This Week in Imaging: Xerox Gets Serious with a Dealer Channel and A4; More
Is Xerox seeing the A4 and dealer-channel light? It seems so. This week – via comments from its CEO and......
3D Printing / Brother / Commercial & Production Printing / Dealer Channel / Document Scanning / Eastman Kodak / Electronics for Imaging / Epson / Financial News / HP / Imaging Supplies / Lexmark / Toshiba / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 10, 2017 · Last modified June 21, 2018
Is Xerox seeing the A4 and dealer-channel light? It seems so. This week – via comments from its CEO and......
Brother / Financial News / Inkjet / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 7, 2017 · Last modified December 27, 2017
Brother International of Japan reported results for its six-month financial period ending on September 30, 2017, with revenue up 11.6......
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Document Scanning / Electronics for Imaging / HP / Konica Minolta / Lexmark / OKI / Toshiba
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 13, 2017 · Last modified October 19, 2017
The good news for HP Inc. was that, last week, the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of Commerce approved HP’s......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 12, 2017 · Last modified October 16, 2017
Bleeping Computer reports that a security researcher has found that nearly 700 Brother International printers were shipped with a blank admin......
Brother / Canon / Epson / HP / Inkjet / Market Reports & Forecasts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 3, 2017 · Last modified October 10, 2017
According to the latest IDC Asia-Pacific Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, total printer and copier/MFP shipments in the second quarter of 2017 for......
Brother / Canon / Epson / Featured Posts / HP / Inkjet / Legal Proceedings / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 20, 2017 · Last modified October 4, 2017
France’s Le Figaro Economie reports that a French environmental association, Halte à l’Obsolescence Programmée (Stop Planned Obsolescence), has filed a......
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Epson / HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / Mobile Print/Scan
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 25, 2017 · Last modified August 28, 2017
This week we saw an interesting assertion from a well-known market-research firm asserting that inkjet will eventually displace laser printing......
Brother / Mobile Print/Scan / News / Partnerships
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 23, 2017 · Last modified August 30, 2017
Brother International’s Brother Mobile Solutions group reports that it’s introduced a new mobile-printing development program, “THE NEXT” Partner Program, that’s......
Brother International today introduced Brother Refresh, which it bills as “the only direct from the manufacturer predictive auto-fulfillment service that eliminates......
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Financial News / HP / Lexmark / Mergers & Acquisitions / Nuance / Samsung / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 11, 2017 · Last modified August 16, 2017
Ouch. While we’ve heard plenty about the increasing threat of cyber crime from companies such as HP Inc., Xerox, and......
Brother / Financial News / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 8, 2017 · Last modified August 10, 2017
Brother International of Japan has reported financial results for its first fiscal quarter that ended on March 31, 2017, with......
Brother / Eastman Kodak / News / Patent-Infringement / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 8, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2018
The Northern California Record reports that Commercial Copy Innovations (CCI) is adding Brother International to a growing number of printer/copier......
U.K.-based market-research firm CONTEXT reports that sales of laser printers across Western Europe (declined 5 percent year-over-year in second-quarter 2017,......
Brother / Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 29, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2018
Brother Industries of Japan today reported that it’s settled a patent-infringement dispute with a distributor of toner and drum cartridges......
Brother / Canon / Epson / Market Reports & Forecasts / Samsung
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 12, 2017 · Last modified June 14, 2017
The worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market grew 1.2% year over year with more than 23.4 million units shipped in the......
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Dealer Channel / Electronics for Imaging / Financial News / HP / Nuance / OKI / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published May 12, 2017 · Last modified June 21, 2018
At this point, it appears 3D printing hasn’t had much of an impact in the office-equipment industry, as home and......
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