New PRIMIR Study Spotlights Inkjet Market Potential

Many NPES members are involved in the complicated process of developing an inkjet system for new markets and applications:

• Inkjet head manufac-turers build the print engine, which can be complete, stand-alone and self contained, or it may be a semi-manufactured non-standalone module or part for integration into a large system. There are two types of inkjet head manufacturers: primary market head manu-facturers, such as HP, Canon, Epson, and Lexmark that sell heads in large quantities primarily into home/consumer applications; and secondary market head manufacturers, such as Fujifilm Spectra/ Dimatix, Konica Minolta, Panasonic Communications Company and Toshiba TEC, that do not have large base markets and in almost every case sell their products into custom applications and to new customers.