Canon Fined $32 Million by European Commission
Canon disagrees with the European Commission’s legal assessment, which it says “violates fundamental principles of law.”
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by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 27, 2019 · Last modified July 8, 2019
Canon disagrees with the European Commission’s legal assessment, which it says “violates fundamental principles of law.”
Commercial & Production Printing / Featured Posts / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 26, 2019 · Last modified July 15, 2019
The firm says the Baltoro is the industry’s only entry-level cut-sheet press that provides automated intelligence and true HD image quality.
Commercial & Production Printing / HP / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 26, 2019 · Last modified July 8, 2019
The acquisition is said to continue HP’s focus on providing industry-leading solutions to customers and commercial printers using HP presses, HP Indigo, and HP PageWide Industrial printing systems.
Document Scanning / Eastman Kodak / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 25, 2019 · Last modified July 8, 2019
TAIGER’s AI-based software is said to employ human-like logic to automatically read, understand, and extract information from documents, providing accuracy of 90 percent and above.
Document Management / Eastman Kodak / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 25, 2019 · Last modified July 8, 2019
Blockchain technology is designed to protect documents and images and enable “unhackable” public records
“The differentiation between the two portfolios is going to stay fairly high.”
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 21, 2019 · Last modified July 8, 2019
As with many office-imaging vendors, Ricoh Company of Japan is actively seeking to diversify from office-imaging and printing into new markets.
“U.S. consumers, not China, pay the price for tariffs – what more proof does the White House need?”
“Mobile users often desire the ability to do the same types of things they could do from a PC or laptop – including printing.”
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 19, 2019 · Last modified June 27, 2019
Sustainable Impact programs resulted in more than $972 million dollars of new revenue for HP in 2018, a 35 percent year-over-year increase.
Epson / Managed Print & Document Services / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 19, 2019 · Last modified June 27, 2019
The award reflects Epson’s decision in about 2008 – at about the time consumers began transitioning away from home printers, due to the influence of both smartphones and the Great Recession – to move into office printing and imaging.
Amazon / Canon / Imaging Supplies / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 19, 2019 · Last modified June 27, 2019
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, today announced the filing of a Report Infringement Form with Amazon.es based on the alleged......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 18, 2019 · Last modified July 8, 2019
Jacobson will oversee Siris portfolio companies, which will likely include Electronics for Imaging.
On June 17th, the Imaging Supplies Coalition for International Intellectual Property Protection (ISC) announced that it had elected a new...
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 17, 2019 · Last modified July 8, 2019
Epson says the tariffs would have a “detrimental impact on U.S. consumers and businesses.”
HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / Lexmark / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 14, 2019 · Last modified June 27, 2019
The inkjet-printer patents were developed by Lexmark before it sold its inkjet technology and patents to Funai Electric Company of Japan for $100 million in 2013.
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