Superman-like speed, has instead occurred at a much more mortal pace.

Since the introduction of the first models in this general category in 1993, fewer than 4,000 such devices have been installed throughout the world. These machines include the Presstek-enabled direct-imaging (DI) offset presses from Heidelberg and Omnitrade Industrial; the systems distributed by Agfa, IBM, PrintSource, ...

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