Greenwood, SC—Fujifilm Manufacturing USA will start producing a new inkjet photo paper at its Greenwood, South Carolina, campus, for use with its Frontier dry inkjet minilabs as well as its wide-format inkjet printer solutions for retail customers.
“We are proud to announce that we will start to produce a new inkjet photo paper in the U.S. to meet the growing demand generated by our customers’ adoption of our dry printing solutions,” said Ryutaro Hosoda, president and CEO, Fujifilm North America Corporation and president, Fujifilm Holdings America Corporation. “We have been producing color photo paper here in the U.S. that has built our reputation for quality through many years. In addition to that, we will begin the production of inkjet photo paper that illustrates our commitment to the industry and our belief in its continued promise.”
The Greenwood factory began manufacturing operations in South Carolina in 1988. Now Fujifilm is investing an additional $25 million to produce this new line of high-quality inkjet paper. The inkjet photo manufacturing process employs Fujifilm’s decades of technical developments in materials science and thin-layer film coating manufacturing. Over the last 70 years, Fujifilm has invested billions of dollars in research and development to create its coating technology. The recent introduction of inkjet photo paper by Fujifilm represents the latest application of this manufacturing technique. Just as traditional silver halide photography paper utilized color sensitive photochemical layers, Fujifilm engineers have applied this knowledge to inkjet printer photo paper—applying more layers to create more saturated, rich colors. fujifilmusa.com
