Popular Science Honors Memjet
Among the 100 innovations selected by Popular Science magazine for its 2011 "Best of What's New" list, at least one name should ring a bell with those in the graphic arts industry. Memjet, a producer of high-speed color printing technologies, won a "Best of What's New" Award in the Computing category for a color office printer that cranks out photo-quality pages at four times the rate of the average laser model.
Many in-plants were introduced to Memjet at Graph Expo, where its technology was on display in the Xanté booth in the Excelagraphix 4200, a 42˝ wide inkjet printer with amazingly fast speeds.
"We're honored and privileged to cap off what has been an impressive year for Memjet with this recognition from Popular Science," said Len Lauer, president and CEO of Memjet. "Having the opportunity to work these past months with some of the world's leading brands including LG, Lenovo and our other solutions partners, we look forward to 2012 and our continued strong growth in the printing industry by offering disruptive technologies to fuel a new category of fast, affordable color printing powered by Memjet."
The Memjet reference color office printer honored by Popular Science boasts an 8.77˝ fixed print head that covers the width of a letter-size sheet of paper. As the paper passes underneath, 70,400 nozzles—17 times as many as in an inkjet—deposit 774 million dots of ink per second.
"As much as we enjoy looking to the future, our favorite aspect of Best of What's New is that these technologies are real, and improving our world right now," said Mark Jannot, Editor-in-Chief of Popular Science. "Every one of these innovations would once have seemed impossible, and we're as thrilled as our readers will be to see them come to life."
Through its partners, Memjet is bringing its revolutionary technologies to office, industrial, commercial and consumer markets. Memjet-powered office printers print high-quality color at incredibly fast speeds of 60 pages per minute, while reportedly consuming considerably less energy than competing technologies of inkjet and laser.