During his week-long visit, Kockeis called on some of Australia’s largest high-volume print producers in a variety of fields, including book printing, newspaper production, transpromo and general offset printing, according to Océ.

In his message Kockeis outlines that Inkjet is the way of the future and convergence with offset is close if not already achieved.

He says, “The speed of take-up on the JetStream has propelled Océ into high volume drop-on-demand inkjet technology, a position we have long held worldwide in continuous feed monochrome technology.”

Kockeis continues, “The JetStream’s appearance at drupa has created worldwide interest in the concept of continuous inkjet technology. We have just sold our 18th JetStream in less than a year. Users are finding new and novel uses for the technology as they come to recognise its enormous potential.”

Also according to Kockeis there is a market for the Océ JetStream in Australia despite the $4m price tag.

He says, “In our opinion web-fed inkjet is the way of the future. Potential purchasers in Australia are seeing this and looking at it as a press that can not only handle current capacity but can extend their ability into other areas.”

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