On June 18, Retail Inkjet Solutions (RIS) announced a huge win for the company. French retail chain Auchan Retail France will roll out RIS InkCenter inkjet refilling services at all of its hypermarkets in France. While RIS has been adding retail partners steadily, including many in France in recent years, the agreement with Auchan is
Three years after Chinese aftermarket supplies manufacturer Print-Rite came out with its PR2 gear design that the firm claimed “saved” the industry from Canon’s dongle gear patent litigation campaign (see “Print-Rite Promotes PR-2 Gear Solution in Advance of Likely GEO for Canon” and “Print-Rite’s PR-2 Gear Gets U.S. Patent”), it has launched a new PR3
In general, nothing makes a company become quiet faster than being named a defendant in a lawsuit. But the hue and cry over Canon’s recent monochrome toner cartridge litigation in the United States is almost unprecedented, with OEM partners Canon and HP using the litigation to try to strike fear in the hearts of channel
Canon’s toner cartridge litigation in the United States aimed at manufacturer’s workarounds to the OEM’s dongle gear is big news and has dealers and resellers rightly concerned about the HP/Canon toner cartridges they are selling. Ninestar, it seems, is looking to allay those concerns by announcing yet another new dongle gear workaround. On February 28,
Whether the United States will impose 25 percent tariffs on various products made in China has been a hot topic—and a moving one—this spring. Given the shifting positions the United States has taken toward the tariffs and the fact that trade negotiations are ongoing, the ultimate outcome is uncertain, but, as of the time of
On May 29, HP Inc. announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2018, ended on April 30. It was yet another strong quarter for HP, following the firm’s robust start to the year (see “HP Posts Impressive Q1 2018 Results as Samsung Printer Acquisition Fuels Printing Business”). HP achieved double-digit revenue growth for
On May 18, 2018, Fujifilm Holdings reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year ended on March 31, 2018. For the year ended in March 2018, Fujifilm reported revenue growth, but a big decline in operating income. Net income was up for the year. Just as Xerox’s Q1 results were overshadowed by
On May 13, Xerox caved into enormous pressure from activist shareholders Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason and announced that it was terminating its transaction agreement with Fujifilm, replacing former CEO Jeff Jacobson with new CEO John Visentin, and shuffling up Xerox’s board of directors (see “Xerox Gives Up on Fujifilm Deal, Reaches Another Agreement with
As we detailed in Part 3 of this series, printer OEMs are doing a lot to stop sellers from hawking counterfeit and infringing printer supplies on the Amazon marketplace. These efforts include following Amazon’s take-down procedures, filing a bevy of lawsuits against sellers, and working closely with authorities worldwide on enforcement issues to prevent the importation
On May 14, Konica Minolta closed the books on a better-than-expected fiscal 2017. Company revenue and both operating and net profits grew, and the firm’s results exceeded its forecast. The company’s fiscal 2016 was disappointing (see “Konica Minolta Posts Revenue and Profit Declines, Misses Forecast in FY 2016”). Both revenue and profits declined, and the
