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India Printer Copier, MFP Shipments Declined 4.7% in Q3 2012 

The combined serial inkjet and page printer, copier and multifunction product (MFP) market in India totaled 7.6 lakh units in Q32012, a 4.7 percent decline from Q32011, according to Gartner. However, total end user spending stood at $246.5 million, up 31 percent from the same period last year.
“The festive season did not really resuscitate the printer copier market; as was expected by major hardware providers....More

Samsung Leads a Tightly Grouped Pack in Printer Satisfaction  

For all the talk of the paperless office, people still print a lot of documents. And for all the typical grousing about printers, users seem generally satisfied with the devices: In this year's PCWorld reader survey of tech satisfaction, reliability, and service, 66.2 percent of respondents said so. However, we saw evidence that overall printer satisfaction is declining: In our 2009 survey, 70.4 percent of printer owners said they were completely satisfied....More 

Canon Pixma Pro Firmware Improves Ink Level Detection ( ? )
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Are you using Canon's recently-released Pixma Pro-10 or Pro-100 inkjet printers, and having problems with your printer reporting its ink level incorrectly? New firmware for both printers released late last week will fix the problem, says Canon, but you may need to expend a little extra ink to find out if the update's necessary....More

LD Products Recruits Radio Personality Bill Handel ... 

LONG BEACH, Calif.-- Having historically been an industry leader in the field of printer ink and toner, in 2012, LD Products began carrying the Pantum printer series as the sole American distributor. Now, LD Products is announcing that radio show host Bill Handel is part of their plan for marketing the new-to-the-US brand of affordable printers. With Handel's years of experience in radio marketing he will be an asset to the print consumables retailer's total marketing strategy to the new line of heavy-duty and affordable printers....More 

China Overtakes U.S. in Number of Patent Filings  

GENEVA (AP) -- GENEVA - The U.N. says the Chinese filed the most patent applications in the world last year, overtaking the U.S. for the first time.
The U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization says China's patent office received 526,412 applications in 2011, ahead of the United States with 503,582 filings....More