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Observer Online: Monotype Imaging and Adobe Join Forces to Provide a Multi-PDL Solution for Printer OEMs
In July, Monotype Imaging announced a collaboration with Adobe to provide multi-PDL solutions to printer OEMs, demonstrating how the firm is creating its own opportunities to drive growth in an imaging and printing market that is slowly recovering from the Great Recession. The joint effort involves the licensing and implementation of PostScript 3 and PDF solutions from Adobe and Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (XPS) and HP-compatible PCL 5 and PCL 6 solutions developed by Monotype Imaging. |
Observer Online: Hurd's Spectacular Flameout Overshadows HP's Healthy Third-Quarter Results
[September 2, 2010] HP reported healthy growth in revenue and profits in its third quarter. The firm's Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) also performed well, with strong growth in unit sales, particularly LaserJet unit sales, which were up almost 50 percent year-on-year. But the firm's financial success was far overshadowed by the bizarre flameout of HP chief executive Mark Hurd. |
Observer Online: HP Mystery Devices—"Zeen" and eStation to Meld Handheld, Printer Worlds?
[August 23, 2010] During the first full week of August, which ended with the shocking dismissal of HP CEO and board chairman Mark Hurd on Friday, August 6, product-oriented rumors involving the company were making the rounds. Technology blog Engadget, followed by PC World, found and reported on evidence of a new HP mobile, handheld computer on the Web site of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), where new products go for testing prior to their release. A Digitimes news report that appeared early... |
Journal Online: Lexmark Names Two Dozen Defendants In Patent-Infringement Lawsuit
[August 31, 2010] In recent years, patent litigation involving Lexmark usually involved Static Control, as a long-running series of suits and countersuits has inexorably linked the two firms for the past eight years. Lexmark's most recent patent infringement complaint, however, is against 24 companies that "engaged in the manufacture, importation, and sale of replacement cartridges for various Lexmark laser printers and multifunction devices," according to the OEM. |
Journal Online: Green Project Adds Epson 98 and 99 Remans as Legal Battle with Epson Continues
[August 24, 2010] On July 19, Green Project, a remanufacturer of ink jet and toner cartridges with headquarters and distribution based in Hacienda Heights, CA, and manufacturing facilities based in China, announced that the firm now offers remanufactured Epson 98- and 99-series ink tanks. Joseph Wu, president of Green Project, describes the remanufactured tanks as "environmentally sound and cost-saving alternatives" to the OEM tanks, adding, "Their print quality is flawless." |
Journal Online: Ricoh Lowers Cost of Printing for Workgroup Color Lasers
[August 17, 2010] On July 21, Ricoh announced the Aficio SP C430DN and SP C431DN, a pair of letter/A4-sized workgroup color laser printers that replace the Aficio SP C420DN. While the new printers use the same pulverized color toner as their predecessor, Ricoh has jettisoned the standard- and high-yield toner cartridges available for the SP C420DN for a single set of new higher-yield toner cartridges. Cost-per-page figures are lower for the new printers than for their predecessor. |
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