In a bid to win back market share in its crucial but declining printing and imaging business, computer maker Hewlett-Packard is introducing new technology in its inkjet printers that should help the company and consumers save time and money.
"This makes it much cheaper internally, " says Stephen Nigro , senior vice president and general manager of imaging and printing technology platforms for HP.
Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) revenue declined 3% year over year with a 15.8% operating margin.
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In this instance, it is blending the Personal Systems Group (PSG) with the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG).
H-P was expected to announce a reorganization that will move its imaging and printing group under its PC-making personal systems group.
Imaging and printing are not the only on and off ramps, but they represent points at which information enters and leaves the system.
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Investors will also be watching HP's lucrative imaging and printing group--the company's most profitable business--for any signs of slackening demand for printer supplies.
And then VJ paints a picture of a whole back-end, cloud-based system that supports his vision of the coming role imaging and printing will play.
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The reorganized Kodak will focus instead on commercial imaging and printing, where it believes it can once become profitable, according to its bankruptcy reorganization plan.
The imaging and printing group saw 5% growth in the quarter.
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The reorganization plan, filed late Tuesday with U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York, has Kodak focusing instead on commercial imaging and printing.
Imaging and printing was down 10%.
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In an interview, the boss was particularly high on the company's imaging and printing business, not just as a cash-spewing consumer business, but as a sophisticated, computation-driven resource for big companies, much like the plans Cisco Systems has for intelligent routers and EMC is planning for storage systems that actively manage how documents are used.
In an interview, the boss was particularly high on the company's imaging and printing business, not just as a cash-spewing consumer business, but as a sophisticated, computation-driven resource for big companies, much like the plans Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) has for intelligent routers and EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people ) is planning for storage systems that actively manage how documents are used.
Marry HP and Compaq, and you have a potential T. rex in the food chain of computer imaging, printing, security and storage.
Kodak noted that in addition to the commercial, packaging and functional printing and enterprise services businesses, it also continues to own and operate the Consumer Inkjet, Entertainment Imaging, Commercial Film and Specialty Chemicals businesses, given the company's expertise, capabilities and strong customer relationships in these markets, as well as their combined cash-generating capability.
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