Business Partners FAQs

Our OEM brands have asked us to keep their identities confidential.  Memjet Wide Format is working with multiple brand partners, with varied development and announcement timelines.  You can keep abreast of Memjet Wide Format partner announcements by checking for Press Releases, News announcements or subscribing to RSS feeds from this site.

No.  Neither our OEM brand business partners nor any existing printer brands have any financial interest in Memjet Wide Format or our technology development partner, Silverbrook Research, Ltd, Pty.  This allows Memjet Wide Format to operate independently and fairly across our range of incumbent and non-incumbent brand partners.

Silverbrook Research is a private, independent research and development company based near Sydney, Australia. Silverbrook Research is the developer of the Memjet technology components.  Memjet Wide Format is a separate, private, independent business responsible for the commercialization of the technology for the wide format markets. Commercialization includes the development of OEM brand relationships, market strategy, business models, component pricing, OEM brand technical and business support, supply chain and operations related to the Memjet Wide Format business opportunities.  Memjet Wide Format works with Silverbrook Research to specify and prioritize technology requirements to satisfy the needs of home and office customers. 

There are currently four Memjet companies - Memjet Home and Office, Memjet Labels, Memjet Photo Retail and Memjet Wide Format.  Separate companies enable each company to focus on the unique technology applications, customer needs and business requirements associated with each market space.  While much of the core technology components are leveraged, business models and partnerships differ.  Ink formulations and properties may vary and printhead configurations, controller chip software and host software are optimized to better meet customers' needs in each of these important markets.

Memjet Wide Format does not intend to introduce its own printers or be the primary brand on any wide format printing product.  Our Memjet Wide Format business model is to deliver technology to existing brands for use in their own branded printing devices.

Yes.  Memjet inks are customized to ensure sustained performance and quality using a Memjet printhead.  Using the wrong ink can dramatically decrease the capability of a Memjet printhead and can ultimately destroy it.  While the chemistry and fluid dynamics of Memjet ink formulations are unique and specific, the Memjet water-based inks have many ingredients in common with inks used in wide format printing environments today.

Yes.  While the first ink commercialized with Memjet technology will be a water based, dye ink, future ink development will include pigmented inks.  With future printheads, Memjet Wide Format will investigate and commercialize specialized inks to address a wide array of market segments and applications.