Pantum Technology’s Strategic Upgrade Anchored in Technology-Driven Development, Launching Its First AI Multifunction Printer to Lead an Intelligent Future

On April 22, 2026, the former Ninestar Group officially announced its renaming to Pantum Technology (Stock Code: 002180), while simultaneously unveiling its first AI multifunction printer and the full new Impact-Resistant Mini Series product lineup. This dual launch of both corporate strategy and product innovation marks the official entry of China’s printing industry into a new stage of development—one founded on a fully self-controlled industrial chain and driven by artificial intelligence technology.

Ninestar Renamed as Pantum Technology, Four Strategic Initiatives Focused on the Core Printing Technology Track

This renaming is a strategic decision made by the Group based on industry trends, technological accumulation, and future planning. Standing at this historic milestone, Pantum Technology embarks on a new journey with four core strategic initiatives.

First, focusing on core growth engines to achieve full industrial-chain technological independence and controllability.

The Group will concentrate its resources on the growth engine of printing technology, continue increasing R&D investment in chips and core printing technologies across the entire industrial chain, accelerate product iteration, upgrade AI functions, and optimize service responsiveness.

Second, supporting industrial-chain integration to further consolidate the domestic ecosystem barriers.

Through a unified brand image, Pantum Technology will coordinate resources from hundreds of upstream and downstream suppliers, strengthen its attractiveness to and integration capabilities with component suppliers, further reinforce the compound protective barriers of the full industrial chain, and drive the development and advancement of China’s printing industry.

Third, adapting to global expansion to support overseas market development.

With a purely self-owned brand identity, Pantum Technology will continue to expand across more than 110 countries and regions worldwide, enabling Chinese technology and Chinese brands to gain greater visibility in the global market through integrated technology, product, and brand solutions.

Fourth, highlighting technological attributes to build an innovation-driven technology group.

Pantum Technology will upgrade its industrial layout from “printing technology and intelligent manufacturing” to “a diversified technology industry centered on printing technology,” realizing a strategic closed loop of “technology empowering the brand, and the brand supporting the technology industry layout.”

Major Debut of Two New Product Lines: AI Intelligence and Extreme Durability Reshape the Full-Scenario Printing Experience

Relying on its full-stack proprietary core technologies, Pantum Technology has simultaneously launched two major new product lines—the AI multifunction printer and Impact-Resistant Mini—covering family intelligent learning scenarios and high-efficiency commercial office scenarios respectively. Through technological innovation, the company addresses user pain points and redefines the intelligent experience and durability standards of printing products.

Pantum’s AI multifunction printer is the world’s first intelligent printing device connected to Alibaba Group Tongyi Qianwen and Baidu AI large models. The product is equipped with a human-like AI virtual assistant, “Xiao Ben,” and a 3.5-inch smart interactive screen, featuring four core capabilities: AI voice control, intelligent learning assistance, all-around life management, and real-time device protection. It realizes a leap from “passive execution” to “proactive intelligence.”It supports multi-dialects interaction, enabling all family members to use it with ease. Its AI intelligent learning assistance covers remote homework printing, automatic grading, wrong-answer sorting with extended learning support, and one-click exam paper restoration, enabling intelligent learning assistance across all scenarios. At the same time, it can meet various full-scenario needs including recipe printing, handwriting tracing, song sheet printing, and home office work. Real-time reporting of consumables levels and device faults ensures that printing status remains fully under control.

Impact-Resistant Mini continues Pantum’s “Impact-Resistant Family” gene of extreme durability, achieving a performance breakthrough of “no component replacement for the whole machine, withstanding over 150,000 printed pages,” setting a new benchmark for durability in commercial printing. With the addition of Impact-Resistant Mini, Pantum has formed a complete durable product matrix covering full scenarios and all speed ranges, meeting durability demands for different users and different application scenarios. Impact-Resistant Basic is designed for high-frequency office use, achieving stable printing performance with “200,000 consecutive printed pages and a paper jam rate lower than 0.02‰.”Impact-Resistant Pro has even set a world record of “400,000 consecutive printed pages and a paper jam rate lower than 0.02‰,” pushing durability standards to a new height. Impact-Resistant Color extends the Impact-Resistant family’s durability gene into color printing, balancing color output with long-lasting durability. From entry-level to high-end, and from monochrome to color, Pantum’s full Impact-Resistant product lineup is reshaping a new benchmark for commercial printing quality through robust and durable performance.

Also worth noting, Pantum simultaneously launched “Medical Assistant” and “Pantum Print PC Desktop Version 2.0” alongside its hardware products, deeply empowering industry document printing management. The medical solution enables full-process automated inspection, automatic consumables inventory warning, and intelligent cross-region asset management. The enterprise solution supports driver-free installation for all employees, one-click invoice list generation, and drag-and-drop printing from folders, directly addressing industry pain points and significantly improving operational efficiency.

Ecosystem Collaboration Strengthens Industrial Foundations, Global Sales Validate Strong Brand Reputation

The high-quality development of China’s printing industry cannot be achieved without the collaborative driving force of the ecosystem. As a leading enterprise in the industrial chain, Pantum has spent nearly 20 years overcoming technological challenges, fully mastering core technologies across the entire printer and copier industrial chain, and building an integrated R&D system covering chips, consumables, and complete machines. With more than 4,178 independent patents and over 2,000 R&D engineers, Pantum has established the largest patent platform and R&D team in China’s printing industry. Leveraging its role as an industry leader, Pantum has driven coordinated progress among more than 100 upstream and downstream suppliers, consolidating an independent industrial foundation integrating technology, products, and supply chain.

On this basis, Pantum has proactively promoted industrial collaboration into user value transformation, realizing the practical implementation of “connecting users” and “reshaping scenarios.” By partnering with advanced AI models, Pantum continues to deepen scenario-based AI innovation, enabling intelligent technology to precisely adapt to different printing needs and reshape the application experience. By cooperating with platforms such as JD.com, Pantum has connected user touchpoints and service channels, using platform insights to empower product optimization in reverse and achieve efficient market reach. Technology R&D, scenario implementation, and channel accessibility thus form a complete full-chain closed loop, with multiple parties jointly building a new ecosystem for China’s domestic printing industry.

Pantum’s full-chain technology and ecosystem advantages have also directly translated into impressive global market achievements. Pantum printers have served China’s annual national legislative sessions for many consecutive years and have become the officially designated printing equipment for international top-level events such as the Boao Forum for Asia and the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions. At the 2025 Summer Davos Forum, Pantum’s Impact-Resistant Series successfully completed high-load support tasks with its world-record-level performance of “400,000 consecutive printed pages and a paper jam rate lower than 0.02‰.” From national-level events to Antarctic scientific expeditions, Pantum’s reputation of “Pantum for important sectors” has become well recognized worldwide.

At present, Pantum products are sold in more than 110 countries and regions worldwide, with cumulative shipments exceeding 20 million units, and have ranked No.1 in global laser printer growth for eight consecutive years. Pantum has achieved outstanding market performance in China, Russia, and countries along the Belt and Road routes, serving key government institutions such as the four major state-owned banks and global top enterprises including BYD and Hisense, covering government, enterprise, finance, healthcare, and household scenarios.

Built on technology, strengthened by ecosystem collaboration, and expanding globally, Pantum will continue to use independent innovation as its engine and full industrial-chain advantages as its support, driving the deep integration of AI and printing scenarios, and providing global users with smarter, more efficient, safer, and more durable Chinese printing solutions.