This Week in Imaging: Too Late for the Office-Inkjet Bandwagon?
HP for its part, has hedged its bets with toner and ink, offering both HP LaserJet and Samsung toner-based copiers, and PageWide inkjet copiers.
Canon / Financial News / HP / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / Large Format / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 31, 2018 · Last modified November 7, 2018
HP for its part, has hedged its bets with toner and ink, offering both HP LaserJet and Samsung toner-based copiers, and PageWide inkjet copiers.
Canon / Epson / HP / Large Format / Market Reports & Forecasts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 30, 2018 · Last modified September 11, 2018
HP extended its lead in the large-format digital printer market with nearly 35 percent of worldwide shipments in second-quarter 2018.
Canon / Financial News / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 28, 2018 · Last modified October 15, 2018
In the area of office copier/MFPs, overall unit sales increased slightly year-over-year, as a decline of monochrome copier/MFPs was offset by an increase of color copier/MFPs.
Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 28, 2018 · Last modified October 15, 2018
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, reported today that it and N.T.T. New Time Trade GmbH, also doing business under “New...
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Epson / Featured Posts / HP / Inkjet / Nuance / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 10, 2018 · Last modified August 22, 2018
HP Inc.’s recent announcement that (as part of its expansion into the $55 billion A3 copier industry) it’ll be purchasing......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 8, 2018 · Last modified August 16, 2018
Canon states that it recognizes and respects intellectual property rights, but as this litigation demonstrates, it “also remains committed to vigorously defending itself against false and frivolous allegations of infringement of others’ intellectual property.”
Canon / Imaging Supplies / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 31, 2018 · Last modified August 2, 2018
Earlier this year, Canon Inc. launched a massive legal offensive against clone toner-cartridge sellers, announcing that it had filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) against 49 manufacturers, distributors and sellers of third-party clone toner cartridges and imaging drum units, among them, GPC Trading.
3D Printing / Canon / Epson / HP / Kyocera / Lexmark / Nuance / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 27, 2018 · Last modified August 2, 2018
This week saw important news from Xerox and Kyocera Document Solutions (see below), but one thing caught our eye. HP......
During the second quarter, sales of office copier/MFPs were up compared with second-quarter 2017, due to expanded sales of color models.
Canon / Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 3, 2018 · Last modified July 10, 2018
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, today announced that the Seoul Central District Court of South Korea concluded Canon’s patent-dispute lawsuit......
Commercial & Production Printing / Fuji Xerox / Inkjet / Kyocera / Managed Print & Document Services / Memjet / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 29, 2018 · Last modified July 11, 2018
It seems more than ironic that Xerox’s decision in May to scrap a complicated deal under which Fujifilm would take......
Canon / Imaging Supplies / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 27, 2018 · Last modified July 9, 2018
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, reported that Moreinks Ltd., as well as its managing directors agreed to resolve their pending......
Imaging Supplies / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 21, 2018 · Last modified June 22, 2018
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, today reported that it’s concluded a patent-infringement lawsuit against Do It Wiser LLC in the...
3D Printing / Brother / Fuji Xerox / HP / Imaging Supplies / Lexmark / OKI / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 21, 2018 · Last modified June 27, 2018
Fujifilm’s filing of a $1 billion breach-of-contact lawsuit this week in federal court against Xerox for scrapping the $6.1 billion......
Market Reports & Forecasts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 20, 2018 · Last modified June 26, 2018
An abnormal phenomenon was noticed in the past quarter, showing that laser-based MFPs declined more and recovered slower than single-function laser-based printers(SFPs).
Commercial & Production Printing / Large Format / Market Reports & Forecasts
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 19, 2018 · Last modified June 20, 2018
Market-research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) expects the total Asia/Pacific region excluding Japan (APeJ) Large Format Printer (LFP) market to...
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