HP Canon & Epson Ink, Lexmark, Brother Toner cartridge Printer Ink Cartridges News

HP has announced that it will be offloading its digital camera business to a third-party manufacturer.

The company will sustain its brand through the holiday season and will seek out an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to take over the production and distribution of all HP digital cameras.

The cameras will retain the HP branding, and the company expects to take a $30m charge as a result of the move.

HP said that it will focus on its printer business, and in particular its Print 2.0 campaign. Printers and inks accounted for roughly 25 per cent of HP’s $25bn in revenue in the most recent quarter.

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Japan’s Canon Inc won a patent lawsuit against a recycled ink cartridge supplier as the Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal against a lower court decision in favour of the camera and office gear maker.

Canon filed a suit at a Tokyo court in 2004, asking a court injunction to block imports and sales by Tokyo-based Recycle Assist Co of recycled Canon ink cartridges that are refilled with non-Canon ink, claiming the products infringe Canon patents.

The Supreme Court decision is significant for Canon as this was the top court’s first decision ever on whether a manufacturer can have patent rights on recycled versions of its own patented products.

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· 30 Oct 2007

The Epson Stylus Pro 3800 has won the Ecohitech Award 2007 for Energy Saving and CO2 Reduction.

Press Release:

Epson today announced that it has won a 2007 ecohitech award for the Epson Stylus Pro 3800 printer. The award, presented on October 29th at a ceremony in Milan, is Italy’s most prestigious recognition of environmental achievement by a technology company, and covers hi-tech processes, products, systems and services.

The jury’s appraisal of Epson’s award, given in the Energy Saving and CO2 Reduction category, states, “The Epson Stylus Pro 3800 is a compact printer developed and produced in accordance with the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In comparison with the previous models, the estimated CO2 emissions during the whole product life are reduced by 44% and the amount of the resources used during the production is reduced by 55%. The printer is EcoLeaf certified. “

This is the third time that Epson has received an ecohitech award. The first time in 2002, was for a high altitude climate monitoring system developed for use in the Himalayas. The second time, in 2003, was for a programme launched by Epson for eliminating lead from the welding alloys in its products.

The award, now in its ninth year, was inaugurated by the Ecoqual’It and Eurotech Consortium under the patronage of major public bodies, including the Italian Government (Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare), and with the backing of WWF Italia.

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Lexmark announced this week that it was rationalizing it’s printer and inkjet manufacturing division with 1,650 job losses worldwide which equates to 11% of its workforce. The plan is focused on the struggling inkjet division which reported losses of $16M for Q3, a reduction in operating revenue of 13% and saw its number of printers sold drop by 14%. These numbers will probably continue to fall over the next year because of an announced plan to withdraw from 30% of the companies inkjet sales over the next year. This on top of the 20% withdrawal announced in January 2006 that was coupled with a restructuring which saw the closure of the companies Scottish Factory in Rosyth. It aims to dramatically reshape the division by the end of 2008.

One of the companies two ink cartridge manufacturing plants in Jutrez, Mexico will close.

Lexmark’s moves are an attempt to stop selling printers to people who don’t print enough!. To find those target users, Lexmark will tailor its marketing and sales to countries where customers print the most. Besides the United States, the company wouldn’t name those nations!. Good Luck there then – and remember it’s your duty to print more to keep Lexmark in business

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How do I reset the protection counter on my Epson printer?    

With most Epson printers you can reset them using a program called SSC for Epson

This allows you to reset the protection counter and continue using the printer after Epson has decided it needs to be ‘repaired’. Unfortunately this software doesn’t work with the new range of Epson printers, but there is a way to bypass this issue.

Use the program at http://www.refillingcartridge.com/wp-content/tools/ResetterForC79.zip

1. Make sure you printer is ON and connected to your computer
   
2. Change your computer’s date to 1 Nov 2006
   
3. Run AdjProg.exe file
   
4. Click Accept button
   
5. Click “Particular adjustment mode”
   
6. Select on “Waste ink pad counter” and click OK button
   
7. Click on “Initialization” button and the program will reset the protection counter
   
8. Click Finish button
   
9. Change your computer’s date back
   

Once that is done the Waste Ink Counter should be reset and you will be able to print once again, without having to buy a new printer.

Warning – this information is supplied purely for information and is not recommended for use if you do not feel confident with the consequences

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