Even some vendors keep their distance: Hewlett-Packard (HP), for example, gets very cross whenever it's referred to as 'the printer company'. Firms would suddenly be in a position to work out just how much of their IT budget is being spent on...
This is often fine for the small office/home office market, which as Peter Taylor, Hewlett-Packard's (HP) product manager for network laser printers, explained, tends to be pushed for space. Paul Curlander, chairman and CEO at Lexmark International...
HP, which holds 59 per cent of the printer market, said it expects more of its sales to move to all-on-ones and printers specialised for printing photos. The new printers come ahead of Dell Computer's move into the printer market, which is set for...
HP revealed details of three new multifunction printing, copying, scanning and fax machines, four new laser and inkjet printers, digital pen and paper forms automation software and print server adapters for networking and remote administration.
Lexmark claimed most firms are still running inefficient printing operations as it unveiled its latest line of laser and multifunction printers aimed at small and medium-sized businesses at its annual conference in Lisbon today.
Not only is the web driving colour printing but many businesses are also using high-end colour printer and copier devices to print material that would have previously been fulfilled by external print houses.