Canon Inc is seeing sufficient interest in its small and neat BubbleJet printers – small enough to integrate into notebook computers, that it plans to manufacture the things in Scotland for the European market. The technology, described in detail in CI No 2,121, involves heating the inks momentarily to a temperature where droplets shoot out of a tiny nozzle. The company plans to invest ú10m to establish a new plant with capacity for 50,000 of the printers a month by the end of next year at its Canon Manufacturing UK site in Glenrothes.
