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[Company strength]
Our company develops, manufactures, and sells various printer supplies, such as thermal transfer ink ribbons, industrial inkjet inks, and edible inkjet inks. We also develop, manufacture, and sell stationery related to transfer tapes and copy-related products. Our stationery products include correction tapes, decoration tapes, and tape pastes. Our printer supplies are involve paper, and also films for wrapping, resin sheets, glass, cloth, wood, confectionery and other foods, medicine tablets, and latte art. We develop and provide optimal inks and ink ribbons while flexibly satisfying various customer printing requests.


[Business description]
We take on ink development orders for special printer inks and adhesives. We proceed with development by checking the quality requirements according to the printing objects and their uses. Quality requirements include water resistance, solvent resistance, photostability, heat resistance, and quick drying. We possess micron-order thin film coating technology. We develop special sheets, and transfer sheets by considering the balance of adhesion and transfer or bonding to PET, PP, PE, PS, PO, vinyl chloride, and nylon films. We also make use of millimeter-order slitting technology to produce tapes from sheets.


[Industry]
Manufacturing


[Representative's message]
Our company was established as a carbon paper manufacturer in 1905. We have been mainly designing, developing, and manufacturing various printing and recording media ever since, by making use of blending and coating technologies. We have been growing with customers for over 100 years. We will keep a close eye on needs in increasingly globalizing markets and take into account constant advances in technology. We will devote ourselves to more active, unique manufacturing with our accumulated technologies. We will continue to take on the challenge to be a global company capable of continuously providing printing solutions for the future.


[Company structure for market development/overseas expansion]
We have sales sites in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Russia, the USA, China, Mexico, and India. We are promoting market cultivation mainly for thermal transfer ribbons. We develop and manufacture edible inkjet inks jointly with a food additive manufacturer. We are also proceeding with developing solvent-type thermal inkjet inks for industrial use. We will stick to our commitment as a development company, flexibility as an SME, and product safety. We will continue to seek our new potential in on-demand printing and special printing and cultivating markets.


[Awards and media coverage]
[Awards]
2016 Supplementary Subsidy for Innovative Manufacturing, Commerce, and Service Development from The Small and Medium Enterprise Agency.

[Media]
NHK News, "Ohayo Nippon: Machikado Joho Shitsu" (September 16, 2009); Marketing Journal, "Nikkei MJ" (September 2009); KK Best Sellers, "Sugoi Bunbogu" (Monthly CIRCUS, November 2010 extra issue); Nikkei BP, "Nikkei WOMAN” (November 2010).


[Authorization/Certification]
ISO 9001 (1997)


[Intellectual property]
We have registered 39 patents and 12 designs regarding thermal transfer ribbons, transfer tapes, and inkjet printing.