Canon U.S.A.

Apple naysayers love to point out the growing presence of Android-powered smartphones. Apple fans counter with a reminder that no one Android phone outsells the iPhone. Apple, meanwhile, is quite happy just to be making more money than everyone else. It's true that there are more Android phones out there, but just last quarter Google's smartphone OS experienced its first loss of market share in one region since 2009, and industry analysts Needham & Co. suspect it's "just the beginning of Android's share loss in the U.S." Google's U.S. smartphone market share slid from 52.4% at the end of

Take a picture with Lytro's soon to come camera and change the focus to any spot, with the click of a mouse. The only question most photo geeks have is "how much?"

There's a new player in the camera market: Lytro, a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup with just 45 employees, is hoping to disrupt the industry with an innovative camera that lets users focus a picture after it's been taken.

The tiny company came out of stealth mode earlier this week, unveiling its master plan to take on heavyweights like Canon and Nikon.

Last week more than 135 in-plant managers met in Charleston, S.C. for the 52nd In-Plant Printing and Mailing Association conference. With 44 first-time attendees and more than 135 in-plants overall, the conference was bustling with activity, conversations and excitement.

We caught up with Chris Barclay of Connecticut College after his IPMA presentation to learn how his in-plant increased its monthly color printing by 375 percent.

Petra has mailed it's 2011 summer sales flier to retailers, installers and integrators. The flier has over 160 new items and lists 230 more with new reduced prices.

Petra has mailed it's 2011 summer sales flier to retailers, installers and integrators. The flier has over 160 new items and lists 230 more with new reduced prices.

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ June 2011 edition.

Commercial printer equipment installations and other news from Printing Impressions’ June 2011 edition, featuring items on Original Impressions and Astro-Dynamic Print and Graphic Services.

Though digital printing equipment made the biggest splash at the On Demand Conference and Exposition in March, the Washington, D.C. show was chock full of bindery equipment too. IPG visited all of the major bindery vendors. Here's a look at what we saw.

For Years, the in-plant at Steelcase Inc. received jobs in a variety of disjoined ways: e-mail, FTP and even physical drop-offs. Back in 2006, only about 40 percent of jobs were submitted electronically to the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based in-plant, mostly via e-mail. This had begun to take its toll on the productivity of the five-employee shop.

Canon U.S.A. has teamed up with famed filmmaker Ron Howard to launch a multifaceted campaign called “Long Live Imagination."

Canon’s national “Success with Print Education Forum” offers print service providers an inside look at the latest technology and communication innovations in the production print market. The forum was developed to provide attendees with information about how to expand their businesses by selling higher value services.

Japanese camera and copier maker Canon Inc expects its quake-hit supply chain to recover more quickly than originally estimated, giving a roughly 50 billion yen ($600 million) boost to its annual sales, the company's chief executive said.

Fujio Mitarai also told Reuters in an interview that the company may expand a factory under construction in Kyushu, southern Japan, as part of a strategy to diversify its production of key parts.

Last month Canon lowered its annual earnings forecasts and said a recovery in its supply chain, which was disrupted by Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami, was not expected until

Canon U.S.A. has established Canon Information and Imaging Solutions, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to expanding Canon's overall solutions business. With an initial focus on accelerating the growth of existing Canon office solutions, the new company will allow Canon to build out its business solutions infrastructure to deliver solutions comprised of software, middleware and services.  

The rumors that flew around cyber-space all day Wednesday are true – the 2011 PMA, recently renamed and re-positioned as CliQ, has been moved from its early September, 2011 dates (6-11) to Jan. 10-13 at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas. It will  run concurrently with the 2012 International CES.
 

Océ helped Yurchak present a forum on digital book publishing for a select group of executives that discussed key issues about the growing digital market. Selling inventory control, not printing, was a key message at the “Publishing Summit 2011.”

Bloomsburg University Printing Services is a busy in-plant, printing everything from letterhead and labels to invitations, marketing brochures and programs for sporting events and concerts. The shop prints all of the Bloomsburg, Pa.-based college's materials, since there are few outside printers in this rural area. To help it in this task, the in-plant recently installed a Lanier C720s Pro color printer.

Now in its 18th year, the On Demand Conference and Exposition tried something new this time when it moved south of the Mason-Dixon line to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Not everyone was happy with the results. Though some exhibits were packed at intervals, others were not so busy. Perhaps the absence of key companies like Xerox, Kodak, Presstek and Standard caused some potential attendees to skip this year's event. Or maybe D.C. was too far for the Northeast day trippers who attended previous years' shows in Philadelphia, Boston and New York.

Canon said its first quarter profit dropped slightly on costs from an acquisition and Tuesday warned that full year earnings would take a hit from disrupted production due to Japan's earthquake and tsunami.

Canon's net profit for the January-March quarter slipped 2.4 percent to 55.5 billion yen ($676 million) from 56.8 billion yen a year earlier.

As if you didn't need more proof that cell phones are killing the point-and-shoot market: the iPhone 4 is about to become the most popular camera used on Flickr.

Flickr's camera finder shows a graph of the most popular cameras in the Flickr community. The Nikon D90, a dSLR, is at the top of the charts (note: it's also at the top of PCWorld's charts), but the iPhone 4's popularity has been quickly rising--and it looks like it may take over the Nikon D90 in the next month or so