HP Inc. this week released its 2017 Sustainable Impact Report, which the company explains in a press release documents its progress driving “lasting improvements to the planet, people, and communities where the company operates.” The report highlights what we have come to expect from such programs: reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, diversion of plastics that
Earlier this year, SpencerLab, a well-known Melville, NY-based independent test laboratory, released the results of a competitive ink comparison study for North America comparing the quality and performance of original HP inkjet cartridges to aftermarket inkjet cartridges and finding the OEM cartridges to be far superior. Following the release of the HP-commissioned study, we heard
The hardcopy peripherals market in Australia took a hard dive during the first quarter of 2018, according to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) “Asia Pacific Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker.” Laser and inkjet markets tumbled 8.6 percent and 9.3 percent, respectively, over the same period last year. IDC attributes the decline to falling sales of low-price brands,
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
Russia’s antitrust regulators have imposed a fine of $40,000 on HP’s Russian subsidiary for price fixing on government contracts to supply computers and equipment to government agencies, including the country’s Central Elections Commission. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) fined ZAO Hewlett-Packard AO, an HP subsidiary, 2.5 million rubles, or about $40,000, the agency announced on June
In May, HP lost the protection provided to the company by the very first general exclusion order (GEO) it was granted. HP’s U.S. patent numbers 6,089,687 and 6,264,301, which relate to the ID chips used in various HP ink tanks have expired, and as a result U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will no longer enforce
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
Katun Corporation has announced several new products for the North American market, including Katun Performance and Katun Business color toner cartridges for use in various Ricoh A3 color and A4 color MFPs and three more remanufactured extended-yield monochrome toner cartridges for use in HP LaserJets. For Ricoh A3 color MFPs, Katun launched Katun Performance cartridges
When HP announced its second-quarter financial results on May 29, the company announced that it expected to cut an additional 1 to 2 percent of its workforce and incur some additional restructuring costs (see “HP Reports Strong Q2 as Samsung Printing Acquisition Boosts Results”). In a June 5 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
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
