High-speed inkjet printing is developing rapidly, book printing is its main front

In recent years, high-speed inkjet printing has developed rapidly. The discussion about high-speed inkjet printing in the industry is no longer just the speed, productivity, quality and other parameters and indicators of metal packaging. Instead, it begins to explore software support such as front-end printing. Post-connection, as well as automated process building throughout the production chain.

Now is a good time for high-speed inkjet printing technology. To keep up with the pace of high-speed inkjet development, let's first understand the current status of the high-speed inkjet printing market.

Market growth status

According to data at the end of 2014, sales of new high-speed inkjet printers worldwide increased by 22% year-on-year, and print volume increased by more than 35%. Compared with other printing markets, it shows a rare high growth rate. Last year, the printing volume of high-speed inkjet printers in the world was less than 1% of the total printing volume, which means that the current market is still in the early stage of the development of high-speed inkjet technology, compared with other printing technologies, high-speed spraying Ink printing technology can also maintain a high profit margin.

In addition, one-third of high-speed inkjet prints come from alternative offsets. There are also prints produced by short-run books that cannot be printed on offset. High-speed inkjet printing technology has the ability to print variable data, which is 3 to 10 times more powerful than electrostatic toner printers. In addition, the additional cost of printing color jobs is less than that of electrostatic toner printing, which is one of the reasons driving the development of high-speed inkjet printing technology. High-speed inkjet printing is expected to grow further due to advances in technology that can be directly applied to coated and uncoated offset paper by near-inkjet systems.

Paper Packaging will become a big business opportunity

Relevant people believe that high-speed inkjet printing on sheetfed paper will become the key to the explosive development of the next printing industry. This technology can replace the traditional sheetfed offset press. The installed capacity of the global traditional sheetfed offset press is much higher than that of the web offset press, and it is expected that the future installed capacity of the single-sheet high-speed inkjet printer will be considerable.

Book Printing will become a major development prospect

The inkjet printing industry market research analysis report shows that from the market trend, multi-variety, short-run, and personalized display of increasing market demand, traditional printing has been difficult to adapt. In particular, a large number of highly professional academic works are difficult to publish due to the small amount of printing, and industrial newspapers and professional newspapers with a large amount of printing are difficult to print and distribute in the country. In addition, coupled with the cost pressures and resource pressures brought by book inventory, high-speed inkjet digital printing provides a viable solution for the publishing industry.

Although high-speed inkjet can be applied to more industries, book printing is the main prospect of high-speed inkjet printing in China. At present, many publishers are aware that on-demand publishing is a general trend, but it is subject to factors such as capital, copyright, equipment, personnel, technology, and cost. Most publishers publish on-demand and are still on hold. Changing this status requires a more complete publishing ecosystem. Upstream publishers, downstream print service providers and equipment suppliers are working together to reshape the digital publishing industry chain, build an on-demand publishing system, and explore a profitable on-demand publishing business model.

(Original title: China's inkjet printing industry market in 2016: significant growth rate)