(Read the original product announcement here.)

At drupa 2012, I was introduced to IMPIKA, a French company that had been fully investigating and exploiting the manufacturing and marketing of printing and material jetting solutions since 1990, prior to the founding of IMPIKA in 2003, and this unique company caught my attention. So it was not a surprise when they were subsequently acquired by Xerox in 2013 to help fast track Xerox into the production inkjet press race which was already heating up. Xerox walked away from the IMPIKA acquisition in 2019. As a result, they also walked away from an impressive inkjet development team led by Paul Morgavi, the founder of IMPIKA. Considering the 30-year history and high level of expertise of the team, it wasn’t long before the word got out, interest rose, and in October 2020 NIXKA was founded.

Kyocera had their eye on NIXKA, and had already done some project work. They invested and took a 30% share in 2022, and has since completed a full acquisition. The result is the foundation of the Kyocera industrial print unit led by Paul Morgavi. NIXKA already has a number of projects in textile, flexible packaging, and very high-quality printing, along with a few more in the pipeline. To date, the founders of NIXKA have a background of more than 500 inkjet systems installed printing over 20 billion pages per year in more than 40 countries.