A History of Innovation

1981

AMDEK Corporation, an affiliate company of Roland Corporation, was founded in Osaka as a manufacturer of computerized music peripherals and as a distributor of assembled electronic music instrument parts.

1982

AMDEK marketed CMU-800 computer music and introduced the DXY-100, the company’s first pen plotter for the CAD/CAM market.

1983

The company changed its corporate name to Roland DG Corporation and released the first A-3 size plotter, the DXY-800.

1985

Roland DG moved its headquarters to Hamamatsu in the Shizuoka district and released the DPX-2000, an A-2 size plotter.

1986

The introduction of the world’s first desktop CNC mill with the PNC-3000.

1987

The company's first CAMM-2 engraver, the PNC-2000.

1988

The launch of the world's first dual-purpose vinyl cutter and pen plotter with the CAMM-1.

1993

The introduction of the low-cost PNC-900 vinyl cutter.

1995

The world's first print/cut device for vinyl with the ColorCAMM PNC-5000 was launched.

1996

The launch of the world's first wide format inkjet printer/cutter with the CAMMJET and the world’s first plotter to offer engraving, pen plotting and vinyl cutting with the CS-20.

1997

Roland’s ColorCAMM™ PRO family of wide format thermal transfer printer/cutters entered the market along with the PIX-3, the world’s first touch probe 3D scanner.

1998

The world's first wide format inkjet printer to use pigment ink - The Hi-Fi JET™ was introduced. 

2000

Threegroundbreaking new products were released: the world’s firstphoto-impact printer with the MPX-50; the world’s first eight-colour,wide format inkjet printer with variable droplet technology with theHi-Fi JET PRO; and MDX Series desktop and benchtop milling machines forin-house rapid prototyping.