In an age where every competitive advantage must be taken, business owners must always look at the big picture. Publishers, brandowners, agencies, printbuyers and printers all have to respond to the global market change and find the innovative ideas and growth opportunities to take them into the future.  Short runs, Print-on-Demand, Just-in-Time, cost reduction, adding value and creative print solutions are the key drivers to justify digital printing.

Inkjet is one of the hottest topics in the industry today and the next evolutionary step in meeting the needs of performance in both speed and color at a reasonable cost will be inkjet. 
Non contact, multiple inks and scalability of inkjet are the key elements to build inkjet systems that provide versatility and flexibility for the various application areas. Inkjet systems have definitively improved reliability, quality, and are becoming more productive. The range of applications keeps expanding, and the potential for each offers new opportunities.

Innovations define the future - the top of the iceberg

We have stepped into the injet decade and at DRUPA2012 major industry players will show multiple full color single pass inkjet systems for various commercial and industrial print markets. In the document world inkjet is making its inroad into the commercial, transpromo, direct mail, book and newspaper printing. The signage sector is switching to a greener production and wideformat/flatbed inkjet systems have achieved new productivity levels. In the industrial printing world multiple new single pass inkjet printing solutions, whether as a stand-alone digital press or an inkjet engine integrated on a media  transport unit, will be shown for the label and packaging printing markets. Industrial printing will transform into industrial decoration and one day, mark my words, everything that can be decorated in the industrial world, will be decorated by inkjet technology.

• Multi pass wide format and flatbed inkjet systems have become a commodity and are finding their way in the industrial printing markets
• The versatility of new inks is a key element in opening up new markets.
• With over 1000 Single-pass fixed-array and high-volume inkjet printing installations, production inkjet has become a reality. These modular ( non-contact) web, sheet or object based inkjet systems are scalable and use water-based, UV or solid inks.
• Single-pass high-speed drop-on-demand inkjet technology is beginning to offer a credible alternative to current technology in a number of sectors:
  • to electro-photography at the high end
  • to all types of conventional printing technology for small- to medium-volumes of print-on-demand, Just-in-Time and customised or personalised print
  • to continuous inkjet – not only industrial marking but also the transactional printing and business colour markets
  • ...and it will soon be the driving technology to unite print and production in one process for the industrial manufacturing world.

To fulfil its potential there is a huge need for third parties who can bridge the systems integration and development gap between core technology providers and industrial/high-volume users.

Under the leadership of Rob Haak - independent inkjet integration consultant and formerly founder of dotrix, the first company to deliver productive industrial inkjet printing solutions - SPIKIX provides an unrivalled breadth and depth of management consulting services tailored to the international industrial inkjet printing market.

Based in the southern part of the Netherlands, SPIKIX is in constant contact with the industrial printing and converting market, working closely with clients in a variety of industry sectors. SPIKIX is therefore in an ideal position to identify business opportunities that fit comfortably with clients' core competences and abilities to exploit the new opportunity in their chosen markets.

Whatever your requirement – whether you seek strategic directions for inkjet application areas, due diligence assistance for your next inkjet investment, require expert opinion on the basic inkjet building blocks or full guidance for inkjet implementations - SPIKIX will deliver studied, consistent, workable results.

With a passion for inkjet SPIKIX also offers new customized in-house workshops to fit your company requirements. The specialist in inkjet will cover major trends and developments in commercial and industrial inkjet, such as inkjet heads, inks, materials, markets/applications and implementations. For more info, please use the contact button to let us know your specific request.