The company’s OEM partners are said to have grown their “global presence” in wide-format, label printing and packaging sectors.
Consumer Electronics Net reported on Memjet’s announcement that 2014 was a “record year for product development and growth” among its partners, who include Afinia, Beiren, Colordyne, TechNova, TrojanLabel, Canon, RTI Digital and Xante, with RTI Digital recently appointed by Memjet to provide products to Rapid Packaging Services’ customers after Memjet abruptly cut ties with Rapid.
RTI Digital has been an OEM partner of Memjet since 2009, originally as OWN-X, and stated that it is the “only OEM partner serving both the wide-format and narrow format markets with Memjet technology solutions, and has operations in Canada, USA, and Europe”.
Memjet stated that its partners have introduced “new digital printing solutions and grow[n] global presence” across the sectors, with new technologies delivering what it calls “industry-leading […] productivity, high-quality and value for print”. It added that its OEMs “achieved impressive sales growth” in the different markets through “channel growth, private-label partnerships and direct sales momentum”.
In labels in particular, Colordyne launched the CDT3600 label press, TrojanLabel and Beiren released the TrojanTwo and Supernova DP32 mini-label press devices, and Afinia Label and TechNova produced the DLQ2000 and SmartJet LP112 full-colour labelling solutions. In wide-format, Canon relaunched its ColorWave 900 with a “software upgrade and newly available hardware”, leading to “positive growth quarter over quarter” and “invigorated” global sales.
Xante meanwhile increased sales over “the last three consecutive quarters” thanks to “increasing market acceptance of short-run corrugated packaging solutions”, and Memjet adds that RTI Digital “expanded its global reseller network with new agreements”. Overall, the company revealed that it now has over 30 OEM partners across the globe.
For Memjet itself, 2014 saw the release of two new print engines – Aspen and Sirius – which were designed for press and desktop engine partners respectively. Aspen is a page-wide colour inkjet print engine “optimised for speed and high quality” with speeds of up to 225 feet per minute in full colour and targeted at the “label and commercial press markets”. Sirius meanwhile is a “compact, single printhead” offering full colour prints for label OEMs “to speed up the development of cost-effective roll-to-roll print systems”.