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(Epson being an abbreviation for "Son of Electronic Printer"), or simply Epson, is a Japanese electronics company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer printers, and information and imaging related equipment.

Headquartered in Suwa, Nagano, Japan, the company has numerous subsidiaries worldwide and manufactures inkjet, dot matrix and laser printers, scanners, desktop computers, business, multimedia and home theatre projectors, large home theatre televisions, robots and industrial automation equipment, point of sale docket printers and cash registers, laptops, integrated circuits, LCD components and other associated electronic components.

It is one of three core companies of the Seiko Group, a name traditionally known for manufacturing Seiko timepieces since its founding.

In 1968 the company moved its UK headquarters to Audenshaw, Manchester, after acquiring the Jones Sewing Machine Company, a long established British sewing machine maker.

An Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) is a company that makes a part or subsystem that is used in another company's end product.

For example, if Acme Manufacturing Co. makes power cords that are used on IBM computers, Acme is an OEM.

is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation that is headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.

Its diversified business includes consumer and professional electronics, gaming, entertainment, and financial services.

The company is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products for the consumer and professional markets.

Sony was ranked 116th on the 2015 list of Fortune Global 500.

In computing, an image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner, although the term is ambiguous out of context (barcode scanner, CAT scanner etc)—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image.

Commonly used in offices are variations of the desktop flatbed scanner where the document is placed on a glass window for scanning.

Hand-held scanners, where the device is moved by hand, have evolved from text scanning "wands" to 3D scanners used for industrial design, reverse engineering, test and measurement, orthotics, gaming and other applications.

Mechanically driven scanners that move the document are typically used for large-format documents, where a flatbed design would be impractical.

In computing, a printer is a peripheral which makes a persistent human-readable representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media.