Citizen Systems Europe GmbH

Best known for its comprehensive family of dot matrix printers, in recent years Citizen has established its reputation as a manufacturer of high quality, reliable label and barcode printers. With an ever-expanding range of thermal barcode printers and its OEM product lines Citizen Systems Europe is at the forefront of mechatronic technology.

Citizen in Europe

Citizen Systems Europe is a wholly owned subsidiary of Citizen Systems Japan Co. Ltd, itself a subsiduary of the world-famous Citizen Watch Company of Japan.

From its offices in Stuttgart, London and Hamburg the company markets its products throughout Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East and Africa, serving these markets by means of a pan-European and international distributor network embracing more than 40 countries.

Printers for the Labelling, Barcoding and Auto ID Market

Citizen's unique pedigree in electro-mechanical printers makes dedicated label printers a natural extension to its family of office desktop and portable products.

Offering a wide choice of printers for the Auto ID Market, from portable 'PDA', barcode-capable printers with infrared (IrDA) interfaces to high speed industrial label printers, Citizen combines highly specified products and reliability at cost-effective prices.

The CLP family of direct thermal and thermal transfer label printers is designed to suit various applications including healthcare, manufacturing, warehousing, retail and baggage handling.

Citizen's barcode label printers support a wide range of industry standard barcodes, with a complement of scaleable and fixed fonts, including international characters. With a variety of options and accessories available, Citizen is the obvious choice for quality, reliability and innovative, easy-to-use barcode labelling systems.

Dot Matrix Printers

Citizen manufactures an extensive selection of impact printers, comprising the Swift and Prodot ranges.

From the quiet but highly specified entry level printers – ideal for small business, educational and home use – to the high-performance flatbed printers with an aptitude for printing on awkward media – multi-part forms, passbooks, cardboard and coated plastics – Citizen has a matrix printer to suit most applications, including high-speed, high performance, wide carriage workhorse printers for industrial or departmental use.

Innovative Printing Solutions on the Move

Citizen is a major player in the thermal portable printer market, producing a range of ultra-portable, innovative products. This includes the world's smallest A4 plain paper, cable-free printer and a range of compact thermal printers. Offering infrared-capable products is part of Citizen's continuous commitment to providing solutions for the hand-held computer market. Additionally, the company's precision mechanical and micro-electronic technologies have made a major contribution to the downsizing of information equipment.

Drivers That Make Printing Easy

A key strength of Citizen's printers is the quality of its software drivers for applications such as the Windows environment. This makes the printers not only easy to install and use, but leads to an output quality significantly higher than the norm.

Floppy Disk Drives

As a leading force in the manufacturing of 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drives, Citizen produces industry standard 1-inch high floppy drives together with ultra-slim versions for portable computers.

Continuing a tradition of world firsts in magnetic storage, Citizen exclusively produces the thinnest FDD in the world. At only 11 mm in height, it is the natural choice for many notebook and sub-notebook PC assemblers throughout Asia, Europe and America.

Citizen’s commitment to floppy drives continued with the opening of its factory in Shenzhen, China, in 1994, where it now manufactures all of its floppy drives and pursues an aggressive cost reduction programme to meet the demands of PC assemblers.