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“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.
“We continue to maintain a cooperative relationship with Xerox.”
Canon / Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 14, 2019 · Last modified June 24, 2019
Canon Inc. and Turbon AG, Turbon Europe GmbH, as well as Michael Pages (Managing Member of the Board of Directors......
The good news on the tariff front is that a U.S.-proposed 5-percent tariff – that could have gone up to...
Canon / Epson / Featured Posts / HP / Imaging Supplies / Lexmark / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 13, 2019
“For companies like HP, counterfeits undermine decades of focused research and testing aimed at creating superior ink and toner, and reliable, high-quality cartridges for our customers.”
Commercial & Production Printing / Epson / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 13, 2019 · Last modified June 24, 2019
Epson says it was among the first inkjet printer manufacturers to put its inkjet technology to use in digital textile printing.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 13, 2019 · Last modified June 24, 2019
On June 12th, Knica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. introduced its new bizhub i-Series, which it bills as its “next-generation IoT-enabled......
Featured Posts / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / Sharp
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 13, 2019 · Last modified August 5, 2019
Konica Minolta joins Ricoh Company of Japan, which also recently announced that it will shift some of its copier/MFP production out of China.
Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 12, 2019 · Last modified June 24, 2019
In April, we reported how the California-based division of aftermarket third-party toner manufacturer Aster Graphics, which is headquartered in China,...
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