This Week in Imaging: What’s New and Improved in Today’s Office Printers and Copier/MFPs
Back in the day, the first office printers and digital copiers were pretty rudimentary. Control panels were clunky and difficult......
Back in the day, the first office printers and digital copiers were pretty rudimentary. Control panels were clunky and difficult......
New proprietary behavioral detection technology continuously monitors events and operations within the printer, analyzing usage patterns and operational trends, enabling detection of sophisticated cyberattacks that were previously difficult to identify.
On the financial front, virtually all OEMs reported good financial results for their latest quarter, with many results boosted by U.S. tariff refunds. Xerox notably returned to profitability after several quarters of losses.
OEM refurbishment programs now close the gaps that once kept larger enterprises buying only new equipment. They offer warranty and service terms broadly on par with those of new devices, plus original replacement parts and secure data erasure.
Recent high-profile incidents, such as OpenAI’s autonomous agents escaping “sandboxes” to compromise the AI repository Hugging Face, along with similar containment breaches reported by Anthropic and Meta, show how AI can execute mass, lightning-fast attacks on cloud-based resources.
New AI-powered technologies include Web-content formatting, with automatic file-naming and other AI-powered print and scan capabilities coming soon.
Office OEMs continue to expand heavily into not only production but also specialty printing, as office print volumes plateau. OEMs must also contend with a massive generational shift, as some 60 percent of print buyers are now millennials with unique preferences.
Ricoh buying out ETRIA partners? Canon and HP acquiring to expand industrial and commercial print? We take a look.
Over the years, the office printer and copier/MFP industry has faced many challenges – from third-party printer supplies, to the advent of email and digital workflows…
HP does have a lot of printer/copier models – but so does its rivals. We explore the hows and whys.
Many companies now view the use of AI and machine learning for threat detection as very important, creating opportunities for print vendors and managed print service providers to differentiate through intelligent security services and proactive guidance.
Canon Inc. of Japan today announced that it successfully removed multiple listings of third-party toner cartridges for use in laser......
Company also reports healthy growth for both office and commercial print segments, and is receiving U.S. tariff refunds.
Canon Inc. of Japan today announced that it has successfully removed certain toner cartridge offerings from selected European Amazon marketplaces......
Print remains one of Canon’s largest and most resilient business areas, where it’s focusing on new digital offerings for production and industrial print, while it targets the office with its new imageFORCE platform with smart automation, and enhanced reliability and security.
There’s a lot going on in the office-printer/copier industry. In order to keep our readers better informed, we’ll be summarizing the key events, introductions, announcements, and trends quarter-by-quarter.
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