2019’s Top Ten Office-Imaging News: From Xerox-HP, to New Business Models, and More
Here’s our list of the most important events, developments, and trends in the office-imaging industry in 2019.
Canon / Featured Posts / HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / Lexmark / News / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 18, 2019
Here’s our list of the most important events, developments, and trends in the office-imaging industry in 2019.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 10, 2019 · Last modified January 7, 2020
Ricoh USA today reported that it received an “extremely positive response” to its ConvergX conference, Ricoh’s Partner Leadership Forum. The event...
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 6, 2019 · Last modified December 16, 2019
The big story this week – perhaps of the year itself – is the commencement of a hostile takeover bid...
Dealer Channel / News / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 26, 2019 · Last modified January 14, 2020
Ricoh stressed its dealer commitment, and noted that the number of units sold by its dealers has grown from 32 to 48 percent in fiscal-year 2019.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 22, 2019 · Last modified December 3, 2019
It turns out, not much. In the inkjet department, this week’s big news was Epson America’s introduction of its new...
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 18, 2019 · Last modified December 3, 2019
Ricoh says it selected GFC based on its “proven record of stellar customer service.”
Brother / Canon / Epson / HP / Inkjet / Market Reports & Forecasts / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 11, 2019 · Last modified November 19, 2019
However, the A4 color MFP market is increasing at a high rate and for the first time these shipments were higher than A4 monochrome MFP shipments.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 7, 2019 · Last modified October 10, 2019
The Gordon Flesch Company (GFC), which is said to be the Midwest’s largest office-equipment dealer, announced on October 4th that...
Canon / Featured Posts / HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 23, 2019
The move followed China’s recent exemption of many U.S. items imported into China.
Managed Print & Document Services / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 18, 2019 · Last modified October 16, 2019
Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Canada) reported on September 17th that it’s one of three vendors who will deliver managed print...
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.
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