2018 Volume 57 Issue 3 Pages 320-326
Technology evolutions of Ink Jet and market changes for this decade are explained. In this decade, Ink Jet technology applicable markets have been drastically altered. We can see both technology evolutions motivating changing markets and evolutions replying requests from market changes. At any hand, it's thought there are transition of mainly used media from paper to various media including non-permeable media, value change of prints in the market and massive different of productivities behind these technology evolutions.
As a configuration of Ink Jet technology evolution, after a concentrating functions progress where performance increases of each elemental component contributes system performance upgrade, a sharing functions progress has occurred where surrounding technologies share the serious issues to challenge high targets. And new evolution axes differing from exiting axes (image quality, printing speed) have been required in a concentrating functions progress.
