ESYINK Stresses Canon Connection to Penetrate Indian CISS Market
Malaysian third-party supplies vendor ESYINK is leveraging low-end Canon inkjet machines to launch its new continuous ink-supply systems (CISS) in India. The firm is selling CISS units bundled with select Canon inkjet printers and all-in-ones, including the PIXMA iP2770 and MP287. The bundles—as well as individual units—are currently distributed across India by ACE Technologies, and [...]
International Data Corporation (IDC) reports that hardcopy peripheral shipments and revenue declined in Western Europe in the first quarter of 2013. According to the research firm’s “Worldwide Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker,” unit shipments in Western Europe declined 14.5 percent year-over-year, falling from 5.8 million units to 5.0 million units in the first quarter, while the value [...]
Don’t Exclude Us: Ninestar and Fuji Electric Want to Be Exempted from Canon Exclusion Order
May 8, 2013 No Comment
Last month, Canon got some good news when the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) elected not to review Administrative Law Judge David P. Shaw’s initial determination finding infringement of a pair of patents (5,903,803 and 6,128,454) that Canon holds on the gears used in most HP and Canon all-in-one toner cartridges (see “Canon Takes Another Giant Step [...]
Canon Gets Contempt Orders against Firms That Agreed Not to Infringe Gear Patents
May 7, 2013 No Comment
While all eyes have been on Canon’s toner cartridge patent-infringement complaint currently before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), the OEM has also been busy ensuring that those firms that agreed to consent judgments and permanent injunctions to resolve a 2010 lawsuit over the same patents follow those agreements’ terms. In February, Canon filed a [...]
On April 25, Ninestar announced the release of compatibles for Canon’s latest ink tanks: the 550/551/451/351/251/651/751 series. In the United States, these ink tanks are the CLI-251/CLI-251XL and PGI-250/PGI-250XL/PGI-255XXL, and they were introduced in December 2012 in the PIXMA iP7220, PIXMA MG5420, and PIXMA MG6320 (see “Canon Launches New Generation of Ink Tanks in PIXMA [...]
OCP, the aqueous inkjet manufacturer based in Germany, has developed new inks for refilling Canon’s PGI-550/PGI-250 and CLI-551/CLI-251 series ink tanks. OCP was quick to market with the ink for the new ink tanks, which were introduced in December 2012 in the United States in various PIXMA inkjet printers and all-in-ones (see “Canon Launches New [...]
Declines in Digital Cameras Impact Canon’s Q1, but Volumes for Some Printing Products Increase
April 24, 2013 No Comment
On April 24, Canon reported financial results for the first quarter of 2013, ended March 31. Canon reported revenue and earnings declines in the first quarter and attributed its results to declining demand for digital cameras, the tepid worldwide economy, and stiff price competition. But in those business segments we follow most closely, Canon had [...]
On April 17, Canon received yet more good news in the patent-infringement investigation currently before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). Canon filed the complaint before the ITC, as well as litigation in federal court, in January 2012. The OEM alleged that 34 remanufacturers and resellers infringed a pair of patents (5,903,803 and 6,128,454) that Canon holds [...]
On April 10, Canon announced that it resolved patent contempt proceedings against Copy Technologies, Inc. Copy Technologies must now pay Canon the profits it made for selling infringing toner cartridges in violation of a consent judgment and permanent injunction to which it agreed in 2011. Background Copy Technologies was one of 20 companies named in [...]
On March 26, Canon Inc. announced that Océ N.V. is now a wholly owned Canon subsidiary. As part of its integration into Canon, Océ has had to make some job cuts, most recently at the company’s headquarters in Venlo. Canon announced it would acquire Océ in 2009, but the Japanese company did not immediately acquire [...]