Beyond Paper: Opportunities in Specialty Printing

Entrepreneurial and home-based businesses are also among the customers for Enduring Images in Golden, Colo., which supplies ceramic decorating systems that combine digital printers with ceramic inorganic toner formulations.

This technology enables high-resolution four-color imagery to be “put on materials that are essentially infinitely durable in the earth’s environment,” says COO Ron Manwiller. “They’re kiln-fired ceramic items, so they’re commercially useful, commercially functional, and yet have the same kind of photographic quality and imagery that you would get in any other type of printing on paper.”