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
Following a yearlong trial in a handful of store locations, the largest retail distributor in France has signed an agreement to purchase more inkjet cartridge refilling equipment from Carlsbad, CA-based Retail Inkjet Solutions (RIS). E.Leclerc is a cooperative of retailers and supermarkets with 681 stores in seven European countries offering a wide range of consumer
Retail Inkjet Solutions (RIS), maker of the RIS InkCenter inkjet refilling kiosk, is on a roll in France. Earlier this month, the company announced that Intermarché had decided to add InkCenter units to offer inkjet refilling at more supermarkets in France after a successful trial program (see “RIS Announces Placements of InkCenter Refilling Kiosks at
Retail Inkjet Solutions (RIS) has announced that French supermarket chain Intermarché has agreed to place RIS InkCenter inkjet cartridge refilling equipment at more locations in France. According to RIS’s November 1 press release, Intermarché decided to offering refilling at “select locations” after seeing “strong sales growth from successful trial installations of the RIS on-site Refill
Recently, Sam’s Club stores began promoting the availability of inkjet refilling services at some locations. The Sam’s Club stores that are offering inkjet refilling use the InkCenter kiosk, made by Retail Inkjet Solutions (RIS). Sam’s Club now has a page on its website devoted to its inkjet refill service. Inkjet cartridge refilling is not available
On March 16, Retail Inkjet Solutions (RIS), maker of the InkCenter retail inkjet refilling kiosk, announced that Saturn, a German-based consumer electronics retailer, has added RIS’s kiosk at another location. A Saturn store in Wuppertal, Germany, was the first location to offer RIS’s refilling solution. Based on “strong sales growth” at that location, a Saturn store
Earlier this week, the Recycler reported sad news: Switzerland-based CBR Engineering has stopped making equipment for inkjet remanufacturing. Indeed, a brief notice in the CBR Engineering website states: Welcome! Dear Customers After more than 20 years, CBR Engineering stops the manufacture of inkjet remanufacturing equipment due to low demand. Spare parts and repairs are still
Earlier this week, we learned that Retail Inkjet Solutions (RIS), maker of the InkCenter retail inkjet refilling kiosk, has been able to place kiosks at some new retail locations in France. The Inkjet411 website, which is hosted by RIS, includes a page for refilling services in France. We noted two new logos there in addition
The www.Inkjet411.com website reports that HP recently released new firmware that may generate errors if refilled inkjet cartridges are used in HP OfficeJet Pro 8610, 8615, 8620, 8625, and 8630. According to the Inkjet411 report, HP’s new R1547A firmware version, reportedly released on March 12, “effectively ‘locks-out’ the previous HP 950/951 (950XL/951XL) smart chip versions
The identity of Cartridge World’s buyer has finally been made public—it is Chinese OPC manufacturer Suzhou Goldengreen Technologies (SGT). News that Cartridge World had a sale in the works became public with a May 5 letter from Mr. Young to Cartridge World owners, master franchisers, and team members (see “Cartridge World in ‘Exclusive Arrangement’ to
