Sharp Posts Profit for First Time in Two Years, but Copier/MFP Profit, Sales Decline
On February 3rd, Japan’s Sharp Corporation raised its earnings forecast for its full-year after reporting its first quarterly profit in......
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Financial News / News / Sharp
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 7, 2017 · Last modified February 15, 2017
On February 3rd, Japan’s Sharp Corporation raised its earnings forecast for its full-year after reporting its first quarterly profit in......
Executive Management / Lenovo / News / Office Superstores
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 7, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2018
Florida-based office-supply superstore chain Office Depot reports that its Gerry P. Smith, a long-time senior executive at PC-maker Lenovo, as...
Canon / Document Management / Document Scanning / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 7, 2017
Square 9 Softworks, which develops Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, today launched the Convey Canon DR-M16011 Bundle. This new solution......
Konica Minolta of Tokyo, Japan, reports that it’ll launch its AiLingual service this spring. This cloud-based solution is designed for......
Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Inkjet / News / Photo Printing
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 7, 2017 · Last modified September 5, 2017
Canon U.S.A. reports that its introduced a new media for its DreamLabo 5000 color inkjet production photo printer that it......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 7, 2017 · Last modified February 21, 2017
The seventh annual Brother International survey, the 2016 Brother Business Survey, indicates that small-business owners are open to adopting next‐generation......
Epson / Featured Posts / Inkjet / New Products / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 7, 2017 · Last modified February 22, 2017
Epson America today extended its family of “Supertank” color inkjet All-in-Ones with refillable ink tanks with two new models, the......
Brother / Canon / Dell / Epson / Featured Posts / Konica Minolta / Lexmark / News / OKI / Ricoh / Samsung / Security
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 6, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2017
Just last week, researchers in Germany published a blog post listing various printer security vulnerabilities, while on February 4th, Bleeping Computer......
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Dell / Epson / Financial News / Hewlett-Packard / HP / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Lexmark / OKI / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 3, 2017 · Last modified February 9, 2017
The latest financial reports from major copier/printer vendors in Japan are as typical, full of good news and bad. The......
Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany say they’re discovered security vulnerabilities in some 20 popular brand-name network printers, including Brother......
Financial News / News / OKI
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 2, 2017 · Last modified February 9, 2017
OKI Electric Industry Company of Tokyo, Japan, reported a net loss of 12 billion yen for its nine-month fiscal period......
Dealer Channel / Mergers & Acquisitions / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 2, 2017 · Last modified June 21, 2018
CRN reports that Xerox will spend some $100 million in 2017 to acquire more multi-brand copier/MPF dealers and then convert......
Commercial & Production Printing / Electronics for Imaging / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 2, 2017
Xerox and Electronics For Imaging (EFI) report that they’ve formed a partnership to bring to market a next-generation digital front......
Utah-based PrinterLogic, a provider of a server-less enterprise print-management solution that enables businesses to eliminate print servers, reports that it’s...
Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 1, 2017 · Last modified February 2, 2017
The war on counterfeit printer consumables continues around the world, with Arab News reporting that authorities seized some 19,100 counterfeit printer...
Epson / Financial News / Inkjet / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 1, 2017 · Last modified February 22, 2017
On January 31, 2017, Seiko Epson of Japan reported results for its nine-month period of April 1 to December 31,......
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