by Hunter Feybusch
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by Hunter Feybusch
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- Announced “double digit” price increases to take effect on 3/18/24
- Move came in response to “Economic challenged”
- “Unprecedented increases in labor costs”
- “sharply rising freight and warehousing rates”
- “Increased input prices from suppliers”
- “Ongoing issue of high energy prices”
- “Despite our best efforts to absorb the impact of these increases, we can no longer avoid raising the prices of many of our products and services; stated Taku Ueno, SVP of Graphic Communications division
- (Unknown if this will force Xerox to also raise its prices, and Fuji provides A3 and PPS hardware to Xerox)
– 78% of organizations surveyed now use some cloud-based print management 35% use extensively 43% use partially – 16% are evaluating – Top concerns are: 34% = data security 25% = reliability and uptime 22% = achieving consistent printing across multi-vendor fleet – 77% expect growth in cloud capture adoption 66% expect scan volumes on […]
– Elliptic Cybersecurity published warning about “sophisticated” new Android trojan named “Mirax” – Can be rented by hackers for up to $3,000 per month – Hackers could use to gain control over devices – Allows attackers to bypass security measures and steal sensitive information – (Ricoh MFPs use Android OS)
– Article published by RTMWorld magazine – “widespread price revision for a substantial portion of their office and commercial printing lineup” – “scheduled to take effect on 8/3/2026” – Includes A3, A4, color, b/w MFPs and production print systems – Due to “persistent inflation of raw material and procurement costs” – Price increases range from […]
AI now being used by hackers – Google report – Google published warning that it has identified a new zero-day exploit that has been developed by hackers using artificial intelligence (AI) – Exploit is designed to bypass 2-factor authentication on open source web-based system administration tool – Was implemented in a Python script – (Python […]
