HP announced new imaging and printing products this week. These include services and solutions with enhanced productivity tools, new security solutions and mobility offerings to enable businesses of all sizes to capture, connect and communicate more securely and efficiently. Among HP’s new offerings is the HP Officejet 150 Mobile All-in-One, “the world’s first mobile all-in-one printer and an ideal companion for business professionals who need a compact, durable solution for printing, scanning and copying while on the go,” HP’s statement reported. It features built-in wireless Bluetooth for printing from select notebooks and smartphones as well as a long-lasting lithium-ion battery that provides enough power to print up to 500 pages on a full charge.
Sharp declines in the consumer markets were largely responsible for the Western European hard-copy markets tumbling 12.1 percent in the first quarter of 2012 to 5.8 million shipments, compared with 6.6 million a year ago. Revenues also suffered as prices continued to fall, declining 5.3 percent year on year to $2.9 billion in 1Q12 from $3.1 billion in 1Q11. In 1Q12 consumer inkjets saw the heaviest declines (16.6 percent), while even the combined business markets dipped year on year by 5.1 percent despite the strong growth in business inkjet shipments. The composition of the business markets is continuing to change, however, with color laser products now accounting for a third of all laser shipments; maybe more concerning for some vendors, however, is the fact that business inkjets accounted for one in five of the combined laser and business inkjet market, which represents most of the office products market.
Check out RechargerMag.com’s new resident blog, The Print Guy, written by industry expert Christian Pepper. In his first blog, Pepper reminds us of what the print industry looked like in the good ol’ days of the ’90s: Office laser print devices were to businesses what tablets are now in the twen-teens. They were innovative. They exponentially increased productivity and transformed the way we conducted business. Back then, print was “on demand,” and for the only time in its lifecycle, it was sexy! Fast forward to the present, and it’s quite a different story.
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