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Panasonic to warn Russian consumers

The Russian headquaters of Panasonic made a statement that the company's specialists found there are a lot of fake Panasonic cartridges at the local market.

All cartridges are sold as originals and are of good quality.
Fake Panasonic KX-FA83А cartridges print well first 1000-1500 pages. After 2000 prints the black is less saturated and after 3000 prints the print is not seen.

The company's authorities suppose a large party of remanufactured cartridges produced in China are sold in the country as original cartridges.

Source: www.panasonic.ru

New Wi-Fi printers from Ricoh

Ricoh launched a new series of Wi-Fi printers The new HotSpot series of printers includes SP C410DN-KP (color printer) and SP 4100N-KP (monochrome printer). These two printers can print documents transmitted via Wi-Fi from any working station.



Ricoh follows the new trend of equipping printers with Wi-Fi introduced by Lexmark and HP.

Source: www.ricoh.com

RechargEast Magazine, January'08

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In the January'08 issue one can find:
» Xerox Phaser 7400 Cartridge Reman.
» EcoTape in Bulgaria and Italy.
» Eastern European News.

Refill kit for Lexmark z13/23/25

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Photo Paper Market in Ukraine

An interesting article was published in the Ukrainian magazine "Kompyuternoe Obozrenie" (Computer Review) in the December'07 issue. The journalists from the magazine spoke to the leading local aftermarket and OEM companies regarding the market of printing and photo paper. Here are some factual data from the article:

AFTERMARKET OPINIONS:

Anna Burdina, brand manager in VM / www.vm.ua :
>> the market of photo paper is growing rapidly in the Ukraine;
>> VM’s sales of photo paper doubled as compared with 2006;
>> 180 g glossy photo paper is the most popular in the company’s product range;
>> 10x15 is the most popular format for photo paper;
>> the ratio aftermarket Barva (VM’s trademark) vs. OEM photo paper is 1:10.

Alexey Goncharov, Sales Director, WWM / www.wwm.com.ua :
>> over 75-80% of all digitally made photos are left in digital formats;
>> still, a lot of local customers still perceive “photos” as pictures printed on paper;
>> as photo paper is not the priority direction for the company, the growth of sales in this segment was only 17% in 2007 as compared with 2006 for WWM;
>> 170-200 g photo paper is the most popular;
>> A4 230 g paper is also popular in terms of quality and price;
>> in the offer of the company the ratio “aftermarket vs. OEM paper” is 20 : 80.

OEM OPINIONS:

Vitaly Leschinsky, Manager in IPG, HP Ukraine:
>> the growth in sales for the segment of photo paper is 50% in 2007 as compared with 2006;
>> 60% of all sales are for 10x15 photo paper;

Alexey Romanko, development manager, Lexmark Ukraine:
>> photo paper is one of the most dynamic markets;
>> it is hard to give precise figures about this market in Ukraine due to the diversity of distribution and dealer channels in the country;
>> the most popular formats are A$ and 10x15;
>> customers prefer glossy paper; professional designers and photographers prefer vinyl and polyester films;
>> customer’s attachment to a photo paper brand is from 40% to 60%.

Alexandra Tkachenko, senior manager in Epson Europe B.V in Ukraine:
>> our sales in the segment of photo paper grew by 60% in 2007;
>> 2007 best selling products are Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper, 10x15, 255 g, 500 sheet packs.
>> the new format photo paper (13x18 cm) was accepted pleasantly by the local market;

The full text of the article in Russian is available for download here.

RechargEast Magazine -> printing supplies aftermarket news from Eastern Europe.

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Xerox = copier?

Xerox announced it redesigned its logo. An unpredecented act that needs millions to implement? Why is Xerox willing to do so?

An interesting article in this respect was published in New York Times:

Xerox Hopes Its New Logo Doesn’t Say ‘Copier’

By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH
Published: January 7, 2008

Still think copier when you hear the name Xerox?

The company knows that you do. And it is sick of it. Good grief, Xerox doesn’t even make stand-alone copiers any more.

These days, Xerox gets most of its revenue from machines that both print and copy, and that can be plugged into networks for use in offices and high-speed publishing. It has introduced 100 new products in the last three years. But it doesn’t want the Xerox name to conjure them up, either, given that services — like managing a company’s document flow — are a pretty fast-growing part of the product mix, too.

So this morning, Xerox unveiled what it says is the most sweeping transformation of its corporate identity since it dropped “Haloid” from the Haloid Xerox name in 1961. In a broadcast to employees, it announced that it would retire the staid red capital X that has dominated its logo for 40 years in favor of what Richard Wergan, vice president of advertising, calls “a brand identity that reflects the Xerox of today.”

The new logo consists of a bright red lowercase “xerox” that sits alongside a red sphere sketched with lines that link to form a stylized X. According to Anne M. Mulcahy, Xerox’s chief, that little piece of art represents the connection to customers, partners, industry and innovation.

Ms. Mulcahy insists that the Xerox brand already stands for all those things already, of course. But clearly she is banking that the new look will, perhaps subliminally, drive home the point that Xerox is, as she put it, “engaging and approachable” as well as “technologically savvy and eager to lead in the 21st century.” That’s a pretty tall task for a ball-and-X to accomplish. But Xerox points to a lot of research that says it is up to it.

The full text of the article is available here (click on the link).

Noritsu D701

At the 2008 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas held last week, commercial developing-system manufacturer Noritsu showed off a photo ink jet printer designed to put more retailers in the business of developing pictures. The video below gives more details.



Source and more details

Spamming your printer...

Aaron Weaver has made a discovery the world could probably do without: He's found a way to spam your printer from the Web.

By using a little-known capability found in most Web browsers, Weaver can make a Web page launch a print job on just about any printer on a victim's network. The Web site could print annoying ads on the printer and theoretically issue more dangerous commands, like telling the printer to send a fax, format its hard drive, or download new firmware.

Weaver, a security manager in the financial industry, based in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, described what he calls "cross site printing" in a research paper published Tuesday on the Ha.ckers.org Web site.

For a cross-site printing attack to work, a victim would have to visit either a malicious Web site or a legitimate page that suffers from a cross-site scripting flaw, which is a common type of Web programming error. The hacker would then send JavaScript code to the browser that would guess the location of the victim's printer and send it a print job.

Weaver has launched the attack successfully with both the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. Because the attack works only on network printers, a printer plugged directly into a PC would not be vulnerable.

Full report here

Source: www.infoworld.com

Epson CISS videos

Epson ME2


Epson CX4200


Epson R260

HP is "impeccable"

Today I came across a research report for ink quality. The report was ordered by HP and its goal was to "prove" HP inks are better than any other inks. The research showed HP inks are the best of all. As they say, "he who pays calls the tune". Here are some graphs with the results. In the second one I admired the 0,0%...Even statistically this result is not possible. The researchers go against the stats :)





Here is the full report available for download.

Xerox Phaser 8860

Xerox has come with a new product to break with the traditional business model of printer manufacturers. In traditional printer-manufacturing business printers are reall give-aways, while ink and toner cartridges are supposed to return their price as they user replaces them.

Xerox Phaser 8860 is a product that costs over 2500 USD and offers 3,2 cent copies, whereas very few color printers go below 10 cents for a copy. Actually, this low price per copy is due to the use of solid inks and not toner. The speed is 16 ppm, which is way lower than in competiting devices. Still, the cost per copy is unbeatable.



Photo: PC Magazine

RechargEast Magazine, December'07

RechargEast Magazine goes free. All issues can be freely downloaded one month after their publication in the printed version.

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In the December'07 issue one can find:
>> Xerox Phaser 6250 CARTRIDGE REMANUFACTURING INSTRUCTIONS;
>> Profile of EcoTape (Italy/Bulgaria);
>> Cartridges bringing in profits: Cartridge Land South-Russian manufacturer of printing supplies, among other materials.

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3D printers come into life

Printing goes beyond usual toner-on-paper or ink-on-paper rendering of text and images. The new generation of 3D printers come into being and become popular with specialists in such fields as architecture, automobiles, etc.

Why have 3D printers? Why have a 3D model and make a real object of it? Infact, there are needs for it. The most important need comes from various industries - 3D printers allow to build prototypes in the fastest way possible. Thus, it is possible to see the way a model may look like. As people from air craft project companies say, presentation of a 3D prototype can diminish the final cost of a product, as engineers do not need to create tens of drawings to see the look of a detail.

The UK Thinglab offers building products from drawings:



Here is one of the exisiting 3D printers. Such printers can cost as high as 40 thousand USD.

Brother new printer

Brother HL4040 in the ad:

Original HP ad for its photo printers

Funny printer problem

Do not do it at home :)

Primitive ink refill