The Year-in-Review for the Office-Imaging Industry
For office-printer companies, the big question is, once employees return to offices, will they return to office printing after many have learned how to cope without it?
Canon / Featured Posts / HP / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / Lexmark / News / Ricoh / Toshiba / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 22, 2020
For office-printer companies, the big question is, once employees return to offices, will they return to office printing after many have learned how to cope without it?
HP / Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 21, 2020 · Last modified February 1, 2021
The plaintiffs allege that “HP wrongfully compels users of its printers to buy and use only HP ink and toner supplies.”
Canon / HP / Inkjet / Market Reports & Forecasts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 18, 2020
HP Inc. shipped the most inkjet units in third-quarter 2020 in New Zealand by a wide margin.
Instant Ink program is an automatic ink-supply program, with customers billed monthly based on their print volume.
Canon / Epson / HP / Lexmark / Market Reports & Forecasts
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 17, 2020
Un-coated free sheet (UFS) paper shipments decreased 17 percent compared to November 2019.
Canon / HP / Konica Minolta / Mobile Print/Scan / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 15, 2020 · Last modified December 16, 2020
Pharos Systems International has introduced the latest version of Blueprint Enterprise. Update 3 provides administrative improvements and several new features, including touchless......
Canon / HP / News / Security / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 14, 2020 · Last modified February 1, 2021
“The hybrid workplace is here to stay and it is imperative that organizations mitigate the risk of data loss by protecting printing endpoints in both the home and office environments.”
Commercial & Production Printing / Eastman Kodak / Featured Posts / HP / Konica Minolta
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 11, 2020
Digital industrial, commercial, and production printing has long been touted as an alternate revenue source for office-equipment companies and their......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 10, 2020 · Last modified February 1, 2021
Private-equity firm Platinum Equity announced on December 9th that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ingram Micro......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 9, 2020 · Last modified February 1, 2021
On December 9th, the Autorita Garante Concorrenza Mercato (AGCM), a consumer-watchdog government agency in Italy, announced that it had concluded......
“We’re rebalancing the system value towards hardware to reduce our dependency on supplies.”
Among the trends that COVID-19 has accelerated has been the decline of office print volumes, making it more imperative for......
Brother / Canon / HP / Inkjet / Managed Print & Document Services / Market Reports & Forecasts
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 3, 2020 · Last modified February 1, 2021
However, the pandemic has accelerated adoption of ink-tank inkjet printers, which is likely to continue into next year.
HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / News / Ninestar
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 2, 2020 · Last modified February 1, 2021
Ninestar Corporation’s G&G group reported today that its third-party ink cartridges are not affected by HP Inc.’s latest firmware upgrade......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 1, 2020 · Last modified February 1, 2021
Ransomware has become the cybercriminal’s tool of choice, and this is likely to continue in the year ahead.
Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Epson / HP / Large Format / Market Reports & Forecasts
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 1, 2020 · Last modified February 1, 2021
New results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Industrial Printer Tracker show that all segments of the industrial-printer market......
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