Through its on-line store, Dell also sells some 30, 000 computer-related products including Hewlett-Packard printers and PalmPilot organizers.
Among other things, it makes microflex circuits, a technology 3M nearly abandoned in the early 1980s, which tell Hewlett-Packard printers how much ink to dispense.
Nearly all of Hewlett-Packard's printers are made by someone else.
One of Nektar's earliest hires was Adrian Smith, a mechanical engineer who had designed ink-jet printers for Hewlett-Packard and medical devices at venerable design firm IDEO.
At its 100 factories in 28 countries on four continents, Flextronics churns out half a million products daily--printers for Hewlett-Packard, cell phones for Motorola and handhelds for Palm.
At a hundred factories in 28 countries on four continents, Flextronics churns out half a million products daily--printers for Hewlett-Packard, cell phones for Ericsson and handhelds for Palm.
One of Nektar's earliest hires was Adrian Smith, a mechanical engineer who had designed ink-jet printers for Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) and medical devices at venerable design firm IDEO.
Customers of Flextronics International (nasdaq: FLEX - news - people ), whose products include printers for Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) and the Xbox for Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), have asked for contingency plans in case manufacturing is disrupted in China.
Hewlett-Packard and Epson are pitching software, printers and project ideas to croppers.
Just this past week, while the rest of us were out enjoying the holiday season, Hewlett Packard released a fix for certain of its printers susceptible to remote hacking.
Last month, just days after HP voters apparently blessed the Compaq merger (the final tally is still pending), Hewlett-Packard quietly rolled out its first Indigo printers-awesome machines that deliver high-quality color prints at up to 500 pages a minute.
It is in a dogfight with the financially troubled Xerox and the managerially distracted Hewlett-Packard to capture the market for color digital printers: industrial-grade, electronic presses that can churn out a run of thousands of full-color, personalized documents.
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.
He is encouraged, not discouraged, by Dell's brash move into printers, where it confronts entrenched Hewlett-Packard (see story, p. 76).
Hewlett-Packard this week introduced new technology in its inkjet printers that could mean cheaper and higher-quality prints and might alter the economics of the printer market.
The rest of Hewlett-Packard's business comes from items like servers, printers and software.
The biggest company by sales among the top-tier printer makers is Hewlett-Packard, which has long counted on its market-share-leading printers to provide an outsize portion of profits while accounting for about 25% of revenue.
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Hewlett-Packard did that cleverly in designing a gadget that gooses the performance of desktop printers (see box).
While tablets and smartphones have killed consumer printing (inkjets and photo printers), Xerox has less exposure to this area than competitors Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Lexmark International (LXK).
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