This Week in Imaging: Can 3D-Printing Help Bring Manufacturing Back to the U.S.?
As the U.S. wages tariff war on practically every country in the world – practically on China – the outlook......
As the U.S. wages tariff war on practically every country in the world – practically on China – the outlook......
Japan-based companies’ share prices appear to weather market tumble better, and many may benefit from new free trade agreements with China and South Korea.
In the past with traditional copier/MFPs, if you wanted to scan plastic ID cards or more fragile documents, you had to place the item by hand…
On April 4th, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. held an online press conference…
For companies that say they’ve balanced the locations of their manufacturing sites to minimize tariffs, these new tariffs make it impossible to do so, particularly since most Southeast Asian countries were hit with the new tariffs.
Featured Posts / Fujfilm / Fujifilm Business Innovation / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 2, 2025
“Fujifilm now offers both color and monochrome solutions, from entry-level office printers, to high-end devices suitable for a production print environment.”
One of the document-imaging industry’s eternal questions is will the A4 market ever overtake the A3 copier/market, and if so......
It seems like only yesterday that Epson launched its cartridge-free refillable ink-tank inkjet printers 10 years ago…
Featured Posts / Lexmark / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 26, 2025 · Last modified March 27, 2025
A Reuters report that China-based Ninestar Corporation will be selling Lexmark International for just 10 percent of what the companies had agreed to in December 2024 is an error…
Ninestar Corporation of Zhuhai, China, has released its financial forecast for its fiscal-year 2024…
Amazon / Canon / Featured Posts / Legal Proceedings / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 24, 2025
Court says Section 230 clause protects Amazon from being liable for third-party content posted on its e-commerce site, including claims involving printer supplies
New ASIC computer chips protect against the possibility of quantum computers breaking encryption, opening up attacks on printers and networks.
Many companies in the document-imaging industry will raise prices to absorb the costs of tariffs, while others have diversified their supply chain so that they won’t be subject to the tariffs.
Despite some big potential advantages for Xerox, there are some critical potential drawbacks to it acquiring Lexmark, including aggressive responses from competitors and erosion of the Lexmark brand identity.
Raise prices or absorb U.S. tariff costs – two printer/copier companies give us a look at how they’re dealing with tariffs.
Company cites large existing base of SMB clients for its IT services, which are expected to top over $700 billion in revenue this year.
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