Walking into the future

The epicenter of a coming technology earthquake. 

My boss and I arrived in Orlando Florida at around 2 am on Thursday morning.  After a little rest and breakfast we rode over to the Orange County convention center where the SGIA Expo was being held.  This show was for companies in the reprographics and wide format printing industry.  Our purpose in going to the show was to see the new Xerox wide format graphics plotter.  This is a game changing machine with new technology from Memjet.   The system can print color on paper at a speed of 30 feet per minute.  With a 42 inch width and small foot print I believe this machine has no equal. In the future I feel that I will remember this day when this printer becomes the IPhone of the printing industry.    We spent the day walking through aisle after aisle of printers and printing technology.   It was really fascinating to see the many different types of printing systems all the way from printing on bottle caps to printing on the side of a building. I think we must have walked about 5 miles during the day so I got my walking quota in for the day.

Very nice facility for a show.  

 This was one of the better shows I have been to and the feeling I got from the vendors was one of enthusiasm about the future.  As a technical person I am very pleased with the way the printing industry is recreating itself.  Seemingly every new technology that has come on to the market recently has made my job easier and my customer's lives easier.  I am sure there will be bumps in the road with this and just about any new system that makes it to market but I know that with time the benefits will be apparent.  Thanks for reading my blog today.  Bye.