Nanographic offset (Landa)
At the time of writing this publication, around 85% of the installed base of digital presses for the printing of prime labels was EP – electrophotographic liquid or dry toner – but there has been a big push in the last few years in the direction of inkjet (now around 35 inkjet label press manufacturers in the label market alone), and specifically UV inkjet press manufacturers.
While inkjet is steadily gaining market share of the total digital installed base of label and package printing presses, and will continue to grow rapidly, it is still forecast to be overshadowed by the toner technologies in the short term (Figure 2.2) and may take another five or more years before the technology even begins to equal the annual installed base of electrophotographic presses.