Digital printing is becoming more important as its scope broadens. Many of the fundamental imaging technologies are maturing. Innovation at the level of the technological fundamentals has not stopped, but much of the increasing importance of digital print comes from novel integrations and novel applications. While the filing cabinets of paper records have disappeared from most offices, we remain surrounded by print. Our email, records, catalogs and reference materials now live in the cloud but everything comes in a printed package. Package printing is only ~3% digital so there’s a lot of room to make impact. How about reducing the environmental impact of your packaging by shifting from labels to printing on the product itself? How about printing electronics and other functional materials? How about using printing in combination with printed and hybrid electronics to give your packaging intelligence? And then there’s additive manufacturing(AM). Several of the fundamental processes used for AM build on inkjet printing. You’re better off thinking about printing as a manufacturing process.
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March 15, 2020 – “Digital printing of efficient dye-sensitized solar cells,” Mahfoudh Raïssi et al, Solar Energy, Volume 199, Pages 92-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.02.004
March 10, 2020 – HP announces two new generations of Indigo digital printing systems, the B2-format HP Indigo 100K Digital Press and HP Indigo V12 Digital Press. You can read the details at https://press.ext.hp.com/us/en/press-releases/2020/hp-disrupts-digital-printing-with-worlds-most-productive-press-innovation.html