This Week in Imaging: Will Fuji Compete with Xerox – and Will Xerox Acquire HP?
The goal of Icahn and Deason isn’t to create the world’s largest copier/printer company, but instead appears to drive the Xerox share price to $40 and then sell.
Featured Posts / Fuji Xerox / HP / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / News / Ricoh / Sharp / Toshiba / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 8, 2019
The goal of Icahn and Deason isn’t to create the world’s largest copier/printer company, but instead appears to drive the Xerox share price to $40 and then sell.
Acquisitions / Featured Posts / HP / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 6, 2019 · Last modified November 7, 2019
Today, according to The Wall Street Journal, Xerox, which stands to reap $2.3 billion from a pending sale of its......
Acquisitions / Featured Posts / Fuji Xerox / HP / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 6, 2019
For months, many of us had speculated that HP Inc. may buy Xerox. These speculations were based on Xerox investor......
Once the deal goes through, it appears that the 113-year-old iconic American photocopier company will no longer be making copiers, MFPs, or printers but will instead be sourcing them from other companies.
Featured Posts / Financial News / Konica Minolta / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 4, 2019
Konica Minolta said a stronger yen versus the Euro, U.S.-China trade fiction, and a slowing Chinese economy led to declining revenues for its Office Business and Professional Print businesses.
Sales in the Americas were down 3.4 percent year-over-year, due to lower Office Printing group sales, which was offset however by higher Commercial Printing group sales.
On November 30th, Foxconn’s Sharp Corporation posted financial results for its second quarter and the first six months (“first half”)......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 1, 2019 · Last modified November 11, 2019
While office print volumes continue to gradually decline, one thing that probably won’t decline any time soon is transactional printing....
Kyocera Corporation of Japan today released financial results for the first six months of its fiscal year that ended on......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 30, 2019 · Last modified November 11, 2019
On October 28th, HP Inc. announced a new cloud-based app developer platform called Workpath, as well as new A3 Color LaserJet models,
Xerox also said its multi-year Project Own cost-cutting program contributed $640 million of savings so far in 2019.
Featured Posts / HP / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 28, 2019 · Last modified October 29, 2019
HP also expanded its portfolio of A3 MFPs and introduced new security enhancements to simplify fleet management for HP channel partners.
During the third quarter, overall unit sales of office MFPs decreased slightly compared with the same period of the previous year, owing, Canon says, to the sales decline of monochrome-model office MFPs.
Commercial & Production Printing / Featured Posts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 25, 2019
This week, we read of an office-imaging dealer urging other dealers to update their company by, among other things, removing...
Canon / Featured Posts / Fuji Xerox / HP / Imaging Supplies / Konica Minolta / Managed Print & Document Services / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 18, 2019 · Last modified October 28, 2019
There’s always a chance that HP’s primary competitors in the lower end, Epson and Brother, could drastically cut model prices in order to try to undercut HP.
Featured Posts / HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 17, 2019 · Last modified October 22, 2019
Acting on behalf of HP Inc., the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) recently issued two seizure and forfeiture orders against......
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