18 Production Printer Manufacturers in 2024
This section provides an overview for production printers as well as their applications and principles. Also, please take a look at the list of 18 production printer manufacturers and their company rankings. Here are the top-ranked production printer companies as of April, 2024: 1.SYMQUEST GROUP, INC, 2.Xerox Corporation, 3.Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG.
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What Is a Production Printer?
A production printer is a large printer that prints commercial and in-house printed materials at high speed and with high accuracy.
They are characterized by their ability to handle various sizes of printed materials, as well as a wide range of paper thicknesses and materials. Production printers enable companies to produce vivid, colorful printed materials in-house and reduce costs for business cards, envelopes, clear files, and sales paper, which are often consumed.
Uses for Production Printers
Production printer applications include printing large quantities of presentation materials, high-speed printing of color photographs, business cards, brochures, invitations, envelopes with designs, printing of product packaging, posters for advertising, and clear files with designs.
Vivid printing can be done at high speed on a wide variety of printed materials. When selecting production printers, it is necessary to fully consider the necessary functions, etc., since these products are very expensive, costing about 10 million yen per unit.
Principle of Production Printers
Production printers are mainly composed of a paper feeder, a photoconductor drum, a fusing process unit, a binding system, and a device that transports the printed materials to the respective mechanisms. The paper feeder of production printers feeds a variety of print materials to the fusing process unit and other devices.
To accommodate a wide variety of printed materials, each printer uses air to vibrate and roll up the printed materials for smooth feeding at high speed.
In the photoconductor drum, light is converted into an electrical charge and toner is adsorbed by giving static electricity to the object to be printed. In the fusing process equipment, the toner transferred by the photoconductor drum is fixed by heat treatment. Again, the degree of fusing during heat treatment is changed to accommodate various types of printed materials.
In the bookbinding system, when the printed material needs to be closed, such as a pamphlet, it is bound by heat treatment or by punching holes.
Production Printers Market
In recent years, the market for production printers has been changing.
For example, printed materials (brochures, invitations, direct mail) as a means of reaching customers are being replaced by online advertisements that appear on portal sites and search engines as smartphones become more widespread. At the same time, the paper data output of bookkeeping documents related to corporate business transactions is being replaced by decentralized processing using multifunction office equipment or is even becoming unnecessary due to the trend toward paperless printing. Thus, the market for production printers has been shrinking for a while.
On the other hand, industrial-use high-speed inkjet printers, which have been introduced continuously since around 2010, have grown to account for one-third of the production printers market (figures according to Yano Research Institute Ltd.). The reason for this growth is that inkjet printers do not come into direct contact with paper or other materials, and can therefore print on cloth and cardboard, which were previously impossible to print on. The emergence of high-speed inkjet printers for industrial use has opened up new markets that production printers had not previously targeted, such as printing on clothing and small-lot packages for confectionery, and the market shrinkage trend is slowing.
Production Printers and POD
Print-on-demand (POD) is a technology that prints the required number of copies at the required time.
In the past, production printing was done by analog means (e.g., letterpress printing, as used for newspaper printing. It refers to the printing of large quantities of prints with the same content using analog means (e.g., letterpress, as used in newspaper printing, which offers superior image quality). In recent years, advances in digital technology and MEMS technology (micro-electro-mechanical systems) have brought POD-capable production printers to the market, with expressive capabilities that exceed those of printed materials such as posters in terms of image quality.
POD is also expected to contribute to market expansion in the future, as it allows printing customer names directly on brochures and direct mail, and printing advertising images tailored to customer preferences, one sheet at a time.
List of 18 Production Printer Manufacturers
*Including some distributors, etc.
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Xerox Corporation
Xerox Iridesse Production Press
Manufacturer Overview
Xerox Corporation, founded in Rochester, New York, in 1906 is a manufacturer of print and digital document products. The company's product portfolio includes scanners, Home Office Printers, Office Laser Printers, Multifunction/All-in-One Printers and Digital Sheet-fed Printing Presses. Their products are used in industries such as Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology, Chemical and Petrochemical, Environmental Testing and healthcare. The company has global warehouses, sales and distribution channels and customer and technical service.
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SYMQUEST GROUP, INC
Digital Printing Press
Distributor Overview
SymQuest, founded in 1996, is a business technology solutions supplier based in South Burlington, Vermont, USA. The company specializes in services such as electronic communications, network security, business continuity, network mobility, and electronic and physical document management. It also supplies office equipment, including security systems, printers, and copiers, manages a toner recycling program, and provides virtualization implementation support. The company provides a library of informational resources, and its partners include Microsoft, Cisco, and Hewlett-Packard.
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Cefla Finishing
Digital Printing
Manufacturer Overview
Cefla Finishing, established in 1964 and headquartered in Imola, Italy, is a manufacturer and designer of finishing machines and lines for the wood, ceramic, fiber cement, and composite material industries. The company offers a diverse product catalog, including the BPS sanding machine for moldings, a double unwinding station, a foil heating system, in-line drying ovens for moldings, and a vertical oven for moldings. These machines find applications in various industries, such as acoustic foam panels, corrugated roof panels and sheets, injection-molded parts, thermal acoustic insulation in wood cement, and aircraft structural parts.
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KOMORI Corporation
Impremia NS40, 40-inch Sheetfed Nanographic Printing® System
Manufacturer Overview
Komori Corporation, founded in 1923 as Komori Machine Works, is a manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in industrial printing machinery. Komori offers offset and digital printing presses, as well as high-intensity ultraviolet (H-UV) curing systems. The company also offers software for color management system (CMS), cloud-based systems for print production, as well as software and advanced interfaces to create integrated print quality control systems. Furthermore, Komori provides the CURRENCY series of banknote printing machines, the CHAMBON series of package printing or finishing machines, and the PEPIO series of gravure offset printing machines, designed for fine line printing.
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TOKYO KIKAI SEISAKUSHO,LTD.
JETLEADER
Manufacturer Overview
Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho, Ltd., is a manufacturer of printing-related solutions and automated manpower saving systems established in 1916. With its headquarters located in Tokyo, Japan, TKS delivers safe products that fulfill the demands of the global market through continuous development and upscaling technology. Their offerings include newspaper web offset press, commercial web offset press, and digital printing press machines. Aside from the local newspaper and printing companies in Japan, the company also caters to China, India, the United States, and other international customers.
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Domino Printing UK
Digital Printing Solutions
Manufacturer Overview
Domino Printing UK, founded in 1978 and headquartered in Trafalgar Way, Bar Hill, Cambridge, UK, is a manufacturer of industrial inkjet and laser printers. Its product range includes continuous inkjet printers for variable data and barcode printing, thermal inkjet printers for high-resolution printing, thermal transfer overprinters for flexible packaging, CO2 lasers for coding various materials, and fibre lasers for permanent marking. The company's manufacturing sites in the US, China, Germany, Sweden, and India have achieved ISO9001 quality assurance accreditations.
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HP Development Company, L.P.
The HP Indigo 100K Digital Press
Manufacturer Overview
Japan HP Co., Ltd., established in 2014 and headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, is a manufacturer specializing in a diverse range of IT hardware and peripherals. Their wide range of products includes printers for printing documents and photos, monitors for displaying computer output, desktops for general computing tasks, laptops for portable computing, as well as chargers and adapters to power and connect HP devices with other devices. Tokyo Factory & Logistics Spark has acquired ISO9001 certification for quality management systems, ISO14001 certification for environmental management systems, and ISO27001:2013 certification for information security management systems.
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Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Versafire EV.
Company Overview
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, established in 1850 at Heidelberg, Germany is a manufacturer of precision engineering products for commercial and packaging printing. The company specializes in the global printing industry and offers unique printing solutions especially in offset printing presses. Some of their products list include digital printing systems, offset printing, narrow web printing systems, die cutting & embossing and folding machines. These solutions are used in industries such as prepress packaging, digital printing media, fabric designing, LED UV printing and label stamping applications. They are available in 170 countries and have introduced robotic & automated solutions to the print industry.
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Lohia Corp Limited
Printing Machines
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Guangdong Shanzhang Industry Co., Ltd.
Flexographic Printing Press
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Wenzhou Fengming Machinery Co., Ltd.
Unit Type Flexo Printing Machine
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Zhejiang Boyin Digital Technology Co., Ltd
Ricoh machine
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Quadrel
PRINT & APPLY + RFID SYSTEMS
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Canon Europe Ltd
Canon imagePRESS V1000 Digital Printing Press
Company Overview
Canon Europe Ltd, founded in 1957 and based in Amstelveen, Netherlands, and London, UK, manufactures printers and digital cameras for homes and businesses. Its customers include videographers, photographers, professional printers, medical imaging experts, office workers, and more. The company handles marketing operations and regional sales of Cannon for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East and shares a quarter of Canon’s global revenues annually. Its products include cameras, scanners, camcorders, facsimiles, printers, personal copiers, document imaging, and office print and copy solutions.
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Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH
AccurioPrint 2100
Distributor Overview
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH, a company founded in 2003, based in Langenhagen, Germany, is a subsidiary of Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo, Japan, and a supplier of digital solutions. The company provides a diverse range of products and services encompassing cloud computing, information technology, managed print and video solutions, digital printing systems, label printers, and diagnostic imaging equipment. Additionally, the company provides a range of customer services encompassing system solutions, digital printing, graphic design, and engineering support.
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Bobst Group SA
DIGITAL MASTER 340 - Modular label press
Distributor Overview
Bobst Group SA, founded in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1890 is a supplier of substrate processing, printing and converting equipment and services. The company's product portfolio includes Flexo printing & flatbed die-cutting, CI flexo printing, Inline flexo printing, Gravure printing and Extrusion coating. The company serves markets including Medical and Healthcare, Aerospace and Defense, Consumer Goods, Industrial Manufacturing and Construction and Building. The company has a presence in more than 50 countries and runs 19 production facilities.
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Production Printer Manufacturer Ranking
*Including some distributors, etc.Ranking as of April 2024
Derivation Method| Rank | Company | Click Share |
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| 1 | SYMQUEST GROUP, INC |
17.2%
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| 2 | Xerox Corporation |
10.4%
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| 3 | Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG |
7.4%
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| 4 | KOMORI Corporation |
7.1%
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| 5 | Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH |
6.4%
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| 6 | TOKYO KIKAI SEISAKUSHO,LTD. |
6.0%
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| 7 | MGI Technology Ltd |
5.5%
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| 8 | Bobst Group SA |
5.5%
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| 9 | HP Development Company, L.P. |
5.3%
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| 10 | Canon Europe Ltd |
4.8%
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Derivation Method
The ranking is calculated based on the click share within the production printer page as of April 2024. Click share is defined as the total number of clicks for all companies during the period divided by the number of clicks for each company.Number of Employees
- Canon Europe Ltd: 22,166
- KOMORI Corporation: 2,613
Newly Established Company
- MECATECNO S.R.L.: 2008 (16 years ago)
- SYMQUEST GROUP, INC: 1996 (28 years ago)
- Cefla Finishing: 1932 (92 years ago)
Company with a History
- Bobst Group SA: 1890 (134 years ago)
- Cefla Finishing: 1932 (92 years ago)
- SYMQUEST GROUP, INC: 1996 (28 years ago)
Production Printer Manufacturers in United States
*Including some distributors, etc.
Global Distribution of Production Printer Manufacturers by Country
*Including some distributors, etc.
| Country | Number of Companies | Share (%) |
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United States of America
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2 | 25.0% |
Italy
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2 | 25.0% |
Japan
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2 | 25.0% |
United Kingdom
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1 | 12.5% |
Germany
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1 | 12.5% |
