Western Europe Printer/MFP Market Slows in Second Quarter
However, business inkjet shipments increased by 2.2 percent with particularly strong growth rates in some countries and in segments such as A3.
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.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 6, 2019 · Last modified July 21, 2025
New models consist of 11 workgroup models that support 11″ x 17″ media and two desktop models that support letter-legal-size media.
Canon / Epson / Featured Posts / Financial News / HP / Imaging Supplies / Konica Minolta / OKI / Ricoh / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 2, 2019
This was a significant week in the office-imaging industry, with multiple vendors reporting lower sales and profits, and warning of a slowing economy.
In the first quarter, sales for Sharp’s 8K Ecosystem group (which includes copier/MFPs) were down 9.8 percent year-over-year to ¥262.5 billion
Featured Posts / Imaging Supplies / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 26, 2019 · Last modified August 5, 2019
The aftermarket printer-supplies wars continued this week, with the Daily Monitor reporting that Ughandan government authorities confiscated five tons of...
In 2016, giant electronics contractor Foxconn – also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry and headquarted in Taiwan – acquired......
Among the findings of a new 2019 survey is that building a copier sales team has become more challenging because of a tight labor market and high turnover.
The good news on the tariff front is that a U.S.-proposed 5-percent tariff – that could have gone up to...
Featured Posts / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / Sharp
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 13, 2019 · Last modified August 5, 2019
Konica Minolta joins Ricoh Company of Japan, which also recently announced that it will shift some of its copier/MFP production out of China.
Sharp CEO and Chairman Tai Jeng-wu said trade frictions between the United States and China could provide an “opportunity” to expand its business with Chinese companies, in contrast to many other manufacturers who have voiced concerns over U.S. tariffs on imported Chinese goods.
This week, we saw a host of office-imaging companies based in Japan report results for their fiscal years that ended...
Sharp said it has achieved 10 consecutive quarters of increasing net profits since the third-quarter quarter of its fiscal 2016 year.
This isn’t the first business Sharp is re-entering. In June 2018, Sharp said it was getting back in the PC business – which it had quit in 2010.
Epson / Featured Posts / HP / Market Reports & Forecasts / News / Sharp
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 12, 2019 · Last modified May 20, 2019
The majority of growth was experienced in the Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) and U.S. markets, rather than in Europe.
3D Printing / Canon / Electronics for Imaging / HP / Inkjet / Lexmark / News / Ricoh / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 1, 2019
One of the interesting things about technology is that we can’t always see where it will eventually take us, a case in point being drop-on-demand inkjet printing.
Financial News / News / Sharp
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 30, 2019 · Last modified February 21, 2019
The company stated that despite the U.S.-China trade war and other economic disruptions, it “secured bottom-line profit…with its profit margin outperforming” the same period a year earlier.
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