Tricia Judge looks at the U.S. International Trade Commission’s focus on trade problems that affect the industry. The USITC has launched a recent investigation into trade in remanufactured goods.
Lisa Weber profiles German ink manufacturer OCP GmbH in this month’s case study. Learn more about this colorful company and its race to keep up with the OEMs.
Color remains both a growth opportunity and a challenge for the aftermarket, as evidenced by this year’s color survey. Through the recent survey results, we see that while many are turning to outsourcing, others continue to enhance their technical resources and in-house capabilities.
Gaining color market share has been a challenge for the aftermarket. Will the industry repeat history and be able to produce quality color cartridges to gain more share? Or will remanufacturers find themselves at an impasse beyond which they can’t proceed? Through expert opinion and research, this article looks at color — the aftermarket's crux.
Actionable Intelligence's Charles Brewer completes a two-part series examining some of the advancements made in inks and toners as well as the cartridges that they ship in. He looks at recent trends in terms of the composition and performance of the latest consumables along with what’s happening with operating costs.
Consumers are clamoring for real OEM alternatives, so why isn’t the aftermarket capturing more share? Luke Goldberg of MSE invites you to do some self-reflection and examine a few possibilities.
Mike Garofola of OKI Data Americas looks at new technologies that are making color printing more affordable for organizations, and when implemented in the educational environment, color dramatically increases students’ performance as well.
Learn how to remanufacture Xerox WorkCentre 3550 toner cartridges in this month's step-by-step technical article. First released in September 2010, the Xerox WorkCentre 3550 printers are based on a 35-ppm, 1,200-dpi engine. The first page out is rated at less than nine seconds, and the maximum monthly duty cycle is 75,000 pages. These are nice, easy cartridges to remanufacture, and they have a nice profit margin as well.
Larry Jamieson shares some of Lyra Research’s findings, which contains a sampling of information from a report that compares devices by color speed segments rather than traditional categories for Segment 1-3 color laser MPFs.
The age of the color aftermarket has been slow to arrive, but a basic understanding of the science of color can help.