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Pelikan’s Scottish employees given “fresh hope for future”

Employees at the company’s Turriff factory have been helped by First Minister Alex Salmond. Press and Journal reported on Salmond’s intervention into the potential redundancy of a large number of staff at the plant – which produces typewriter ribbons and carbon paper...

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Man jailed for HP discount fraud

British man sentenced to five years in US prison for purchasing HP products at “undeserved” discounts. San Jose Mercury News reported that 48-year-old Mark Allan James, from Stockport, UK, has been sentenced by a Houston court to five years in jail for conspiracy...

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Comment ~ Issue 264 (23 October 2014)

HP splits In 1988 I spent most of my time using HP test equipment, and my most treasured HP device was the HP15C scientific calculator that I used everyday. It was around the same time (I think it was) that HP sold off its test equipment division to focus on computers...

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Xerox sees middling quarterly results

The OEM reported a two percent decline in revenue overall and six percent decline in its document technology segment. The results saw total revenue reach $5.1 billion (€4 billion), a fall of two percent over the last year’s results, with 57 percent of this total...

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Lexmark reports revenue growth in third quarter

The OEM saw a three percent growth, which “exceeded” its predictions. The results showed revenue growth of three percent, revenue excluding Lexmark’s exit from inkjet in 2012 growing six percent, and MPS and Perceptive Software combined revenue increasing by 21...

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Static Control releases over 75 new products

The largest manufacturer of aftermarket imaging systems and components released chips, toners, doctor blades and other products for remanufacturers. The new products include an Odyssey 2 toner for use in HP’s P2015 cartridges, which was “developed in-house” and...

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