Evolution of On-demand Printing Machines and Media Development

Kisaka Ryuichi

doi:10.2524/jtappij.78.45

Printing, which was developed by Gutenberg in Germany in 1450, has developed as a means of transmitting information using paper as a medium, but with the spread of the Internet, the shift from printed media to display has accelerated, and the decline in commercial printing such as catalogs and posters is accelerating. On the other hand, with the advent of computers, from around 1990, many on-demand printing presses （electrophotographic method, inkjet method, etc.） appeared, which obtained“output quality close to offset printing”and met the demand for“small lot, variety of products, short delivery time”in commercial printing, In the 2000s, against the backdrop of dramatic improvement in elemental technologies for digitization and colorization, the fields of use expanded to commercial printing and photographic printing, and it is expected that they will continue to penetrate the market.<br>This paper reports on the technological innovation of on-demand printers and media used for them, divided into electrophotographic paper and inkjet paper. Based on existing reports and the investigations that the author has been involved, how the media responded to market performance requirements（high image quality, high functionality, low cost, etc.）were summarized.

Evolution of On-demand Printing Machines and Media Development

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