Memjet is a printing technology and components company. It maintains its corporate office in San Diego, California, and has offices in Dublin, Sydney, Taipei, Singapore and Boise, Idaho. Memjet's president and chief executive officer,

Len Lauer Len Lauer (1958-12 April 2020) was president and CEO of Memjet He launched Memjet's color printing technology, developed by Silverbrook Research. Lauer oversees operations, engineering, OEM partner development and manufacturing as well as all str ...

, was appointed in January 2010. Before joining Memjet, Lauer served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of

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. In 2010, first label Memjet printers were announced. In January 2011, Memjet announced that it plans to launch the product first in Asia/Pacific region, expecting release in North America and Europe by the end of 2011. Memjet's technology was developed by

Silverbrook Research Kia Silverbrook (born 1958) is an Australian independent inventor and scientist. He is one of the most prolific inventors in the world,

, located in Balmain,

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

. Research began in 1994, and a working Memjet prototype printer was displayed at the

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in 2009. Silverbrook Research and their principal financier, The

George Kaiser George Bruce Kaiser (born October 30, 1943) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of BOK Financial Corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As of September 2021, he is the 476th richest person in the world and was, in 2012, one o ...

Family Foundation, were in dispute in several fundamental aspects, and Silverbrook Research's office and principal research facility for Memjet in North Ryde, Sydney, Australia was shut down pending resolution. In May 2012, a settlement was announced under which Memjet acquired the technology and restored about 300 jobs to former Silverbrook Research employees who today are part of Memjet."Kaiser foundation settles lawsuit"
'' Tulsa World'', 8 May 2012 (pay site).

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* {{official website, http://www.memjet.com/, name=Memjet Computer printers Non-impact printing Australian inventions