Nipson Digital Printing Systems PLC develops and manufactures printing solutions which meet the quality, speed, reliability, cost and variable content requirements of the high speed black and white digital printing market.

From its Manufacturing and R&D plant based in Belfort, France and with subsidiaries or representative offices in the United States, Germany, The United Kingdom and Malaysia, Nipson markets its products and services worldwide, covering more than 70 countries through a network of value added distributors and/or a strong direct sales force.

Market Value

Nipson provides the most cost-effective, flexible digital printing equipment in the industry today. Companies in publishing, print-on-demand, transactional, financial, and security printing all benefit from Nipson's unmatched combination of production throughput, reliability, and flexibility. It is this unique combination of benefits that gives Nipson users worldwide a competitive edge in important markets.
The technology behind Nipson's success is magnetography, which uses a magnetic print drum combined with flash toner fusion. Introduced nearly two decades ago, magnetography has provided users with an unsurpassed combination of high speeds, low total cost per page, and total application flexibility. Nipson's continuous investment in advancing its technology gives users an important advantage to grow their business: print beyond limits.

Company history

• Around 25 years ago, BULL developed a unique patented non impact printing technology, magnetography, launching its non-impact printing business.

•  In 1992, BULL set up NIPSON Printing Systems as a separate subsidiary focused on research and development, manufacturing, and marketing of printers based on magnetographic technology.

•  In 1999, XEIKON NV, specialized in color digital printing solutions, acquired an 80% majority interest in NIPSON which was renamed XEIKON S.A.

•  April 2002, NIPSON SAS a newly created company acquired Xeikon France S.A. 's activities and intellectual property. NIPSON SAS is a 100% subsidiary of Nipson Digital Printing Systems B.V., which is owned by Koonras Digital Printing Systems Ltd.

• August 2004, Nipson Digital Printing Systems PLC announces its IPO on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM).