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Epson / Featured Posts / Inkjet / New Products / News

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New Epson WorkForce Pro ET-8700 Features Two Years’ Worth of Ink, New Compact Design

The WorkForce Pro ET-8700 features Epson’s innovative Replaceable Ink Pack System (RIPS) technology in a new compact form factor, with up to two years of ink included in the box –  enough to print up to 16,000 black pages (based on average monthly print volumes of about 450 pages) and 11,000 color pages.

Commercial & Production Printing / Featured Posts / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / New Products / News

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Kyocera Enters High-Speed Inkjet Production-Printer Market with New TASKalfa Pro 15000c

With print speeds of up to 150 ppm in A4 mode (146 ppm in Letter-size mode), regardless of media type, the firm says that this full-color production inkjet printer is ideally suited for print service providers (PSPs) and customers looking to run medium to large volume print jobs in-house at an attractive price point.

Canon / Featured Posts / HP / Lexmark / Managed Print & Document Services / Market Reports & Forecasts / Security / Sharp / Xerox

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Quorcirca Survey: ‘Less-Paper’ Office, Security Expertise, Mobile to Lead Office-Imaging Industry

Security expertise will be the leading supplier selection criteria in 2025, according to 58 percent of organisations, increasing from 43 percent in 2017.

Amazon / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Featured Posts / Financial News / HP / Imaging Supplies / News / Ricoh

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This Week in Imaging: How IKON, Lanier, Savin Acquisitions Have Made a Tough Road for Ricoh

At first it seemed the acquisition of IKON would only be a boon for Ricoh. After all, IKON was said to be the world’s largest independent provider of copier/MFPs, printers, and related services, with over 400 offices in North America and Western Europe, regional sales and service training facilities, a roster of Fortune 500 customers, and revenues of $4,167 million for its fiscal year before it was purchased by Ricoh.

Canon / Featured Posts / Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News / Ninestar / Patent-Infringement

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U.S. ITC to Investigate Canon’s Patent-Infringement Allegations Against Third-Party Toner-Cartridge Sellers

Canon filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Static Control in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina on February 28th, alleging that Static Control’s replacement toner cartridges and imaging drums designed for use in Canon and HP laser printers infringe on Canon’s patents.

Featured Posts / News / Partnerships / Security

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Xerox Expands Partnership with Cisco to Boost Printer and Copier/MFP Security

Xerox also partners with McAfee to provide whitelisting security. With whitelisting, only approved files can run on Xerox MFPs and printers, providing significantly more protection than traditional black-listing tactics that let through all files except those explicitly defined.

Featured Posts / Fuji Xerox / Mergers & Acquisitions / Xerox

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Refuting Icahn, Deason, New Xerox Shareholder Letter Lays Out Benefits of Proposed Merger with Fuji Xerox

Specifically, the revenue and cost synergies identified through this combination include developing a more complete and competitive product portfolio, with enhanced offerings in areas where Xerox is currently underpenetrated such as high-speed inkjet and low-end A3;