Xerox pushes B3 sheetfed inkjet to 300 ipm, while Japan’s tax-system cutover slows counter services — plus eight more｜BPJ News Evening
Press makers are converging “mixed jobs onto one platform.” Society, meanwhile, is quietly forcing new shop-floor designs through system cutovers and logistics efficiency—right down to paper, labels, and inserting.
At PRINTING United, Xerox rolled out B3 sheetfed inkjet, continuous-feed inkjet, and six-color toner in one move—doubling down on proposals that blur the lines between commercial print, transactional, and DM. In Japan, delays surfaced on day one of a national tax-system renewal, and the resulting bottlenecks in obtaining “paper/PDF supporting documents” are already bouncing back into print shops’ schedules and setups.
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The topics orbiting print keep expanding—equipment, labels/packaging, logistics, government and financial systems, data-center investment, and AI governance. What stands out is that the “points where work jams the moment something stops” are increasing not just on the press itself, but in the procedures and system handoffs around it.…
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