“Embracing failure” is a “critical part of the brand-building process”, a UK cartridge retailer has said after his marketing campaign failed to take off. Ian Cowley, Managing Director of Cartridge Save, created cartoon character Dave the Badger in an attempt to “stand...
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Business inkjet shipments grow 16.3 percent
Shipments for 3Q2015 reached 2.2 million units, growing 16.3 year on year, despite a 6.3 percent overall drop for printers in the quarter. IDC recorded a fall in printer shipments of 25.8 million units, while shipment value fell by 5.7 percent to $13.8 billion (€12.6...
Clover releases sixth sustainability report
The remanufacturer added more than 127 remanufactured cartridges to its offering in 2014, recycling 95 percent of inkjet cartridge content and 83 percent of lasers and fusers. The sixth annual sustainability report, viewable here, showed that Clover collected a total...
African printer market to grow 8.8 percent
A compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.8 percent is expected for the region between 2012 and 2019.
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Brother to move away from office printing
The company’s president, Toshikazu Koike, said that its previously successful “network-related products” such as printers or MFPs are becoming saturated, as people stop using printers because of smartphones or tablets. He told The Worldfolio that “we [Brother] need...
Circular economy could cut unemployment
The new EU policy package could cut unemployment in Italy, Poland and Germany, saving €3 billion ($3.1 billion) a year. A report by think-tank Green Alliance said 270,000 people could be brought back into work in those three economies alone if the package is ambitious...
Paperless offices still “distant dream”
Only 4.5 percent of offices are paperless, and a further 65 percent of businesses say they do not use any software to analyse print costs. Enterprise Apps Tech reported on the research by ThinPrint, an MPS software provider, which found that 68 percent of businesses...
New remanufacturing guide launched
The guide covers remanufacturing the HP LaserJet Pro M402/MFP M426 toner cartridge. The cartridge, the CF-226A/X, is used in the LaserJet Pro M402dn and MFP M426 printers, which are based o n a 40pmm, 600dpi engine with a first page print-out speed of 5.4 seconds. You...
Global wide-format shipments fall four percent
The declines in the 3Q2015 results compared to 2014 are apparently to be expected, as the third quarter is “often the slowest quarter of the year in the global wide-format business”. The CAD and technical printer market also recorded falls, although new products...
ITP announces £150,000 investment programme
Europe’s largest cartridge collector has announced several projects to help improve the company’s Reading premises and improve the efficiency of the operation and integration into Restore’s IT and CRM infrastructure.