Dell isn't planning to sell HP-compatible printer cartridges--a huge profit center for Hewlett-Packard.
Now the world's largest envelope manufacturer--it cranked out 37 billion last year--and fourth-largest commercial printer, Mail-Well offers a glimpse into an industry consolidation gone awry.
December 4, 2012, New Delhi: Hewlett-Packard India today introduced the HP Hotspot LaserJet Pro M1218nfs MFP, a 7-in-1 All-in-One printer with in-built wireless Internet hotspot.
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Chairwoman Patricia Dunn won't face jail time on state charges filed in the wake of last year's spy scandal at computer- and printer- giant HP.
Former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn won't face jail time on state charges filed in the wake of last year's spy scandal at computer- and printer- giant HP.
Bob Cornick of Zebra Technologies , a manufacturer of printer-encoders, says Wal-Mart broke that paradigm, as companies debated investing in a technology or waiting to see how it grows.
Bluetooth may be cheaper, but it faces many of the same chicken-and-egg problems: why pay extra for a Bluetooth-enabled printer if you do not have a Bluetooth-enabled laptop, and vice versa?
The company sells a 3-D printer called the Thing-O-Matic, which carves plastic models from digital, user-created blueprints.
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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Designed for portability, the Z340 combines a 14.0 megapixel digital camera with a ZINK-enabled printer using the ink-free Zero Ink Printing Technology from ZINK Imaging to deliver a 3x4'' print - the same size as the classic Polaroid photos that captured millions of special memories over the past 63 years.
The 3-D printer maker Stratasys went so far as to seize a 3-D printer it had rented to the gunsmiths at Defense Distributed when it found out how they were planning it use it.
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And the setup let each side avoid accountability: If a new printer flopped, was it because of bad design in the printer division--or because CSG had done a poor job in selling it?
Before HP brought us the low-priced ink-jet printer all office printing was black.
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Other products in the e-wear line include a tiny thermal printer, the SV-P10, which will print photos from the SV-AV10 onto small sheets of paper that are 2.7 inches long by 1.5 inches wide.
Last year Canon, the top copier-and-printer company, abolished automatic pay rises for anybody over 32.
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The consortium tested the practicalities of using a printer on the Moon by setting up a D-shape 3D printer, which are used to print very large house-sized structures, in a vacuum chamber with simulated lunar material.
But you need an HP-branded, Web-enabled printer to use ePrint.
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Polaroid has a pocket-sized mobile printer that allows users to print 2-by-3-inch photos on the go.
Marc Katz, 34, co-founder of online T-shirt printer CustomInk, who learned what it was like to live with the ups and downs of starting three different businesses, from father Steve Katz, 62.
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The Photosmart 2710 All-in-One combines a inkjet printer with a fax, copier, and scanner, and can print wirelessly using built-in 802.11g WiFi or an optional Bluetooth module.
Thus, Canon's core engine technologies still hold nearly 60% of the laser-printer market, including machines sold through an alliance with Hewlett-Packard.
The Samsung CLP-365W Laser Color Printer is perfect for personal or small-business use with amazing color and wireless capabilities in a compact ergonomic design.
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Photos can also be printed wirelessly using Wireless PictBridgeiv on select Canon wireless inkjet printers, including the new PIXMA MG6320 Photo All-In-One printer, so special moments can be preserved and cherished.
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He showed a slide of a boy in South Africa, born without fingers on his right hand, who received a low-cost prosthetic made by a 3-D printer.
Banc of America Securities analyst Keith Bachman maintained his "buy" rating on Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) after the PC and printer giant announced the resignation of software division head Nora Denzel following Wednesday's market close.
Early users of the close-range wireless technology already know it's useful for things like performing a HotSync operation from across a room--provided you have that PC outfitted for Bluetooth already--or printing documents from the handheld to a Bluetooth-ready printer.
And with a single-minded commitment to the printer market and a history of innovative, low-cost products, Lexmark looks well positioned to continue its growth.
Lexmark's marketing teams listened and their in-house engineers (Lexmark manufactures its own products) designed a low-heat printer especially for retail pharmacies.
And the first rumblings of a rights-management system for controlling the sharing of physical things are appearing: The IP-hoarding firm Intellectual Ventures received a patent in October for a 3-D printer feature that blocks the creation of verboten objects.
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