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Kenneth Stack, President Of Flint Ink’s New Global Company Jetrion, LLC.

Last month,

Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Last month, Flint Ink Corporation announced the creation of Jetrion, LLC, a new global company providing a full range of industrial inkjet products, services, and custom printing solutions. (see the release) The venture represents a multi-million dollar commitment by Flint Ink and will result in a tripling of current dedicated digital staff in 2003.

Jetrion will be the only company worldwide with the combination of products, services and resources to capture pent-up demand for inkjet integration services, inkjet-enabling technologies, and new custom, high-performance inks. 

Ken Stack, former vice president/general manager of Flint Ink's Digital Division is the President of Jetrion.


WTT: A point of clarification. Your press release seems to indicate that your ink jet activities might be solely in the area of addressing and mailing. Do you also intend to provide products for the broader, wide-format ink jet market?

KS: There are two basic ink jet technologies. The first is continuous ink jet for industrial and addressing and marking applications. Vendors in this market include Scitex, VideoJet and Domino. Usage for these products range from bulk mail to personalizing a Fritos bag. The second is drop-on-demand (DOD) which is similar to desktop technology — better quality but much slower speed than continuous ink jet.

Speed is improving in DOD products, but we don’t see continuous going away anytime soon. There is the speed issue, a large installed base for continuous ($400-500m per year world-wide market for ink) and proven technology.


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