Epson announces the increase of the production capacity of its leading-edge PrecisionCore inkjet printheads, which offer blazing fast print speeds and stunning image quality. The company is investing approximately 10 billion yen from the 2014 fiscal year (beginning April 1, 2014) through the 2015 fiscal year (ending March 31, 2015) in production lines at its Suwa Minami and Tohoku Epson PrecisionCore production sites in Japan.Investment will total roughly 40 billion yen by fiscal 2015, including R&D spending and capital investment over the past decade.
PrecisionCore is a collective designation for thin-film piezo printhead technology that Epson developed by combining its core inkjet technology with advanced microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. Put another way, PrecisionCore is evolutionary technology that is driving a transformation of inkjet printing. Epson began producing PrecisionCore printheads in June 2013, on state-of-the-art production lines at the Suwa Minami Plant, in Nagano prefecture, and at Tohoku Epson, in Yamagata prefecture.
