Mustek Systems Inc. is a Taiwanese manufacturing company based in
Hsinchu
Hsinchu (, Chinese: 新竹, Pinyin: ''Xīnzhú'', Wade–Giles: ''Hsin¹-chu²'') is a city located in northwestern Taiwan. It is the most populous city in Taiwan Province not among the special municipalities, with estimated 450,655 inhabi ...
,
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
, established in October 1988.
www.mustek.com.tw
Mustek Systems HQ. About Us > History. Retrieved 2010-07-23. Its brand name is Mustek (abbreviation for ''Most Unique Sensible Technology'').
Mustek manufacturers electro-optical and electronic devices, for example Image scanner
An image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image. Commonly used in offices are variations of the desktop ''flatbed scanner'' ...
s, digital camera
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s, video equipment, DVD player
A DVD player is a device that plays DVDs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. Some DVD players will also play audio CDs. DVD players are connected to a television to ...
s, notebooks to power supply equipment etc. By the end of 1996, Mustek Systems has become the biggest scanner manufacturer by volume (4 million customers). The company's motto
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is ''Digital Life, Live it''.
The main factory is based in Dongguan
Dongguan (; ) is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. An important industrial city in the Pearl River Delta, Dongguan borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the ...
, (Guangdong
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...
province on mainland China
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. Subsidiaries are based in Neuss
Neuss (; spelled ''Neuß'' until 1968; li, Nüss ; la, Novaesium) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the west bank of the Rhine opposite Düsseldorf. Neuss is the largest city within the Rhein-Kreis Neuss district. It ...
(Germany
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), Japan and in Irvine, CA
Irvine () is a master-planned city in South Orange County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Irvine Company started developing the area in the 1960s and the city was formally incorporated on December 28, 1971. ...
(United States
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).
See also
* List of companies of Taiwan
References
External links
Official websiteUSA Official website
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Computer peripheral companies
Taiwanese brands
Taiwanese companies established in 1988
Technology companies established in 1988
Manufacturing companies based in Hsinchu
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