This Week in Imaging: Managed Print Services Losing its Luster?; Kodak Seeking to Sell PROSPER Inkjet
Are Managed Print Services (MPS) programs losing their luster? While analysts have endlessly written about MPS – extolling MPS benefits......
3D Printing / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Eastman Kodak / Financial News / Inkjet / Managed Print & Document Services
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 18, 2016 · Last modified December 21, 2016
Are Managed Print Services (MPS) programs losing their luster? While analysts have endlessly written about MPS – extolling MPS benefits......
Canon / Fujitsu / Mergers & Acquisitions / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 17, 2016 · Last modified October 13, 2016
As part of its strategy to acquire companies in the healthcare and security sectors, Canon Inc. of Tokyo reports today......
Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Electronics for Imaging / New Products / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 15, 2016 · Last modified February 16, 2017
Electronics For Imaging reports that it’s launching a new Fiery digital front end, the Fiery Driven Canon imagePASS-Y1 digital front......
ABBYY / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Epson / Financial News / Fuji Xerox / Hewlett-Packard / Inkjet / Ricoh / Samsung / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 10, 2016 · Last modified February 8, 2017
One of the most noteworthy news items this week was HP Inc.’s major refresh of its business-inkjet portfolio and with......
Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Inkjet / New Products / News / Wide Format
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 8, 2016 · Last modified December 1, 2016
Canon U.S.A. today expanded its imagePROGRAF PRO wide-format printer lineup with four large-format inkjet printers: the 11-Color plus Chroma Optimizer......
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Document Scanning / Eastman Kodak / Electronics for Imaging / Epson / Hewlett-Packard / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / Mobile Print/Scan / OKI / Scanners / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 4, 2016 · Last modified April 7, 2016
This week brings us an interesting mix of news: a seemingly mixed-bag for toner and paper; and good news for......
Canon / Executive Management / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 1, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2018
Canon U.S.A. is reporting several new executive appointments and promotions. Effective today, Toyo Kuwamura will become senior vice president and......
3D Printing / ABBYY / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Financial News / Hewlett-Packard / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Lexmark / Panasonic / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 26, 2016 · Last modified December 14, 2016
Scary times for the print industry? Yes and no. But with a sale of either Sharp Corporation and/or Lexmark International......
Canon / Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 23, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2018
Canon Inc. of Tokyo reports that it and Badger Office Supplies, Inkjet Direct, and Greentrees International have agreed to resolve......
Canon / Lexmark / Mergers & Acquisitions / News / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 18, 2016 · Last modified May 18, 2016
Bloomberg News reports that Japanese companies that include Canon Inc. and Ricoh Company have expressed interest in purchasing Lexmark International’s......
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 November 23, 2016
This morning, Canon U.S.A. announced the third generation of its imageRUNNER ADVANCE Series copier/MFPs, the high-volume imageRUNNER ADVANCE 8500/6500 Series. which......
Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Epson / Financial News / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Lexmark / News / Sharp
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 29, 2016 · Last modified December 6, 2016
This week’s op-eds discuss Canon, Lexmark, and more. The economic slowdown in China continues to have global repercussions. This week......
Canon / Financial News / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 27, 2016 · Last modified December 6, 2016
Canon Inc. of Tokyo reported that net income for its full fiscal year 2015 was ¥201.65, a year-over-year decline of ¥27.38,......
Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Large Format
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 26, 2016 · Last modified June 21, 2017
Canon U.S.A. is today announcing the global launch of the fourth generation of its Océ Arizona Series flatbed printer for......
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......
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