HP recently issued some announcement related to its A3 business at its Executive Forum 2018 partner event (see “HP Announces New A3 Hardware, Tools, and More at Executive Forum 2018”). This week, analysts had an opportunity to hear more from HP about its A3 business, including new hardware, new accessibility improvements for HP Enterprise A3
On April 9, London-based IT market research firm CONTEXT reported that sales of printer hardware through distributors in Western Europe declined by 6 percent year-over-year early in the first quarter of 2018, continuing the slowdown that the firm noted in the fourth quarter of 2017 (see “CONTEXT Finds Strong A3 Business Inkjet Sales Slow Rate
On March 27, Apex Microelectronics, Ninestar Corporation’s chip-manufacturing arm, announced that it has launched new replacement chipsets for Samsung MLT-D115-series, MLT-111-series, and related toner cartridges. The move was necessary, says the Zhuhai, China-based company, because of changes Samsung has made to the monochrome laser printers and MFPs in which these cartridges are used that made
On March 13, International Data Corporation (IDC) released findings from its latest “Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker” regarding the hardcopy peripheral (printers, copiers, MFPs) market in Central and Eastern Europe. The market research firm reports that shipments of printing devices in Central and Eastern Europe grew 1.4 percent year-over-year to more than 1.7 million units
Roughly a year ago when delivering its first-quarter 2017 results, HP President and CEO Dion Weisler stated that his company was “now firing on all cylinders” (see “HP Sees Personal Systems Growth and Some Improvements in Printer Business in Q1”). At the time, given continued pressures on income and weaknesses in the Printing business, we
On February 21, International Data Corporation (IDC) released some of the findings from its latest “Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker.” In the fourth quarter of 2017, worldwide shipments of hardcopy peripherals (printers, copiers, MFPs) grew 1.2 percent year-over-year to 28.1 million units. In excellent news for the industry, this marks the fifth consecutive quarter of
On February 15, International Data Corporation (IDC) reported that hardcopy peripheral (printer and MFP) shipments in India grew 19 percent year-over-year to 877,945 units in the fourth quarter of 2017. Fourth-quarter inkjet shipments in India rose 19.3 percent to 415,135 units, and laser hardware shipments (including copiers) grew 19 percent to 408,891 units. IDC notes
Every so often, printer OEMs and remanufacturers issue statements warning consumers about the dangers of counterfeit cartridges. Samsung Printing Solutions, which is now owned by HP Inc. (see “HP Completes Acquisition of Samsung’s Printer Business”), has added a fresh twist to the usual claims about poor print quality and the corrosive impact of patent-infringing piracy:
Every year since 2011, Clarivate Analytics, formerly the intellectual property and science business of Thomson Reuters, has put out a report on the Top 100 Global Innovators. This intellectual property-focused report “seek[s] to identify the most innovative organizations around the globe” and is based on “Clarivate Analytics proprietary data and analysis tools, including Derwent Innovation
A home on 20+ acres of land outside of Athens, TX, known as the “Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World,” serves as the home base for MyMail, Ltd., a patent-licensing company that has been suing large companies over alleged infringement of various wireless communications and networking patents since 2004. While this particular patent troll was
