价格太贵了 成本高 是个问题，希望能改善

惠普的电子油墨也不咋样！！！！！！

新型材料 有待研发:grimace::grimace:

During last 45 years of experience in print industry shows evolution of printing technologies and the growth of the printing market.So if
you are running small printing business at home you have to worry about single question what is future of printing industry?Toner or Jet?
rather look at recent trends and developments in industry

Recent Trends in Printing Technology
The biggest trend in the print industry has been the growth of digital printing. In fact, this is a long term trend that has really
picked up in the last few years. Digital printing has grown to capture more than 50 percent of the printing market share shunting
offset printing to the side.
Digital printing is basically the kind of printing that you do i.e. preparing images, templates, and documents digitally before sending them directly to the printer. The future of printing technology lies in digital printing because, according to tentative estimates, it grew by another 30 percent in the last year.

The growth of digital printing is evident also from the fact that colour printing has seen a rise in the last few years with inkjet printing growing leaps and bounds. By 2021, estimates say that the number of colour pages will touch 1.2 trillion pages globally!

Medium Term Future
You can already see that a lot of what is going on in the printing industry has to do with inkjet colour technology. This is expected to continue because developments in the inkjet segment are much more frequent than the laser segment.

Future is Environment Friendly
As the world wakes up to the state of global environment, there has been more focus on environment friendliness and energy efficiency. The same has affected the printing industry and will affect the future of printing technology too.

You can already see that all major Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) have sections on their websites devoted to cartridge recycling.

Additionally, cartridge recycling is also being taken up by local organisations.

However, the real environment related development from the angle of the future of printing technology will occur with the use of ink and toner inside the cartridges.

3D Printing

Till recent times, printing was always 2D. It was always paper, cardboard, labels, fabric, plastic, and metal that were printed. This means that everything was two dimensional. However, recently, a new application of printing has been created by simply turning two dimensional printing into three dimensional printing.

In other words, we now have 3D printing. For those of you who haven’t yet heard about 3D printing, let us explain quickly.

3D printing is printing that is done three dimensionally. This means that there is no substrate, ink, or toner. Everything is done in the air. In the simplest terms, 3D printing is creating products by printing them. A 3D printer does this by using specific materials in place of ink or toner and putting them together like a normal printer, except that it put layers on top of each other till they start thickening up. As a result, a digital image of a physical item can be converted into a real object.what if you want to print in space is the question best answered here and
organizations like NASA are answering this question of 3D printing very well.
my chinese brother may have more data about future of printing technologies.Thank you all :o)

这个两个应该是并存的，且长期并存，除非一个机器能作到十分完美到几乎没缺点，当然购机天价也算个缺点吧，毕竟两个都有自己明显的优点和缺点，不同的业务用不同的机器

喷墨最大的不足就是速度，喷墨打印的喷头速度再快也可能快过转印带的转动

听说过页宽喷墨机吗？前几年hp的451、551开始，75、85张的速度也不慢了吧，现在的工程机都出来了。

现在讨论的喷墨，已经不是你想象的喷墨了，速度已经不是问题，甚至可以更快，关键是介质和效果的比较了

喷墨应该是主流方向吧！！！！！！！！

新人觉得喷墨本身胜在有能替代胶印的潜力，但是激光打印的成本确实低很多，而且对于普通纸的打印比起喷墨来说更友好。。

水性喷墨
 

一般都是水性喷墨，金卡纸需要UV喷墨

以后印刷应该是喷墨的天下，环保越来越严重，喷墨技术越来越成熟了。而且中国也已经研发出了自己的工业级的打印头

喷墨打印应该是未来的趋势，非接触打印的维修保养远比接触式打印方式来的简单，打印品质也非常稳定。
固定不动的阵列式喷头组合可以实现极高的打印速度，这个不用担心，装N多个喷头组，就算是一分钟500个A4也不是没有可能。
至于是喷墨打印的预涂布方式还是纳米UV墨水(不用预涂布，UV墨水紫外灯即照即干)，这个还不好说，各有所长吧。
虽然看起来纳米UV墨水更胜一筹，但真不知道KM1、IS29之类的纳米UV墨水机器，是怎么解决打印后覆膜和胶粘装订问题的？

uv是万能打印，直接打在膜上不用覆。

碳粉即将被淘汰吗？:amazing: