Meteor printhead

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Announced December 14, 2007, TTP has launched a new range of digital printer electronics and software known as Meteor. The Meteor system drives most commercially-available digital printhead types in any configuration. Meteor therefore supports any type of printer from XY flatbed systems used for manufacturing printed electronics to massive arrays of printheads used for 'single-pass' high quality commercial graphics printing. Technology like Meteor has not been available up to now and the industrial inkjet market has been hampered by the lack of a low cost, off-the-shelf printhead driver technology. TTP believes that the availability of its affordable independent driver solution, which is not tied to any particular printhead manufacturer, will facilitate a massive expansion of the market.

Meteor has already been adopted this year by customers on both sides of the Atlantic and is incorporated in a number of new printer models launched in 2007 as well as being integrated into others to be launched in 2008.

The Meteor system consists of a printhead-independent USB print controller card and head driver cards specific to each brand of inkjet printhead. To date the biggest selling head driver cards have been for Xaar / ToshibaTec greyscale printheads and Fujifilm Dimatix Spectra printheads. Meteor technology is both powerful and modular and is thus ideal for the larger arrays of inkjet printheads now being developed for commercial graphics printing with printheads such as the Spectra Galaxy, the new ToshibaTec CE2 and the Xaar 1001.