Canon

Canon U.S.A., Inc. has announced the availability of IRISPowerscan for use across Canon’s solutions portfolio. Utilizing the I.R.I.S. platform along with Canon’s product portfolio…

This was a wild and crazy year in the imaging industry. We can’t remember a year when there were as many acquisitions not only of dealers and IT services companies, but software companies with a distinctive footprint…

On September 1, 2018, Canon Marketing Japan, the organization that controls domestic sales of Canon products in Japan launched NETEYE, an online…

Don’t you just love the imaging industry? It’s always evolving, always innovating, and from time to time, does a nice job of shaking up the status quo. Going forward,…

If you want to understand the nature of change and what you can expect for the future, you must understand the challenges participants are facing today. For the…

Winners of the Frank Awards were announced at The Cannata Report’s 33rd Annual Awards & Charities Dinner at The Madison Hotel in Morristown, N.J. on…

IGAS (International Graphic Arts Show) 2018 was held in Japan July 26″“31 at Tokyo Big Sight, officially known as the Tokyo International Exhibition Center. On display…

Two months ago, Sam Yoshida returned to Canon USA as executive vice president and general manager of Canon’s Business Imaging Solutions Group (BISG). He is…

If we had to identify the one thing we appreciate most about the dealers who respond to our survey, it’s their honesty. That’s especially true when we ask them to…

The three biggest dealer concerns, as ranked by all of our Survey respondents, continue to be competing with manufacturer’s direct branches, declining…

One of the more intriguing findings from our Survey is dealer concerns. Each year we ask dealers to identify their greatest concerns from a list of 10 options, as…

Each year we ask dealers to rate their primary A3 MFP suppliers as “Excellent,” “Very Good,” “Good,” “Fair,” or “Poor.” Occasionally, there are dealers that prefer not…

Remember the days of the old NOMDA show before NOMDA became BTA and before the OEMs began having their own individual dealer meetings? This…

In addition to asking dealers to rate their A3 manufacturers, we asked them to rate their primary A4 manufacturers. With companies such as HP, Lexmark,…

As we did last year for the first time, we continue to gauge dealer optimism and pessimism in three areas””A3, A4, and production print. Not every dealer offered…

It’s the end of the month which means it is time for us to cull our news archives and identify what we deem as the Top 10 stories for October 2018. There was a lot of news…

Canon U.S.A., Inc. has announced its commitment to support the Arbor Day Foundation’s “Replanting Our Forests” program. The Company helped to contribute to…

I arrived in Chicago for Print 18 on Sunday September 30th wondering if the rumors about the show being on life support were true. What I saw and heard over the next…

Pretty much all customers want to strike a bargain when it comes to spending money on their printing. They ask for the best possible device price, only want to…

Any doubts regarding the viability of inkjet in the production print space were quickly dispelled at the thINK 2018 Conference, September 5″“7 in Boca Raton, FL…

If there’s one thing you can count on at The Cannata Report is that every year””at least the last 33″”we conduct our annual Survey of independent dealers. It’s a…