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SAN DIEGO - April 4, 2018 - Memjet and Canon have entered into a long-term, global agreement to cross-license their patents around key segments and applications.  Terms of the agreement remain confidential.

“We are excited and pleased with our agreement with Canon, which validates the value of our technology,” said Len Lauer, CEO of Memjet.  “This agreement showcases the breadth and strength of our intellectual property portfolio of patents.  We will continue to focus on our leadership position in the single pass digital inkjet market through our technology innovation that provides unmatched speed, simplicity and affordability.”

About Memjet

Memjet is a global leader in the development of digital inkjet technology that brings an unmatched combination of speed, simplicity and affordability, transforming what is possible in color printing.

Memjet’s original technology platform, VersaPass, is an aqueous dye-based, single-pass digital print system that enables on-demand printing in a variety of markets, including desktop labeling, mailing and addressing, wide format and commercial press.

The DuraLink digital printing platform expands Memjet’s industry-leading speed, simplicity and affordability to a broader range of commercial, packaging and industrial printing markets. Features of DuraLink include a new long-life printhead with 5x nozzle redundancy, super durable pigment ink, 2.5-meter (100˝) maximum print width and impressively versatile modularity, providing the ultimate flexibility in building market-leading solutions.

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This announcement is HUGE!  For a wide format buff like me, this gives Canon the ability to compete with HP PageWide. It will probably be a few years before we see any print devices, but we all know time goes so quickly.

In addition we'll probably see A3 ink MFP's also.    Just boggles my mind that the likes of KIP, nor Ricoh has committed to Memjet's waterfall print head yet

Canon needs to make serious improvements to the technology, The Oce Velocity, and the Xerox IJP 2000 were both Memjet large format machines and both were epic failures. Why would KIP get involved with Memjet? The 800 and 900 series machines are doing great against the HP Pagewide. If Canon can implement there printhead technology into the Memjet Printhead we may have something.

Toshiba Tec has been manufacturing inkjet print heads for industry for many years.  

Japanese manufacturers that make and provide copiers worldwide are facing stagnation in the demand for their products, mainly due to the market saturation in advanced countries and a reduction in profits from consumables. As a result, they have lost their investment incentive for toner-based product development.  

While they are aggressively investing in and developing products for production and industrial printing where growth is expected, inkjet has become a key technology for them and that is where they are focusing much of their research and development. 

http://www.thecannatareport.co...tents-not-pending%2F

I suspect 50/50 you will see a Toshiba Tec A4 colour inkjet MFP this year.

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