After the end of its partnership with XAAR for thin film printhead development, Meteor Inkje has expanded its product portfolio by offering solutions for EPSON’s new S1600 and S800 PrecisionCore printheads. Meteor is a supplier of electronics and software for industrial inkjet systems. EPSON’s close collaboration with Meteor is to ensure EPSON’s unique PrecisionCore printhead technology can be integrated easily into industrial printing engines for multiple applications. The role of Meteor in providing high quality, reliable electronics to drive EPSON’s industrial inkjet printheads is paramount to this effort.
The new EPSON S1600 and S800 PrecisionCore printheads are built with the same thin film piezo building blocks as the S3200 and have been developed in response to customer requests for smaller printheads. With its compact form factor, the S1600 is ideally suited for carriage mounting in scanning applications, while the fine nozzle pitch and small surface area of the S800 is perfect in direct-to-shape applications. Coupled with Meteor’s capability to combine printhead types from the same or different printhead families, OEMs can reduce the time and risk associated with the design and delivery of complex industrial inkjet systems.