The product planners and engineers behind inkjet presses believe that spraying tiny droplets of colored ink onto a substrate is a key part of the future of label printing-and perhaps even more of packaging. And they are right. Inkjet has been gobbling up share in some segments of commercial printing, proving to be a reliable, flexible and reasonably economical technology. It's not perfect, but there is no reason it cannot also be the go-to technology for a growing share of the labels and packaging market. Already, about half the readers of this magazine have some type of digital press handling a portion of the printing in their operation. I predict that in three years that will rise to 80 percent and that most of those will be inkjet.
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