This Week in Imaging: Our (Tongue-in-Cheek) Predictions for 2017
As 2016 comes to a close, we’d thought we’d take a light-hearted look into our crystal ball and discuss some......
3D Printing / Canon / Epson / HP / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / Patent-Infringement / Toshiba / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 23, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2018
As 2016 comes to a close, we’d thought we’d take a light-hearted look into our crystal ball and discuss some......
HP / News / Other Vendors / Output Management
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 20, 2016 · Last modified February 22, 2017
Ontario-based PrintFleet, a provider of printer device-monitoring software and solutions, reports that it’s entered into a partnership agreement with HP......
3D Printing / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Document Scanning / Epson / Hewlett-Packard / HP / Inkjet / Kyocera / Lexmark / Panasonic / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 9, 2016 · Last modified December 20, 2016
Clash of the titans? For sure. The news this week was dominated by the titans of our industry: Xerox promises in......
Brother / Canon / Epson / HP / Inkjet / Market Reports & Forecasts / Samsung
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 6, 2016 · Last modified December 13, 2016
Worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) shipments declined 3.0 percent to 25 million units in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16), according......
HP / Managed Print & Document Services / Security
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 5, 2016 · Last modified February 28, 2017
HP Inc. reports today that it’s redesigned its HP Managed Print Services (MPS) to help protect its printers and copier/MFPs......
3D Printing / Eastman Kodak / Epson / HP / Inkjet / Legal Proceedings / Lexmark / Market Reports & Forecasts / Samsung / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 2, 2016 · Last modified December 13, 2016
Lexmark International’s $3.6 billion leveraged acquisition by China’s Apex Technology, maker of ink and toner printer cartridges, and a consortium......
3D Printing / Canon / Document Scanning / Financial News / HP / Market Reports & Forecasts / Nuance / Samsung / Scanners
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 24, 2016 · Last modified December 6, 2016
The new Samsung Smart MultiXpress M5360RX A4 black-and-white copier/MFP that was launched this week is intriguing for a number of......
3D Printing / Canon / Cloud / Commercial & Production Printing / Document Scanning / Electronics for Imaging / Epson / Fuji Xerox / HP / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Legal Proceedings / Lexmark / OKI / Panasonic / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 18, 2016 · Last modified December 14, 2016
Remember when newsletter such as this were full of news about new printers, copiers, and MFPs? While there’s still lots......
3D Printing / HP / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 15, 2016 · Last modified November 22, 2016
HP Inc. today announced they it will showcase what it’s calling “the world’s first production-ready commercial 3D-printing system” at the......
3D Printing / Commercial & Production Printing / Electronics for Imaging / Epson / Financial News / HP / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / OKI / Panasonic / Ricoh / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 4, 2016 · Last modified December 6, 2016
Again this week, several copier/MFP Japanese vendors reported weak financial news, and slower results for MFP and printer sales year-over-year.......
Hewlett-Packard / HP / Inkjet / Wide Format
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 2, 2016 · Last modified February 8, 2017
HP Inc. was big in the news last month with its announcement that it was purchasing Samsung’s printer group for......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 1, 2016 · Last modified November 8, 2016
One year ago today, HP Inc. was created as a result of the largest separation in corporate history – separating......
HP / Mergers & Acquisitions / Samsung
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 1, 2016 · Last modified February 23, 2017
The Korea Times reports that Samsung Electronics of Seoul, Korea, said it’s a new subsidiary, called “S-Printing Solution,” that separates......
3D Printing / Amazon / Cloud / Commercial & Production Printing / Electronics for Imaging / Epson / Financial News / Hewlett-Packard / HP / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Legal Proceedings / Lexmark / Managed Print & Document Services / Photo Printing / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 28, 2016 · Last modified September 5, 2017
We’ve always admired Ricoh for the quality and innovation of their products and their distribution skills. This week they introduced......
Epson / HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 21, 2016 · Last modified February 22, 2017
The National Advertising Division reported today that Epson America has said it will voluntarily and permanently stop advertising claims that its......
3D Printing / Brother / HP / Inkjet / Lexmark / Surveys & Studies
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 21, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2017
For those following the business-inkjet market, the big news this week was Brother International’s announcement of four new INKvestment printers......
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