Inca Digital’s newly expanded facility in Cambridge has been officially opened by Masahiro Hashimoto, vice chairman of Inca’s parent company Screen Holding. In addition, Inca has created a Business Development Team to advance its position in relation to industrial print.
Further investment in the company’s dedicated Training and Validation Centre will not only enhance Inca’s ability to support its customers and distributors, and provides a business development resource within the R&D department, but accelerate Inca’s strategy to develop its inkjet technology for a variety of industrial applications.
The purpose-designed Training and Validation Centre is equipped with a range of Inca hardware and software. Key functions include pre-dispatch validation of Inca Onset printers sold exclusively via Fujifilm, and the Truepress Jet W3200UV series sold through Screen Holdings. Additional functions include providing in-depth, personalised training to customers and distributors, more extensive testing of new features, and the evaluation of exciting new substrates.
Inca’s new centre will also become the White Canvas Inca facility within the Screen Holdings organisation, joining White Canvas Mon-Naka and White Canvas Rakusai in Japan – facilities where the focus is on complete production solutions and partnership with customers and industry partners. Inca has created a Business Development Team to advance its position in relation to industrial print in particular. Dr Jim Taylor has joined this team, which he heads with Johnny Otani. Previously business development manager of Xennia’s ink consultancy group, Taylor co-founded the Cambridge-based software development consultancy Cametrics. During this time, he was instrumental in the development of software for industrial inkjet applications, including full-colour variable data printing and high-speed, high-resolution coding using large single-pass printhead arrays.
“This is a great time to be joining Inca because there are so many exciting opportunities opening up for the company’s innovative inkjet technology, especially in the wider and multi-faceted industrial sector,” says Dr Taylor. “I’m looking forward to helping Inca identify new applications not only for our existing models, but also developing new ‘added-value’ solutions for new markets.”
