Minoru Usui Talks About Epson November 17, 2011 14:25 by Mike Derges
In a recent interview with the BBC chief executive of Epson, Minoru Usi spoke about his work with the company, where he sees their future efforts leading.
Most interesting to me were his statements on what he sees as the next big things in the printing industry.
Environmental Everyone's going green at the moment and Epson will be no different. Aside from their recycling program, which offers drop-off points for cartridges as well as a system to request free-post envelopes, Epson will be working on technologies that "have three main attributes: they're energy saving, they're compact and they're high precision."
3D Printing 3D printing is currently a bit of a DIY operation, with many of the printers that are actually within the price range of a consumer being supplied in kits and, for the most part, with pretty unwieldy software. However the potential for 3D printing is widely recognised and very exciting. It seems that Epson are planning to make progress in this area but see home 3D printing as a far off goal. Currently Mr Usui says that Epson will be targeting their development, for the time being at least, towards businesses and industry before moving on the home printing market.
Cloud Technologies Epson seem very keen to get on the cloud bandwagon, aside from the ability of most of their current inkjet and laser printers to operate through the cloud, Epson are producing other cloud based technology like their Mobile Viewer, a media streaming device they announced last week which looks incredibly impressive and is definitely a gadget to keep an eye on.
All in all it looks like Epson has a very exciting year ahead of them and I'm particularly interested to see how they approach the 3D market. If you're interested in reading the full interview it can be found here on the BBC website.
