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Memjet technology is a new generation of printing technology for home and office customers, delivering 60-page-per-minute (one second per page) color printing performance at breakthrough costs per page and price points relative to performance. 

The technology consists of four main components including page-wide printheads, high performance controller chips, software and custom inks, which Memjet Home and Office sells to OEM brands to be integrated into their own branded printing devices. 

The "MEM" in Memjet refers to "MEMS" or Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems; the technology of the very small, with metrics ranging in size from a micrometer (a millionth of a meter) to a millimeter (a thousandth of a meter).  The Memjet printheads are fabricated using MEMS processes; modified semiconductor fabrication processes that enable the creation of the silicon structures, nozzles and drop-ejection systems that are the basis of the Memjet technology.  

For decades the printing and imaging industry has provided customers with inkjet and laser printing solutions.  Finally, the next generation of printing technology has arrived - Memjet.  

Memjet Home and Office, along with our partners, is working hard to bring our first product to market as soon as possible while not sacrificing any of the groundbreaking customer experience goals we've set.  We look forward to announcing an updated product introduction date and encourage you to register for an RSS feed to stay current on such announcements.  

Our OEM brands have asked us to keep their identities confidential.  Memjet Home and Office is working with multiple brand partners, with varied development and announcement timelines.  You can keep abreast of Memjet Home and Office partner announcements by subscribing to RSS feeds from this site.

The announcement of the Memjet technology and Memjet companies in March 2007 introduced the technology to the industry and enabled the founding of industry partnerships needed to bring the technology to market.  At that time, Memjet Home and Office was intending our first market entry to be a small-format, 100mm printhead used for printing 4x6 inch (100 x 150mm) photos.  Due to input from our partners, in September 2007 we shifted focus to our A4/Letter printhead and related components, shifting the emphasis to our biggest market opportunity. 

Although we initially believed we would be introducing A4/Letter devices through OEM brands in 2009, the timing now has shifted to 2010.

We look forward to announcing more specific partnerships and product introduction dates soon and encourage you to register for RSS feeds to stay current on such announcements.  

Memjet technology offers home and office customers a new choice in color printing technology.  Memjet Home and Office components provide one-second-per-page color printing, energy efficiency and cost effectiveness, with offerings from the desktop to workgroup and department devices.  It performs faster than most comparable monochrome laser printers and promises per-page running costs significantly lower than comparably priced color laser devices.  Memjet technology is the first home and office printing technology to bring performance, good economics and quality color printing together at the same time.  Finally, a color printing technology that everyone in the office can use. 

Memjet devices are page printers that are designed to process and print an entire color page in one second.  The page wide printhead prints the entire width of the page while the paper simply moves underneath the printhead.  The Memjet software and controller work together to efficiently process page data.  The controller contains a high speed 648 MHz processor and embedded memory sufficient to print even complex pages at rapid speeds.  Each printhead contains 70,400 nozzles and can print up to 900 million drops per second with minimal warm up time. 

Memjet Home and Office does not intend to introduce its own printers or be the primary brand on any home and office printing product.  Our Memjet Home and Office business model is to deliver technology to existing brands for use in their own branded printing devices.

A Memjet based home and office device can achieve full speed and quality on most documents with a typical home/office computer (e.g. 2 GHz Intel processor with 256-1 GB of RAM).

Initial Memjet Home and Office inks are fast drying, water based inks with advanced dyes.  Memjet Home and Office and our partners will continue to research and develop inks well suited for the home and office devices, including consideration of pigmented inks.

Certainly.  Memjet prototypes shown to date print at 60 pages per minute and are considered fast enough for most home and office printing environments.  As speeds increase beyond 60ppm, devices become less practical for desktop spaces due in part to more expensive paper movement systems and increased related mechanical robustness.  

In the future, we intend to work with partner brands to introduce higher speed shared office devices that run up to 120 pages per minute, matching the needs of workgroup and departmental users with revolutionary Memjet technology.

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