Coronavirus Forces Suppliers to Suspend Operations, Move Production Elsewhere
While Chinese health officials work to contain a deadly coronavirus outbreak centered in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province, manufacturers and supply-chain managers around the world are scrambling to...
View ArticleCanon Settles Toner Cartridge Spat with Bublat GmbH & Co. KG
On February 7, Canon Inc. announced that it has signed a settlement agreement with Bublat GmbH & Co. KG and its managing directors that resolves a pending toner cartridge patent-infringement...
View ArticleCanon Announces Toner Cartridge Removals from Amazon in the U.S. and Canada
On February 7, Canon Inc. issued two press releases about its latest toner cartridge removals from Amazon in North America. The OEM says it removed nine Amazon Standard Identification Numbers (ASINs)...
View ArticleCanon Removes Smart Gadget USA and TRIPLE BEST Listings from Amazon.com and...
Canon’s nonstop campaign to remove patent-infringing toner cartridges from Amazon marketplaces continued on February 10 with the news that the OEM has managed to remove eight listings sold by Smart...
View ArticleKatun Announces New Products for Canon and Ricoh
This February, Katun Corporation has announced new product releases for use in Canon and Ricoh machines. For Ricoh SP C430- and C440-series A4 color laser printers, Katun has introduced its Katun...
View ArticleIDC Reports Overall Decline, Some Growth in India’s Hardcopy Peripheral...
On February 18, International Data Corporation (IDC) reported that India’s hardcopy peripheral (printer and MFP) market continued to decline in the fourth quarter of 2019 despite growth in the...
View ArticleCanon Announces Toner Cartridge Takedowns from Amazon.com
On February 21, Canon Inc. issued three press releases about its latest toner cartridge takedowns from Amazon’s U.S. marketplace. The OEM says it removed 17 Amazon Standard Identification Numbers...
View ArticleIDC Announces Worldwide Hardcopy Peripheral Declines for Q4 2019
On February 21, International Data Corporation (IDC) released selected findings from its “Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker” for the fourth quarter of 2019. The research firm tracks...
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The Big Picture: OEM Financials for the Quarter Ended in December 2019
In late January and throughout the month of February, printer OEMs announced financial results for the three-month period ended December 31, 2019. For all the Japanese OEMs, except Canon, this period...
View ArticleCanon Calls Out Three Companies for Amazon Takedowns
In three separate statements released on February 28, Canon Inc. announced the filing of infringement reports with Amazon.com seeking removal of toner cartridge listings offered by three different...
View ArticleCanon Announces New eService Program for Authorized Channel Partners
On March 2, Canon U.S.A., Inc. announced a free “cost-per-use” program for its authorized channel partners called eService. Canon says the new program enhances its channel partners’ ability to deliver...
View ArticleCanon Will End Relationship with HP If HP Is Acquired by Xerox
In a stunning blow that may very well hamper Xerox’s bid to acquire HP, Canon Chairman and CEO Fujio Mitarai has revealed that if Xerox succeeds in acquiring HP, Canon will end its partnership of over...
View ArticleCanon Announces Amazon Toner Cartridge Removals in the U.S. and Europe
On March 5, Canon Inc. issued three press releases about its latest toner cartridge takedowns from Amazon marketplaces in the United States and Europe. The OEM says it removed seven Amazon Standard...
View ArticleHP Board Urges Shareholders to Reject Xerox Offer
Lest anyone be unclear about HP’s opinion of Xerox’s $24-per-share buyout offer, its board of directors provided some choice descriptions in a statement released March 5: “inadequate,”...
View ArticleCanon U.S.A. Appoints New CEO
On March 10, Canon U.S.A. announced some changes at the top of its organizational chart. Company Chairman and CEO Yoroku Adachi will be retiring on March 31. Kazuto Ogawa, Canon U.S.A.’s president and...
View ArticleApex Releases Chips for Canon imageRUNNER 2600 MFPs
On March 11, Apex Microelectronics announced that it has chips for the toner cartridges used in Canon’s imageRUNNER 2600 series of A3 monochrome MFPs. Canon launched the imageRUNNER 2600 series in...
View ArticleCanon Announces Amazon Toner Cartridge Takedowns for Ink Dog, NineLeafToner,...
On March 12, Canon issued three more press releases about reports filed with Amazon over infringing toner cartridges sold on that marketplace. The reports led to the removal of five Amazon Standard...
View ArticleCanon Leads the U.S. A3 Market
As it has done for the last two years, Canon U.S.A. is highlighting a top ranking it has received from International Data Corporation (IDC). On March 12, Canon announced that it was the U.S. market...
View ArticleCoronavirus Won’t Stop Federal Circuit from Hearing Oral Arguments in Canon...
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has begun to impact proceedings at various U.S. courts. In one of many examples, the U.S. Supreme Court closed to the public on March 12. On March 16, the Supreme...
View ArticleCanon Targets Three More Amazon Sellers for Takedowns in U.S. and Europe
On March 17, Canon issued another three press releases about the removal of infringing toner cartridges sold on the Amazon marketplace. With this set of announcements, the OEM revealed it was able to...
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