A Memjet printer is a fast ink-based printer that prints a page in a single pass, using 70,000 ink nozzles to print the full page, at sizes up to 8.5x11" in the first model. Memjet is a printing technology and components company. It maintains its corporate office in San Diego, California, and has offices in Dublin, Sydney, Taipei, Singapore and Boise, Idaho. Memjet's president and chief executive officer, Len Lauer

Len Lauer

Len Lauer is president and CEO of Memjet He launched Memjet's color printing technology, developed by Silver Brook Research. Lauer oversees operations, engineering, OEM partner development and manufacturing as well as all strategy and direction for Memjet’s global commercial business units. The...

, was appointed in January 2010. The Wall Street Journal noted Lauer's arrival in its Digits blog. Before joining Memjet, Lauer served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM). Memjet is working with Lenovo China, among other partners, the first of which for the home and office markets were disclosed at CES in January 2011.

Memjet's technology was developed by Silverbrook Research

Kia Silverbrook

Kia Silverbrook is an Australian inventor, scientist, and serial entrepreneur. He is the world's most prolific inventor with 4,097 granted U.S. utility patents as of 23 August 2011...

, located in Balmain

Balmain, New South Wales

Balmain is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Balmain is located slightly west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Leichhardt....

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. Research began in 1994, and a working Memjet prototype printer was displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show

Consumer Electronics Show

The International Consumer Electronics Show is a major technology-related trade show held each January in the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Not open to the public, the Consumer Electronics Association-sponsored show typically hosts previews of products and new...

in 2009.. Silverbrook's more than 3,800 approved patents are listed in the database of the US Patent and Trademark Office.