[madhuronda]

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)