New Tariffs Now in Effect
“Adjusting supply chains and other necessary changes could cost the company (Kyocera) tens of millions of dollars.”
Canon / Imaging Supplies / Kyocera / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 3, 2019 · Last modified December 16, 2019
“Adjusting supply chains and other necessary changes could cost the company (Kyocera) tens of millions of dollars.”
Featured Posts / HP / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 26, 2019 · Last modified August 27, 2019
In response to China’s retaliatory tariffs, President Trump threatened to declare a national emergency that would result in American businesses freezing their relationships with China.
Canon / Featured Posts / HP / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 13, 2019 · Last modified February 14, 2020
The USTR stated that it intends to conduct an exclusion process for products subject to the additional tariff.
Canon / HP / Inkjet / Market Reports & Forecasts
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 12, 2019 · Last modified August 26, 2019
However, business inkjet shipments increased by 2.2 percent with particularly strong growth rates in some countries and in segments such as A3.
And what summer doldrums and “slow news”? This past two weeks has been full of drama in the printer/copier industry...
Ricoh Company also announced that it had completed its acquisition of DocuWare.
On August 5th, Ricoh Company of Tokyo, Japan, announced that it was committing to an ambitious plan under which it...
Sales in the Americas decreased by 2.3 percent year-over-year due to the decline of sales in the Office Printing group, although sales in the Commercial Printing group were up.
Acquisitions / Document Management / Featured Posts / News / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 2, 2019
DocuWare will operate as a standalone subsidiary of Ricoh and Ricoh says it’s committed to maintaining and growing the DocuWare partner program.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 28, 2019 · Last modified July 1, 2019
According to Bloomberg, the United States may be willing to suspend the next round of tariffs on an additional $300...
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 21, 2019 · Last modified July 8, 2019
As with many office-imaging vendors, Ricoh Company of Japan is actively seeking to diversify from office-imaging and printing into new markets.
Earlier this month, we reported on how Ricoh Company announced that it’s shifting some of its copier/MFP production from its...
by Kathleen Wirth · Published May 30, 2019 · Last modified June 13, 2019
The services provides voice-activated controls for Ricoh MFPs, starting with Ricoh’s IM Series of intelligent MFPs.
Ricoh, for its part, announced this week that it will move some of its printer and MFP production out of China and into Thailand in order to evade U.S. tariffs.
Featured Posts / News / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published May 16, 2019 · Last modified May 30, 2019
List 4 contains hundreds of Chinese products that U.S. President Trump has threatened to impose tariffs of up to 25 percent on, including copier/MFPs.
While we often hear about the many user frustrations associated with office printers, this week we’d like to give a...
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