News Briefing

Lawsuits are nothing new to third-party supplies vendors. Companies that remanufacture spent cartridges or reverse-engineer and manufacture new compatible SKUs routinely face lawsuits. I’ve been following the consumables markets since the late 1990s and have written plenty about Read More

The American author and poet Maya Angelou once said, “When you know better, you do better.” Hewlett Packard appears to have taken Dr. Angelou’s words to heart in its ongoing effort to eradicate from the market cartridges that violate its intellectual property. Rather than file a Read More

Looking over the recent results of various hardware vendors for the second half of 2013, it is clear that the industry is seeing new signs of life.  Many companies are reporting that sales are up modestly compared to last year along with profits, and those that did not experience Read More

On October 7, one month to the day after the doors opened at PRINT 13, the Graphic Arts Show Company (GASC) released their final attendance figures for this year’s show. As I expected, the quadrennial event failed to draw as many attendees or exhibitors as PRINT 2009 did. Read More

As summer came to a close, milestones were reached in two of the digital imaging industry’s mostly closely watched patent-infringement cases in the United States. First, the review period ended for orders issued in late June by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Read More

At the close of day on the last Friday of June, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) announced it had issued a general exclusion order (GEO) that could profoundly impact the market for certain toner cartridges in the U.S. Just after issuing the GEO, the ITC released a Read More

Last summer, I wrote an article for ENX about Lexmark’s efforts to extract royalty fees from an undisclosed number of third-party supplies vendors. Alleging the firms had marketed remanufactured toner cartridge that violated its patents, Lexmark demanded the accused pay royalties Read More

In January, Parts Now announced that it has become the “the initial distributor and reseller for Memjet-powered C6010 color printers in North America.” In addition to the machine, the company is also marketing ink tanks, print heads, and other parts for the C6010 as well as “Fill Read More

Despite all the bad news we have been hearing about the hard copy market lately, hardware manufacturers have remained active. Last year, the industry witnessed plenty of important new product releases for office users. The year began with news of many new machines, and we then Read More

From the opening weeks of 2012, right through December, the headlines have been dominated by news of lawsuits and settlements. The year began with Canon suing dozens of third-party supplies vendors for violating its patents on gears used in toner cartridges. In the spring, word Read More