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Targeted at high-volume applications, the Scitex digital printing controllers can drive up to 16 print heads from either the 4&Mac253; and narrower Imprinting product group, or the 9&Mac253; VersaMark line, launched at the beginning of last year.

With the flexibility to "stitch" together multiple print heads for wider imaging areas, and the ability to achieve greater speeds than either alternative drop-on-demand inkjet or electrophotographic digital printers, Scitex products are being used extensively in forms, labels, and direct mail applications. According to Niels Frederiksen, director of the Imprinting product group, "The attributes of our systems have certainly found a home in the gaming industry. Maybe as much as 85 percent of the variable and security data in scratch-off lottery tickets is printed using our technology."