International Data Corporation (IDC) has released a study on the hardcopy peripherals market in India for the 2013 calendar year. Overall, the report shows that shipments declined by 0.1 percent year-over-year to 3.1 million units. “Both consumer and commercial markets were weak in the first half of 2013, but with the help of aggressive consumer
International Data Corporation (IDC) announced on February 19 that the worldwide market for hardcopy peripherals, defined as printers, copiers, and MFPs, grew for the second consecutive quarter during the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to the same period the year prior. Data from the Framingham, MA-based market research firm’s “Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker” indicated
In separate statements released on February 13, Epson and Ricoh announced they have joined the Mopria Alliance. Formed last September by a group of hardcopy industry heavyweights including Canon, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung Electronics, and Xerox, the nonprofit alliance says its mission is “to promote, simplify, and increase accessibility of wireless printing from smartphones, tablets, and other
Samsung recently announced the U.S. availability of its BusinessCore Printing Solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The solutions, which were launched globally last fall, provide document-handling and output-management solutions for Samsung’s A3 and A4 printers that feature the XOA Embedded open platform. Those printers include the CLX-9352NA, CLX-9252NA, CLX 9301NA, CLX-9251NA, and CLX9201NA A4
While hardware manufacturers have routinely used the U.S. courts to protect their intellectual property, with a few exceptions, that has not been the case in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). But that appears to be changing. Over the past year or so, various OEMs have demonstrated that they are serious about ridding EMEA markets
On January 22, Union Technology International (MCO) Co. Ltd. (UTec), global master distributor of Print-Rite products, announced that Print-Rite has achieved a “breakthrough” that has allowed it to improve the bio-content of its bio-toner. Bio-toner is nothing new to the industry (see “Bio-Toner Buzz: It’s Not Easy Being Green”). For several years now, both OEMs
Last week, we reported on Samsung’s latest efforts in Europe to protect the intellectual property it holds on toner cartridges and to combat the proliferation of clones in the channel (see “Samsung Steps Up Efforts to Combat Clones in Europe”). Now, the OEM has chalked up a win in the Netherlands, although litigation in that
On January 10, Ninestar announced the availability in Europe of a redesigned toner cartridge compatible with the Samsung MLT-D104S, which is used in the Samsung ML-1660-series and ML-1865W monochrome laser printers. The news comes in the wake of Samsung taking legal action in Germany and the Netherlands to clean up the European market of patent-infringing
Samsung has been increasing its efforts to combat distribution in Europe of cloned toner cartridges that infringe the OEM’s patents. The company closed 2013 by taking action to protect its toner cartridge intellectual property (IP) in courts in Germany and the Netherlands. Injunctions in Germany According to a report on German-language websites such as BusinessPartner
Patent-infringement lawsuits filed by patent-assertion entities, more pejoratively known as patent trolls, against technology companies are rampant, and the printer industry is no exception. We thought we would check in on the status of the lawsuits filed by three such entities against printer OEMs, including Intellectual Ventures patent-infringement complaints against Canon and Ricoh; Lodsys’s suit