White Canvas Rakusai

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Screen’s White Canvas Rakusai centre is not far from its CtP and POD factories in Kumiyama in the southern industrial part of Kyoto. The group’s largest research facility contains 350 of its best researchers in what is meant to be a creative environment for discussion and collaboration that ultimately leads to product development. Although the words White Canvas Rakusai evoke “open space” the centre is actually a place for filtering and focusing more than 600 of Screen’s core technologies into a mere 100 core technologies. Thus it is a place of convergence and synergy — the place where Screen creates special tools to help it enter various industries.

White Canvas Rakusai contains several overlapping concepts and activity areas. It is an open space for discussion and it is also the centre for collaboration with universities or the academic world. It encompasses research and design areas and a channel for sharing core technologies. Physically, it’s just a nicer building than most of the factories in the area with conference and discussion rooms on the top floors and large open offices on the floors where many of the engineers work.

On the ground floor, there is a kind of technology museum including some of Screen’s products across both the graphic arts and the PCB and semiconductor manufacturing equipment industry in which Screen has a large share. There are also glimpses of the interconnectedness of the technology when one sees a three-dimensional image created by a parabolic mirror and new products like solar panels. The products in the room span Screen’s vacuum tube Scanagraphs to contemporary flat panel displays.

Screens core technologies include microscopic image exposure, microstereo lithography, ultra precise chemical coating, damage free cleaning, nanospray, micron order precision, colour science and management technology, inkjet technology, workflow, automation, computer integrated manufacturing, flow detection and real colour 3d. Many of these easily translate across its product segments. For instance, on an earlier visit to one of Screen’s CtP factories, one was shown a precision measuring instrument for evaluating the accuracy of CtP imaging that had been “borrowed” from the PCB manufacturing equipment side of the company.

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