Ricoh has launched the first black-and-white printer based on its Liquid Gel inkjet technology. With the new device, the company is targeting price sensitive customers and intensifying its engagement in the office inkjet segment. The latter is getting more and more hard-fought, with new and established manufacturers competing for market shares.
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3D printers have reached the mass markets – and even President Barack Obama is already dreaming of a revolution in production. However, this is still a long way off, and the path is not just long, it is covered in shards.
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3D printing is now possible through various technologies, which vary in both quality and cost: Here an overview.
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Konica Minolta considers sustainability rooted to the very core of the company. This concept is reflected in medium and long-term ecological plans, various activities in the company’s subsidiaries as well as in the recent formation of a new corporate social responsibility (CSR) organisation reporting directly to the CEO. Nevertheless, Konica Minolta was not able to achieve all targets as the latest CSR report 2012 shows.
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Mobile printing plays an important role in an application of the software start-up company Ezeep, based in Berlin and supported by some well-know venture capital. It might seem surprising that the young entrepreneurs from Ezeep are taking an interest in the ‘old’ print technology. Even more surprising is the product launch process in slices: While the mobile print function made its public launch a few months ago with much ado, the company is very cagey on some additional new features.
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When it comes to communication strategies, Europe seems to be a rather difficult terrain for many printer manufacturers. While some of them virtually hide important news by communicating success stories only in their smallest subsidiaries, others flood the whole continent with reports that are only relevant for selected industries. Both strategies do not seem very effective in raising public awareness for a company and its products.
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At the start of their new fiscal year (through March 31st 2014), Oki chief Hideichi Kawasaki announced a reorganisation programme for the current Oki printer subsidiary Oki Data Corporation. He aims at a turnaround into the profit zone within the next three years. His targets do not seem very realistic considering the many mistakes made in the past – and under which the company is still suffering.
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Four years after the takeover of Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the company’s European management now face the ruins of their Vision. In the space of this relatively short time, the PC manufacturer has shown the industry how a so-called new start can become a fiasco. Meanwhile, Fujitsu Europe is now having to handle the consequences of spontaneous management rotation.
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The European Commission is planning to spend up to 19 billion Euros for securing Europe’s global competitiveness in information and communications technology (ICT) and other enabling industrial technologies within the framework of the research and innovation program Horizon 2020. However, due to recently discussed cuts to the EU’s financial framework, it is not yet clear whether this budget will remain stable. Furthermore, money alone will hardly be enough to help European IT companies catch up with its competitors from Asia and the USA.
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Hewlett-Packard has announced significant hardware unit sales growth of its current HP Indigo Digital Press portfolio since drupa 2012. The manufacturer hopes to maintain this positive trend with the help of its Indigo 10000 Digital Press now officially available worldwide – but with a number of units already successfully up and running.
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Informa Exhibitions, organiser of IPEX 2014, has published an open letter to its stakeholders, confirming that the trade show scheduled for March 2014 in London will definitely take place. The organisers were forced to take this somewhat unusual step after their re-focus on digital printing had been publicly criticised. The re-focus itself, however, had been a reaction to a long list of dismissals of the event’s major exhibitors.
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Times are getting harder for the biggest events in the printing industry as recent developments around Drupa and especially IPEX illustrate. This does not mean, however, that trade shows as such are an endangered species. In fact, there are at least around 20 print related exhibitions per year in Europe alone. Most of them are thematically and regionally specialised – which makes them dangerous competitors for the more general heavyweight events.
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Theoretically, printing is already possible from most mobile systems and devices but in most cases, mobile printing is far more complicated than the traditional printing from a PC. Only one of the four major mobile operating systems has an integrated print function that is compatible with devices from various printer vendors. But even this system still lags behind when compared to the options offered by conventional PC printing.
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Trying to increase its international relevance, the officials of the German eco label Blue Angel have presented two important IT companies willing to use the label for advertising in selected countries outside Germany. At the same time, internationalisation of environmental standards in the printing industry is promoted by a new EU Ecolabel for printed papers that might eventually also affect printer manufacturers – the more so as the Blue Angel is also working on a label for printed products.
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Normally, manufacturers are not too unhappy when their competitors begin to weaken, but with Canon and Lexmark this is currently not the case. The reason being that both suppliers have been unable to sell units to their OEMs in the quantities they did in the past.
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