This Week in Imaging: Lexmark Saga Continues with Hyland Acquisition; Sharp, Ricoh, Epson Financials
The saga at Lexmark International continued this week with news that Thoma Bravo, a private-equity firm, announced a definitive agreement......
3D Printing / Commercial & Production Printing / Education / Epson / Financial News / Fuji Xerox / HP / Lexmark / Mergers & Acquisitions / Ricoh / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published May 5, 2017 · Last modified May 10, 2017
The saga at Lexmark International continued this week with news that Thoma Bravo, a private-equity firm, announced a definitive agreement......
A perennial problem for many budget-strapped school districts throughout the world has often been obtaining an affordable copy-and-print solution. In...
Financial News / News / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published May 2, 2017 · Last modified May 17, 2017
Ricoh Company of Tokyo, Japan, reported results for its fiscal year that ran from April 1, 2016 to March 31,......
3D Printing / Electronics for Imaging / Financial News / Fuji Xerox / HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / Market Reports & Forecasts / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 28, 2017 · Last modified May 3, 2017
Acquisitions continue to be the name of the game. To date, we’re only in the fourth month of 2017, but......
Commercial & Production Printing / Electronics for Imaging / Partnerships / Ricoh / Wide Format
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 24, 2017 · Last modified July 5, 2017
Ricoh USA today announced the addition of the Electronic for Imaging (EFI) H1625 LED and VUTEk H2000 Pro hybrid roll/flatbed wide-format......
Legal Proceedings / News / Patent-Infringement / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 18, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2018
Commercial Copy Innovations (CGI), of Costa Mesa, California, filed a complaint on March 13th in the U.S. District Court for......
3D Printing / Commercial & Production Printing / Eastman Kodak / Epson / Financial News / Hewlett-Packard / HP / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Ricoh / Samsung / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 14, 2017 · Last modified April 25, 2017
Among the many analysts in the office-imaging industry, Wirth Consulting is one of the very few that have decades of......
3D Printing / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Dealer Channel / Document Scanning / Hewlett-Packard / Kyocera / Lexmark / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 7, 2017 · Last modified June 21, 2018
Probably the most intriguing news this week came from Ricoh USA, which seemed to indicate in an announcement that it......
New Products / News / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 22, 2017 · Last modified March 30, 2017
Yesterday, Ricoh India launched what it’s calling a “hybrid” MFP: an A3 black-and-white MFP with A3 (11″x17″) print and scan,......
Commercial & Production Printing / Electronics for Imaging / News / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 21, 2017
Electronics For Imaging (EFI) reports that it’s launched a pair of new digital front ends (DFEs) based on the latest......
3D Printing / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Eastman Kodak / Epson / HP / Inkjet / Kyocera / Large Format / Océ / Ricoh / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 10, 2017 · Last modified March 18, 2017
It doesn’t appear groundbreaking at first glance, but our weekly “snapshot” of news this week was interesting in an important......
Featured Posts / Healthcare / New Products / News / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 8, 2017
Ricoh USA today announced new black-and-white “healthcare-optimized” copier/MFPs and printers that it says are designed to address the “security, space......
Commercial & Production Printing / Inkjet / News / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 7, 2017 · Last modified March 8, 2017
Last week, we discussed how various traditional copier vendors have been venturing into high-speed inkjet printing for commercial and production......
3D Printing / Canon / Commercial & Production Printing / Electronics for Imaging / Financial News / Hewlett-Packard / HP / Konica Minolta / Legal Proceedings / Lexmark / Océ / Ricoh / Toshiba
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 24, 2017 · Last modified March 7, 2017
While fax is considered an old technology (and considering that it was invented in 1843 by Alexander Bain, it certainly......
3D Printing / Commercial & Production Printing / Financial News / Hewlett-Packard / HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Legal Proceedings / Lexmark / Pantum / Ricoh / RISO / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 17, 2017 · Last modified February 28, 2017
This week saw a new chapter in the ongoing state of Japanese copier/MFP vendors. First, virtually all of these vendors......
Featured Posts / New Products / Ricoh
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 16, 2017 · Last modified March 1, 2017
Ricoh USA today rolled out its next-generation series of A3 black-and-white MFPs, the RICOH MP 2555/MP 3055/MP 3555/MP 4055/MP 5055/MP......