Fujifilm enters industrial inkjet market
The Wall Street Journal announced on April 9th, in a one-paragraph statement, that Fujifilm was going to enter the industrial inkjet printing market this month. They will start in the U.S.A. and expand later into Europe and Japan. Fujifilm hopes to produce about $168 million in sales of new printers and ink by the business year 2009-2010. The Japanese photographic film maker will buy their printers from a division of Mutoh Holdings and the Netherlands-based Oce NV. Fuji’s ink cartrdges will be made by the U.K.-based Sericol Group Ltd., which Fuji acquired in 2005.
If I’m not mistaken, Mutoh also makes the 9800 and 7800 Stylus Pro inkjet printers for Epson. The “industrial” inkjet printers that Mutoh and Oce are going to be making for Fujifilm appear to be very large ("grand") format inkjet printers, and will probably be using outdoor solvent inks.
I couldn’t find any news releases from Fujifilm about their new venture.
Posted by Royce Bair on 04/13 at 07:57 AM
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