Business Partners FAQs

Our OEM brands have asked us to keep their identities confidential.  Memjet Labels is working with multiple brand partners, with varied development and announcement timelines.  You can keep abreast of Memjet Labels partner announcements by subscribing to RSS feeds from this site.

No.  Neither our OEM brand business partners nor any existing printer brands have any financial interest in Memjet Labels or our technology development partner, Silverbrook Research, Ltd, Pty.  This allows Memjet Labels to operate independently and fairly across our range of incumbent and non-incumbent brand partners.

Silverbrook Research is a private, independent research and development company based near Sydney, Australia.  Silverbrook Research is the developer of the Memjet technology components.  Memjet Labels is a separate, private, independent business responsible for the commercialization of the technology for the home and office markets.  Commercialization includes the development of OEM brand relationships, market strategy, business models, component pricing, OEM brand technical and business support, supply chain and operations related to the Memjet Labels business opportunities.  Memjet Labels works with Silverbrook Research to specify and prioritize technology requirements to satisfy the needs of the label industry customers. 

There are currently four Memjet companies - Memjet Home and Office, Memjet Labels, Memjet Photo Retail and Memjet Wide Format.  Separate companies enable each company to focus on the unique technology applications, customer needs and business requirements associated with each market space.  While much of the core technology components are leveraged, business models and partnerships differ.  Ink formulations and properties may vary and printhead configurations, controller chip software and host software are optimized to better meet customers' needs in each of these important markets.

Memjet Labels does not intend to introduce its own printers or be the primary brand on any label printing product.  Our Memjet Labels business model is to deliver technology to existing brands for use in their own branded printing devices.

Yes.  Memjet inks are customized to ensure sustained performance and quality using a Memjet printhead.  Using the wrong ink can dramatically decrease the capability of a Memjet printhead and can ultimately destroy it.  While the chemistry and fluid dynamics of Memjet ink formulations are unique and specific, the Memjet water-based inks have many ingredients in common with inks used in industrial label printing environments today.

While it may be possible to provide non-water-based, specialized inks such as UV-curable inks or solvent-based inks with Memjet printing systems, it is not a current priority for Memjet Labels. That said we will be developing other ink formulations as we advance our technology and move into various industrial labeling markets.