It has been a subsidiary of the Seiko Epson Corporation since 2001 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Seiko Epson in 2009.

Epson owns the technology and has branded it as " 3LCD ".

Beside its original association with IRIS prints, the word giclée has come to be associated with other types of inkjet printing including processes that use fade-resistant, archival inks ( pigment-based, as well as newer solvent-based inks ), and archival substrates primarily produced on Epson, HP and other large-format printers.

Jones has worked for many companies, including the Miller Brewing Company, Haggar Clothing, Pacific Coast Medical Enterprises, and Epson America, and represented the NFL and Champion Products as spokesman for their Throwback campaigns.

Epson has established its own brand image but rarely uses Seiko.

As of 2003, she was the Malaysian spokesmodel for L ' Oréal She has also been the spokesmodel for Tag Heuer, Wacoal, Epson, Pantene and Omega.

The R & D department of Seiko Epson has demonstrated a flexible active-matrix LCD panel ( including the pixel thin film transistors and the peripheral TFT drivers ), a flexible active-matrix OLED panel,

She has modeled for the popular Japanese fashion magazine JJ, among others, and is the current Japanese representative for Epson and Giorgio Armani.

GutenPrint has more than 1, 300 high quality drivers for: Apollo, Apple, Brother, Canon, Citizen, Compaq, Dai Nippon, DEC, Epson, Fujifilm, Fujitsu, Gestetner, HP, IBM, Infotec, Kodak, Kyocera, Lanier, Lexmark, Minolta, NEC, NRG, Oki, Olivetti, Olympus, Panasonic, PCPI, Raven, Ricoh, Samsung, Savin, Seiko, Sharp, Shinko, Sony, Star, Tally, Tektronix and Xerox printers.

Although Noritsu has typically produced minilabs that utilize traditional silver halide papers and photographic exposure systems, since 2003, in partnership with Epson, inkjet printing systems have been added to the product line.

IBM released the IBM Personal Computer in 1981 and included a variant of the Centronics interface — only IBM logo printers ( rebranded from Epson ) could be used with the IBM PC.

In June 1975, the name Epson was coined into the next generation of printers based on the EP-101 which was released to the public.

The company developed the Micro Piezo inkjet technology, which used a piezoelectric crystal in each nozzle and did not heat the ink at the print head while spraying the ink onto the page, and released Epson MJ-500 inkjet printer ( Epson Stylus 800 cartridge ) in March 1993.

Shortly after in 1994, Epson released the first high resolution color inkjet printer ( 720 × 720 dpi was considered as a high resolution ), the Epson Stylus Color ( P860A ) utilizing the Micro Piezo head technology.

Digital imaging technology was applied to rangefinder cameras for the first time in 2004, with the introduction of the Epson R-D1, the first ever digital rangefinder camera.

Image: Epson R-D1 Digital Rangefinder Camera. jpg | The Epson R-D1 with a Leica lens

In 2004, Epson introduced their R-D1 digital RangeFinder Camera, which supports Leica M mount and Leica screw mount lenses with an adapter ring.

Sensors meeting these approximate dimensions are used in many digital single-lens reflex cameras, in addition to a few large-sensor live-preview digital cameras ( such as the Sony DSC-R1, Sigma DP1 and Leica X1 ) and a few digital rangefinders ( e. g. the Epson R-D1 ).

For example, Epson embeds a chip which prevents printing when the chip claims the cartridge is empty, although a researcher who over-rode the system found that in one case he could print up to 38 % more good quality pages, even though the chip stated that the cartridge was empty.

The region's local industry is predominantly made up of medium and small-sized businesses, but also some big-name businesses such as Seiko Epson, Olympus and Kyocera.

To market 3LCD projector technology, Epson also set up a consortium called the " 3LCD Group " in 2005 with other projector manufacturer licensees of 3LCD technology that use it in their projector models.

) It was scanned on an Epson Perfection 1250 at 400dpi, cleaned up ( some text was showing through the back ) in Photoshop, reduced to grayscale, and saved as JPG using the ' Save for Web ' optimizer.

In 1959, the Suwa Factory of Daini Seikosha was split up and merged into Daiwa Kogyo to form Suwa Seikosha Co., Ltd: the forerunner of the Seiko Epson Corporation.

Seiko Holdings delegates a large portion of the manufacturing in its watch business to Seiko Epson and Seiko Instruments.

Epson is best known for its " Micro Piezo " piezoelectric printing technology and " 3LCD " LCD projection technology Adderly.

As of 2009, the Hattori family and its related individuals and companies are still major shareholders of Seiko Epson and have the power.

To control its printers, Epson introduced a printer control language, the Epson Standard Code for Printers or ( ESC / P ), which became a de facto industry standard for controlling print formatting during the era of dot matrix printers ; whose popularity was initially started by the Epson MX-80.

In July 2003, a Dutch Consumer Association advised its 640, 000 members to boycott Epson ink jet printers.

Later that month, however, the group retracted its call for a nationwide boycott of Epson products and issued a statement conceding that residual ink left in Epson cartridges was necessary for the printers to function properly.

* 1982 — Shinshu Seiki is renamed Epson Corporation.

* 1985 — Suwa Seikosha and Epson merge to form Seiko Epson Corporation.

In the same year the first laptop-sized portable computer, the Epson HX-20, was announced.

Johnson claims to be the originator of the visual directory tree concept that was used first in an Epson backup product created by ESI.

OPOS ( OLE for POS ) was the first commonly adopted standard and was created by Microsoft, NCR Corporation, Epson and Fujitsu-ICL.

The EP-101 was the first ever electronic miniprinter for printing figures and symbols and was launched by Shinshu Seiki Co. ( now known as Epson ) in September 1968.

In July 1982, Shinshu Seiki officially named itself the Epson Corporation and launched the world's first handheld computer, HX-20 ( HC-20 ), and in May 1983 the world's first portable color LCD TV was developed and launched by the company.

The design was first conceived by Yoshikazu Akahane at Suwa Seikosha ( currently Seiko Epson ) in 1977, and patents were applied for in 1982.

Starting in the late 1970s inkjet printers that could reproduce digital images generated by computers were developed, mainly by Epson, Hewlett-Packard ( HP ), and Canon.

Cosina manufactured a Rollei-branded rangefinder camera, and is acknowledged to have manufactured ( and to have helped design ) an Epson digital rangefinder camera as well.

Seiko Epson Corporation, a manufacturer of information-related equipment and Seiko timepieces, is headquartered in Suwa.

Many integrated circuit manufacturers make RTCs, including Epson, Intersil, IDT, Maxim, NXP Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics.