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Annual Report 2007
• Printer business (inkjet printers, laser
printers, SIDM printers, large-format
printers and related supplies, color
image scanners, mini-printers, POS
systems and related products, and
other products)
• Visual instruments business (3LCD
projectors, LCD monitors, label writers,
and other products)
• Others (PCs and other products)
• In the printer business, following further enhancement to its color
processing* technology, Epson launched inkjet printers equipped with a
next-generation image-processing engine that makes possible the rapid
production of beautiful color prints.
•In visual instruments, Epson released in some regions a new home
projector with an integrated DVD player and speaker system as well as
PC connectivity that has garnered favorable market reviews.
*Some Epson inkjet printers offer high-quality photo printing featuring a process that
brings together photographic paper, for a beautiful finish, with backlighting and
color blurring to enhance the contrast between the subject of the photograph and
the background as well as a new image-processing technology with built-in auto-
correction that prints in natural lifelike colors using archival-quality ink technology.
• Display business (small- and medium-
sized LCDs, HTPS TFT LCDs for 3LCD
projectors, and other products)
•Semiconductor business (CMOS LSIs
and other products)
• Quartz device business (crystal units,
crystal oscillators, optical devices, and
other products)
• In the display business, Epson Imaging Devices Corporation developed
high-definition LCDs equipped with Photo Fine Vistarich wide viewing
angle technology.
•In quartz devices, as one of its next-generation mainstay products,
Epson Toyocom Corporation commercialized the FC-12M, an ultra-
compact SMD-type* tuning fork crystal unit that will help bring about the
further miniaturization of mobile devices.
*SMD-type: The generic term for a PCB surface-mounted-type package. SMD is the
abbreviation for surface-mounted device.
• Watch business (watches, watch
movements, and other products)
• Optical device business (plastic
corrective lenses and other products)
•Factory automation products business
(horizontally-articulated robots, vertically-
articulated robots, IC handlers,
industrial-use inkjet equipment, and
other products)
• In optical devices, Epson developed a highly durable film for plastic
corrective lenses in collaboration with Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
• In factory automation (FA) products, Epson launched its dramatically
smaller industrial robot controllers boasting new added functions
and next-generation standard platform handlers. It also developed
inkjet equipment for manufacturing color filters used with eighth-
generation glass wafers for LCDs and began the volume production of
color filters destined for large-screen LCD TVs.
• Among its business incubation projects, Epson is developing a variety of
businesses with commercial potential and is engaged in a number of
promising R&D projects. The Epson Innovation Center, a new R&D site
for next-generation information-related equipment, began full-scale
operations from April 2006.
• In intra-Group services, Epson subsidiaries offer a wide range of
services for the Epson Group.
Main Businesses Major New Products and Developments
• Business incubation projects
• Intra-Group service business and others
Epson Innovation Center