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About Mimaki

We engineer the ink, the head, and the colour stack — not just the printer.

Mimaki is a specialty printing company. Instead of assembling third-party heads, inks, and RIP software, we build our own piezo waveform control, formulate our own ink chemistry, and ship Mimaki Colour Technology (MCT) as a connected stack — so that a UV flatbed on one floor and a sublimation textile line on another read colour the same way.

Our Discipline

Controlling ink physics is the product.

Anyone can plumb ink through a machine. The hard work is keeping that ink behaving — drop volume, curing energy, substrate interaction, and colour metrology — across platforms, across shops, across years of service life.

Every Mimaki investment lands on that axis: in-house ink chemistry, waveform piezo head development, MCT colour management, and the Nozzle Check Unit / Nozzle Recovery System. It's why our customers frame Mimaki as "the ink company that ships printers" rather than the other way around.

5 ink platforms formulated in-house — UV, Sublimation, DTF, Direct-to-Textile, 3D Colour
400+ validated substrate profiles in the Mimaki Profile Library
80+ countries with a certified Mimaki colour lab
10M+ reproducible colours on the 3DUJ full-colour 3D platform
Engineering Story

Four decades of ink, waveform & colour work.

1975

Founded as an electronic cutting plotter specialist

Mimaki begins in the electronic cutting plotter market — the same precision-motion foundation that later shows up in print head traversal and bed control.

1998

First wide-format inkjet platforms

Piezo inkjet platforms enter the sign and graphics market, pairing eco-solvent ink chemistry with Mimaki's in-house waveform control.

2005

UV-LED curing introduced

Mimaki moves UV flatbed platforms to LED curing, reducing dwell heat on films and cutting mercury-arc curing-bulb waste.

2013

Sublimation TxLink + Sb ink chemistry

The sublimation platform enters the apparel and soft-signage market with the Sb ink family and TxLink RIP — unifying colour management with UV platforms.

2017

Full-colour 3D (3DUJ Series)

Mimaki enters full-colour 3D printing with the 3DUJ series — jetting UV-cured colour into resin for scale models, medical visualisation, and architectural prototypes.

2022

DTF (TxF Series) for apparel

Direct-to-Film platforms (TxF300-75 / TxF150-75) round out the apparel portfolio alongside sublimation and direct-to-textile pigment — one colour stack, three routes.

2026

MCT & connected colour roadmap

Mimaki Colour Technology (MCT) consolidates ICC profile, spot-colour replacement, and soft-proofing across RasterLink and TxLink — a single colour discipline across every Mimaki platform on a shop floor.

Certifications

Certifications in force.

We name certifications we actually hold, and flag the ink lines each covers. If a specific project requires a certificate number, the Mimaki colour lab can issue it on request — we do not claim what we cannot evidence.

ISO 9001
Manufacturing operations quality management
ISO 14001
Environmental management, production facility
CE Marking
European Economic Area compliance
FCC Part 15 Subpart B
Electromagnetic compatibility
GREENGUARD Gold
Indoor air quality — eligible UV ink lines
OEKO-TEX ECO PASSPORT
Textile ink formulations — eligible lines
RoHS 3
Restricted-substance compliance

Come see the ink lab.

Regional Mimaki colour labs host in-person and virtual visits — including walk-throughs of the ink chemistry bench, the waveform test rigs, and the substrate validation library.