This Week in Imaging: That’s One Way to Avoid Tariffs
In what should probably surprise no one,The Epoch Times reported this week that Ricoh is shifting some of manufacturing out of......
Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Electronics for Imaging / Epson / Financial News / HP / Inkjet / Lexmark / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 18, 2019
In what should probably surprise no one,The Epoch Times reported this week that Ricoh is shifting some of manufacturing out of......
Electronics for Imaging / Financial News / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 16, 2019 · Last modified January 29, 2019
EFI indicated that its results were affected by weakening economic conditions experienced across its direct businesses, with customers delaying spending on capital equipment and software, which materially reduced EFI’s close rates at the end of the fourth quarter.
Featured Posts / Financial News / HP / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 29, 2018 · Last modified November 30, 2018
HP said tariffs announced by the United States on products imported from China and implemented through September didn’t have an impact on the company during the fourth quarter.
Financial News / News / Nuance
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 20, 2018 · Last modified December 7, 2018
Nuance will spin off its Automotive segment into a new, independent, publicly traded company.
Financial News / News / Toshiba
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 13, 2018 · Last modified December 4, 2018
Toshiba TEC of Japan has reported results for the first half (April 1 to September 30, 2018) of its fiscal......
Toshiba’s five-year strategy calls for the sale of two business and 7,000 job cuts.
In Brother’s Printing & Solutions group, sales were down 0.3 percent, but operating profit was up 29.0 percent.
Financial News / Kyocera / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 2, 2018 · Last modified December 4, 2018
Kyocera said the gains were due to contributions from merger and acquisition activities and increases in sales generated by its Components Business and Document Solutions Group.
Printer sales exceeded OKI’s expectations, although they slightly declined year-over-year by 1 percent.
Epson / Financial News / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 31, 2018 · Last modified March 14, 2019
Among Epson’s strategies is to expand and enhance its lineup of high-capacity ink-tank inkjet printers.
Featured Posts / Financial News / Konica Minolta / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 31, 2018
In the office products business unit, the number of sales of monochrome A3 MFPs declined year-over-year, but sales of color models grew considerably, resulting in an overall increase in sales volume.
Financial News / News / Sharp
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 30, 2018 · Last modified December 4, 2018
Operating profit for the Smart Business Solution segment was 9.0 billion yen, down 7.3 percent versus the same period a year earlier.
Featured Posts / Financial News / News / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 29, 2018 · Last modified December 4, 2018
While sales in the Office Service segment, Industrial Printing segment, and Thermal Media segment increased, sales in the Office Printing segment decreased as compared to the previous corresponding period.
Sales of office MFPs increased from the same period a year ago, supported by such color models as the next-generation A3 color imageRUNNER ADVANCE series.
Featured Posts / Financial News / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 24, 2018 · Last modified October 31, 2018
“Our leading expertise in technology and printing uniquely positions us to move into adjacencies that share similar core technology requirements. For instance, we are developing a roadmap to participate in 3D printing.”
Featured Posts / Financial News / Fuji Xerox / News / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 23, 2018
Several months after the resignation of much of the Xerox board and resignation of former Xerox CEO Jeff Jacobson, Xerox reported today that revenue had dropped 5.8 percent to $2,352 million, versus the third quarter a year ago.
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