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Mutoh America Honored With Prestigious Ph3D Award

"Falcon II Commercial Indoor Printer Raises the Tide Within Motion and 3D Print Quality"

Contact: Kerrie Mellott Tel: (602) 414-4613 marketing@mutoh.com


TEMPE, Ariz., August 5, 2003 - Mutoh America Inc., a worldwide leader and manufacturer of large format commercial inkjet printers has been recognized with the prestigious Ph3D Award by Flipsigns, The Association for Motion and 3D Printing. The Ph3D Award, which has only been given to three other companies in the last four years, is meant to recognize those individuals or organizations that, through their efforts or product development have truly raised the tides of excellence and capability within Motion and 3D printing.

About the Falcon II Commercial Indoor Printer

The Falcon II commercial indoor printer offers photo quality production printing with various model widths, including the 50- and 64-inch standard models and the Hi-Productivity 64- and 87-inch models. The Falcon II printers also include a wide variety of advanced features, from Dynamic Variable Dot imaging, to adjustable head height, automatic media thickness compensation for media up to 1.5mm thick, and print speeds up to 430 sq. feet per hour. Printing up to eight ink colors, this state-of-the-art printer includes resolution options from 360x360 to 1440x2880 dpi.

About Mutoh

Mutoh Industries, Ltd. was founded in 1952 in Tokyo, Japan, to manufacture and distribute mechanical drafting products. Mutoh later introduced a broad line of flatbed and roll-fed pen/pencil plotters that established Mutoh as a worldwide leader in X-Y motion systems and printer and plotter technology. Since then, ISO9000-certified Mutoh Industries, Ltd. has become the world's foremost manufacturer of large format piezoelectric printers. Mutoh manufactures printers and related peripherals for some of the biggest names in the pre-press, sign and graphics industries. Mutoh has key engineering manufacturing and distribution centers in Japan, Belgium and Tempe, Arizona, home to subsidiary Mutoh America.

For more information about Mutoh America, please email us at marketing@mutoh.com or by calling 602-414-4613, or 800-99-MUTOH (800-996-8864).