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Get ready for innovation in printing:
HP said the acquisition would help it to "disrupt and reinvent" the $55bn copier industry, a segment that "hasn't innovated in decades". It is buying a big printing presence in Asia, as well as Samsung's laser printing technology and patents. The deal comes days after HP's sister company sold its software business to rising UK tech champion Micro Focus.
[...] Samsung's printer business made $1.4bn in revenue last year and includes more than 6,500 printing patents as well as nearly 1,300 staff with expertise in laser printer technology. Meanwhile, shares in Samsung fell 9% after it urged customers to hand in Galaxy Note 7 phones as they risk exploding.
Also at TechCrunch and Bloomberg.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Monday September 12 2016, @05:22PM
I'm sad to report the corporate world is still full of "print this out of program A and type it into program B" manual labor. Also at work, training classes and formal presentations still signal how important they are by printing out the powerpoints that'll be tossed out at the end of the meeting. The copier/scanner part of the multifunction device gets used a lot for expense reports, try to scan some useless little piece of thermal paper to get reimbursed for a business lunch or whatever.
At home and at work in areas under my control, I no longer use paper. Its too convenient to carry piles of engineering datasheets or manuals or tutorials on my tablet or phone.
Medical and Medical Insurance racket still rely on FAX. That's incredibly inconvenient. I have to call in favors at corp HQ to email edited pdf files to someone to print them out and feed them thru the only legacy fax machine left in the building so someone on the other side at the insurance company can receive the FAX and scan them in and email them internally for OCR and processing. Sometimes its quicker and less painful to print out and postal snail-mail.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 12 2016, @06:48PM
Government agencies and military use faxes heavily too. Sometimes these are "virtualized" (fax-to-email etc) but not usually.
When I was doing major shipping 2-3 years ago, still needed printing for Bills of Lading and stuff. It needs to be something that can travel with the driver, and when the drivers are often under short-term contracts, need something cheap and disposable. The system that spit these out required dot-matrix printers that were hard to find parts for though; it was working fine since the 80s, and working, so never replaced.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @01:59AM
Government and financial forms should be exclusively digital because the ratio of bytes to information is minuscule.
Contrast that with a book that's good enough to reward multiple close readings. Paper is your best bet, unless you're 26 or under and still have hawk eyes.