Kyocera
Delivers Big and Expects So Much More – Judged against 10%
revenue growth last year, a sweeping set of cleansheet A3 models and enhanced
A4 models this year, and the promise of a bigger software focus in the future,
Kyocera Mita America is doing great. But can anything look good when headquarters
is mandating growth closer to 25% for the next five years?
Stepping
Forward and Backward – Lexmark’s launch of the industry’s lowest
priced solutions capable color MFPs and more tangible MFP integration for the
ImageNow software it acquired a year ago were overshadowed by the announcement
just a day later of disappointing Q1 financial results and reduced expectations
for the rest of 2011. Where is Lexmark headed?
“Why So Good Is Now So Bad” – What
happens when a high-priced, highly profitable product can be counterfeited at
low cost and perform nearly the same as the genuine item? Ask a printer vendor.
Fighting counterfeit toner and ink sales overseas is like a new war on drugs.
Vendors have no choice but to focus on law-and-order crackdowns and endless
technology investment, while funding their own version of “Just say no!” PR campaigns.
