MEMJET PARTNERS UP WITH CHINA'S LENOVO

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MEMJET PARTNERS UP WITH CHINA’S LENOVO
Monday,
January 2011Las Vegas – Memjet today announced that Lenovo will
introduce the world’s fastest color office printing technology in China
under a partnership with Memjet. The Memjet technology is twice the
speed of the nearest competing color printer in its class and represents
the most significant printing industry advancement in 25
years.“Printing is an important strategic area of growth for Lenovo, and
the partnership with Memjet will provide us superior color printing
technologies to serve our customers and more aggressively compete for
new business,” said Chen Xudong, vice president and GM of Lenovo China
Region. “With our focus on innovative products that deliver complete
printer hardware and supplies solutions to Chinese consumers and our
incorporation of Memjet color printing technologies, we believe Lenovo
can become the number-one provider of office printer solutions in China
within the next few years.”Lenovo, which is best known for its ThinkPad,
the popular notebook PC, has been the largest PC maker in China since
1997, and also has quickly established a 18.3 percent market share for
the China laser printer market*.“Lenovo’s strong product portfolio,
established record of success and incredible global brand, combined with
our revolutionary color printing technologies, can completely transform
the office printing market in China,” said Len Lauer, president and CEO
for Memjet.

Memjet’s High-Speed, Color Printing Technology
Protected
by more than 3,000 global patents, Memjet represents an entirely new
category of technology that makes possible high-quality color printing
at never-before seen speeds. Besides lightning-speeds and high-quality
output, Memjet-powered printers, on average, are half the total cost of
ownership versus other color office printers.

Until now, printing
technology has been limited to laser and traditional inkjet systems.
Memjet technologies are poised in 2011 to disrupt both in the office
market. Current competing office laser printers can provide 60 pages per
minute but not in color, and competing inkjet office printers can
provide color but only at 30 pages per minuteMemjet-powered office
printers can provide both color and speed: 1600×800 dpi resolution at 60
pages per minute.

Memjet is able to do this by putting more than
70,000 ink nozzles on a single printhead—17 times that of traditional
printheads. Memjet’s printhead is 8.77 inches (222.8mm) and spans the
width of a page. This design allows Memjet-powered printers to deliver
more than 700 million drops of ink per second on a page.In combination
with other partner announcements by Memjet at CES, Lenovo’s adoption of
Memjet technology signals the beginning of the first market shift in
decades for the office printer market. Memjet technologies are poised to
change existing models of how color printers and ink are developed,
marketed and sold to customers.

As an “ingredient brand,” Memjet
supplies manufacturing partners across the printing industry the same
way leading-edge chip makers supply manufacturing partners across the
cellphone, smartphone and personal computing industries. Memjet
technology has already been incorporated into commercially available
labels, packaging and addressing products that were announced recently
at Pack Expo in Chicago.  Memjet this year will be announcing major
manufacturing partners in photo retail and wide format markets, as well
as others for its initial markets of labels and packaging, and home and
office.

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January 19, 2011 at 7:53 AM