HP DesignJet Printing Technology Helps New Jersey Search and Rescue Save Lives New Jersey Search and Rescue (NJSAR), a team of more than 50 highly trained volunteers who conduct an average of 25 missing-person searches per year, installed an HP DesignJet T2500 Multifunction Printer (MFP) to produce large-format maps to aid in search-and-rescue missions. On…

HP Inc. Wins Lifting of Patent Infringement Preliminary Injunction by MEMJET   Feb. 3, 2016 – Today HP Inc. announced the favorable ruling to lift a patent infringement preliminary injunction by MEMJET. The ex parte preliminary injunction issued by the Regional Court in Munich affected HP Deutschland GmbH from sales of HP PageWide XL Series printers…

On January 18th, Memjet filed (with the court) its answer to HP’s counterclaim, and, within the answer, Memjet basically denied all of HP’s counterclaims.  In the answer document, Memjet requested a trial by jury. 0 0 1 67 387 Proactive Management 3 1 453 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style…

On January 12th, we put up this post about Copy General Europe’s beginning in Budapest, Hungary. http://reprographics.blogspot.com/2016/01/from-current-issue-of-larry-hunt.html Today, January 22nd, Ed Avis posted an interview-article about the establishment of Copy General in Budapest.  For this article, he interviewed Dirck Holscher, one of the founders of Copy General Budapest.  Ed did a great job on this…

In a recent e-mail I received from a financial analyst who follows the stock market, he said that rail-car shipments have trended down and that that trend has always been a leading indicator of an upcoming recession. I also want to point you to this ….. Dr. Hussman calls recession: “Since October, the economic evidence…

Totally off subject (i.e., this post has nothing to do with reprographics!) A couple of nights ago, I went to see the movie, “The Big Short”.  Although the movie was, I think, very well done (and Steve Carrell’s performance was absolutely terrific), the movie – well, the subject matter covered – made me very angry. …

At 1550a, Russell (“The Connector”) joins Rich Nitzsche (“The Scientist”) and Darren Rizza (“The Visionary”). Not sure what all that means, but, congratulations to Russell on his new gig. Here’s what they say about their company: We are visionary, strategic, and digitally informed thought leaders, leaning on a combined six decades of business technology leadership…

I just received the January 2016 edition of The Larry Hunt Newsletters.  As many of you know, The Larry Hunt Newsletters include three different newsletters, “Color Copy News”, “High-Speed Copy News” and “Wide-Format News.”  These newsletters have long been a great source of information for those in our industry who make equipment-buying-decisions.  When I read…

This afternoon, I received an e-mail from a long-time reprographics industry friend who said, “we just finished our best year ever, sales and profits, and I am excited….” He also asked me this question, “do you have any articles or links (to articles) on the future of the (reprographics) industry and where things in imaging…

My favorite blog for economics information is the CalculatedRisk Blog.  One of the indexes (or, if you prefer, indices) the CR Blog reports on each month is the AIA ABI Index.  Today, the CR Blog had an article that contained a very interesting table.  See below.  Although Reprographers in major metropolitan markets have, historically speaking,…