The six were named based on their performance in the final quarter of the 2016 financial year. CRN reported on research by market analysts The NPD Group, which found that “six vendors were dominant” in laser MFP sales during the fourth quarter of 2016, “as measured by...
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Chinese government on Apex-Lexmark deal
The Ministry of Commerce’s magazine reported on the acquisition in an article. Ninestar reported on the article, which was hosted by the Business Bureau of Zhuhai and the Zhuhai Foreign Economic Cooperation Association, with the deal – worth $3.9 billion (€3.7...
IR Italiana Riprografia expands range of neutral products
The Italian company has launched cartridges and toners for Canon, Lexmark, OKI, Kyocera, Ricoh and Sharp applications. The company stated that “the most important recent entries” include both compatible and refurbished laser cartridges as well as compatible toners....
Braille printer goes global
A printer designed by Vietnamese students has expanded worldwide. Vietnamnet reported that students from Da Nang have won first prize in a national creativity competition, and will travel to Japan to show their braille printer at an International exhibition in May....
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Cloud printing discussed
ITWeb reported on an article by Morgan Bleasdale, a “solutions specialist at Samsung distributor Taropa Technologies”, who said that for better productivity, “secure printing” and mobile workers, cloud printing should be a priority for businesses.
US billion-dollar bond faked on printer
The counterfeit bond, which led the FBI to a second arrest, had been printed on an inkjet printer. The counterfeit bond was supposedly issued in 1934, reported Sun Sentinel, and contained a security thread which was not invented in that decade. Having been declared...
UK phone boxes to be made into mini-offices
The micro-offices will have a printer and a wireless mouse as well as a 25-inch screen. Camden New Journal reported that since the death of the public phone due to mobile devices, the red British phone booths have long stood unused. However, rather than them being...
SMBs admit paper processes “waste time”
A study by Xerox found that eight out of 10 SMBs “pledge to change” habits in 2017, while half will turn to resellers for “paper-free solutions”. The OEM revealed the results of its survey, which saw over 80 percent of SMBs say they “want to cut paper out of the way...
Implications of Lexmark-Impression case discussed
A legal firm discussed how the OEM’s case against the remanufacturer has been “redrawing the boundaries of ownership”. Banana IP looked at the implications of the Lexmark-Impression Products legal case decided in Lexmark’s favour earlier this year, which saw the US...
Gikar Industrial launches Samsung alternative
The Chinese remanufacturer has recently launched a replacement for the MLT-D201, which is used in the ProXpress M4030ND and M4080FX MFPs, and its product has a page yield of 10,000 pages based on A4 with five percent coverage.