This Week in Imaging: As Office Page Volumes Drop, PC and Cloud Infrastructure Sales Take Off
Two new market-research reports dramatically illustrate the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and remote work and education.
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Canon Revises Full-Year Forecast
Canon adjusted its forecast to reflect higher sales, and some market recovery in the third quarter.
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Canon to Reorganize As it Seeks to Diversify Revenue and Sales
By December 2025, Canon is aiming that four new business will make up 40 percent of its sales, compared to 25 percent in 2019.
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Lexmark Reports Record Increase in Cloud-Connected Printers
Lexmark believes the trend towards cloud connection is going to continue to grow as SMB customers move away from centralized A3 printing towards distributed A4 printing.
Katun Announces New Supplies for Wide-Format Printers
According to the firm, the OEM-alternative inks provide significant cost savings while providing OEM-equivalent image quality.
Applied Imaging Acquires Lasers Resource
Applied Imaging, which is based in Michigan, announced it’s acquired Lasers Resource, a Grand Rapids, Michigan, managed print services (MPS)...
Enterprises Look to Increase Print-Security Investment
But print security remains generally neglected, with 64 percent of organizations surveyed reporting they had experienced print-related data losses in 2020.
Amazon Removes Toner Cartridges at Canon Request
On January 14th, Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, announced that Amazon had removed a number of unauthorized, third-party toner cartridges......
Shift to Remote Work and Educations Fuels Cloud-Infrastructure Market
Across the world, there were massive shifts to online tools in all aspects of human life, including collaboration, virtual business events, entertainment, shopping, telemedicine, and education.
Ninestar Claims it Leads Aftermarket Printer-Supply Market in Patents
NInestar has multiple R&D centers in China, the United States, India, and the Phillipines.
Global PC Sales Soar in Fourth Quarter
Demand rose sharply, but PC makers continued to deal with component and production capacity shortages.
Staples Trying – Again – to Purchase Office Depot
According to CNN and multiple news sources, Staples is once again trying to purchase competitor Office Depot. Staples, which was......
OKI Announces New Branding, Product Relaunch
OKI will continue to manufacture and supply genuine parts and consumables “through its authorized distribution partners for years to come.”
Konica Minolta Announces New Partnership with IT Provider LoadBalancer
A load balancer provides high availability and reliability, routing network traffic to individual servers in the most efficient way while also moving any points of failure to another server to keep things running constantly.
HP Warns Third-Party Ink and Toner Cartridges Can be Security Vulnerability
Non-HP printers supplies include chips of unknown origin that may employ un-trusted firmware.
This Week in Imaging: Mobile Printing, MPS…What’s Next to Save Office Print?
Print applications that require a high-volume A3 MFP continue to decline, but there may be opportunity for a new breed of lower-cost, more flexible A4 devices.
New Canon App for Touchless MFP Operation
The firm notes that enterprises continue to seek to minimize physical contact in the office, including contact with MFPs’ touchscreens.
Amazon Takes Down More Toner Cartridges at Canon’s Requests
Canon Inc. today announced that, at its request, Amazon had removed several third-party toner cartridges at its request. Litpol Ltd.......
Pantum Expands Unique Printer Line in India
Pantum holds the distinction of being the first Chinese manufacturer of Chinese-designed laser printers.
New Ricoh A3 MFPs with ‘Always Current’ Tech, Smart Operation, More,
The new MFPs are also compatible with RICOH Cloud Workflow Solutions for automated document routing, scan to cloud-based destinations, and more.
