LED printer prospects are impressive? OKI is biting

The day before, in order to quickly expand the LED printer market, OKI (Oki Corporation) announced that its located in the China Shenzhen factory will start production of color LED printer. The company's president and CEO Mikihiko Maeno explained: "expanding the production capacity of China's factories in response to the needs of color LED printer production and reduce costs. In the last fiscal year, OKI in 120 countries and regions in the world, a total of 200000 printers. Due to the rapid growth of the European and North American color all-in-one market is expected to total sales of 350000 units in the current financial year."

LED printer led group than the laser scanning device comprises a complex reflector and lens (LSU) is much simpler, so the LED printer is relatively cheap to many. However, due to the current laser printer shipments soared, the cost of diving, making LED printers in a more embarrassing market situation. In fact, only OKI has been insisting on the use of LED technology in the office market, through the development of the success of the original realization of miniaturization, high quality, high speed Digital LED technology.

OKI is currently only in Thailand production of color LED printer, the expansion move is needed in order to response the expanding color LED printer market and China printer market rapid growth, but also to spread the risk, establish the mechanism of production at the same time in a number of factories around the world. The factory is located in Shenzhen and OKI started early black and white LED printers and dot matrix printer production, the technology has been prepared, and the components of the Pearl River Delta region in China intensive manufacturers, procurement of components and production can reduce costs and shorten delivery time. According to the production plan, Shenzhen plant will produce 40 thousand color LED printers in the year 05. Sources of information: IT world Agnus compiler