This Week in Imaging: Weak Global Economy Hits Japan Copier Vendors; Epson, Brother Look to Office
You just know this was going to happen if a deal involves Carl Icahn: Nonetheless, we think it’s a good......
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Financial News / Hewlett-Packard / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / Memjet / OKI / Patent-Infringement / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 5, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2018
You just know this was going to happen if a deal involves Carl Icahn: Nonetheless, we think it’s a good......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 2, 2016 · Last modified June 21, 2017
Billed as its most “business-focused” office-imaging devices to date, and as part of Brother International’s campaign to enter the mid-......
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Commentary / Epson / Financial News / Inkjet / Mergers & Acquisitions / News / Opinions / Sharp
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 22, 2016 · Last modified December 6, 2016
This week’s op-eds discuss the new Brother/Amazon ink service, the doings of Brother International, Epson and Sharp Corporation, Cost per......
Brother / Market Reports & Forecasts / News / Surveys & Studies
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 20, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2017
While the paperless office has long been anticipated, two separate studies conducted for Brother International reportedly underscore corporate reliance on......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 20, 2016 · Last modified June 21, 2017
As part of its strategy to expand into the higher-volume office-imaging market, Brother International is introducing new monochrome laser printers......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 19, 2016 · Last modified June 21, 2017
Tired of running out of ink or toner at the most inopportune time? Seattle-based Amazon reports that its Amazon Dash......
3D Printing / Brother / Commercial & Production Printing / Electronics for Imaging / Epson / Financial News / Hewlett-Packard / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Memjet / News / OKI / Ricoh / Samsung / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 6, 2015 · Last modified February 23, 2017
Of note in this busy week of news is the generally good financial results from Japanese vendors for printers and......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 4, 2015 · Last modified December 6, 2016
February 4, 2015 – Brother Industries of Japan has just reported financial results for its latest nine months (April to December......
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Epson / News / Samsung
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 19, 2014 · Last modified January 12, 2016
This week, we hope you’ll check out our year in review for the printer and MFP industry. From production to......
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Dell / Eastman Kodak / Electronics for Imaging / Financial News / Hewlett-Packard / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Mobile Print/Scan / News / Patent-Infringement / Samsung / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 18, 2014 · Last modified February 7, 2018
We’ve been hard at work in 2014 keeping on top of the many important events and trends in the printer......
Brother / Managed Print & Document Services / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 16, 2014 · Last modified December 21, 2016
December 16, 2014 – Boise, Idaho-based Print Tracker reports that its Print Tracker solution now provides expanded reporting capability for......
Brother / Canon / Inkjet / Kyocera / Lexmark / Market Reports & Forecasts / News / Ricoh / Samsung / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 4, 2014 · Last modified April 19, 2016
December 4, 2014 – Worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) shipment value increased 3.5 percent year-over-year to $14.9 billion in the third......
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Epson / Financial News / Inkjet / Lexmark / Managed Print & Document Services / Mobile Print/Scan / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 31, 2014 · Last modified December 21, 2016
The big story this week was Hewlett-Packard’s unveiling of its first HP-developed 3D printer, which uses what HP calls Micro......
Brother / Hewlett-Packard / Inkjet / Lexmark / Market Reports & Forecasts
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 30, 2014 · Last modified November 15, 2016
According to London-based IT market-research firm CONTEXT, unit sales of printer hardware returned to positive year-over-year growth of 3 percent......
3D Printing / Brother / Commercial & Production Printing / Electronics for Imaging / Financial News / Fujitsu / Hewlett-Packard / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / Lexmark / News / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 24, 2014 · Last modified December 6, 2016
We know it’s been coming, but it seems October 29th may be the day that HP introduces its first HP-developed......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 21, 2014 · Last modified November 15, 2016
As part of its new “Don’t Superize. Optimize” Campaign, Brother International U.S. is releasing the results of a new survey that......
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