Reflecting Profitable Fiscal Year, Sharp to Pay Dividends For First Time in Six Years
“Considering our earnings, financial condition, and future business growth, Sharp has decided to pay dividends for the first time in six years.”
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Kyocera Reports Record Sales for Latest Fiscal Year
Sales generated by Kyocera’s Document Solutions group totaled ¥370 billion, up 23.5 percent versus the previous fiscal year.
Sharp Restructuring its Product-Management Groups
Mike Marusic, chief operating officer for Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America, commented: “Restructuring our product management group will make us a more effective and nimble team that will unify our smart-office approach.
Xerox Continuing to Add New Dealers
Xerox first announced its focus on signing up new dealers last year as part of a drive to gain a larger share of the copier/MFP small and mid-size business market by increasing its multi-brand dealer base in the United States by more than 30 percent in 2017.
Canon Inc. Reports First-Quarter Results
Canon says office copier/MFP sales rose versus the same period of the previous year, supported by expanded sales of next-generation color models designed to strengthen the product lineup, such as the A3 (12”x18”) imageRUNNER ADVANCE C5500 series.
Ninestar Aiming to Produce 4 Million Printers a Year at Proposed China Plant
As we reported last week, Ninestar, which is headquartered in China, and which, together with a consortium of investors, purchased......
Jabil, Forecast 3D to Install More HP 3D Printers, Expect to Produce Millions of 3D-Printed Parts
Jabil is a U.S.-based global manufacturing company, with more than 100 facilities in 29 countries. It’s complementing its U.S.-based HP Multi Jet Fusion installation with six additional production-ready HP Jet Fusion 4210 3D printers in Singapore, bringing its total to a dozen HP 3D printers.
Lexmark Opens Lexmark Marketing Hub for Partners
Lexmark International today announced that the Lexmark Marketing Hub is now available to Lexmark partners via the Lexmark partner portal....
Toshiba Refutes Recent Rumors Concerning Pending Sale of Memory-Chip Business
The firm stated that multiple press reports on April 23 and 24 claim that Toshiba is considering cancelling sale of Toshiba Memory Corporation if the proposed sale isn’t approved by China’s anti-monopoly regulator.
New Konica Minolta Accurio C3080 Series, C3070L with Two-Sided Banner Printing
The new production-print systems feature duplex banner printing with a banner tray that holds 1,000 banner sheets of up to 30” and simplex banner printing up to 51”.
Ringdale’s FollowMe Embedded Available for Lexmark’s Latest A4 Printers and Copier/MFPs
FollowMe’s business intelligence engine is said to make it easy for organizations to implement enterprise-wide printing policies, such as allowing color printing only when authorized by the organization, or automatically enforcing that email messages are printed in monochrome.
Court Papers Show Conflicted Xerox Board
Deason argues that Xerox CEO Jeff Jacobson “acted without authorization” to negotiate a deal with Fujifilm, a deal that is is said to have “preserved his job at the expense of shareholder value.
Xerox, Fujifilm Said to be Renegotiating Proposed Merger; Other Interested Buyer Revealed
On Wednesday, Xerox also said that Xerox shareholders should disregard information from Icahn and Deason, stating the two are conducting a “highly disingenuous campaign” that distorts and omits key facts about Xerox and the proposed merger.
Ninestar to Manufacture Laser Printers
The company says it plans to invest about 9.0 billion yuan (about $1.43 billion) in the project.
HP Updates on New Dealer Progress, A3 Managed PageWides, Accessibility, Security
On April 18th, HP Inc. held an online Webinar for analysts, providing more information on its progress recruiting office-imaging dealers, as well as more information on its new A3 Managed PageWide copier/MFPs for dealers, new Accessibility Assistant, and new printer security, including a new HP Printer Security Plug-In.
New MPS Monitor SDS Version Provides Enhanced Remote Monitoring, Management of HP Fleets
On April 18th, MPS Monitor SDS, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for remote management of printers and for managed print services, released a new version that’s said to revolutionize technical-support services for HP printers and copier/MFPs.
