Hints and tips:
...companies, like oil majors, have a choice to make: 1. get ahead of the future where the product that sustained you for the past couple of hundred years becomes unsellable or 2. stick with the status quo, keep printing...
...Throughout this tortuous saga, the operating profits from imaging and printing never fell below about 40 per cent of the HP group total, at times rising above 70 per cent. It was not enough....
...The 3D Printing Revolution (Coursera) The ability to create objects using a printer is potentially revolutionary for many sectors....
...Despite the advances, however, Citi analysts take a somewhat negative view of 3D printing for footwear. The speed, reliability and cost at high volumes of 3D printing are still limiting factors....
...But then it was the biggest developing and printing challenge ever. I’m sure the Smithsonian and other grand museums have many such treasures under glass. But here I was, handling it....
...Last year, it bought Sweden-based Axis AB for $2.8bn to expand its presence in the video surveillance market....
...Attendees talked about using drones, unmanned robotics and the possibility of 3D printing at mines to fix broken metal parts....
...Her parents’ search to get help for their daughter took them to Boston Children’s Hospital, where plastic surgeon Dr John Meara used 3D-printed models of Violet’s skull based on magnetic resonance imaging...
...HP and Compaq The comparison with today’s breakup is imprecise: The new spin-off, dubbed HP Inc, will include HP’s printing division (annual revenue $24bn) as well as the PC division that is the child of...
...In Narrative’s case, we don’t know what the ‘aha’ will be behind the data, the imaging and the life-logging – and that’s really exciting.”...
...The company’s medical imaging business continues to grow and Océ has given the group a foothold in 3D printing, although Mr Rokus is cautious about the latter....
...The biggest improvement came in HP’s imaging and printing division, where the pre-tax profit margin climbed by nearly 4 percentage points, to 16.1 per cent....
...manufacturing footprint in the US offers a natural hedge against the dollar, but it lacks manufacturing plants in Japan, where it competes with Mitsubishi Heavy Industry in gas turbines and with Toshiba in medical imaging...
...With the patent auction failing to come to a conclusion, the company’s efforts to raise cash and repair its finances now centre on selling non-core operations – such as its printing kiosk and photographic...
...It costs $2,199 and works with PLA (a material made of biodegradable cornstarch) or the more industrial ABS (what Lego is made of) and means you can create toys, or jewellery, or little parts missing from...
...The company is hoping that the sale of 1,100 of its digital imaging patents will help it emerge from bankruptcy in better shape, but initial indications were of bids much lower than it had anticipated....
...range of Lumia smartphones at lower prices to compete more aggressively with the Android phone platform, and pointed to the adoption of forthcoming Microsoft operating software improvements as well as new imaging...
...Ms Whitman’s predecessors at least had one star business to fall back on: the imaging and printing division that was built around the laser jet printer, one of HP’s most successful inventions....
...The most broad-based conglomerate among leading US technology companies, HP has seen its competitiveness erode in most of its main markets, including PCs, IT services and imaging and printing....
...Significant declines in profit margins in its services and imaging and printing divisions compared with a year before also pushed down profits, leaving HP with a 44 per cent decline in net income for the...
...Its remaining consumer operations are in ink-jet printers and a photo printing service online and in retail stores....
...In HP’s case, that cash cow has been its imaging and printing division. This has been one of the great unsung tech success stories, but it is not without its challenges....
...It is focusing on consumer and commercial inkjet printing, workflow services and packaging such as photofinishing....
...Printing Group....
.... ______________________ Paying for Ireland’s ELA As Buiter notes, every indication so far has been that the Irish central bank funds ELA with base money creation – printing euros....
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