so what will be the next new thing in the printing industry?

[RafalWM]

just relaxing after another crazy day and I thought I'd ask around to see what the new trends will be in late 2010/early 2011. Any new units that will change production in some way? I need something interesting to read about

[oxburger]

James Cameron and 3-D printing........

[Magpie]

James Cameron and 3-D printing........

The guy is called Gábor Dénes (Dennis Gabor in the UK), the methodology is called holography and it works since the '60s.

[gordo]

[mustafade]

Next big thing will be ink jet technology. It will completely take over printing industry. The current printing presses will be ink jet presses. Can you imagine everyone will be able run them.

[gordo]

The next thing will be the broad adoption of reseparating incoming files to reduce ink usage and optimize images for the press.

best, gordon p

[dj]

The next best thing will be whatever a company not called Epson or HP will make after all their stupid patents on inkjet technology expire.

Prepress Pilgrim — Cheap Printer Ink

[maas]

I hope the next big thing is a "I am ignorent of Offset" and also a "make it print as displayed on my screen"menu setting in Adobe that will (by osmosis no doubt) automatically sync colour management, embed fonts etc and have suffiecient artificial intelegence to fill the void embodied by current twenty something art directors.


regards
Maas

[GazKL440]

Alcohol/Drugs/Cigarettes.

They are the next big thing in printing.

Start up a shop sellin whiskey, valium, and smokes near a big printer... and you will win big.

Hope this helps

[amazing1589]

James Cameron and 3-D printing........

Interesting thought there. But I really wouldn't want to bank on it.

do you need new technologies to print in 3d?