CIJ-style inkjet printer concept was first in 1867, by the British physicist Lord?Kelvin first applied for a patent until 1951, the first time as a commercially available industrial equipment invented by the German Siemens company. 20 century before the 1990s, only the United States, France, Britain, Japan and so on, only a handful of countries can produce this kind of inkjet printer. Since the end of the 1990s, the earliest domestic inkjet printer invented by the Ministry of Aerospace subordinate research institutes, the end of the monopoly of foreign products, after more than a decade of development, in the domestic colleagues to catch up, domestic inkjet printers in some aspects of performance, stability has reached or close to the world level, and a number of products have been exported to Europe and the United States and other developed countries.
1969? The world's first commercial inkjet printer was born
VideoJet, the United States, thus creating the history of inkjet printer, and then a number of companies around the world have launched small character inkjet printer, large character inkjet printer and other products
The end of the 80s? Domino's (UK), VTech (US), and Immersive (France) entered the Chinese market through a Hong Kong agency
In 1992, Immersive set up a production center in Xiamen, China, to manufacture inkjet printers. Imagis set up a production base in Xiamen, China
In 1994, China's first inkjet printer was born. China's first inkjet printer was born
The development of national brand inkjet printers put an end to the global monopoly of the inkjet printer industry by only a few developed countries such as the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, etc., and allowed China to become one of the countries with the R&D and production capacity of inkjet printers at one time
British company Willy Willett set up a factory in Zhuhai
1995? China Domino Printer Technology Co., Ltd. was established in Beijing
1996? Domestic brand Beijing Konohua Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. was established
1997 Domestic brand Shenou formally launched the SOP2000 type inkjet printer, and in 1998 to achieve mass production, Shenou more in 2001, the official use of Japan's imports of pump technology, the real realization of domestic built-in pump inkjet printer.
1998? National brand Shijiazhuang Kandi Printing Technology Co., Ltd. was established in 2003, China's first built-in pump inkjet printer in
Kandi company was born in 2005? Kandi company in order to better development into Beijing to set up headquarters, the company was renamed Beijing Kandi Electronic Equipment Co., Ltd., the same year the first touch-screen inkjet printer, Kandi company's two first, in order to China's inkjet printer after the development of a solid foundation, but also for the Chinese inkjet printer points to the direction of the future development.
1999? Ltd. formally became a subsidiary of the British Link new company
1999? Ltd. was established, and in 2003, the company set up its second R&D center for inkjet printers in China
In 2002, Markem set up an office in Shanghai, China. Markem established an office in Shanghai, China
KGK built a factory in Shanghai
Domino Asia-Pacific headquarters settled in Shanghai Jinqiao Export Processing Zone
2003? VTech acquires Willy Willett and officially enters China
In June of the same year, Fountain Set International Ltd. and its subsidiaries in China became the sole legal distributor of Hitachi brand inkjet printers in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau
In 2004? Imagis (Shanghai) Coding Technology Co., Ltd, the newly built Asia Pacific logistics platform of the Imagis Group in Shanghai, was officially opened, marking a brand new stage in the development of Imagis in China and the Asia Pacific region
2005? VTech acquires Linx
2006? Matthews International, Inc. and Beijing Konoha Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. form a joint venture to create Konoha Matthews Electronic Technology (Beijing)
2007? The Dover Group of New York announced the merger of its two engineering systems companies, Markem and Imaje, to become Markem-Imaje Corporation
Kishu Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Domino Coding Technology Co., Ltd. was officially renamed Domino Marking Technology Co.
2008? National brand Jin Milan inkjet printer batch market