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Xerox is one of the most widely recognized brands of office copiers in the market. The name has become so synonymous with the function that it is not uncommon to refer to any brand of office copier as a Xerox machine, without giving any thought to who the actual manufacturer is. The machines have evolved […]
In the ever changing world of document management products, the various manufacturers are predictably possessive of brand loyalty. As mergers take place, it is only natural that as the newly formed companies chart their futures, they assess what they should hold onto and what they should let go of from the component companies that are […]
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. marked its 50th anniversary in 2009 and is one of the world´s leading office document solutions companies. Founded in 1959 in Kyoto, Japan, as Kyoto Ceramic Co., the company evolved into Kyocera, a world-class photocopying giant when it acquired Mita Industrial company in 2000. Mita was an established photocopier manufacturer. In […]
Sharp Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products. That simple description really doesn’t do the company justice, mainly because of its many inventions and innovations that actually impacted the way our society has developed over the last 100 years. From a simple beginning as inventor and manufacturer in 1915 of […]
Canon photocopy equipment has been on the scene since 1965, although the company began in 1933 as a camera company under the name of Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory. Their first photocopier was the Canofax 1000 and their main competitor was Xerox. Canon released a plain paper photocopier in Japan in 1968. While Canon’s technology was […]
Konica Minolta is a Japanese technology company with offices in 35 countries worldwide. The company manufactures business and industrial imaging products, including copiers, laser printers, multi-functional peripherals (MFPs) – among a variety of other products, including Planetariums. Konica Minolta was formed by a merger between Japanese imaging firms Konica and Minolta in 2003. Konica Minolta […]
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were possibly the Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of the late 1930s. They both studied electrical engineering at Stanford University. The two met on a camping trip during college and remained friends after graduation. They began working out of a shed in Packard’s back yard in 1938, resulting in their […]