TONERNEWS.COM FOR TODAY / 12 -19- 2012

Australia's Price of Oem Hp ink Just Stinks  

Price of ink just stinks - Chanel No.5 is cheaper than printer ink
YOU can buy a printer for about $150 but the ink costs more than Chanel No.5 or champagne, prompting consumer advocates Choice to call for a government investigation.
A 3.5ml cartridge of yellow HP ink costs $10.50 through the Good Guys, meaning consumers will pay $3/ml - or $3000 per litre....More 

Fuji Xerox May Miss Fiscal 2013 Revenue Target ....  

Fuji Xerox Co., Japan’s biggest maker of color printers, may miss its sales target for the next fiscal year because of slowing demand.
“Even if we manage to achieve our earnings plan this fiscal year, it will still be quite hard for us to boost sales enough to reach the target,” President Tadahito Yamamoto said in an interview today. He was referring to the closely held company’s revenue estimate of 1.1 trillion yen ($13 billion) for the year starting April 1..More

Ricoh Named in Top 100 Global Innovators List  

Ricoh New Zealand’s parent corporation, Ricoh Company Ltd, has been named as one of the 2012 Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators.
December 2012 Ricoh New Zealand’s parent corporation, Ricoh Company Ltd, has been named as one of the 2012 Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators.
The list honours 100 corporations and institutions around the world “that are at the heart of innovation”..More

Xerox Researcher Winner of Black Engineer of the Year Award  

A researcher at Xerox Corp.’s Webster campus is 2013 recipient of the Black Engineer of the Year Special Recognition Award.Antonio Williams of Rochester will receive the honor at the Black Engineer of the Year Award STEM Global Competitiveness Conference to be held in February in Washington D.C. The conference and award is put on by Lockheed Martin Corp., the Council of HBCU Engineering Deans, US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine and Aerotek Inc....Read More 

Indiana Charity Needs Your Old Phones & Ink Cartridges 

NORTH BEND, Ore.-- Are you getting an new cell phone for Christmas, or maybe you have some old ink cartridges laying around? One South Coast charity will gladly take those old ratty things off your hands.

Oregon Coast Community Action (ORCCA) is trying a new fundraising technique to raise money for its Court Appointed Special Advocates program...Read More

99 Year old Man has Printer Ink in His Veins

Jim Woods, 99, the inspiration behind and proprietor of the wonderful Queanbeyan Age Printing Museum is testimony to the miraculous medicinal powers of Glauber's Salts.
(Last Sunday's column was about Mr Woods and his museum and we promised a second instalment on Monday from our interview with him at his museum.)
But to go back a step: Mr Woods' lifelong involvement in printing and newspapers began when he was just six - selling the local paper on the streets of Temora. From that modest beginning he went on to have a long career running country newspapers. He is probably best known in Canberra-Queanbeyan as the owner of the Queanbeyan Age from the 1950s until 1994....Read More

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        TONERNEWS.COM FOR TODAY / 12 -19- 2012

Houston Audits Office Depot And Finds Overcharges of $6.6M  

By Emily Roach
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
The city of Houston has joined the list of governments who claim Office Depot failed to honor the best-pricing guidelines provided for in their contracts. Houston revealed the results of an extensive audit Friday covering the years 2006-2010, the estimated overcharges of $1.7 million to $6.6 million....More 

Kyocera Europe Still Publishing Remanufactured Toner Propaganda  

Of the toners tested by TÜV Rheinland, Kyocera Genuine Toner performed best
Kyocera Genuine Toner is more reliable, has higher image quality and produces less waste than Third Party Toners tested
December 2012 TÜV Rheinland, the internationally-recognised, impartial technical testing, inspection, certification, consultation and training expert, has recently delivered results that show Kyocera Genuine Toner to be significantly better than the third-party toners tested, based on every criteria measured, including print quality, reliability and wastage. Kyocera Document Solutions, one of the world’s leading document solutions companies, welcomes these unbiased results.....Read More 

Canada :Consumers Face Big Increase In Eco Fees For Printers  

By Ellen Roseman
If you buy a floor standing printer or photocopier, you could see the price soar next month, thanks to Ontario’s eco fee program.
The eco fee on large printers and copiers will go up to $341.20 on Jan. 1. That’s up more than 10 times from the $32.50 fee that has been in force since April 2010.
Technological change is behind the steep increase, says Jonathan Spencer, executive director of Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES), the company running the electronic waste recycling program on behalf of producers....Read More

Many Young Adults Ditch Laptops for Smartphones

Smartphones are more important to young adults in the U.S. and three other countries than laptops, desktops or tablets, according to a survey of 1800 18- to 30-year-old users in 18 countries.
The laptop was still preferred over the smartphone by Generation Y users in the remaining 14 countries in the survey, but usually by only a small margin, according to the online survey of full-time university students and workers between ages 18 to 30 was conducted by a research unit within Cisco...More

HP Reveals Revamped 2013 Strategy for Chinese Market  

After six quiet months on the job, HP China chief Yi Xiaohui has come out with a public announcement of the division’s strategy to reach the domestic market, Sina Techreports.
Yi unveiled a five-fold plan to reporters yesterday in one of his first media appearances as the head of HP’s China operations since he left Lenovo to take the role in June.
Lenovo, in fact, is HP’s toughest competitor in the PC market, having recently claimed the title of world’s largest PC vendor, at least according to some industry estimates. HP, for its part, has cast doubt on the figures, but at this point,..Read More

Epson's Kodak Moment

Minoru Usui is rising to the challenge, seeking to leverage on Seiko Epson Corp's core strengths in technology and high quality manufacturing to regain lost ground.
By Amit Roy Choudhury


-PHOTO: YEN MENG JIIN
YOU could say that Minoru Usui had his "Kodak moment" shortly before he took over his present job as President of Seiko Epson Corporation in 2008. This was when he realised that there was a distinct possibility that the illustrious Japanese electronics company was in danger of going the way of Kodak, the famous US brand which had fallen into irrelevance because it did not keep up with the changing market and consumer preferences....Read More

 

TONERNEWS.COM FOR TODAY / 12- 19 -2012

Thank's to Clover, Here's Why There's a War Over Your Empty Cartridge

First came gold and then came clunkers. Now there is cash for cartridges.
Clover Technologies Group LLC, the world's largest remanufacturer of printer cartridges, can no longer rely on places like OfficeMax Inc. and Staples Inc. to collect and supply it with used cartridges. So Hoffman Estates-based Clover recently launched Evolve Recycling, a company with the sole purpose of gathering secondhand cartridges directly from consumers...Read More

Former HP CEO Throws Chairman Ray Lane Under The Bus

The furor over HP's $8.8 billion writedown of its $11.1 billion acquisition of Autonomy refuses to die down.
HP blamed $5 billion of the writedown on accounting fraud at Autonomy. CEO Meg Whitman also singled out two HP executives for blame, former CEO Apotheker and former chief strategy officer, Shane Robison.
And now Apotheker is joing the fray, trying to clear his name.
In email to a reporter, he says you have to start the blame game at the top: with HP's board and its executive chairman, Ray Lane....Read More

Apple Suddenly Spending Billion$ On Secret Projects ...

In the quarter ending June 2011, Apple spent less than $1 billion on property, plants, and equipment.
By March 2012, the number had spiked beyond $2 billion, beyond $3 billion, and approached $4 billion.
Horace Dediu thinks that number will zoom past $4 billion in 2013.
Here's a chart he made to show what the spike looks like so far:                                
Here's the the interesting part about all this massive spending.
No one outside of Apple knows where it's going....Read More

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S.Korea Says Samsung Chip Plant Causes Cancer

By YOUKYUNG LEE
AP Business Writer
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A South Korean government agency said Friday that working at a Samsung Electronics factory caused the breast cancer of a worker who died earlier this year, only the second time it has recognized a link between cancer and Samsung's chip plants.
The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service, which is part of the labor ministry, ruled earlier this month that there was a "considerable causal relationship" between the woman's cancer and her five years of work at a semiconductor plant near Seoul. The ruling didn't become public until Friday when the agency announced compensation for the woman's family....Read More