This Week in Imaging: Summary of Document-Imaging Companies’ Latest Financial Results
With virtually all document-imaging companies having reported their latest financial results, following is a summary of those results…
Brother / Canon / Featured Posts / Fuji Xerox / Fujifilm Business Innovation / Konica Minolta / Lexmark / OKI / Ricoh / Sharp / Toshiba Tec / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 18, 2022
With virtually all document-imaging companies having reported their latest financial results, following is a summary of those results…
With hybrid work, extending managed print services (MPS) to the home environment will ensure that organizations can manage and secure a hybrid and agile print infrastructure.
The only segment that did see growth was the A4 business inkjet market which increased by 8.4 percent.
Since June 2018, Amazon has removed almost 30,000 third-party toner-cartridge listings at Canon’s request.
According to market-research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), the general trend for semiconductors in 2021 was shortages in mature-process technology......
Although sales were significantly affected by the unsettled situation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic profit significantly exceeded pre-COVID 2019 profits.
Move comes as Canon is temporarily manufacturing chip-less toner cartrdiges because of global supply shortage.
Acquisitions / Canon / IT Solutions & Services / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 17, 2022
IT-services company The Network Pro has acquired IT-services company Nextrio for an undisclosed sum. Nextrio is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona,......
Acquisitions / Canon / News / Office Depot / Office Superstores / Staples
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 17, 2022
ODP Corporation, the parent company Office Depot, has postponed the sale of its Office Depot and OfficeMax office-supplies retail businesses.......
With the COVID-19 pandemic and more employees working offsite, the use of cloud technology to enable employees to access data and documents outside of the office continues to increase.
The beginning of this new year has seen a number of acquisitions, including the most common, document-imaging dealers acquiring other document-imaging dealers.
Canon / HP / Market Reports & Forecasts / News / Security
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 11, 2022
Among the findings are that enterprises are more confident in their print-infrastructure’s security when they use managed print services, but printers used at home continue to be a security risk.
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, reported today that it ranked third for the number of U.S. patents awarded in 2021, becoming the only company in the world to have ranked in the top-five for 36 years running.
Canon has engineered a clever way to temporarily solve the current chip shortage for its toner cartridges, but it also means third-party supplies can’t be detected.
Due to the worldwide semiconductor shortage, Canon Inc. is temporarily manufacturing some of its toner cartridges without chips.
It’s designed to provide face-to-face communication, with users able to see and talk to each other in real time.
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