Canon Announces Amazon Takedown Totals Plus Some New Removals
On July 29, Canon Inc. issued two new announcements about the removal from Amazon.com of infringing third-party toner cartridges. At the same time, the OEM also issued a pair of press releases...
View ArticleLD Products Amends Answer and Counterclaims against Canon
Earlier this month, we reported that LD Products planned to amend its answer, affirmative defenses, and counterclaims in response to the patent-infringement lawsuit Canon filed against it in March...
View ArticleCanon Makes McAfee Embedded Security Standard on 3rd-Edition imageRUNNER...
When Canon introduced its imageRUNNER ADVANCE 3rd edition platform in February 2019, the main improvements on the new models centered on enhanced security (see “Canon Announces imageRUNNER ADVANCE 3rd...
View ArticleU.S.-China Trade War Hits Printer OEM Financial Results as Talks Plod
Both sides are talking in slow-going trade negotiations between China and the United States. While U.S. consumers and farmers might be starting to feel the pain of punitive tariffs on hundreds of...
View ArticleCanon Offers AI-Enabled Process Automation from Kofax
Canon U.S.A. has announced the availability of new business process automation solutions from Kofax, the former Lexmark enterprise software business that recently acquired the technology Canon is...
View ArticleKatun Announces Color Toner Cartridges for Canon and Kyocera
In August, Katun Corporation announced the introduction of OEM-alternative color toner cartridges for use in devices from Canon and Kyocera. For Canon machines, Katun has a set of Katun Performance...
View ArticleCanon Answers LD Products’ Counterclaims
Earlier this year, Canon Inc. filed two very similar patent-infringement lawsuits against online aftermarket cartridge resellers LD Products and V4INK. The two defendants have taken different...
View ArticleCanon Announces Integration with PrinterLogic Platform
On August 15, Canon U.S.A. Inc. announced that its third-generation imageRUNNER ADVANCE MFPs will now be integrated with software from PrinterLogic, a provider of serverless printing infrastructure...
View ArticlePrint-Rite Releases Replacement Supplies for HP and Canon Devices
Print-Rite, through its global master distributor Union Technology International (UTec), has issued a couple of announcements about the release of new toner cartridges and drums. Print-Rite has...
View ArticleCanon Refreshes PIXMA TS Series for Back-to-School Shoppers
On August 13, just in time for the back-to-school shopping season, Canon introduced four new consumer-oriented A4 inkjet all-in-ones: the PIXMA TS3320, TS5320, TS6320, and TS8320. Canon says its new...
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Canon Gets Amazon to Pull Huge Number of Aftermarket Toner Cartridges
Canon’s first announcement about an Amazon toner cartridge removal was issued on September 7, 2018. As of July 31, 2019, Canon has issued 100 press releases about the removal of specific sellers’...
View ArticleIDC Reports Hardcopy Peripheral Shipment Decline in Central and Eastern Europe
On August 20, International Data Corporation (IDC) released findings from its latest “Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker” regarding the hardcopy peripheral (printers, copiers, MFPs)...
View ArticleIDC Says India’s Hardcopy Peripheral Market Declined in Q2 2019
In the second quarter of 2019, International Data Corporation (IDC) reported that shipments of hardcopy peripherals in India totaled 0.84 million units—down 0.9 percent from Q1 2019 and down 4.2...
View ArticleCanon Removes 28 More Toner Cartridges from Amazon.com
The last time Canon Inc. issued announcements about the removal of patent-infringing toner cartridges from Amazon was nearly a month ago when the printer maker announced some new infringement reports...
View ArticleCanon Moves for Default Judgment against V4INK
Canon Inc. has asked a California court to award it a default judgment against V4INK, an online seller of aftermarket cartridges, for infringing a set of seven related toner cartridge patents. The OEM...
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The Big Picture: OEM Financials for the Quarter Ended in June 2019
At the end of July and throughout August, printer and copier OEMs reported quarterly financial results for the three-month period ended on June 30, 2019. For all the Japanese OEMs, except Canon, this...
View ArticleIDC Reports Steeper Declines in Worldwide Hardcopy Peripheral Shipments in Q2...
On August 29, International Data Corporation (IDC) released some findings from its “Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker.” In bad news for the industry, IDC reported that year-over-year...
View ArticleCanon Removes Another 26 Infringing Toner Cartridges from Amazon.ca and...
Canon kicked off September 2019 much as it did September 2018: by announcing that it had filed patent-infringement reports with Amazon that led to the removal of various third-party toner cartridges....
View ArticleCONTEXT Study Shows Emerging Economies Drive Adoption of Ink Tank Devices
A study by London-based market analyst firm CONTEXT says the rise of refillable ink tank printers in emerging economies presents opportunities for OEMs to grow market share in Western Europe. The...
View ArticleKatun Introduces More Toner Cartridges and Parts for Canon, Kyocera, and HP
Katun is kicking off September much the same was it did August—with the announcement of new toner cartridges and other parts for Canon and Kyocera devices. But, unlike the firm’s August announcement...
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