KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 25, 2025--
Kyocera Corporation (TOKYO: 6971) (President Hideo Tanimoto, "Kyocera") has unveiled the new "TPA Series" thermal printhead, which delivers exceptional printing quality at an impressive speed of 250 mm per second (mm/s) — setting a new industry benchmark 1 for barcode label applications. These printheads will enhance productivity in many fields, including distribution, food processing, and healthcare. Full-scale production is planned for August 2025.
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Main Features
Development Background
With the rising trend toward urbanization in emerging economies and the increasing demand for consumer goods, including food, clothing, and housing, the volume of logistics continues to intensify. In the food processing industry, barcode printing demand has surged with rising requirements to provide product and delivery details, including mandatory nutritional information. Meanwhile, methods to improve operational efficiencies and decrease labor costs are needed worldwide. Faster, more durable thermal printheads for printing labels and barcodes are required for reliable, high-volume and varied applications.
Product Specifications
1. High-quality printing at the industry's fastest speed (250 mm/sec.)
Kyocera's unique heating element formation technology has achieved the industry's fastest printing speed of 250 mm/sec. Furthermore, even at high printing speeds, the printing remains clear from start to finish, with higher definition and quality.
2. Flexible head mounting positions support a wide variety of print media.
To achieve high print quality, the conventional head structure has been improved, and heat conduction from the heating element has been enhanced for broader head mounting position tolerance. Stable, high-quality printing is now possible on a wide variety of print media across the entire printing width.
3. Withstands severe environmental conditions, offering reduced wear and extended life
The TPA Series provides improved corrosion and wear resistance through Kyocera’s unique film deposition technology. As a result, the printhead’s superior robustness even under severe environmental conditions contributes to longer life with less wear over extended duty cycles.
1Among thermal printhead products designed for desktop printers; Kyocera research, July 2025.
High-quality printing
Kyocera TPA Series thermal printhead for barcode labels
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday asked lawmakers to approve reforms to the oil industry that would open the doors to greater foreign investment during her first state of the union speech less than two weeks after its longtime leader was toppled by the United States.
Rodríguez, who has been under pressure by the Trump administration to fall in line with its vision for the oil-rich nation, said sales of Venezuelan oil would go to bolster crisis-stricken health services, economic development and other infrastructure projects.
She outlined a distinct vision for the future, straying from her predecessors, who have long railed against American intervention in Venezeula. “Let us not be afraid of diplomacy” with the U.S., said Rodriguez, the former vice president who must now navigate competing pressures from the Trump administration and a government loyal to former President Nicolás Maduro.
The speech, which was broadcast on a delay in Venezuela, came one day after Rodríguez said her government would continue releasing prisoners detained under Maduro in what she described as “a new political moment” since his ouster.
On Thursday, Trump met at the White House with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, whose political party is widely considered to have won 2024 elections rejected by Maduro. But in endorsing Rodríguez, who served as Maduro’s vice president since 2018, Trump has sidelined Machado.
Rodríguez, who had a call with Trump earlier this week, said Wednesday evening on state television that her government would use “every dollar” earned from oil sales to overhaul the nation’s public health care system. Hospitals and other health care facilities across the country have long been crumbling, and patients are asked to provide practically all supplies needed for their care, from syringes to surgical screws.
The acting president must walk a tightrope, balancing pressures from both Washington and top Venezuelan officials who hold sway over Venezuela's security forces and strongly oppose the U.S. Her recent public speeches reflect those tensions — vacillating from conciliatory calls for cooperation with the U.S., to defiant rants echoing the anti-imperialist rhetoric of her toppled predecessor.
American authorities have long railed against a government they describe as a “dictatorship,” while Venezuela’s government has built a powerful populist ethos sharply opposed to U.S. meddling in its affairs.
For the foreseeable future, Rodríguez's government has been effectively relieved of having to hold elections. That's because when Venezuela’s high court granted Rodríguez presidential powers on an acting basis, it cited a provision of the constitution that allows the vice president to take over for a renewable period of 90 days.
Trump enlisted Rodríguez to help secure U.S. control over Venezuela’s oil sales despite sanctioning her for human rights violations during his first term. To ensure she does his bidding, Trump threatened Rodríguez earlier this month with a “situation probably worse than Maduro.”
Maduro, who is being held in a Brooklyn jail, has pleaded not guilty to drug-trafficking charges.
Before Rodríguez’s speech on Thursday, a group of government supporters was allowed into the presidential palace, where they chanted for Maduro, who the government insists remains the country’s president. “Maduro, resist, the people are rising,” they shouted.
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Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez makes a statement to the press at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez, center, smiles flanked by Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, right, and National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez after making a statement to the press at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
