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Printers made by Teckwin in China are sold by 3M, Gerber, and Matan.
We are working at sorting out which company has which models, and what their differences are. Chinese change their model designations frequently, and it is hard to keep track of which is which.
Gerber has taken on, and then quickly dropped, several printers, such as the Gerber Jetster, which did not last long enough for us to evaluate it. Then Gerber took on a rebranded Teckwin printer, and at VisCom Milan in November 2005 we saw another different Gerber solvent ink printer (if I remember correctly, rebranded from Mutoh; but it gets hard to keep track).
Teckwin still exhibits on its own at some trade shows, both in Europe and in the US, though Teckwin, Gerber, and Matan all pulled out of SGIA 2005 when the original date in New Orleans had to be cancelled because the New Orleans trade show center got trashed. SGIA re-formed two months later in Phoenix, but no Chinese manufacturer attended.
Otherwise Teckwin appears alive and well and appears, along with Infiniti and Flora, to be doing better than the many Chinese competitors clamoring to be recognized by American and European buyers.
Only 3M seems to have dropped their attempt to sell a Teckwin machine. 3M has done okay selling ink but keeps floundering when trying to sell printers. They did not do well trying to sell the L&P Virtu UV printer either.
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First posted August 16, 2005.
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| Kwangko Sprin |
Eco-Solvent Printers |
| Gerber Jetster |
| Kimoto Philyrassystem |
| Mutoh Phoenix |
| Mild-Solvent
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| Bio-Solvent
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Air Purification Solvent or UV Ink Odors |
| Island Clean Air ICA |
| PAT Technologies |
| Latex Water-Based Ink replaces Solvent ink |
Interesting inks & |
| UV-Curable ink, OEM (in preparation) |
| UV-Curable, third-party ink Encres Dubuit (others in preparation) |
Fine Art Photography Giclee & Proofing (on other FLAAR sites) |
Epson 4880 |
Epson 7880 |
Epson 9880 |
Most of our updates for 2008 onward are in FLAAR Reports in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. It is more efficient for us to make new information available in PDF format. So if the web page itself is not updated, check out www.wide-format-printers.NET to see if the printer, RIP, or other subject is covered in an update in a PDF download.
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