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Kodak to continue to sell ink

OEM will uphold product warranties, provide technical service and sell ink to customers following its exit from the inkjet market. Kodak has revealed that it will continue to sell ink despite its announcement that it plans to cease its inkjet business, for as long as...

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Kyocera announces latest A4 printer range

New printer range claimed to reduce power consumption by 30 percent. Kyocera Document Solutions has announced a new five-strong printer line: the FS-4300DN, FS-4200DN, FS-4100-DN, FS-2100DN and FS-2100D, each within the A4 40-60ppm range and purporting to offer among...

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HP shares plummet following warning of earnings decline

OEM’s CEO warns of unexpected earnings slide in 2013, prompting shares to fall to nine-year low. Reuters reports that HP shares fell 13 percent – the biggest single-day decline since August 2011 on Wednesday after Meg Whitman, CEO of HP warned at the company’s annual...

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Sharp announces 2,000 job cuts in Japan

Six percent of local workforce will be cut as part of the OEM’s on-going restructuring efforts, offered as voluntary retirement. Sharp has announced that it will be cutting approximately 2,000 jobs in Japan, representing six percent of its local workforce, as the OEM...

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Ricoh faces Fair Labor Standards Act complaint

A suit has been launched by an unnamed “Technical Service Engineer” accusing the OEM of wilfully denying overtime pay by misclassification. Nichols Kaster will be representing the plaintiffs in a suit against Ricoh as of 17 August 2012, as an unnamed “Technical...

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Xerox awarded patent for toner process

Patent 8247157 for process of producing resin emulsions used to make toner issued to OEM. Equities.com reports on the approval of a patent, originally filed in December 2008 by Xerox Corporation, which relates to “toners suitable for electrostatographic apparatuses...

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Lexmark inkjet exit reflective of industry

Lexmark’s announcement to exit the inkjet printer industry and reduce its global workforce by approximately 13 percent is “[an admission] that the market for inkjet printers was so bad that it was best to get out before things got any worse”.

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