Category: Industrial and 3D printing

  • New Kyocera KJ4B printhead

    New Kyocera KJ4B printhead

    Kyocera has announced a new printhead, the KJ4B-EX1200-RC, which has been designed for use with aqueous inks, and is targeted at commercial, packaging and textile printing applications.

  • Revisiting the Samba printhead

    Revisiting the Samba printhead

    It’s been 10 years since Fujifilm first offered the Samba printhead to other OEMs and it’s remained a market leader throughout that time so it’s worth taking a deeper dive into the technologies behind this head.

  • Inside Fujifilm’s bet on MEMs  

    Inside Fujifilm’s bet on MEMs  

    Over the last couple of years Fujifilm has been quietly upgrading the Dimatix manufacturing plant in Santa Clara, California, which is home to the Samba printhead. So I went to have a look at the factory, to get a better understanding of how the MEMs manufacturing process works, and what this means for the resulting…

  • Quantica partners with ImageXpert

    Quantica partners with ImageXpert

    Quantica, a start-up that has developed its own printhead, and ImageXpert, which provides printhead analytics, have agreed a strategic partnership around high viscosity inkjet printing for printing both 2D and 3D materials that the two companies claim will help transform traditional analog manufacturing processes into digital.

  • HP launches 108 TIJ solution

    HP launches 108 TIJ solution

    HP has officially announced its 108mm Thermal Inkjet Bulk Printing Solution, which I have previously covered when it was shown as a prototype at last year’s Interpack show.

  • Epson and DBJ invest in 3DEO

    Epson and DBJ invest in 3DEO

    Epson, together with the Development Bank of Japan or DBJ, has invested in an American startup company, 3DEO, which specialises in a hybrid additive manufacturing services for producing metal parts and primarily caters to the aerospace, medical, semiconductor and industrial markets.

  • Epson builds new printhead factory

    Epson builds new printhead factory

    Epson has built a new factory to increase production capacity of its MicroTFP (Thin Film Piezo) inkjet printheads. The new factory, which cost ¥3.5 billion, roughly £19.4 million, sits alongside Epson’s existing Akita facility in Japan. 

  • Nano Dimension bids again for Stratasys

    Nano Dimension bids again for Stratasys

    A brand new year but straight back to an old story. Nano Dimension, which is currently the largest single shareholder in Stratasys, made a fresh bid right before Christmas to acquire Stratasys, offering to pay $16.50 in cash for all of the outstanding Stratasys shares that it does not own. 

  • Riso acquires Toshiba print heads

    Riso acquires Toshiba print heads

    Riso Kagaku Corp is in the process of acquiring Toshiba Tec’s inkjet head business after the board of directors of Toshiba Tec met on 22 December and agreed to conclude a definitive agreement with Riso.

  • Codpad chooses Xaar

    Codpad chooses Xaar

    Codpad, a Chinese company that produces inkjet coding and marking machines, has opted to use Xaar printheads as it looks to expand its product portfolio. Up to now, Codpad has specialised in CIJ and TIJ printers but is now branching out and exploring piezo printheads for a new range of printers.

  • Durst 3D start-up develops material jetting

    Durst 3D start-up develops material jetting

    D3-AM, which is a start-up subsidiary of the Durst Group, used last month’s Formnext show to introduce a new 3D printing technology that it calls micro particle jetting, which is targeted at ceramics manufacturing.

  • Fiery teams up with GIS

    Fiery teams up with GIS

    Fiery and Global Inkjet Systems have signed a technology partnership to develop new inkjet print systems for the industrial market.