As so often happens given the close relationship between Apex and its parent company Ninestar, one of Apex Microelectronics’ announcements about the availability of new chips was immediately followed by an announcement from Ninestar about the availability of finished cartridges employing those chips. Earlier this week, Apex announced that it is first to market with
On June 19, Ninestar’s chip arm, Apex Microelectronics, announced that it is first to market with non-OEM replacement chipsets for Brother’s TN-730, TN-760, and TN-770 toner cartridges. Brother debuted these toner cartridges in a new family of A4 monochrome laser printers and MFPs for small-office/home-office (SOHO) environments. While model numbers and the exact date of product
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
On June 12, Metrofuser, the Elizabeth, NJ-based laser printer parts manufacturer, issued an interesting announcement about new aftermarket fusers it is offering that are designed to improve aftermarket toner cartridge performance. What sparked the development of Metrofuser’s new High Variant (HV) fusers is the performance of aftermarket toner formulations relative to OEM formulations. In its
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,
Chinese chip manufacturer Apex Microelectronics has been rolling out lots of new replacement chips for a range of Kyocera printers recently (see “Apex Releases Chips for Kyocera ECOSYS MFPs” and “Apex Releases Chips for New Kyocera A4 Monochrome Printer”), and it is continuing that pace with the release of replacement chips for color toner cartridges
Apex Microelectronics has released replacement chips for the toner cartridge employed in an A4 monochrome laser printer that Kyocera launched in Russia and Europe in April 2018. Kyocera’s ECOSYS P2335d is a compact single-function printer with double-sided printing that offers print speeds up to 35 ppm. The ECOSYS P2335d’s toner cartridge, the TK-1200, is rated
Arlington Industries will default in Canon’s Section 337 investigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). In other news related to Canon’s U.S. dongle gear toner cartridge litigation, a consent order and permanent injunction enjoining Fairland, LLC (doing business as ProPrint) from infringing Canon’s patents has now been entered by a federal court. To keep
1. As Amazon Has Grown So Has the Number of Printer Supplies Sold on Its Marketplace Amazon’s rise has sparked a fundamental shift toward e-commerce that has altered how consumers and even businesses purchase products, including the ink and toner cartridges used in printers. Today, a huge number of printer supplies are sold on Amazon.
