Remanufacturing is brandtastic 90 percent of consumers buy cartridges on recommendation; 70 percent of consumers trust brand values; 10 percent buy for ethical reasons, and 20 percent of consumers buy based on price alone. Five percent of remanufacturers sell against...
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Epson Philippines sees progress in printer segment
OEM leads Serial Impact Dot Matrix (SIDM) market and Inkjet Printer (IJP) market in Philippines after successful fiscal year. Business Inquirer reports that Epson gained a 34.4 percent share of the IJP market in fiscal year 2012, making it the leading vendor in this...
Videos of HP Officejet Pro X demonstrate high speeds
Two videos of the device in action demonstrate the high speeds of the new machine. The videos, filmed by German ink manufacturer OCP, show the incredibly fast printing speed of the new HP machines, which have been claimed to be the fastest inkjet printers ever made,...
Printers bemoaned for wasting ink “for non-print functions”
Article highlights issue of some printers using ink when not printing documents, misleading consumers. Mark Huffman writes for Consumer Affairs regarding the discovery of a recent investigation by Consumer Reports magazine, which found that “some printers use up to 50...
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Comment ~ Issue 244 (15 April 2013)
As we were going to press, several stories broke that would seem to have an impact on the remanufacturing industry. The one that generated the most responses was the United States Supreme Court’s decision on the first sale doctrine. First-sale doctrine As I understand...
Castle Ink presents recycling scholarship
The retailer’s scholarship for higher education students is worth $1,000. PRWeb reported that the college scholarship will be “paperless”, and will help students aiming to go to university or college in the United States with financial assistance of $1,000 (€764.59)....
Canadian office workers favour Canon printers
Study finds majority of respondents prefer using Canon branded products in the office. A study dubbed the ‘Canon Challenge’ was recently carried out using participants from across Canada and found that 83 percent of Canadian office workers find Canon copiers and...
Texas company prints “cheaper, better” breast implants
TeVido BioDevices claims 3D printers could be used to print breast implants using a patient’s own fat. Med City News reports that Texan company TeVido BioDevices is working to commercialise technology allowing doctors to print a customised breast implant using a...
Pantum distributor named in Kazakhstan
Merlion will carry the full range of machines from the manufacturer. Channel EMEA reported that the distributor, which claims to be Russia’s largest, expanded into the eastern European nation in 2011, and has “quickly established itself as a significant in-country...
West Point Products receives MPS industry credential
Replacement imaging supplies provider awarded CompTIA Managed Print Trustmark for its MPS delivery. The Washington-based company announced that it has received the CompTIA Managed Print Trustmark for its use of industry-accepted best practices of MPS delivery, along...