Inkjets chipping away at commercial offset market

It's not yet a roaring stream, hardly a trickle, but little by little inkjet based systems are starting to chip away at the traditional commercial offset market

In the current market, seven companies (Agfa, HP, InfoPrint Solutions, Kodak, Miyakoshi, Océ and Screen) now offer high-volume, continuous-feed color inkjet systems. Fujifilm and Xerox have also publicized plans to offer their own products.

The Los Angeles planning commission continues to dither on large format advertising. If this were a picturesque New England village I would probably feel differently, but this is LA!

In a city as generally blight-filled as Los Angeles, outdoor advertising is frequently the only part of the landscape that has any distinction at all. Sunset Blve is one of the most interesting drives in the city precisely because it has loads of outdoor advertising art.

Free the billboards!