This Week in Imaging: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like HP Acquires Xerox
While this is of course speculation, it’s beginning to look a lot like HP Inc. will acquire Xerox – not...
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This Week in Imaging: Office Depot-Alibaba Partnership May Mean Supplies Trouble for OEMs
As Amazon made it easy for thousands of Chinese vendors to sell to Americans, Office Depot could be also making it much easier for Chinese vendors to sell printer and copier consumables to Americans.
Amazon Launches Project Zero to Combat Counterfeits
The issue of counterfeit products for sale on the Amazon ecommerce site has long been a problem, and in response,...
Canon Obtains Injunctions, Amazon Removals, for Multiple Third-Party Toner Cartridges
Continuing its legal campaign around the world against sellers of third-party manufactured toner cartridges, in the last several days, Canon...
Canon Requests Amazon to Remove Multiple Third-Party Toner Cartridges
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, today reported that it’s requested Amazon to remove multiple third-party toner cartridges designed for use...
Canon Requests Amazon to Remove More Clone Toner Cartridges
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, today announced that it filed three infringement reports with Amazon.com seeking removal of Amazon.com listings...
Supplies Wholesalers’ New Program Helps Dealers, Resellers Sell on Amazon
Supplies Wholesalers is a direct importer and wholesaler, selling remanufactured toner, inkjet cartridges, and ribbons to its reseller partners across the United States.
This Week in Imaging: How IKON, Lanier, Savin Acquisitions Have Made a Tough Road for Ricoh
At first it seemed the acquisition of IKON would only be a boon for Ricoh. After all, IKON was said to be the world’s largest independent provider of copier/MFPs, printers, and related services, with over 400 offices in North America and Western Europe, regional sales and service training facilities, a roster of Fortune 500 customers, and revenues of $4,167 million for its fiscal year before it was purchased by Ricoh.
Printer, Ink, and Toner Sales Soar at Amazon
“While leading retail chains struggle to stay afloat, Amazon is seeing strong growth across the board in sales of office appliances, like printers, scanners and shredders, as well as consumables and office accessories,” commented Nathan Rigby, vice president of sales and marketing for One Click Retail.
Canon Gets Patent-Infringement Preliminary Injunction Against Biggest Discount
The preliminary injunction is based on the infringement of the German portion of Canon’s European patent EP 2 087 407 relating to a drum unit and a process cartridge.
Amazon Obtains 3D-Printing Production System Patent
SupplyChain Dive reports that Amazon now has a patent for a 3D-printing production system that will accepts custom order for either...
Sharp Is First Copier Provider Working With ‘Alexa for Business’ for Voice-Driven Copiers, More
Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA) reports that it’s the first copier/MFP provider working with Amazon Web Services...
Epson Files Patent-Infringement Lawsuits Against Amazon Marketplace Sellers
Epson announced that Epson America, Epson Portland, and Seiko Epson have filed three patent-infringement complaints on March 3, 2016 in...
This Week in Imaging: Amazon Throws Hat into Photo-Printing Market; A Look at Canon Financials
We’ve always admired Ricoh for the quality and innovation of their products and their distribution skills. This week they introduced...
This Week in Imaging: Voice Commands for your MFP/All-in-One?
With Samsung introducing new document-imaging solutions from voice-recognition specialist Nuance Communications, we got to thinking: how come we have smartphones...
Amazon Considering Expanding its Office-Supply Business with Office Depot Deal
The New York Post reports that Amazon may be expanding its footprint in the office-supplies business, as it’s said to...
