Manufacturer
Inside our TIJ ink cartridge factory — and what makes us a manufacturer
A TIJ ink cartridge manufacturer, not a trading company: every cartridge is filled, sealed and tested on four of our own lines, about 2,000 a day. This page lists which steps we do ourselves, which components we buy in and qualify, how each unit is checked, and the order terms. If you are trying to work out whether the company behind a quotation owns a filling line, this is the page you would ask for.
Which steps are ours, and which are not
Anyone hunting for a TIJ inkjet factory is really asking one question: is this a plant or an office? The fastest way to tell is to ask which steps happen on their own floor and which parts arrive finished. A supplier claiming every step — printhead and machine included — is usually describing a trading desk. Here is our answer, written the way we give it on the phone.
Stating the boundary is not modesty. Cartridge, ink and printer have to be matched three ways at once, and you cannot judge the match if you do not know who made which part.
Done on our own lines
- Ink formulation and blending — the water-based, fast-dry solvent, covert UV and oil-based systems in our range are formulated and blended by us, not bought in as finished product.
- Cartridge filling — 42 ml industrial fill into HP45-format cartridge bodies on our own filling lines.
- Encapsulation and sealing — the cartridge is closed and sealed here, which is what holds a 42 ml fill inside the body through transport and storage.
- Printhead selection and qualification — the printhead assembly is bought in from specialist printhead manufacturers; specifying it, qualifying it and matching it to the ink and to your print width is our work.
- 100% final inspection — weighing, visual inspection and a print test on every cartridge, not on a sample from each batch.
- Labelling and packing — including private-label cartridges carrying your own brand.
Bought in, or delivered with a partner
- Printhead assemblies — supplied by specialist printhead manufacturers. That is normal in thermal inkjet: the jetting assembly is a specialist component, and the cartridge is engineered around it. We buy it, we qualify it, and we stay responsible for how it prints.
- Printer platforms — the handheld and inline TIJ printers are not our own manufacture. We supply them jointly with specialist equipment-manufacturing partners, so that cartridge and machine are specified as one system rather than as two parts that happen to fit.
Manufacturer or trading company? Five questions that settle it
A manufacturer and a trading company can show you the same photographs and quote the same part number. What separates them is where the money and the risk sit. A manufacturer owns the filling line, the ink formulation and the batch records, so it can only cut cost by changing the process. A trader owns none of those — the only levers left are buying price and specification, which is why a cheaper quotation often turns out to be a smaller fill, a re-badged cartridge, or ink never tested on your material.
The mirror question follows: a maker who also sells machines is really a printer supplier in disguise, no? We do supply the printers, but that describes what we sell, not what we are. Cartridges and the four ink systems are formulated, filled, sealed and tested on our lines; the printers are selected and supplied jointly with specialist equipment-manufacturing partners. What a buyer needs is the boundary, not a claim of total vertical integration.
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Which steps happen on their own floor, and which components arrive finished? Ask for the list before you ask for a price.
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Who formulates the ink? If it is bought in as finished product, nothing can be adjusted to your process — you choose from a catalogue or you choose elsewhere.
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Are the printhead and the machine theirs as well? If the answer is yes to every step, ask which printhead plant and which machine factory, and see how the answer changes.
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Will they print on your own material before you order, and send the printed piece rather than a photograph of a sample sheet?
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Do the sample, the production batch and the despatch come off the same line? If three suppliers are involved, no batch record can follow your order.
What 100% inspection means here
Every supplier claims quality control. The question worth asking is whether the checks cover every unit or a sample from each batch, and what the check actually measures. Ours are per unit, and there are three.
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Weight check
Each cartridge is weighed. Fill volume is the first thing to drift on a filling line, and a scale catches a short fill before it reaches you.
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Visual inspection
Nozzle plate, cartridge body and seal are examined for damage, contamination and sealing defects.
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Print test
Every cartridge is fired and the test print is inspected. A cartridge that does not print cleanly is not packed.
What capacity does the line have?
Four filling lines, capacity for about 2,000 cartridges a day. That is a working figure for scheduled production, not a marketing number — if your volume is larger, give us the quantity and the date and we will say plainly whether we can hold it. It is plant-wide across all four ink systems, not a figure for the solvent line alone. And treat any daily total as a starting point: it says nothing about which line your order will run on — ours or anyone else’s.
Ordering: the terms up front
One carton holds 160 cartridges, and that is the minimum. We would rather you qualify a batch on your own line and then scale up than commit to a shipment you have not tested.
| Filling lines | 4 |
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| Daily capacity | 2,000 cartridges |
| Final inspection | 100% of units |
| Minimum order | 160 cartridges (one carton) |
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| Lead time | Ships within 3 working days of payment |
| Sample printing | Free of charge, on your own material |
| Private label (OEM) | Your brand on the cartridge label |
| Ink adjustment (ODM) | Formulation adjusted to your requirement |
Sampling: we print on your own material, at no charge
Printing a sample costs you nothing. Send us the material you actually code on — carton, film, bottle, coated metal — and we print on it with the ink system we recommend.
Samples are printed on the second working day after your material reaches us. If you want the printed pieces in your hand, we ship them. If a courier is slow or expensive where you are, we film the print instead and send you the video.
Sampling is also the only honest way to settle an adhesion question: a datasheet gives you a starting point, a print on your own product gives you the answer.
See the line without travelling
We can send video of the filling and of the print test, so your quality team can see the process before anyone books a flight. Ask for it with your enquiry and we will send it together with the samples.
What we do not claim
We are a new company. XinmoJet was registered in August 2026 and we do not claim a longer history. The experience sits with the people, not with the age of the business — everyone here came from inside the TIJ cartridge industry, with more than ten years each across cartridges, printheads and ink, before joining us. We hope it is useful on your line. We also display no certification marks, because we will not put a CE, RoHS or ISO mark on a page before the certificate is in hand.
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Questions that come with a factory enquiry
Which components are bought in rather than made by you?
The printhead assembly. We buy it from specialist printhead manufacturers and qualify it — selection, incoming checks, and the print and inspection routine it runs in our cartridges. Filling, sealing, chip fitting, marking and final testing are our steps. We would rather name the boundary than let you discover it later.
How much can you produce, and how quickly do you ship?
Four filling lines, with capacity for about 2,000 cartridges a day. Standard orders ship within three working days of payment. If your volume is larger than that, give us the quantity and the date and we will tell you plainly whether we can hold it.
Do you hold CE, RoHS or ISO certificates?
Not yet in hand, so we do not display them. Certification marks are the first thing buyers look for and the easiest thing to fake; we would rather show an empty certificate line than a logo we cannot back with a document. When the certificates are issued, they will appear here with their numbers.
Can I see the line before I place an order?
Yes — video of the filling and of the print test, and the printed samples themselves. Ask for the video with your enquiry. If you would rather visit, say so and we will arrange it; we do not ask anyone to buy a cartridge on the strength of a photograph.
Send us your material. We send back a printed code.
Tell us the material, the line speed and what you need to print. We will name the ink system and post you samples you can test yourself.