Lexmark

Lexington, KY and Irvine, CA, March 24, 2015 – Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) and Kofax Limited (NASDAQ and LSE: KFX) today announced that the two companies have entered into a merger agreement in which Lexmark will acquire Kofax. Under the terms of the merger Read More

Attorneys for a number of hardware manufacturers are ramping up for what appears to be a very busy year. Canon, Hewlett-Packard, and Lexmark all have lawsuits pending in various U.S. federal courts against firms both foreign and domestic. The defendants are alleged to have Read More

While the market for digital imaging hardware and supplies is mature and various segments are declining, most copier companies have been reporting improved revenue for the past couple of years. The majority of copier makers are Japanese companies of course, and they’ve benefited Read More

Since January 2 we’ve been presenting the Document Imaging Industry Year in Preview in ENX/The Week in Imaging with brief comments from industry players representing the hardware, solutions, services, and supplies side of the document imaging industry as well as key industry Read More

What’s new? That’s the question I e-mailed to dozens of players in the document imaging industry back in November and again in December, if they didn’t respond to my first query, about what they’ve got new for 2015 that will help their dealers and resellers be successful.  The Read More

As another year begins it’s time to examine the trends that will impact the document imaging industry in 2015 and beyond, along with the trend setters who will be setting the pace in the coming year. To help identify those trends and trendsetters we contacted six industry Read More

The hardware, solutions, services, and supplies providers continue to share their 2014 highlights. These highlights, albeit brief, paint a vivid picture of the document imaging industry in 2014. “I am pleased to note that 2014 was a very favorable year for Toshiba.  Coupled with Read More

Going into 2014, there was every indication that it would be another busy year for attorneys representing hardware manufacturers. As last year ended, Canon, Epson, HP, Lexmark, and Samsung were pursuing cases in either Europe or in the United States, and some had cases pending in Read More

You’d better not call Lexmark a printer company anymore. You can, but if you want to more accurately describe who they are today and what they offer channel partners and customers, the word “solutions” aka “software” better be somewhere in that description. That was a key message Read More

Following up on my editorial last week on the annual Cannata charity awards dinner, The Cannata Report has issued a press release announcing that it has raised a total of nearly $1.4 million for charity since 1997.  Frank G. Cannata, founder, president and Read More

I spent the first part of this week at BTA Grand Slam in Baltimore, home of the MLB Eastern Division Champion Baltimore Orioles. For a regional event, this had all the substance of a national event, or at least the sessions I attended did. What’s nice about this event is th Read More

It wasn’t so long ago I was thinking this was going to be a quiet fall when it came to travel and other industry related events. Was I ever wrong! My fall travel calendar is rapidly filling up after a quiet summer. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago in my article on the Toshiba Read More

OEM road shows are proving to be excellent educational opportunities not only for dealer principals, but for their sales reps, and depending on the agenda, their service techs too. Toshiba’s “Together Smarter 2014 Product & Solutions Summit,” which rolled through St. Louis; Read More

This week Mitch Taylor, sales manager for 4 Office Automation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, shares what’s hot and what’s not in his market. 4 Office sells Kyocera and Lexmark hardware as well as solutions such as Pcounter, PaperCut, and Equitrac. What’s hot? Taylor: The Kyocera Read More

I can always count on Lexmark’s Phil Boatman to succinctly answer questions related to anything Lexmark and that’s what he did when I recently asked what Lexmark has planned for its dealer channel in 2014. If you’re a Lexmark dealer you’ll find his comments noteworthy, if Read More