HP Now Taking Orders for its First 3D Printer, First Public Demo at formnext
HP Inc. today announced they it will showcase what it’s calling “the world’s first production-ready commercial 3D-printing system” at the......
3D Printing / HP / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 15, 2016 · Last modified November 22, 2016
HP Inc. today announced they it will showcase what it’s calling “the world’s first production-ready commercial 3D-printing system” at the......
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Dell / Electronics for Imaging / Fujitsu / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Samsung / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 11, 2016 · Last modified November 22, 2016
While the United States was on the receiving end of quite a bit of disruption on Tuesday – with Donald......
3D Printing / Commercial & Production Printing / Electronics for Imaging / Epson / Financial News / HP / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / OKI / Panasonic / Ricoh / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 4, 2016 · Last modified December 6, 2016
Again this week, several copier/MFP Japanese vendors reported weak financial news, and slower results for MFP and printer sales year-over-year.......
3D Printing / Amazon / Cloud / Commercial & Production Printing / Electronics for Imaging / Epson / Financial News / Hewlett-Packard / HP / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Legal Proceedings / Lexmark / Managed Print & Document Services / Photo Printing / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 28, 2016 · Last modified September 5, 2017
We’ve always admired Ricoh for the quality and innovation of their products and their distribution skills. This week they introduced......
3D Printing / Brother / HP / Inkjet / Lexmark / Surveys & Studies
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 21, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2017
For those following the business-inkjet market, the big news this week was Brother International’s announcement of four new INKvestment printers......
3D Printing / Market Reports & Forecasts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 13, 2016 · Last modified November 2, 2016
Market-research firm Gartner reports that worldwide shipments of 3D printers will reach 455,772 units in 2016, which is more than...
3D Printing / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Document Scanning / Epson / Hewlett-Packard / Inkjet / Legal Proceedings / Lenovo / OKI / Scanners / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 7, 2016 · Last modified December 14, 2016
It appears that the Lexmark acquisition by the Chinese tech firm Apex Technology and by PAG Capital is virtually a......
3D Printing / HP / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 4, 2016 · Last modified November 2, 2016
Half of the custom parts in HP Inc.’s two new 3D printers – which will begin shipping by the end......
3D Printing / Canon / HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 30, 2016 · Last modified February 8, 2017
While the issue appears to have been resolved, with HP Inc. apologizing and promising to issue a remedying firmware update,......
3D Printing / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Dell / Document Scanning / Epson / Hewlett-Packard / HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / Kyocera / Mobile Print/Scan / Panasonic / Samsung
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 23, 2016 · Last modified November 15, 2016
While much has been written analyzing what will be the effects of HP Inc.’s pending acquisition of Samsung Electronics’ Printing......
3D Printing / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Epson / Hewlett-Packard / HP / Inkjet / Kyocera / Large Format / Legal Proceedings / Lexmark / Mergers & Acquisitions / News / OKI / Patent-Infringement / Ricoh / Samsung / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 16, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2018
In a development that’s likely to generate many, many pixels of news coverage, HP Inc. announced this week that it’s......
3D Printing / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Epson / Hewlett-Packard / HP / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / Large Format / Market Reports & Forecasts / Mobile Print/Scan / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 9, 2016 · Last modified February 21, 2017
Interesting news from Canon this week includes a crop of new monochrome imageCLASS desktop All-in-Ones, and, on an entirely different......
3D Printing / Education / Imaging Supplies / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 7, 2016 · Last modified April 20, 2017
North American retailer of printer and toner cartridges Cartridge World, which has some 1,700 retail stores across the United States...
3D Printing / Mergers & Acquisitions / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 6, 2016 · Last modified September 7, 2016
General Electric of Boston, Massachusetts, reported today that it has purchased two European 3D additive-printers makers for a combined $1.4...
3D Printing / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Document Scanning / Epson / HP / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Market Reports & Forecasts / Memjet / Mobile Print/Scan / News / OKI / Patent-Infringement / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 2, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2018
Last week we discussed the evolution of printing and the document, from the Gutenberg press to the cloud and 3D......
3D Printing / Dealer Channel / Konica Minolta / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 30, 2016 · Last modified June 21, 2018
At Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A.’s annual dealer show, ZVerse, creator of 3D-printing design solutions, announced that Konica Minolta dealers will......
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