FUJIFILM Inkjet Technology

May, 2016

2-26-30, Nishiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031, Japan

http://ffgs.fujifilm.co.jp

FUJIFILM Speciality Ink Systems Ltd.,Pysons Road, Broadstairs, Kent CT10 2LE, UK

FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants, Inc.233 Cherry Lane, New Castle, Delaware 19720, USA

FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants, Ltd.,Earls Road, Grangemouth, Stirlingshire FK3 8XG, UK

FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.2250 Martin Avenue, Santa Clara, California 95050, USA

FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.109 Enta Road, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03766, USA

Ensuring fresh “force of growth” in printing and a wide variety of other industries transcending the category

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Inkjet technology has the “power of innovation” that pioneers the future of various industries. Yet, not all of the manufacturers could generate this power easily. Holding the key is not a collection of “individual technologies” but the “power of integration” to coordinate them for overall system optimization. Fujifilm is one of a limited number of truly comprehensive manufacturers in the world that have both the “individual power” and “integration power” at the same time. The company has the strength of being able to develop printheads, inks and image processing systems within the Fujifilm Group, in addition to the ability to deliver stable distribution of advanced inkjet technology worldwide.

Since the company can freely combine high-performance inks and printheads to build systems optimized for specific usage, Fujifilm Inkjet Technology has applications even outside the world of printing. Not only has it been applied in general commercial printing, printers for general use and sign displays, the inkjet’s refined expressive powers are being exerted in diverse fields such as textile, 3D print, laboratory equipment and tiles.

Playing the key role in “printhead development” is FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc. a piezoelectric industrial inkjet printhead manufacturer that boasts the world’s largest scale and highest level of technological capability. The company has a lineup of various types of printheads, catering to market needs on required resolutions, ink types and ink drop sizes. Its diverse collection of printheads is used in a wide range of devices including digital presses, Super wide format printers and ceramic and textile printers, winning high acclaim in their respective fields.

Main printheads supplied●Samba ●StarFire ●Q-class

Printheads

To say that a comprehensive manufacturer’s strength can be gauged by its capacity to integrate is no exaggeration. Fujifilm continues to pursue and practice the integration of technology with technology and products with products, interactively linking “printhead, ink, and image optimization”. This is the greatest motive power promoting inkjet innovation.

Fujifilm has achieved the high speed single-pass printing method in which inkjet printheads as wide as printing stock width scan at once in an intended printing direction, as well as the duplex variable printing for added efficiency, so as to increase productivity.

High productivity

Fujifilm has developed highly versatile inks that can be set in a variety of media, facilitating inkjet use in various types of businesses and diverse range of jobs.

Media versatility

The introduction of the ink recirculation mechanism to a printhead has increased the reliability jetting with the most complex inks and improved printhead durability. Detailed design perspectives are employed in pursuit of operation “reliability” instead of“security.”

High durability

The “Rapic*” technology for achieving optimum and stable reproducibility on actual printing stock is combined with Fujifilm’s proprietary image processing technologies to pursue high quality from various angles.

High Quality

Making use of advanced organic material technology, Fujifilm ensures environmentally-considerate ink formulation from the stage of dye / pigment design in order to develop safe inks that are kind to both people and nature.

See detailed description of Rapic technology on page 12

Advanced safety

Fujifilm developed the VIVIDIA range of water-based pigment inks for Jet Press printers in-house, while partnering with FUJIFILM Speciality Ink Systems Ltd. for UV inks and with FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants Ltd. for pigment and dye inks to introduce a variety of inks that suit the characteristics of various printheads. The lineup caters to not only Fujifilm-branded printers but also other companies’ printers for both consumer and business use, covering a wide variety of market needs.

Main inks supplied●Water-based dye inks ●Water-based pigment inks ●Water-based latex inks ●UV inks ●Solvent inks ●Solvent UV inks

Inks

It is not out of the ordinary for a company to be able to develop printheads as well as inks. Fujifilm, with eyes set on one step ahead, has made all-out efforts into research for “image processing technology,” integrating a comprehensive range of associated fields such as materials, devices, systems and hardware. Leading this initiative are the company’s expert R&D teams including the FUJIFILM Advanced Marking Research Laboratories and FUJIFILM Synthetic Organic Chemistry Laboratories. They are conducting a series of experiments, analyses and empirical studies to develop inkjet products of high added value, capable of drawing the maximum performance from printheads and inks, in our challenge for “technological innovation with visible results.”

Image optimization

High Quality

AdvancedSafety

MediaVersatility

HighProductivity

HighDurability

Integration

Power of image designPower of material development (printheads/inks)

Power of integration

An innovation that changes the world sets itself clearly apart from the rest.

Fujifilm Inkjet Technology is backed with the power of synergy and integration for development.

Innovation involves the power to deepen its benefits and the power to broaden the scope of application. Fujifilm Inkjet Technology has pursued and fulfilled both of them. The company has identified a series of fresh needs in the printing industry, and pioneered new business potential in a variety of industries outside the printing world. Fujifilm Inkjet Technology will continue to bring innovation in increasing depth, width and beauty.

Fujifilm Inkjet Technology is superior in terms of the scope of applications and level of reliability.

■Integration

Fields that utilize Fujifilm Inkjet Technology

Requests from customers always excite developers. Fujifilm always takes on multiple challenges from the user’s perspective for the innovation of inkjet technology. Fully utilizing the “power of image design”, “power of material development” and “power of system integration”, allowed all five characteristics, “high productivity”, “versatility”, “safety”, “reproducibility” and “durability” that were previously in a tradeoff relationship and difficult to develop simultaneously, to be improved at the same time.

Fujifilm Inkjet TechnologyThree powers and five superiorities

Comprehensive development structure backed with powerful group synergy

Printheads

Inks imageoptimaization

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By integrating printhead, ink and image processing technology, Fujifilm’s advanced inkjet technology has simultaneously achieved high resolution and high stability that exceeds offset printing, as well as high productivity that exceeds conventional inkjet printing. It is highly praised for its total performance making it usable in both commercial printing and package printing. The JetPress720S is being introduced across the world.

Key technologies introduced●High-definition printhead created by the Silicon MEMS process “Samba” ● “Rapic Technology” that makes high resolution printing possible ● “Inline sensor” sustains the best resolution with auto correct

A UV inkjet press newly developed for reverse printing on flexible packaging. The newly developed UV ink greatly reduces odor, has vibrant colors and excellent stability. Ink will not peel off even when the seal is heated, making it great for use in packages for bag making.

Key technologies introduced●EUCON technology ・ “Undercoat technology” that prevents the ink bleeding ・ “Nitrogen purge technology” that reduces odor of ink

　　　　　　　　　　 An adaptable flat bed type LED-UV ink jet printer can conduct multilayer printing, simultaneously jetting white and clear ink. It realizes the highest productivity in the printer of its class while being appropriate for an entry model for companies considering entry in the wide format printing field.

A high-performance hybrid type UV ink with vibrant colors and rub resistance

■MJP20W

■Acuity LED 1600 II ■Solvent UV ink

Innovative UV ink marked by an outstanding stretching characteristic. It is suitable for resin type materials such as signs and display as well as operating panels on household appliances and industrial equipment that are processed by thermal forming.

■High elongation ink

Commercial Printing Field

■Jet Press720S

Package Printing Field

Sign/Display Field Industrial Printing Field

High Quality

AdvancedSafety

MediaVersatility

HighProductivity

HighDurability

INTEGRATION

MEMS

[UV ink/hybrid ink]

■Fujifilm Speciality Ink Systems

[Water-based pigment/ dye ink]

■Fujifilm Imaging Colorants

Integration■Fujifilm Advanced Marking Research Laboratories

■FUJIFILM Dimatix,Inc.

Like a tree having strong roots in all directions, growing many branches, sprouting leaves and bearing many fruits, it is important for an innovating company to have “technological roots” that cannot be seen directly by the client. Fujifilm’s inkjet innovation is based on a core technology with great magnitude. This gives great strength and flexibility in its connection with partners, and brings about a difference in the number of successful results and the scale of its success. Fujifilm’s inkjet technology has continued to grow vividly, absorbing the needs of the time and not being shortsighted. New values will continue to be created for the future of various industries.

Fujifilm Inkjet Innovation is Based on Core Technology with Great Magnitude, Creating New Values for the Future

Core technology

Development andmanufacturing of printheads

Development andmanufacturing of ink

Dispersion technology

Fujifilm Core technology

FunctionalpolymerBioengineering

Film production

Functionalmolecule

Particleformation

Precisioncoating

Systemdesign

Precisionformation

●Material processing technology for photopolymerization ●Technology to control properties of polymers

Key technologies introduced

ImageOptimisation

Development andmanufacturing of

printheads

Development andmanufacturing of ink

●Q-class Printhead with excellent consistency enabling high speed and high resolution printing ●High sensitive UV ink producing vivid and vibrant colors●A two-stage exposure method that controls the quality of the print surface

Key technologies introduced

It takes around 100 microseconds for a typical inkjet droplet to be formed, travel to the substrate, land on the surface and start forming the image.In this time, an Olympic sprinter will run 1mm, and a Formula 1 race car will travel less than 1cm.In the inkjet printer itself, an individual nozzle may fire up to a further 10 droplets of ink while the first droplet is still in flight. To understand the technologies needed to make this happen and how these technologies work together, it is useful to consider what is actually going on while an inkjet droplet makes its journey from nozzle plate to substrate, and to review the technology that makes all of this possible.

The diagram below shows inkjet droplets in flight and details some of the characteristics of the various components that must all be tuned in order for the overall operation to beoptimized. There are a great many of these properties that have to work together in order to obtain the best overall performance so it is useful to split these into three groups:

An array of 68 Fujifilm Samba printheads with

close to 140,000 nozzles.

Speed of 3 different drop sizes can be tailored to land at same place on substrate.

15,000,000,000drops per second

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Inkjet is moving into mainstream industrial and package printing and the combined resources of the Fujifilm inkjet technology group are focused on addressing the specific challenges that these new markets pose.To understand these challenges and the methodology that Fujifilm is employing to address them, it is useful to consider the particular needs of the industrial and package printing businesses. The range of materials being printed is vast and the range of applications is diverse, but many of the requirements are common. Viewing distances are typically short and

quality expectation is high, so spatial resolution of print must also be very high. Inks must have a defined functionality such as adhesion and resistance properties in order to provide the end use properties that are demanded by the application. These are frequently tied to rigid specifications. Finally, production volumes are typically large, requiring high speed printing. It is this combination of print resolution, ink functionality and print speed that define the task for Fujifilm’s inkjet technology group.

Billions of drops per second

A high speed digital printer may have to place up to 15 billion droplets of ink accurately, every second in order to form a high resolution image at production speed. Achieving this and doing so with a specially designed ink that has all of the required end use properties is a significant challenge, requiring a combination of advanced technologies in order to providea final solution.

100 microseconds in the life of an inkjet droplet

properties needed in order toproduce an inkjet droplet that is correctly formed and travelling at the right speed in the appropriate direction.

●Printhead design●Nozzle plate wetting characteristics●Waveform●Ink fluid characteristics●Optimized viscosity●Acoustic properties●Surface tension●Resolution

Jetting performance

the properties that ensure correctimage formation on the substrate and determine the final properties of the product.

●Surface wetting●Drop spread●Intercolor bleed●Pinning response●Cure/dry speed●Adhesion●Resistance properties●Color lightfastness

Ink functionality

all of the factors that need to beconsidered in order to make sure that the printer is completely reliable.

●Reliable jetting at high duty cycle●Printhead and ink design●Consistent manufacturing●Long shelf life●Stable pigment dispersion●Optimized particle size●Maintenance

System reliability

Fujifilm Inkjet Innovation is Based on Core Technology with Great Magnitude, Creating New Values for the Future

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Initial pulse. Drop size and velocity are determined by the slope and amplitude of the pulse

Time between droplets is determined by resonance of head and acoustic properties on the ink

Cancel pulse to break dropletaway and minimize satellite and mist formation

Single pulse- small drop

Double pulse- medium drop

Triple pulse- large drop

Second and third pulses eject further droplets that combine at the nozzle plate to create a larger droplet

Printheads

A typical three pulse waveform in a greyscale printhead

Typical multi-pulse waveforms in a greyscale printhead

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Jetting performance

Waveform development

The printhead is the heart of any inkjet printer, and the design and construction of the printheads determine a number of key properties including spatial resolution, print speed and ink deposit. Fujifilm industrial printheads are designed for a range of applications, and versions are available that are compatible with most common ink types including UV, water based, hybrid and oil based systems.Once the printhead has been integrated into a suitable system, it receives ink at the correct temperature and flow rate

from the ink delivery system.The printhead is also fed with image data that tells the head when to fire a droplet, and a waveform that tells it how to fire the droplet. Finally, the environment including temperature and pressure is regulated to ensure optimum performance.The fluid characteristics of the ink itself are carefully matched to the printhead in order to optimize drop formation. These fluid characteristics are what makes the droplet round, and keep it moving in the right direction without breaking up,

ensuring that satellite or mist formation is minimized. The ability to match printheads and inks for a particular application and to tune waveforms to optimize jetting performance is a key Fujifilm technology, and this is illustrated below. This, together with the ability to tune the fluid characteristics of the inks mean that Fujifilm is able to optimize jetting performance and ensure maximum performance and reliability.

A waveform is a series of electronicsignals that is used to fire an inkdroplet from a drop-on-demand piezoprinthead. It determines everythingfrom the size and velocity of an inkjetdroplet to the speed of printing and isa major contributor to overall systemreliability.This diagram shows a series ofwaveforms that would be used toproduce droplets in a greyscaleprinthead. Each of the larger pulsesstarts to eject a droplet that combineon the nozzle plate to form a largedroplet. A ‘cancel pulse’ can beincluded to break the droplet offcleanly, minimising satellite and mistformation.Waveforms have to be precisely tunedto the dynamic response betweenthe ink and the printhead itself,and Fujifilm is able to create highlyoptimized waveforms due to its indepth knowledge of printheadsand inks.

Fujifilm Dimatix produce a range of inkjet printheads for industrial and package printing applications as well as established wide format graphic printing. These class leading printheads employ a range of proprietary Fujifilm technologies and combine these properties to produce some of the best and most reliable printheads available today. These technologies include:

▶Redijet technology incorporating ink recirculation past the nozzle for quick start up, long standby times and reliable operation

▶Fujifilm non-wetting nozzle plate coating, reducing contamination and helping to maximize up time with high duty cycles

▶Silicon MEMS architecture allowing ‘printhead on a chip’ construction, maximizing nozzle density and minimizing drop size

▶Versadrop variable drop management, allowing greyscale printing to enhance visual print quality

▶High frequency operation providing high speed printing

▶Compatibility with most inkjet ink technologies including water based, UV, hybrid, oil based ceramic and the associated maintenance fluids

▶Unique Fujifilm piezo ceramic with superior piezoelectric performance

Fujifilm Starfire™ printhead for high volume printing with most ink types

Fujifilm Samba™ ultra high resolution, high speed Silicon MEMS printheads, designed to be

compatible with most ink types

Image Optimization

Particle size

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Inks

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Ink functionality

Inks for industrial applications

Ink binder

Bonding agent

Dispersion coating

Pigment

The properties of the finished print are determined to a large degree by the chemical make-up or ‘functionality’ of the ink. These properties include all of the end use requirements such as color, adhesion and resistance properties together with any specific properties that may be needed for the end application. In addition, the chemistry of the ink plays a major part in the way that the image is formed.Many of these properties come into play a fraction of a second after the inkjet

Fujifilm produces a range of UV and water based inks for a variety of industrial and package printing applications. This includes inks for labels, flexible packaging, corrugated packaging, textiles and decorative laminates. In addition, there are specially designed inks for specific applications including ultra-high lightfast inks for exterior design, thermo forming inks and inks for glass and other difficult materials.

Pigment Dispersion

droplet has landed on the substrate. During this time, the droplet has to wet the surface by a predetermined amount so that the image is formed correctly, and has to start the process of bonding with the surface. A short time later, the ink needs to dry if it is a water based ink, or cure if it is a UV system. It is during this process that the properties such as chemical and physical resistances are formed. The lightfastness is determined partly by the selection of the pigment, and partly by the balance of the ink

Dispersing pigments to a precisely defined particle size, and keeping the individual particles separate is a vital part of inkjet ink formulation. It is essential for jetting performance and print consistency as well as final performance of the ink. Fujifilm has a number of unique technologies that have been developed to optimize dispersion. The mechanism is illustrated in these diagrams and while the implementation of the technology varies depending on whether the ink is water based or UV cured, the principle is generally

followed. Pigment particles are separated by milling, and a dispersant is used to both link the pigment with the vehicle in which it is dispersed, and keep the particles separated. In the case of UV dispersions, Fujifilm technology is used to create unique dispersants that are used in a precisely controlled manufacturing process. Waterbased dispersion technology allows design flexibility; the polymer dispersant is absorbed onto the pigment surface and cross-linked to create high stability.

When Fujifilm designs an ink, it starts with the color - the pigment dispersion. This is combined with other liquid components to impart the finished ink properties and enable it to be dried or cured.

Optimizing pigment particle size is key to developing good inkjet inks.

system, so these properties are incorporated into the design specification for the ink. Pigments have to be dispersed into the ink, and dispersion science is a key Fujifilm technology.All of the components in the ink have to be tuned to each other as the overall performance requires everything to work together.

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Image optimization System reliability

Manufacturing operations

System reliability is critical for inkjet printers as they are true binary devices in every sense of the word, and therefore either work well or not at all. There are two aspects to system reliability:▶Sustainability, where the printer will

perform as expected irrespective of run length or some external factor such as temperature

▶Consistency, where every printhead and every batch of ink performs as expected

Sustainability is achieved through the implementation of various technologies within printhead and ink design. A number of Fujifilm printheads incorporate ink recirculation that is designed to prevent any pigment settlement, and

sweep any bubbles that may form in the ink. Special non-wetting coatings can be applied to printhead nozzle plates in order to minimize ink build up that would, if left unchecked, lead to incorrect jetting behavior. Fujifilm inkjet inks are designed for extreme sustainability, so pigments are dispersed to a precisely defined particle size using unique Fujifilm technology, and manufacturing systems are designed to maximize system reliability.Consistency is ensured through a combination of design, where the operating parameters of printheads and inks are precisely defined, and stringent manufacturing process control.

Fujifilm has a manufacturing philosophy where quality and reliability is built into the products that it makes, and the processes that it uses to make them. Raw material selection and consistency are key parts of the process and Fujifilm has established close business partnerships with its suppliers. These partnerships make sure that raw materials meet an agreed specification and that suppliers operate appropriate quality systems in order to maintain consistency of product and continuity of supply.

Inkjet printheads are produced at the Fujifilm Dimatix facilities in Santa Clara, California and in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The manufacturing operation in Santa Clara includes a state of the art Silicon MEMS fabrication foundry that produces the core components of many of Fujifilm Dimatix’ leading printheads.Water based colorants and inks are manufactured by Fujifilm Imaging Colorants in production facilities at Grangemouth, Scotland and New Castle, Delaware. These facilities offer a unique

...to large scaleFujifilm inkjet inks are produced in batches of up to several tonnes.

From microscopic...Fujifilm Samba silicon MEMS printhead: its 2048 nozzles are so small that they are invisible to the naked eye.

combination of product development and scale up capabilities with significant economies of scale.UV and hybrid inks are produced at the state of the art manufacturing facility at Fujifilm Speciality Ink Systems operation in Broadstairs, UK. This multi award winning facility has won the Best Process Plant award in both 2011 and again in 2015. This independent assessment is a testament to the process controls that enable production of Fujifilm’s high quality inkjet products.

“Rapic technology” is Fujifilm’s proprietary technology for realizing high-quality drawing on printing paper. In general inkjet printing, drops of ink that are jetted one after another are pulled to each other due to surface tension and become one large ink drop.With “Rapic technology”, migration of pigments within ink is prevented by applying preconditioner that reacts with pigments of “VIVIDIATM” ink in advance so that “bleeding” dose not occur even when drops of ink are pulled to each other. Thus, jetting performance of inkjet is drawn out to the fullest and high-quality drawing is realized by forming distinct dots on aimed locations on the paper.

Rapic technology and preconditioner

UV ink has excellent property in drying speed by UV irradiation. However, it tends to bring ink bleeding when large amount of ink is jetted directly on the plastic film, which does not absorb any ink. FUJIFILM has developed specific UV curable primer to hold the color ink dot on the right position of the pre-coated substrate.The UV curable primer is partially cured and CMYKW inkjet ink lands into the partially cured pre-coated layer to achieve brilliant color image.

‘Pre-coating technology’ to prevent ink bleeding <EUCON Technology>

In order to increase system reliability, the printhead, ink, and image processing system must function as one to bring out the maximum potential of its performance. For example, even if a printhead creates high precision ink droplets and places them quickly and accurately on the substrate, if the ink does not adhere to the substrate, high quality dot shape cannot be achieved. In

①Corona process

②Pre-coat

③Half-solidifyingthe pre-coat

solution

④Inkjet ⑤Fullsolidification

Low-odor UV inkjet inks

Nitrogen purging

Substrate films: OPP, PET, nylonLine speed: 50 meters per minute

LED-UV

with partially cured primer

【MJP20W】 EUCON Technology

without primer

order to maximize the capability of the printhead and ink, technology such as special coating for the substrate and catalysts to speed up the chemical reaction will be necessary. Such technology like the “Rapic technology” implemented in the “Jet Press720S” and “EUCON technology” implemented in the “MJP20W” shall be highlighted and introduced.

Inkjet drawing with Rapic technology

Coating layer

General coating layer

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Landing

Coating layer

General coating layer

Preconditioner and ink instantaneouslyreact with each other and pigment within ink is condensed

Coated with Preconditioner

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2nd drop

Coating layer

General coating layer

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Coating layer

General coating layer

Preconditioner

Preconditioner

Preconditioner

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Coating layer

General coating layer

②Firstdrop

Condensation

Pigment does not migrate

Pigments do not mix

imageoptimization

Integration

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UAE

South AfricaAustralia

Turkey

ThailandFUJIFILM Asia Pacific PTE. Ltd.Asia Pacific Regional Headquarters

Ink manufacturing

India

FUJIFILM Sericol India Pvt Ltd.

Fujifilm Advanced Marking Research Laboratories

JapanFUJIFILM Global Graphic SystemsWorldwide Headquarters

Italy

Morocco

FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants Ltd.Manufacturing ink for inkjet press

FUJIFILM Speciality Ink Systems Ltd.Manufacturing ink for inkjet press

Dusseldorf, Germany

Russia

United Kingdom

FUJIFILM Europe GmbHEurope, Africa, Middle East Regional Headquarters

United Kingdom

ベルギー:Advanced Print

Technology Centre

Sales base

Production base for the Inkjet

Philippines

Singapore

Malaysia

ChinaFUJIFILM (China) Investment Co., Ltd.China Regional Headquarters

FUJIFILM Dimatix Inc.Development and manufacturing of inkjet head

Brazil

United States of AmericaFUJIFILM North America CorporationNorth America, Latin AmericaRegional Headquarters

Canada

FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants Inc.Manufacturing ink for inkjet press

FUJIFILM Dimatix,Inc. Established in 1984 under the name “Spectra”. It later grew rapidly as the world’s number one printhead manufacturer under the corporate name “Dimatix”. Being acquired by Fujifilm in 2006, the company became a great pillar that supports the inkjet business. Among the many lineups, the “SAMBA” is known worldwide as a high resolution printhead manufactured using the high precision MEMS technology.

FUJIFILM Speciality Ink Systems Ltd.

Established in 1951 as the “Sericol Group”, the company was acquired by Fujifilm in 2005. Beginning with the development of ink for screen printing, the company now focuses mainly in manufacturing ink for industrial ink jet printers. In particular, it develops the advanced wide format printing system using its wealth of knowledge regarding UV ink accumulated since the establishment of the company.

Established in 1985 as the “Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.” it rose in a short period as the top manufacturer of ink dyes for ink jet printers, and was acquired by Fujifilm in 2006. The company plans to expand its business with advanced technology that have won them high shares in the field of water-based/pigment ink for consumer use inkjet printers and also by implementing Fujifilm’s synthetic chemistry and technology for dispersal and processing raw materials.

FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants Ltd.

Fujifilm Synthetic OrganicChemistry Laboratory

Fujifilm Advanced Marking Research Laboratories

A state-of-the-art laboratory established to bring about innovation unique to Fujifilm in the field of color marking where diversification of methodology and the expansion of market are taking place. Fujifilm’s color material technology, device technology, equipment development technology developed over the years have been fused to provide a variety of industries, not limited to the printing industry, with a high-speed high-quality inkjet print system. The research results are shared with partner companies as feedback. The laboratory makes daily efforts to bring innovation to “printhead handling technology”, “marking process technology”, such as drying and settling of ink, and “image processing technology”.

Fujifilm Synthetic Organic Chemistry LaboratoryUtilizing advanced organic material technology at the Fujifilm Advanced Research Laboratories, materials for coloring and additives are being developed. Contributed to the wide dissemination of marketed ink jet printers by unveiling the color retardation mechanism of the dye used for ink and greatly increasing the ozone resistance. The results were highly praised not only within the industry but also from the academic world.

Like a tree having strong roots in all directions, growing many branches, sprouting leaves and bearing many fruits, it is important for an innovating company to have “technological roots” that cannot be seen directly by the client. Fujifilm’s inkjet innovation is based on a core technology with great magnitude. This gives great strength and flexibility in its connection with partners, and brings about a difference in the number of successful results and the scale of its success. Fujifilm’s inkjet technology has continued to grow vividly, absorbing the needs of the time and not being shortsighted. New values will continue to be created for the future of various industries.

Primary hubs for development and

manufacturing that support the Fujifilm

inkjet business

Fujifilm Inkjet Technology has a Broad Support Network

MyanmarVietnam

Indonesia