Freedom and Harmony

Freedom of Impression - Komori's corporate banner -
addresses our commitment to the freedom in printing attainable through Komori technologies, products and systems.
As a specialty manufacturer of printing systems, Komori has long been guided by the principle of listening very carefully to our customers.
We listen, research, develop, engineer, test, optimize, fine tune, manufacture and verify from the viewpoint of our customers.

Renewed Harmony towards the Future
Komori has inspired the industry with technological innovation which evolved from this guiding principle.
We will never change this fundamental Komori philosophy.
Komori stands for an open architecture of printing systems that offers full connectivity and compatibility with the products and technologies of other makers.
Freedom of Impression has engendered many compelling products - each designed and developed with an open architecture of digitally driven systems as the preeminent product specification.
Our belief in the importance of open systems has inevitably been reaffirmed in talking with customers around the world. The insights that Komori has acquired from these exchanges have been distilled into three 'balances' - three relationships that must be in harmony for success in the printing industry of the future.

Technology and the Press

Komori's R&D program is focused on the fusion of printing and digital technology. Our open architecture of systems, based on the CIP4 digital workflow, has won high praise from customers everywhere. This thinking is founded not on a closed stance that depends on the offerings of one manufacturer but on a thoroughly open approach that will expedite the seamless integration of the innovative technologies in our future.

People and the Press

Printing produces value through the interaction of people and machines. The printing environment must be people-friendly - attentive to the needs and desires of plant personnel.
Komori will chart new directions and approaches for operator comfort, press operability and plant safety. These critical factors for the 21st century underlie the development and design of every Komori product.
Equally vital to this balance is communications between the press and the operator, all too often a one-way stream in conventional printing plants. Komori understands that free, interactive communications between the system and the operator are indispensable to attaining higher print quality. Implementing this sort of productive communications is mission-critical to Komori.

The Printing Environment and the Press

The printing press is being transformed from simply the machine to a system that creates value through a workflow that links prepress and postpress. A host of environmental issues demand action - noise, airborne particulates, nonalcohol printing and the reduction of paper waste. Komori has made great strides in these areas, but much work remains. Komori systems are becoming ecologically sensitive, and will be a beacon leading the industry toward the clean printing environment of the future.