Dell to enter Japanese market for office color laser printers
TOKYO – Dell Inc will enter the Japanese market for office color laser printers, selling them at about half the price charged by its competitors, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported.The newspaper, without identifying its sources, said Dell’s entry into this market is likely to unleash fierce competition and send prices falling, pruning the high profit margins of Canon Inc and other Japanese producers.The US firm will sell here for less than 90,000 yen a model capable of printing 17 pages per minute in color and 30 pages per minute in monochrome. Comparable printers made by its competitors sell for about 200,000 yen.Dell will also sell ink cartridges at about half the price of rival products, the Nikkei said.