Hello.  |  Not a member?  |  Login.


Register
Register to the site for free!

View Lyra's Blog
Featured Article
February 21, 2012
[February 21, 2012] If there was an overriding theme at the 2012 Lyra MPS Forum, it was the search for new customers beyond the big corporations that have long embraced managed print services (MPS) enthusiastically. The most-discussed new MPS market is small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB), which are too small to be addressed by the direct sales forces that have sold MPS to bigger enterprises and thus must be addressed through a dealer network. But vendors are looking to move upscale as well, offering global MPS contracts that cover every office of large worldwide corporations. Going in either direction confronts a vendor with new challenges.

February 21, 2012
[February 21, 2012] Cost-per-page figures (monochrome and color) for selected ink jet printers in Germany
February 20, 2012
[February 20, 2012] Sappi’s North American operations managed to turn in a strong performance despite declining paper demand.
February 17, 2012
[February 17, 2012] As the market leader, HP is the epitome of the imaging industry’s razor-and-blades business model, so the firm is challenged every day to increase revenue and maintain margins on its imaging supplies.
February 16, 2012
[February 16, 2012] Price Per Sheet of Photo Paper in Retail Channel and Photo Paper Product Availability in Retail Channel, January 2010-Januar...
February 16, 2012
[February 16, 2012] The second day of the 2012 Lyra Imaging Symposium brought home the event’s theme, “Profiting from Transformative Technologies and Trends,” with presentations on Seine's entry into the printing and imaging market, a case study of Ricoh's MDS engagement with AOL, and Wall Street's take on the financial performance of leading hard copy companies.
February 16, 2012
[February 16, 2012] Unisource Worldwide is one of the largest privately held companies in the United States and offers a comprehensive suite of customer solutions—including engineered design capabilities, eBusiness technologies, logistics expertise, paper brokerage services, and environmentally-responsible options—in its industry.
February 15, 2012
[February 15, 2012] In a global market that is flat to declining, hard copy vendors need to leverage existing engine platforms to maximize their research and development (R&D) dollars, and Ricoh’s new Aficio MP 2352/2852/3352 are the latest example of this strategy.
February 14, 2012
[February 14, 2012] Cost-per-page figures (monochrome and color) for selected ink jet printers in the United Kingdom
February 14, 2012
[February 14, 2012] The annual Lyra Imaging Symposium kicked off with preliminary activities on Monday, January 23, for the 15th straight year at the Rancho Las Palmas Resort in Rancho Mirage, California.
February 14, 2012
[February 14, 2012] Lawsuits play an active role in the imaging supplies industry, and we recently spoke with Tricia Judge, executive director o...
February 13, 2012
[February 13, 2012] Brother introduced a new chemically produced toner (CPT) when the firm unveiled its new compact color LED platform in September 2009, and the firm leveraged the engine and supplies in its latest series of small-office/home-office (SOHO) color printers and MFPs.
February 10, 2012
[February 10, 2010] In our year-in-review interview with Green Project, president Joseph Wu shares his thoughts on the remanufacturing industry,...
Follow Lyra on Twitter
Visit Lyra's blog.
Imaging Observer 360