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Raster Printers Inc. (RPI), a wide format graphics printing systems Company was founded in Palo Alto, California in early 2004. The Company’s mission is to provide the highest quality wide format production printing systems including printers, inks, software and technical support on a worldwide basis, initially in North America and now in the UK with Raster Printers Limited.
RPI’s product development strategy is based on having two organizations, one in the U.S. and one in Asia. The U.S team is responsible for doing market research, conceptual product design, product testing, documentation, sales, marketing, and customer service and support. This team works closely with the Asian team which is responsible for manufacturing these products to high quality standards at a significant cost advantage. With this dual approach, the Company believes that it can produce high quality products with cost savings of approximately 30% when compared to other inkjet manufacturing organizations.
To be able to offer the highest quality products, the Company identifies all the critical sub-systems in the printer and these parts are procured globally from the best available manufacturers. For example, print heads, head carriage drive and media feed motors, head carriage rail, UV curing lamps, and encoder are all sourced from the U.S., European or Japanese suppliers. As part of this quality focus RPI has also established a Quality Assurance team in Hong Kong to closely monitor the manufacturing process.
Mr Rak Kumar, the founder and CEO of RPI was the previous CEO of Oce Display Graphics and Raster Graphics. At Raster Graphics and Oce, Mr Kumar was responsible for the introduction of some of the most successful graphics products in the industry including the Arizona family of roll to roll Solvent printers and Flatbed UV printers.
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