One word: plastics. And Glass. Ceramics. Wood. Decking material. Three-dimensional objects. Dentures—now there’s a print application you can really sink your teeth into (or vice versa).

“I’ve printed on everything from golf balls, to toothbrushes and dentures to spray cans and garage door panels that from a distance look like a beautiful mahogany,” said Mary Schilling, technical inkjet consultant and head of print quality analysis for Inkjet Insight. 

Well, that will depend on what you mean by “print” and your quality expectations. After all, you could run a sheet of Reynolds Wrap through a desktop inkjet printer and it will “print” on it. Whether that print would be something you could use or sell is another thing entirely.