This Week in Imaging: Samsung Makes Ho-Hum Printers ‘Smart’
We’ve heard much about “smart copier/MFPs,” but Samsung appears to be taking it a step further, making mundane printers without......
Brother / Canon / Eastman Kodak / Epson / HP / Inkjet / Lexmark / News / OKI / Patent-Infringement / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 13, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2018
We’ve heard much about “smart copier/MFPs,” but Samsung appears to be taking it a step further, making mundane printers without......
Commercial & Production Printing / Epson / Inkjet / News / Wide Format
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 11, 2017 · Last modified April 25, 2017
Epson America today rolled out it latest wide-format color printer for commercial printing, the new 17-Inch Epson SureColor P5000, which......
Document Scanning / Epson / New Products / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 4, 2017 · Last modified February 9, 2017
Epson America today rolled out two portable document scanners, the WorkForce ES-200 ($249 MSRP) and WorkForce ES-300W ($299 MRSP). Weighing in at just under......
3D Printing / Canon / Epson / HP / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / Patent-Infringement / Toshiba / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 23, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2018
As 2016 comes to a close, we’d thought we’d take a light-hearted look into our crystal ball and discuss some......
Epson / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 20, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2018
Epson reported last week that Epson America, Epson Portland, and Seiko Epson filed three patent-infringement complaints on December 14th in......
3D Printing / Commercial & Production Printing / Epson / Hewlett-Packard / Patent-Infringement / Samsung / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 16, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2018
RTMedia reports that last week in Beijing, China, executives at Lexmark International and Apex Technology, as well as Chinese government......
Commercial & Production Printing / Epson / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 15, 2016 · Last modified December 20, 2016
Seiko Epson of Tokyo reports that it’s opened two new “hub” sites that will be dedicated to Epson’s development of......
Document Scanning / Epson / New Products
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 14, 2016 · Last modified February 9, 2017
Epson America introduced two new home and office desktop document scanners, the WorkForce ES-400 (MSRP $349) and WorkForce ES-500W wireless......
3D Printing / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Document Scanning / Epson / Hewlett-Packard / HP / Inkjet / Kyocera / Lexmark / Panasonic / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 9, 2016 · Last modified December 20, 2016
Clash of the titans? For sure. The news this week was dominated by the titans of our industry: Xerox promises in......
Cloud / Epson / Google / Mobile Print/Scan / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 8, 2016 · Last modified February 21, 2017
The Google Cloud Print mobile-printing solution – which enables users to print not just from a PC connected to a......
Brother / Canon / Epson / HP / Inkjet / Market Reports & Forecasts / Samsung
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 6, 2016 · Last modified December 13, 2016
Worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) shipments declined 3.0 percent to 25 million units in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16), according......
3D Printing / Eastman Kodak / Epson / HP / Inkjet / Legal Proceedings / Lexmark / Market Reports & Forecasts / Samsung / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 2, 2016 · Last modified December 13, 2016
Lexmark International’s $3.6 billion leveraged acquisition by China’s Apex Technology, maker of ink and toner printer cartridges, and a consortium......
Epson / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 30, 2016 · Last modified December 1, 2016
Seiko Epson reports that, along with police, it’s conducted a series of raids in Mumbai and Chennai in order to......
Epson / Inkjet / Legal Proceedings / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 29, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2018
For a second time, Seiko Epson Corporation has filed a complaint against Nano Business & Technology, Inc. of Lake Oswego,......
3D Printing / Canon / Cloud / Commercial & Production Printing / Document Scanning / Electronics for Imaging / Epson / Fuji Xerox / HP / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Legal Proceedings / Lexmark / OKI / Panasonic / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 18, 2016 · Last modified December 14, 2016
Remember when newsletter such as this were full of news about new printers, copiers, and MFPs? While there’s still lots......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 17, 2016 · Last modified February 28, 2017
Akita Epson Corporation, which is part of Seiko Epson of Tokyo, Japan, reports that it’s completed building a new factory......
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