Memjet Partners to Launch Printers in Three Global Markets
LAS VEGAS — Lenovo will introduce the world’s fastest color office printing technology in China under a partnership with Memjet. The Memjet technology is twice the speed of the nearest competing color printer in its class and represents the most significant printing industry advancement in 25 years.
“Printing is an important strategic area of growth for Lenovo, and the partnership with Memjet will provide us superior color printing technologies to serve our customers and more aggressively compete for new business,” said Chen Xudong, vice president and GM of Lenovo China Region. “With our focus on innovative products that deliver complete printer hardware and supplies solutions to Chinese consumers and our incorporation of Memjet color printing technologies, we believe Lenovo can become the number-one provider of office printer solutions in China within the next few years.”
Lenovo, which is best known for its ThinkPad, the popular notebook PC, has been the largest PC maker in China since 1997, and also has quickly established a 18.3 percent market share for the China laser printer market.
“Lenovo’s strong product portfolio, established record of success and incredible global brand, combined with our revolutionary color printing technologies, can completely transform the office printing market in China,” said Len Lauer, president and CEO for Memjet.
WeP Peripherals Ltd., one of India’s largest employee-owned companies, and Memjet, a global provider of high-speed color printing technologies, are joining forces to bring the world’s fastest color office printers to India. This WeP printer, which is powered by Memjet’s breakthrough technologies, prints up to 60 pages per minute, making it the fastest color printer available in the country and the world.
“We are delighted to bring multiple benefits of quality color, speed and affordability to our customer base,” said Ram N. Agarwal, Managing Director and CEO of WeP. “The breakthrough Memjet technology truly is a game-changer and aligns with our customer focus to provide products developed with the best technologies at affordable prices. With this we also strengthen our printer product offering.”
WeP is a pioneer and the largest player in Managed Print Solutions (MPS) in India. It has built a vast geographical reach in India to offer comprehensive print solutions to Enterprise as well as SME segment. It boasts the largest MPS service network covering 1400+ urban, semi urban and rural locations in India with many large enterprises as its customers. WeP offers multi brand, multi technology enabled MPS solutions and has onsite and offsite solutions for customers. Recently WeP has been empanelled with UIDAI for the Aadhaar project and is offering printing solutions to enrollment agencies. This path-breaking, high-speed color technology powered by Memjet will be offered to its MPS customers, another first in its offerings for Indian customers. The product and service availability in India will be announced shortly.
Lauer said, “WeP is an innovative company noted for its focus on its customers. We believe WeP’s design, development, manufacturing and service expertise, combined with our robust technology, will significantly benefit their customers.”
Kpowerscience Co. Ltd. announced plans to bring to the Taiwanese market high-speed color printers powered by Memjet technologies. The “WinJet” – manufactured by Kpowerscience – is set for availability in April.
Leveraging Memjet color printing technologies, Kpowerscience has developed the WinJet as a new fanfold color printer designed for vertical markets, including healthcare and government. The WinJet will be sold through Kpowerscience’s system integrators.
“Memjet represents an entirely new category of technology that makes possible high-quality color printing at never-before seen speeds and affordability,” said K.C. Yang, CEO of Kpowerscience. “Our slogan is Speed Does Matter, so integrating Memjet technology is a natural progression for our products and our business, enabling Kpowerscience to better serve customers with access to cost-effective high-speed color printing.”
Kpowerscience’s WinJet prints fanfold up to 75 pages per minute (ppm), and prints sheet-fed pages at 60 ppm. Kpowerscience today primarily manufactures and markets monochrome laser printer and color inkjet printer solutions to customers in Taiwan, China, Korea, Europe and the US.
“We’re very pleased to partner with Kpowerscience to bring unique models of remarkably fast and affordable color printers to customers in Taiwan,” said Lauer. “Kpowerscience has a very strong history of innovation and service to their customers. They are an attractive and capable partner for Memjet.”