On July 27, Seiko Epson reported its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2018. Epson has a mixed fiscal 2017 in which revenue and business profit grew but operating and net profit declined (see “Epson Reports Mixed FY 2017: Misses Targets, Sees Revenue Growth, Operating and Net Income Shrink”). The first quarter of
On July 26, Seiko Epson announced that its cumulative global sales of high-capacity ink tank printers have now reached 30 million units. Last year, Epson announced it had sold 20 million units (see “Epson Has Sold 20 Million High-Capacity Ink Tank Printers”), only about nine months after announcing it had sold 15 million units (see
Seiko Epson has announced that it has achieved ISO/IEC 15408 certification for compliance with IEEE Std. 2600.2™-2009 on its line ofhigh-speed WorkForce Enterpriseinkjet multifunction printers (MFPs). IEEE Std. 2600.2™-2009 is an international standard that specifies information security criteria for MFPs. The ISO/IEC 15408 standard, also called Common Criteria (CC), is an international standard for the independent
On July 13, Seiko Epson Corporation, Epson America, and Epson Portland (collectively Epson) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami. The suit claims that SinoTime Technologies, Mega Leader, Inc., and Celine Jiang (a.k.a. Salina Chen and Lih Yuh Chen) willfully infringed three U.S. patents, 6,502,917 (’917), 8,794,749
The construction of Epson’s new factory at its Hirooka office in Shiojiri, Japan, is finally complete. Epson says the new plant, known as Hirooka Office Building 9, will be the second production site for its PrecisionCore print chips, which the OEM currently manufactures at its Suwa Minami Plant in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Epson first announced
The Imaging Supplies Coalition (ISC) held its annual meeting on June 26, 2018, and has since announced the election of a new chairman of the board and three new officers. Founded in 1994, the ISC (www.isc-inc.org) isa non-profit organization of printer OEMs that fights illegal activities such as fraud and counterfeiting in the imaging supplies
From late 2016 to the present, Epson has filed a dozen patent-infringement lawsuits in the United States against online cartridge sellers that it accused of infringing its inkjet cartridge patents. While half of these lawsuits have been resolved, others are still ongoing. Earlier this year, Epson indicated it expected to see settlements or move for
At the end of April and throughout May, printer and copier OEMs reported quarterly financial results for the three-month period ended on March 31, 2018. For all the Japanese OEMs, except Canon, this period was the fourth quarter and the end of their fiscal years. For Canon and Xerox, this period was the first quarter
On May 30, International Data Corporation (IDC) released an overview of the findings from its latest “Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker” for the first quarter of 2018. In the first quarter of 2018, worldwide shipments of hardcopy peripherals (printers, copiers, MFPs) grew year-over-year for the sixth consecutive quarter. IDC reported worldwide hardcopy peripheral shipments totaled
On May 22, International Data Corporation (IDC) reported that in the first quarter of 2018 hardcopy peripheral (printer and MFP) shipments in India increased year-over-year for a third consecutive quarter, growing 8.5 percent to 885,826 units. The uptick followed a 19 percent year-over-year shipment increase in India in Q4 2017 (see “IDC Reports Strong Q4
