COVID-19 Pandemic Results in Thousands of Job Losses at Office-Equipment Makers
Five leading Japanese office-equipment makers have cut their payrolls by about 16,000.
Canon / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / News / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 4, 2020 · Last modified December 11, 2020
Five leading Japanese office-equipment makers have cut their payrolls by about 16,000.
Among the trends that COVID-19 has accelerated has been the decline of office print volumes, making it more imperative for......
Apple / News / Patent-Infringement / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 1, 2020 · Last modified December 8, 2020
Last week, Xerox’s renowned PARC, the California-based Xerox subsidiary that focuses on research and development, filed patent-infringement lawsuits against Facebook......
Canon / Epson / Featured Posts / Fujfilm / HP / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / Lexmark / Ninestar / OKI / Ricoh / Sharp / Toshiba / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 24, 2020
This article summarizes office-imaging companies’ latest quarterly financial results and updated fiscal-year forecasts.
Canon / Fujfilm / Fuji Xerox / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 20, 2020 · Last modified February 1, 2021
Next spring, we may see something we’ve never seen before in the office-imaging world: Fuji Xerox – now rebranded as......
Canon / Featured Posts / HP / Konica Minolta / Ricoh / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 19, 2020 · Last modified November 20, 2020
In the last several months, the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have resulted in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of......
Commercial & Production Printing / Featured Posts / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 18, 2020
Among the new introductions are two new Versant presses that support wider media options and add automation features that reduce staffing needs and set-up time.
Brother / Epson / Fuji Xerox / Fujifilm / HP / Imaging Supplies / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 13, 2020 · Last modified November 23, 2020
HP+ may appeal to enterprises that are supplying and managing printers for at-home-workers for several reasons.
Canon / HP / Market Reports & Forecasts
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 6, 2020 · Last modified July 21, 2025
According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and MFP market unsurprisingly increased by 12.9 percent......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 6, 2020 · Last modified November 16, 2020
A regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicates that billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has raised his......
3D Printing / Canon / Inkjet / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 30, 2020 · Last modified November 9, 2020
The long-term effect of Canon’s boom in inkjet-printer sales may be in getting users to accept inkjet versus laser, which also helps inkjet companies such as HP Inc. and Epson.
In its third-quarter 2020 earnings call held earlier this week, Xerox executives discussed the company’s third-quarter financial results, as well......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 27, 2020 · Last modified July 21, 2025
Xerox noted that as more businesses re-opened in the third quarter, it saw print volumes and printer demand increase compared to the second quarter.
This year, the report highlights Xerox’s work to combat COVID-19, including its production of low-cost disposable ventilators and hospital-grade sanitizer.
Commercial & Production Printing / Eastman Kodak / Electronics for Imaging / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 1, 2020 · Last modified October 12, 2020
A third vendor has withdrawn from exhibiting at the drupa 2021 trade show taking place in Dusseldorf, Germany, in April......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 30, 2020 · Last modified October 7, 2020
“Xerox’s core business may not recover from the coronavirus pandemic,” the agency stated, noting that Xerox revenues have averaged a 6-percent decline over the past two and a half years before plunging 35 percent in second-quarter 2020.
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