Ricoh Named as Leader in Analyst Firm’s Magic Quadrant

WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Aug. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today announced that Gartner placed Ricoh as a Leader in its Magic Quadrant for multifunction products (MFPs) and printers worldwide (1). Gartner’s Magic Quadrant serves as a guide for midsize to [...]

Epson Partners With Philips to Offer Printing Solutions for Ultrasound Medical Devices Worldwide

LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ — Epson America today announced an agreement with Royal Philips Electronics that will help pair Epson ink jet printers and WorkForce all-in-ones, designed specifically for business environments, with Philips ultrasound medical imaging systems in healthcare clinics and hospitals in the U.S. and around the world, wherever Epson printers are [...]

3 Facts Printer Manufacturers Don’t Want Consumers to Know

Dayton, July  2010 — Shopping for replacement ink and toner cartridges  can be an “eye opening” experience. Consumers quickly realize that the cost of purchasing a printer is minimal when compared to the cost of operating that printer, particularly the high cost of buying replacement ink and toner cartridges. It is not uncommon to find [...]

Greenpeace names, shames companies over Indonesia paper

JAKARTA — Greenpeace on Tuesday accused foreign firms like Walmart, Carrefour and Tesco of contributing to forest destruction and species loss in Indonesia by buying from paper and palm oil giant Sinar Mas.

The environmental group said Sinar Mas subsidiary Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) was “relentlessly trashing rainforests”, spewing carbon into the atmosphere and driving [...]

Ink Jet Printers Tell White Lies and Flatter Endlessly

That photo of you coming out of your HP ink jet photo printer – you look so vibrant, so full of life. “Dahling,” the photo screams, “You look mahvelous. Absolutely mahvelous!”

You look so good in fact that you may ask yourself: “Do I really look like that?”

Sorry, my dear.

With HP ink jet photo printing (and [...]