IDC: Worldwide Hardcopy Market Continues Gradual Recovery; HP and Brother Make Gains
International Data Corporation (IDC) reports that the worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market continued its recovery in the fourth quarter of......
Brother / Canon / Epson / Hewlett-Packard / Inkjet / Market Reports & Forecasts / News / Samsung
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 20, 2014 · Last modified May 10, 2017
International Data Corporation (IDC) reports that the worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market continued its recovery in the fourth quarter of......
Document Scanning / Epson / Financial News / Fujitsu / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Lexmark / Output Management / Samsung / Workflow Solutions
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 7, 2014 · Last modified May 11, 2017
Financial News The theme this week in the digital-imaging industry was encouraging financial results from Japanese vendors, including Ricoh, Konica......
Epson / Inkjet / Managed Print & Document Services / Output Management
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 4, 2014 · Last modified May 11, 2017
Epson America reports that it’s negotiated an agreement with print-management solution provider PrintFleet under which PrintFleet will provide data-collection for Epson......
Epson / Financial News / Inkjet / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 3, 2014 · Last modified May 11, 2017
Seiko Epson of Tokyo reported its latest financial results for the nine months ended December 31, 2013. For the period,......
ABBYY / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Epson / Konica Minolta / Lexmark / Managed Print & Document Services / Memjet / News / Panasonic / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 24, 2014 · Last modified May 11, 2017
Acquisitions Three interesting acquisitions were announced this week. Konica Minolta acquires a stake in French digital-press maker MGI, while Ricoh......
Commercial & Production Printing / Epson / Inkjet / Nuance / Wide Format
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 17, 2014 · Last modified May 30, 2017
Epson America today introduced its latest dye-sublimation printer designed for the roll-to-roll digital textile market, the SureColor F7170. The SureColor......
ABBYY / Document Scanning / Epson / Hewlett-Packard / Inkjet / Managed Print & Document Services / News / Patent-Infringement / Samsung / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 17, 2014 · Last modified February 7, 2018
New Hardware Sharp keeps rolling along. News is that Sharp has launched new mid- to high-volume mono A3 MFPs that......
Epson / Legal Proceedings / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 16, 2014 · Last modified February 7, 2018
Patent-firm Intellectual Ventures reports that it’s signed a license agreement with Seiko Epson Corporation of Japan. The deal provides Epson with......
Document Scanning / Epson / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 14, 2014 · Last modified May 30, 2017
Epson America is introducing its fastest professional sheet-fed document scanners to date, the WorkForce DS-760 and WorkForce DS-860, which deliver......
3D Printing / ABBYY / Canon / Cloud / Document Scanning / Epson / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Legal Proceedings / Managed Print & Document Services / News / Patent-Infringement / Samsung
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 10, 2014 · Last modified February 7, 2018
New Hardware Everybody’s doing it! Mitsubishi throws its hat into the ring with the announcement that it will enter the......
Document Scanning / Epson / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 7, 2014 · Last modified May 31, 2017
Epson America is introducing its first wireless sheet-fed scanner, the WorkForce DS-560 ($449 MSRP). Designed for business and professional use, the WorkForce DS-560......
Epson / Mobile Print/Scan / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 3, 2014 · Last modified May 31, 2017
Epson America today introduced what it’s calling a “one-of-a-kind label printer,” the LabelWorks LW-600P, which features mobile printing from iOS and......
3D Printing / Canon / Epson / Hewlett-Packard / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / News / Ricoh / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 3, 2014 · Last modified May 31, 2017
As we wrote two weeks ago, the list of 2D printer makers involved in 3D printing continues to grow. This......
3D Printing / Canon / Epson / Hewlett-Packard / Konica Minolta / News / Océ / Ricoh / Samsung / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 20, 2013 · Last modified June 15, 2017
3D Printing News The big news this week was a joint press release from Xerox and 3D-printer maker 3D Systems......
Brother / Canon / Epson / Hewlett-Packard / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / Market Reports & Forecasts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 17, 2013 · Last modified June 20, 2017
IDC reports today that the printer consumable market in the Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) region declined 2.5% quarter on quarter......
3D Printing / Epson / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 13, 2013 · Last modified June 20, 2017
TheAge reports that in interview with Fairfax Media, Epson President Minoru Usui said the company was working on developing a......
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