The Key Point Blog

05/29/2023
Lindsey Naples

Good choices can make a difference, especially to the consumer

Earth Day has come and gone, but it should be a concept we (as consumers) keep in mind for the other 364 days of the year. We live on the planet year-round, so it’s in our best interest to keep it from being one giant trash heap, right?
05/22/2023
Carl Schell

It’s not just digital transformation, it’s also scan acceleration

Digital transformation (DX) is nothing new. Even if DX was here long in advance of the COVID-19 pandemic, that singular event pushed its value proposition up the grid of importance.
05/19/2023
Mark Davis & Peter Mayhew

Merger will create the largest, international business machine manufacturer

Ricoh officially announced that it will integrate the research, development, and production of its business machines with Toshiba Tec as of April 2024. We discuss here the key features of this merger as well as the projected effects it will have on the office market.
05/18/2023
Priya Gohil

Bringing added value and efficiency to the packaging market

Earlier this year, HP introduced the HP PageWide C550 to the industrial packaging world: A next generation post-print press built on the successful field-proven technology of its C500 predecessor. We discuss here the impact this new device can have on the market with David Tomer, General Manager of Post-Print Corrugated Solutions at HP.
05/17/2023
Johnny Shell

New printer attempts to boost sustainable digital textile printing

Kyocera Corporation recently held a press conference in Japan to unveil its vision for the future of textile printing—one of being in harmony with nature and reducing the environmental impact of textile printing.
05/16/2023
Peter Mayhew

Konica Minolta refreshes its bizhub copier range

Whether it’s “reused,” “refurbished,” “reconditioned,” or “remanufactured,” the lexicon has become a little stale. So, when the positive sounding “refreshed” entered into copier vocabulary, we wanted to know more.
05/11/2023
Lindsey Naples

Keypoint Intelligence attends, reviews, and makes connections

Described as “North America’s largest and most influential Additive Manufacturing event” on its website, RAPID + TCT 2023 was held in Chicago from May 2-4, 2023. We discuss here some of the key features of the event as well as the impact they can have on the market.
05/02/2023
Jamie Bsales

This move should boost the bottom line, but at what cost?

Xerox Corp. recently announced that it had donated its Palo Alto Research Center to SRI International, a non-profit research institute associated with Stanford University. We discuss here the key features of this donation as well as its effect on Xerox and the tech industry as a whole.
04/21/2023
Riley McNulty

Thoughts on where we are in that journey

Consumers and businesses are increasingly paying attention to how our actions impact the planet, with a plethora of opinions and many arguments that reflect a diversity of viewpoints on the topic.
04/20/2023
Lindsey Naples

But sustainable, eco-friendly furniture is an option!

In the print industry, discussions of how to reduce carbon footprints and the impact on the environment are always circulating—especially since consumers now take sustainability quite seriously. We discuss here some other methods of sustainability beyond the recycling and reuse of print supplies.