This Week in Imaging: Who’s Tops in the Business-Inkjet Market? A Look at the Players
This week we saw an interesting assertion from a well-known market-research firm asserting that inkjet will eventually displace laser printing......
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Epson / HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / Mobile Print/Scan
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 25, 2017 · Last modified August 28, 2017
This week we saw an interesting assertion from a well-known market-research firm asserting that inkjet will eventually displace laser printing......
Along with Konica Minolta’s acquisition of Muratec America, the news this week was dominated by reports of poor industry financials,...
3D Printing / Canon / Document Scanning / Electronics for Imaging / Epson / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Lexmark / Nuance / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 28, 2017 · Last modified August 3, 2017
Depending on what imaging-related company that you support or work for, this week’s forecast of a growing inkjet-printing market is......
3D Printing / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Epson / HP / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Market Reports & Forecasts / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 21, 2017 · Last modified July 26, 2017
Spurred by adoption for commercial production printing, industrial printing, and 3D-printing, market-research firm Research and Markets is forecasting “exceptional growth”......
3D Printing / Canon / Epson / HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / Lexmark / Mergers & Acquisitions / News / Toshiba / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 14, 2017 · Last modified July 20, 2017
While the glory days of printing in the office are likely over, with office print volumes gradually declining, printed pages......
Canon / Legal Proceedings / Mergers & Acquisitions / News / Toshiba
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 11, 2017 · Last modified July 12, 2017
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, confirmed last week that it had has received Statement of Objections from the European Commission......
Canon / Market Reports & Forecasts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 28, 2017 · Last modified July 6, 2017
In a post on Linkedin, Canon U.S.A.’s Jason Ciotti, director of sales at Canon Solutions America, posted a Canon U.S.A.......
Canon / Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 21, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2018
World Intellectual Property Review reports that a federal jury has awarded Canon Inc. a $4.5 million award after finding that......
Brother / Canon / Epson / Market Reports & Forecasts / Samsung
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 12, 2017 · Last modified June 14, 2017
The worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market grew 1.2% year over year with more than 23.4 million units shipped in the......
Canon / Legal Proceedings / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 1, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2018
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, reports that it’s reached an agreement with J&H Greentech and Trading Limited, which goes under......
Canon U.S.A. has announced that a Canon uniFLOW Secure Public Print (SPP) Device License is now available for Konica Minolta......
3D Printing / Electronics for Imaging / Financial News / Fuji Xerox / HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / Market Reports & Forecasts / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 28, 2017 · Last modified May 3, 2017
Acquisitions continue to be the name of the game. To date, we’re only in the fourth month of 2017, but......
Canon / Epson / HP / Inkjet / Market Reports & Forecasts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 25, 2017
Unit sales of printer hardware across Western Europe increased by 2 percent year-over-year in first-quarter 2017, driven by positive performance......
3D Printing / Canon / Epson / HP / Lexmark / Ricoh / Toshiba / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 21, 2017 · Last modified April 26, 2017
While the outlook for Toshiba Corporation remains muddled – currently, both Apple and Foxconn are said to be in a......
Canon / Market Reports & Forecasts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 20, 2017 · Last modified April 25, 2017
China Daily reports that Canon Inc. is planning to expand its digital-printing business, as well as its video surveillance and......
3D Printing / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Dealer Channel / Document Scanning / Hewlett-Packard / Kyocera / Lexmark / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 7, 2017 · Last modified June 21, 2018
Probably the most intriguing news this week came from Ricoh USA, which seemed to indicate in an announcement that it......
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