Oki Printing Solutions (the brand name of Oki Data Corporation/Oki Data Americas) has announced it has expanded its digital LED colour printer production capacity to China.
This expansion enables Oki Printing Solutions to fulfil its aggressive growth in the expanding colour page printer market and with multiple manufacturing facilities, disperse any manufacturing risks that may occur.
"Expanding our volume production to China enables us to respond to the increasing demand for our colour printers as well as reduce our costs," said Mikihiko Maeno, President and CEO of Oki Data Corp.
"Expanding the production was necessary as we sold 200 000 printers to over 120 countries around the world last fiscal year, ended March 2005. Now that we have entered the rapidly growing colour multi-functional printer market in Europe and in the US, we are expecting to sell 350 000 colour printers and MFPs this fiscal year."
Oki Printing Solutions already manufactures its digital LED colour printers at its manufacturing operations in Thailand. While this will remain the main production plant for its colour printers, Oki Electric Industry (Shenzhen) Co, Ltd (OSZ) will be responsible for the additional production, starting shipment this month.
OSZ has been manufacturing monochrome LED printers as well as dot matrix printers, and is now expected to manufacture 40 000 digital LED colour printers this fiscal year. With this combined role of manufacturing OSZ will produce 600 000 printers annually.
Oki Printing Solutions also expects to further reduce costs and shorten delivery time by procuring components locally in China. In addition, by leveraging local EMS manufacturers, the company will minimise investment costs and establish a structure that is flexible to production fluctuations.
With its original digital LED technology that enables compact, high-resolution, high-speed colour page printing and by strengthening its sales channels, Oki Printing Solutions will continue to grow as a business printing solutions specialist providing the ideal solutions to its business customers.
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