MINNEAPOLIS, July 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Delphax
Technologies Inc. (OTC:DLPX), a global provider of high-speed
digital printing equipment, announced today that its
elan™ 500 digital color print system
has been selected as a pre-qualified product in the Canadian
government's Build in Canada
Innovation Program (BCIP).
The BCIP is a developmental evaluation and procurement program
offered by the Canadian government to help companies get innovation
out of the lab and into the marketplace through purchases and
testing within the federal government. The BCIP was launched in
2010 as a disciplined way to connect businesses with federal
departments and agencies that have a need for innovative products
and services. Delphax's engineering and manufacturing
facilities are located at its subsidiary, Delphax Technologies
Canada Ltd., in Mississauga,
Ontario.
Delphax Technologies' elan 500 is a newly
developed production class sheet-fed print system that brings
together major advances in inkjet and paper-handling technologies
to offer full color and 1600 dpi print quality at speeds of up to
500 impressions per minute. It has been designed for a broad range
of mid- to high-volume print applications including direct
mail/transpromo, transactional, books and manuals, legal and
financial, security and graphic arts. It received the maximum
possible score in all three of the innovation categories used in
the BCIP ratings. Criteria for maximum innovation scores
include requirements that the innovation:
- "is an exceptional advance on the state of the art and can be
considered a new benchmark of state of the art that is clearly
ahead of competitors and their current offerings."
- "has unique features and benefits that provide exceptional
differentiation from competitive offerings and are sufficiently
unique that the potential exists to not only create significant
competitive advantage in existing market niches but also define new
market spaces."
The BCIP evaluations also include scores for commercialization
potential and financial and societal benefits.
"We're gratified to receive the BCIP's favorable evaluation of
the elan 500—findings that are consistent with our
own internal and beta testing—and to be pre-qualified for possible
government funding for the purchase of this equipment," said
Dieter Schilling, president and
chief executive officer of Delphax. "Powered by Memjet's
Waterfall Printhead Technology®, elan represents an
entirely new category of digital print technology and is our
response to growing customer demand for more efficient, versatile
and affordable color printing equipment."
A pioneer in digital print production, Delphax brings more than
30 years of experience in sheet-fed printing innovation to the
creation of elan, a robust high-resolution printing
platform exploiting the stunning color-reproduction capability of
Memjet's scalable high-speed inkjet technology. Each
printhead packs 70,400 nozzles into a silicon structure that
delivers 1,600 dpi native print quality that is more dense and
cost-efficient than other leading inkjet integrated circuit
designs. The printhead requires minimal warm-up time and
prints in one pass without scanning back and forth. While
dramatically improving performance, this fixed-head architecture
also reduces the noise, vibration, mechanical complexity and
drop-firing complexity associated with traditional inkjet
architectures.
The elan 500 is one of 72 innovations
pre-qualified under BCIP's fourth call for proposals. The
BCIP encourages Canadian entrepreneurs to submit innovative designs
that can potentially help departments find solutions for achieving
their operational objectives. If innovations are successfully
matched with a department's needs, businesses will have their
pre-commercial innovative products and services tested within a
government environment and will receive valuable feedback. Since
2010, 156 innovations have been pre-qualified out of more than
1,200 proposals. Additional information about the BCIP is
available at www.news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=859569.
About Delphax Technologies Inc.
Delphax Technologies
Inc. is a global leader in the design, manufacture and delivery of
advanced digital print production systems. For more than 30 years,
Delphax Technologies has pioneered high-speed digital imaging
innovations that improve throughput and enhance efficiencies for
publishers, direct marketers and other commercial print customers
where cost and quality are important. The Delphax Technologies
portfolio includes specialized full color inkjet or monochrome
inkjet and toner technologies that are ideal for a wide range of
applications over a broad spectrum of substrates from
ultra-lightweight paper to heavy stock in both roll-fed and
cut-sheet print environments. Delphax Technologies is headquartered
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
with subsidiaries in Canada, the
United Kingdom and France. The company's common stock is
currently quoted over the counter under the symbol DLPX. Additional
information is available on the company's website at
www.delphax.com.
SOURCE Delphax Technologies Inc.