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IPP Everywhere May be New Standard for Mobile Printing
Users of today’s smartphones and tablets can do almost anything on these devices – except print from them natively, without downloading apps or vendor-specific device drivers. Now, an industry standards group, the IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group, says it’s solved that problem with a new specification, IPP Everywhere. IPP Everywhere is a Printing Working Group standard that defines […]
Canon’s Next-Generation of uniFLOW Provides Management of both Office and Print-Room Scan and Print from One Platform
Canon U.S.A. is introducing the next generation of its uniFLOW print- and scan-management software, version 5.2, which is says adds improvements such as easier installation and usability, and enhanced mobile and cloud printing capabilities, including support for Google Cloud Print. Also new are printing modules that enable organizations to manage corporate reprographic departments (CRD) along […]
Sharp Reports Record $5.4 Billion Loss; Copier/MFP Sales Up
On May 14th, Sharp Corporation of Japan reported a record loss of 545 billion yen (U.S. $5.4 billion) for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2013. As we had previously reported, earlier this week, the company also announced a change in management, with its current chairman, Mikio Katayama, stepping down to be replaced by the company’s […]
Brother’s New MFC-J4710DW Business Smart Inkjet All-in-One Features A3 (11″x17″) Printing, Duplex Scanning
Brother International is expanding its lineup of its Business Smart color inkjet All-in-Ones with the MFC-J4710DW ($249.99 estimated street price), which now features printing on up to 11″x17″ (A3) media via a 250-sheet paper tray and a rear-mounted manual-feed slot, and single-pass, two-sided scanning of originals. Previously, with the MFC-J4510DW, legal-size and 11″x17″ media could […]
Sales Up, but Income Down at Konica Minolta; A3 Color MFP Sales Up
Konica Minolta released results for its fiscal year 2013 ending March 31, 2013, with net sales up 5.9 percent, but net income down 25.9 percent. In the company’s Business Technologies segment, which includes copier/MFPs, commercial production printers, and office printers, sales were up 6.2 percent to 581.6 billion yen, but operating income was down 19.8 […]
Review: New HP A3 Enterprise LaserJet MFP, A4 LaserJets MFP, Inkjet Officejets, Document Scanner
On May 5th, Hewlett-Packard launched several new digital-imaging devices for enterprise and small and mid-size business use. They include the LaserJet Enterprise M725, an A3 40-ppm MFP that starts at $3,599, and LaserJet Pro MFP M521 A4 MFP. There’s also the new ScanJet Pro 3000 s2 Sheetfed Scanner, and three new full-color inkjet All-in-Ones: the Officejet Pro […]
Sales, Earnings Up for Ricoh’s Full Year; Sales of Office MFPs/Copiers Flat, IT Services Sales Up
Ricoh Group of Japan reported that for its fiscal year ending March 31, 2013, net sales were up 1.1 percent to ¥1,924.4 billion, while net income was up 146.8 percent to ¥32 billion, a sharp improvement from the loss Ricoh had reported for the previous fiscal year. Among factors helping sales were a weakening of the […]
Kodak to Sell its Personalized Imaging and Document Imaging Businesses to U.K. Kodak Pension Plan; Reports First Quarter Profit
Eastman Kodak Company announced a settlement agreement with the U.K. Kodak Pension Plan (KPP), its largest creditor, under which Kodak will sell its Personalized Imaging and Document Imaging businesses to KPP for $650 million. Earlier this month, Kodak announced that Brother will be seeking to purchase Kodak’s Document Imaging for some $210 million. Brother International […]
HP’s 70-ppm Officejet Pro X Printer Versus Memjet’s 60-ppm C6010: How Do They Stack Up?
The biggest news in the business-inkjet market recently has been Hewlett-Packard’s introduction of its Officejet Pro X color inkjet All-in-Ones and printers with “PageArray” page-width print head and rated print speed of up to 70 ppm. Wirth Consulting oversaw testing of the Officejet Pro X series so that the X series could be listed in the […]
Worldwide Large-Format Printer Market Sluggish in First Quarter, Reports IDC
Japan continues to be a bright spot in the worldwide large format printer (LFP) market posting positive year-over-year results in both units shipped (1.2%) and shipment value (1.7%) in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13). This marks the fifth consecutive quarter where the region recorded year-over-year growth in both units and shipment value. Shipment value […]
Mountaincow Selling OKI’s C711WT with White Toner, C610 Digital Color Printers
OKI Data Americas reports that Mountaincow, a supplier of professional invitation software, specialty printers, printer-compatible stationery, and Web-site services for specialty retailers, has begun selling two of OKI’s digital color printers, the C711WT, which can use white toner, and the C610 Series, along with Mountaincow’s software and stationery. As a result, invitation retailers, home studios, and invitation designers can […]
Earnings Down for Dell’s First Quarter
Dell today announced fiscal 2014 first quarter results, with revenue of $14.1 billion, as the company grew revenue from Enterprise Solutions, Services and Software 12 percent year over year to $5.5 billion, or 8 percent growth, excluding the acquisition of Quest Software. Pricing adjustments that affected gross margins and continued acquisition-related costs in the quarter […]
First-Quarter Worldwide Printer/MFP Shipments Down 9.7 Percent
International Data Corporation (IDC) reports that the worldwide hardcopy peripherals market decreased 9.7 percent year-over-year, with 25.8 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2013. In its report, Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, IDC also reports that shipment value experienced a decline of 5.7 percent year-over-year to $14.3 billion. This is the third consecutive quarter of […]
Used with SkyDesk CRM, Fuji Xerox’s New PhotoNote App Enables Users to Convert Handwriting into Digital Format
Fuji Xerox of Japan is offering both free and paid versions of its new SkyDesk PhotoNote, an app that is used with the company’s cloud-based SkyDesk CRM, so that users can convert handwritten information into digital format. With SkyDesk Services, handwritten characters are digitized by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) using Fuji Xerox’s proprietary character-recognition technology announced in April […]
Rioch’s New Accounts Payable Solutions Designed to Help Small and Mid-Size Businesses Make Invoice Processing More Efficient
Ricoh Americas is introducing a new solution designed to help small and mid-size business better manage their invoice processing. Called Accounts Payable Solutions for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses, the solution consists of a suite of services designed to bring paper invoices into a more efficient electronic workflow as soon as the invoices are received. As […]
Kodak Introducs New ScanMate i940 Document Scanner Designed for Apple Mac Users
Kodak’s Document Imaging business is rolling out a new document scanner for Apple Mac users, the ScanMate i940 Scanner for Macintosh Computers, which is based on the Scanmate i940 for PC users. Kodak says it worked with partner NewSoft to integrate its Perfect Page technology and Newsoft Presto! PageManager 9 Software into the ScanMate i940 […]
NEW: Industry Events Calendar
Having a hard time scheduling and keeping track of the numerous digital-imaging industry events? Wirth Consulting is introducing a new Events Calendar to help you keep track of what’s going on. If you’d like to post an event – including tradeshows, Webinars, press conferences, dealer meetings, etc. - please click here to send us an e-mail containing details […]
Kyocera U.K.’s New TASKalfa265ci is an A4 HyPAS-Enabled Color MFP
Kyocera Document Solutions UK is launching the TASKalfa265ci, an A4 24-ppm color MFP that it says features A3 capability in an A4 format. Available through Kyocera dealers, the TASKalfa265ci, is for small to mid-size workgroups, incorporates print, copy, scan, and fax, and is rated at 26 ppm, with scan rated at 35 images per minute. […]
New Nuance Dragon Notes Speech-Recognition App for Windows 8 Devices
Nuance Communications is introducing Dragon Notes, a new speech-recognition app for Microsoft Windows 8 that lets users dictate notes, to-do lists, reminders, status updates, and emails, and even conduct Web searches. Nuance says Dragon Notes is optimized for Microsoft Windows 8 touchscreen tablets, including the Microsoft Surface Pro, and is also compatible with Microsoft Windows […]
Kodak Launches Info Insight Platform Software for Integrating Unstructured Data such as emails into Business Processes
A new software platform from Kodak’s Document Imaging business, Info Insight Platform, is designed to enable companies to process virtually any unstructured data—including text messages, social media posts, and emails. According to Kodak, its new Info Insight Platform reads, understands, and uses incoming and existing data to create a stream of information and knowledge to […]
Fujitsu to Incorporate Charismathics’ Smart Card-Security Solutions into Network Scanners.
Fujitsu today announced that it is partnering with charismathics, a supplier of platform independent PKI client software, to incorporate its PKI middleware product range into the Fujitsu line of network scanners. According to Fujitsu, the integration will provide an enhanced level of identity-management security using the “Personal Identity Verification” (PIV) and “Common Access Card” (CAC) solutions, and […]
LaserAge One of Canada’s First to Resell Memjet 60-PPM C6010 Color Inkjet Printer
LaserAge Inc. of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is Memjet’s first and only Southwestern Ontario authorized reseller for the Memjet-powered C6010 office printer. In a press release, LaserAge also said that Memjet will be launching an MFP version of the C6010 mid-year – presumably the Evojet Office Pro 310 (see here). LaserAge is a local office printing […]
New Ricoh Production Printers Feature New Low-Fuse Toner with Larger Color Gamut
Ricoh Americas is rolling out two new full-color digital imaging systems for in-plant print centers and print service providers, the Pro C5100S and Pro C5110S , which are rated at up to 65 ppm and 80 ppm respectively in print and copy modes . Both systems feature collating and in-line document finishing, and are said […]
