SICPA: Enabling trust through constant innovation
Founded in 1927, headquartered in Switzerland and operating on five continents, SICPA is a leading global
provider of secured authentication, identification and traceability solutions and services and a longtrusted advisor to governments, central banks, high security printers and industry. Carrying core expertisein high security inks, SICPA protects the majority of the world’s banknotes and security documents fromthe threats of counterfeiting and fraud.

Thermal inkjet printing solutions
Bringing experience in both research and innovation in many diversified fields, SICPA's inkjet team is
uniquely specialised in microfluidic design, inks formulation for InkJet technologies, material science andsilicon processes, mechanical and electronic design and real-time embedded firmware. Thanks toextensive investments in R&D, a range of advanced Thermal Inkjet Technology-compatible inks, Thermal
Inkjet print heads and print engines are offered for maximal digital printing performance.

Building on more than 30 years of extensive technological expertise in the Thermal Inkjet field of Olivetti’s
Inkjet division, SICPA stepped in 2014 and since then carried on the cutting-edge tradition by further
developing end to end design capabilities for TIJ-based colour and monochrome printing systems. The TIJ
printheads manufacturing facility is based in Italy where decades of quality printing systems designcontinue.

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Over 70 million print heads and 60 million refills have been factory-produced in Arnad, a town
located in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy and have been delivered to worldrenowned key players and service providers of the digital printing industry
Several millions of Facsimiles, Desktop Printers and Multi Functional Printer (MFP) products havebeen produced for major Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)
Essential JV have been pursued for co-designing new technologies
Several international patents have been granted
TIJ-based products have been manufactured for various markets including consumer, gaming andlottery, bio-medical, food printing and more

Markets and references
SICPA’s Thermal InkJet technologies are offered in private label through an OEM business model toPartners located in Europe, Asia, and north America in various markets, notably:•••••Franking and addressing machines
ID documents personalisation
Packaging coding and marking
Serialisation in the Pharma industry
Desktop 3D printing

Products portfolio
PRINT HEADSPRINT ENGINES

INKS

Monochrome
Tri-chromic

Fixed head applications
Shuttling heads: 1 slot (up to 3 colors)
Shuttling heads: 2 slots (up to 6 colors)

Commercial ink: dye, pigmented,aqueous, solvent, UV curable
Secure ink (invisible, secureblack)

From an array of specialised inks to highly performing print heads and print engines, SICPA today extends
its technology portfolio to digital printing systems that are currently being used by key players in thissector. With our end to end design capabilities for TIJ based printing systems, you can:••Gain unparalleled high printing quality
Reach a grade A recognition by state-of-the-art vision systems

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Achieve quick set-up time for easy decommissioning and ink off load
Attain highly efficient performance with low-cost systems
Safeguard the OEM business of consumables thanks to the print heads embedded security
features

SICPA’s Thermal Inkjet field provides innovative technology in support of OEM Partners on the Industrial
and Specialty Printing markets.
For more information, please contact:
Roberta Sirio
B2B Sales Director, SICPA SA
Roberta.Sirio@sicpa.com
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