Low-cost digital color in 1997. In a conference session on the competition between offset and nonimpact technologies, two different companies promised color digital presses for 1997 that will be far faster than those of today, with a far lower cost per page. Lexmark adds low-end color. Lexmark became the third vendor to incorporate the Canon P320 color laser print engine in an end-user product. Lexmark has done some things to enhance the machine's quality.
Screen adds another.
First deliveries are scheduled for January. Mitsubishi Electronics comes out. Mitsubishi Electronics' Imaging Products Division, which has been supplying dye-sublimation printer engines to 3M and Tektronix, has put together its own package with an Adobe RIP, to be sold through dealers and distributors. The company is promoting it as the fastest engine and offering it to end users at a lower price than its OEM customers do. Peerless goes into color.