Glossary

These camera lens units are incorporated in camera phones, which are continuing to show rapid increases in pixel counts and functional sophistication. Camera phone lens units in the 3-megapixel-and-above class require particularly advanced know-how to manufacture, and Fujifilm has increased its global share of this class of camera phone lens units to 60%.

Color paper is used at photo processing labs to produce photo prints using the silver-halide method. Fujifilm’s EVER-BEAUTY PAPER is a high-quality color paper product that enables prints with rich color tones and offers superior image durability when stored for long periods of time.

Computer-to-plate (CTP) systems are digital systems that do not use film. The printing plates used with such systems are called CTP plates. Fujifilm’s CTP plates are distinguished by their high levels of sensitivity and their suitability for high-precision printing. We are working to expand our sales of such CTP plates, aiming for a global 40% market share.

A kind of medical diagnostic equipment, digital endoscopes are inserted into patients to allow doctors to view various internal organs and make diagnoses based on their observations. Fujifilm is strengthening its domestic and overseas endoscope marketing networks and working to promote greater sales of its Transnasal Endoscope and other distinctive products.

Fujifilm provides document services through four business platforms—office products business, office printing business, production service business, and global services.

Centered on the FinePix digital camera series, Fujifilm’s electronic imaging business encompasses distinctive digital camera products and accessories that feature the Company’s unique technologies.

Centered on resist materials used in semiconductor manufacturing processes, Fujifilm develops, manufactures, and markets electronic materials, which include CMP slurries, ultralow-K materials, and other semiconductor materials. Progress in augmenting the functionality, reducing the power consumption, and enhancing the compactness of electronic components has increased demand for increasingly small semiconductors offering still greater ultrafine characteristics, and Fujifilm is seeking to meet this demand by engaging in R&D activities involving sophisticated organic chemical design and highly functional materials technologies.

Usually referred to as FCR, this digital diagnostic x-ray image system product is officially called Fuji Computed Radiography. Because it has an automatic sensitivity adjustment function, images are automatically corrected and stable photographic output is maintained. It further increases the powerful diagnostic support it offers physicians by providing gradation processing, frequency processing, and various other kinds of image processing functions.

Fuji Xerox is developing global business offering services centered on document-related outsourcing services. Aiming to help solve customers’ document-related problems, we are offering a full lineup of services ranging from consulting through comprehensive document management operations.

Graphic arts items include the computers used to input drafts to be printed, editing software, proofing units for checking editing data, printing film outputting units, printing film, proofing material, and printing plates (PS plates and CTP printing plates). Fujifilm supplies these products to printing companies, newspaper companies, publishers, and other customers throughout the world.

Color films, QuickSnap one-time-use recyclable cameras, digital cameras, and other photographic equipment and materials; color paper, chemicals, and printing equipment used by photo processing labs to make photo prints—Imaging solution items include all kinds of products and services related to imaging-related processes from photo-taking through photo-printing.

Medical systems / life sciences business, graphic arts business, flat panel display (FPD) materials business, recording media business, optical devices, electronic materials, inkjet materials-Information solution items include office and industry.

Ink-jet printers use such inks as dye-based and pigment-based inks. By combining its unique chemical synthesis and dispersion technologies, Fujifilm has developed and provides ink dyes and pigments distinguished by their high levels of storage stability and other outstanding characteristics.

Fujfilm’s labs and FDi services primarily provide film developing and diverse image printing services.

Mainly used as data backup media for government entities and corporations, LTO Ultrium data cartridges are mid-range data storage tape cartridges. Fujifilm has employed its proprietary Advanced Super Thin Layer & High Output Metal Media (ATOMM) technology to increase the cartridges’ storage volume and realize high-speed data transfer capabilities.

Centered on color laser printers used in offices and elsewhere, office printer items include compact, high-performance, high-image-quality color⁄monochrome laser printers and related consumables suitable for a wide variety of business scenes.

Office products center on color⁄monochrome digital multifunction devices and related consumables. Since 1962, when Fuji Xerox become the first company to market plain-paper copy machines in Japan, the Company has steadily worked to introduce products that are digitized, multifunctional, and otherwise provide additional value. Today, Fuji Xerox is the top company in Japan in terms of color multifunction device shipments and copy volume.

Photofinishing equipment includes various outputting equipment used at photofinishing facilities to print photographs. Depending on the application and the print volume, various different kinds of printers may be employed, including silver-halide, dye sublimation, and ink-jet printers.

Fuji Xerox supplies the digital printing market with on-demand printing systems and work flow support services, and it also supplies continuous- and intermitten-feed printers and other equipment related to mission-critical systems. The Company is particularly strong regarding color on-demand systems, for which it has the No.1 share of the Japanese market. Currently, the Company is strengthening its capabilities for meeting needs related to flexible (high-mix / low-volume) printing needs associated with data base-linked variable printing.

Radiopharmaceuticals are used in nuclear medicine examinations, which are a highly safe means of detecting functional changes in organs due to diseases before morphological changes occur. They are playing a major role in helping detect brain diseases, heart diseases, cancers, and other diseases.

In the context of imaging, sensitivity refers to the sensitivity of materials to light. It is ordinarily measured based on ISO standards of the International Organization for Standardization—such as ISO100, ISO400, and ISO800. The higher the ISO figure is, the greater the sensitivity. High sensitivity enables photographs to be taken even when only scanty light is available.

The surface of photographic film has a silver-halide coating that captures light to record clear-cut photographic images on the film. There are two kinds of film—negative film, which reverses the light⁄dark portions and the colors of photographic scenes, and reversal film, on which the lights and colors of scenes can be seen as they are in real life. Moreover, the diverse types of film on the market differ regarding such characteristics as sensitivity and color tones.

A medical image information network system used in hospitals to digitize, consolidate, store, and manage image information and diagnostic information SYNAPSE is the name of a Fujifilm medical image information network system product.

Made from cellulose triacetate (TAC), which is also used as the substrate for photographic films, Fujifilm's TAC film (FUJITAC) has superior optical properties and is used as a crucial protective film for polarizers used in LCDs. TAC film is also the substrate for WV Film and other high-functional film products.

Created by coating a TAC film substratum with discotech liquid crystals, WV Film significantly widens the viewing angles of LCDs. It can expand vertical and horizontal viewing angles to up to 160 ° at low cost. It is a product unique to Fujifilm.