Memjets Not Expected until 2009
Aug 3, 2008 News
Memjet, the technology that has the potential to sweep the printing market and swoosh other printer manufacturers, is not expected to be released commercially until sometime in 2009. This is good news for major printer manufacturers such as HP, Canon, and Brother among others.
This super printing technology was scheduled to hit the market earlier this year, but due to some unmentioned reasons, it has been put off. According to Silverbrook, A4/letter printhead and related components will be shipped to OEMs by the end of this year, with products slated for sometime in 2009.
The OEMs necessarily spells good news for other manufacturers. It is clear that Memjet will not enter the market under their brand name; instead, they’re going to sell the components to OEMs, who can put their own stamp on the technology.
What Memjet does is hard to believe: It prints letter-size output at 60 ppm—that’s one page per second—with a 1,600- by 1,600-dot-per-inch (dpi) printer that Silverbrook says will be available in 2008 for maybe $200 to $300. Not only that, but the projected cost per page is less than 2 cents for a monochrome page and less than 6 cents for a color page.
A Memjet spokeswoman said - “The Company has been doing demonstrations for business partners and potential partners for many months, including demonstrations at DRUPA last month.
“DRUPA is billed as the “largest printing equipment exhibition in the world,” she said.
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