Nanotechnology is expected to have a major influence on most areas of science and technology. It is already starting to have an impact on printing, particularly on the development of printing materials. A lot of this development work in the printing sector is being done by suppliers of ink raw materials, many of them European companies, as well as by pioneers in the field of ink jet printing. As a result, materials makers, particularly producers of pigments, dyes and colorants, will be in a str...