Recent progress in electrophotographic digital color marking

The environment in marking technologies is changing drastically. The most obvious transition is the networked document exchange throughout the world. Marking technologies are therefore being increasingly forced to treat digital image data. A key message from the past 49(th) IS&T Non Impact Printing conference was ''over the Internet printing'', in other words ''from print and distribute to distribute and print''. We must, therefore, consider the future direction of marking technologies from this viewpoint. In this paper, trends in marking technology will be discussed. In particular, the importance of matching the image processing system to a particular marking process, and the compatibility between image and substrate (paper) quality will be stressed.