Indigo looks to big time

Indigo has bitten far further into the offset printing preserve than ever before with its press launches at Drupa. At 140 pages per minute and 280ppm respectively, the Publisher 4000 and 8000 presses are up to four times faster than any of Indigo's earlier models, and have given new credence to Benny Landa's prediction that offset litho will be dead sometime this decade. However, this year's Drupa saw little change from 1995 in terms of printing equipment suppliers' market share. Heidelberg is still way out in front with an estimated 20% market share, followed by Xerox with 15%, MAN Roland with 9%, KBA with 5% and Komori and Goss with 4% each. Indigo is still on less than 1%.