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by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 25, 2018 · Last modified May 2, 2018
Mike Marusic, chief operating officer for Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America, commented: “Restructuring our product management group will make us a more effective and nimble team that will unify our smart-office approach.
Dealer Channel / News / Partnerships / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 25, 2018 · Last modified June 21, 2018
Xerox first announced its focus on signing up new dealers last year as part of a drive to gain a larger share of the copier/MFP small and mid-size business market by increasing its multi-brand dealer base in the United States by more than 30 percent in 2017.
Canon / Featured Posts / Financial News / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 25, 2018 · Last modified May 3, 2018
Canon says office copier/MFP sales rose versus the same period of the previous year, supported by expanded sales of next-generation color models designed to strengthen the product lineup, such as the A3 (12”x18”) imageRUNNER ADVANCE C5500 series.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 24, 2018 · Last modified May 8, 2018
As we reported last week, Ninestar, which is headquartered in China, and which, together with a consortium of investors, purchased......
Jabil is a U.S.-based global manufacturing company, with more than 100 facilities in 29 countries. It’s complementing its U.S.-based HP Multi Jet Fusion installation with six additional production-ready HP Jet Fusion 4210 3D printers in Singapore, bringing its total to a dozen HP 3D printers.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 24, 2018 · Last modified May 2, 2018
Lexmark International today announced that the Lexmark Marketing Hub is now available to Lexmark partners via the Lexmark partner portal....
Financial News / News / Toshiba
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 24, 2018 · Last modified May 2, 2018
The firm stated that multiple press reports on April 23 and 24 claim that Toshiba is considering cancelling sale of Toshiba Memory Corporation if the proposed sale isn’t approved by China’s anti-monopoly regulator.
Commercial & Production Printing / New Products / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 24, 2018 · Last modified May 2, 2018
The new production-print systems feature duplex banner printing with a banner tray that holds 1,000 banner sheets of up to 30” and simplex banner printing up to 51”.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 24, 2018 · Last modified May 3, 2018
FollowMe’s business intelligence engine is said to make it easy for organizations to implement enterprise-wide printing policies, such as allowing color printing only when authorized by the organization, or automatically enforcing that email messages are printed in monochrome.
Acquisitions / Executive Management / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 23, 2018 · Last modified April 26, 2018
Deason argues that Xerox CEO Jeff Jacobson “acted without authorization” to negotiate a deal with Fujifilm, a deal that is is said to have “preserved his job at the expense of shareholder value.
Acquisitions / Executive Management / Fuji Xerox / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 20, 2018 · Last modified April 26, 2018
On Wednesday, Xerox also said that Xerox shareholders should disregard information from Icahn and Deason, stating the two are conducting a “highly disingenuous campaign” that distorts and omits key facts about Xerox and the proposed merger.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 20, 2018 · Last modified April 26, 2018
The company says it plans to invest about 9.0 billion yuan (about $1.43 billion) in the project.
Dealer Channel / Featured Posts / HP / Inkjet / New Products / News / Partnerships / Security
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 19, 2018 · Last modified June 21, 2018
On April 18th, HP Inc. held an online Webinar for analysts, providing more information on its progress recruiting office-imaging dealers, as well as more information on its new A3 Managed PageWide copier/MFPs for dealers, new Accessibility Assistant, and new printer security, including a new HP Printer Security Plug-In.
HP / Managed Print & Document Services / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 19, 2018 · Last modified April 26, 2018
On April 18th, MPS Monitor SDS, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for remote management of printers and for managed print services, released a new version that’s said to revolutionize technical-support services for HP printers and copier/MFPs.
Canon / Mobile Print/Scan / New Products / News / Photo Printing
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 19, 2018 · Last modified April 24, 2018
The new Canon IVY printer uses ZINK Zero Ink Technology from Canon partner ZINK, and prints in full color without requiring ink cartridges.
Fuji Xerox / HP / Mergers & Acquisitions / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 19, 2018 · Last modified April 24, 2018
On April 17th, activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, seeking to stop Fujifilm’s acquisition of Xerox for $6.1 billion and the creation of a new combined Xerox-Fuji Xerox, released a detailed presentation, Rescuing and Revitalizing an American Icon, that presents alternatives to the proposed deal.
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