Future of printing industry ?

[JulieWatson]

Looked up 3D printing on YouTube and thought I would share this.

[Chief_1975]

Certainly packaging printing has the most miles left however I don't think we are too many years away from digital press's being on manufacturing sites as part of the production line.

[Nivedita]

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[DTEC]

What do you think will happen with offset printing?
Packaging is the last refuge?
Much of the work offset are disappearing with the Internet, information, newspapers, and the printing lenght are getting shorter
Regarding digital printing i don´t see a good future for tonner based machines, for me inkjet might be the future .
What is your opinion?

All the Best

Padrao

I think printing will always be here, it is that we are going through an overcapacity because of the diverseness of technology that has brought it to our industry. We are at the cusp of a new era with high speed ink jet and revolutionary image transfer technology such as Nano Print develops. The future of printing plant is going to look more like on demand print. Customer will expect even quicker turn around and just in time print, to meet these demands printers are going to have to invest heavily in more in line automation from the time an order is submitted to finished product. You will see offset adapt with new presses coming out with integrated inkjet technology and inline industrial quality finishing modules that will be easily changed over and inserted or removed inline as needed. These will be hybrids that can easily handle both short and long run jobs won’t be the massive iron that you are familiar with today.

[power2sme]

Printing industry needs a lot of improvement and needs to pace up with the fast technology advancements. Me(Power2Sme) as a part of the industry, feels industry is facing lump.