UNSPSC 23261502: Inkjet method machine

This machine uses a single jet each for a plastic build material and a wax-like support material, which are held in a melted liquid state in reservoirs. The liquids are fed to individual jetting heads, which squirt tiny droplets of the materials as they are moved in X-Y fashion in the required pattern to form a layer of the object. The materials harden by rapidly dropping in temperature as they are deposited.

UNSPSC 23261502 Inkjet method machine is a Commodity code that captures equipment and machinery used in printing, image marking, and fluid-application processes procured by state and local government. Recent solicitation activity shows the code tagged to two structurally distinct opportunities: a cooperative purchasing RFP for law enforcement equipment (where the inkjet-machine code appears to be a tagging mismatch rather than the actual scope), and a University of Wisconsin bid for stock-tank upgrades in a paper-machine laboratory that involves false-bottom and drain-valve installation. The inkjet-machine code itself does not appear to drive substantial or recurring procurement volume in the state and local space. The University of Wisconsin Stevens Point represents a higher-education issuer; Sourcewell, a Minnesota cooperative vehicle, aggregates demand from counties, school districts, nonprofit organizations, and tribal governments across multiple states and Canada, though the law enforcement equipment RFP is only incidentally related to the code's nominal scope.

Geographic activity centers on Wisconsin and the Pacific Northwest (Washington state and multiple counties including Franklin, Grant, Grays Harbor, Chelan, and Yakima), with the Sourcewell cooperative extending reach across the United States and Canada. The University of Wisconsin Stevens Point issued an IFB (Solicitation Number 2026-STPALL-01275-RFB) due April 16, 2026, requiring mandatory pre-bid site attendance on March 26, 2026, and online submission through SciQuest; the resulting contract covered false-bottom and drain-valve installation for two laboratory stock tanks. Sourcewell issued RFP #061626 on May 12, 2026, due June 16, 2026, for law enforcement equipment through its cooperative purchasing portal, though this opportunity appears mistagged to the inkjet-machine code and does not reflect actual buying under the commodity classification.