Moscow, September 14, 2021 — Information Agency “Business-Inform” and the Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers and Suppliers presented the results of the marketing research of the Global and the Russian markets for laser printers and MFPs as well as the quality and environmental testing results of the most popular toner cartridges presented on the Russian market.

Information Agency “Business-Inform” and the Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers and Suppliers (AQCMS) on September 14^th this year held the online-conference called “Remanufacturing of Cartridges for Laser Printers and MFPs – The Issues of Quality and Sustainability”. During the Conference the results of the Global and the Russian market research of remanufacturing cartridges for laser printers and MFPs as well as the results of testing for quality and sustainability of the most popular toner cartridges on the Russian market were presented. The conference saw participation by the representatives of 48 Russian businesses and organizations, 29 laser cartridges remanufacturing centers, as well as the leading Russian and International experts.

During the Conference 3 reports were heard:

“The Remanufacturing of OEM and Compatible Cartridges in Russia: Statistics, Tendencies, Perspectives – Environmental issues in the Industry of Remanufacturing” (Stanislav Malinskiy, Information Agency “Business-Inform”)

“Europe Tightens the Screws with the Environmental Legislation – What to Expect in Russia”  (Alexander Semenov, Legal Agency “Business-Inform”)

“GM Technology (Spain), Pelikan (Germany) and Their Products. Solving the Environmental Issues Is the Driver of Business Development” (Yulia Danilogorskaya, Information Agency “Business-Inform”)

The participants of the Conference discussed together with the speakers the provided information, recommendations, testing results, practical aspects of alternative procurement organizing for quality and sustainable cartridges and toners for remanufacturing of toner cartridges. As a nice surprise for all the Conference participants came the new issue of BUSINESS-INFORM Review magazine (issue #32, 2021) and the special issue of its appendix “Testing and Quality” (August 2021).

AQCMS: info@aqcmsrus.ru, https://aqcmsrus.ru/

Business-Inform: bizinform@list.ru, http://sforp.ru/

1. To be published in the Catalog is prestigious. The Catalog is well-known in Russia. It has been published for the last 23 years. The print-run is 40000 copies. The subscribers are 26000 Russian specialists from 16000 companies.
2. A possibility to present the brand to the buyers of OEM cartridges. The catalog contains original cartridge compatibility charts for all ОЕМ. The advertisement placement in the sections dedicated to OEM cartridges is an effective way to attract attention of original cartridge buyers towards your brand.
3. A possibility to present a brand and establish a dialog with large Russian buyers and resellers. The Catalog is given away for free to all the participants of the conferences organized by the Russian AQCMS association together with Information Agency Business-Inform. This is more than 5000 specialists of the large Russian businesses – buyers and suppliers of printing equipment and supplies.
4. The advertising in the Catalog works for a long time. The Catalog is not the newspaper and not a magazine. Catalogs are not thrown away after being read, they are kept and used when a necessity to procure printing supplies arises.
5. Your section is your catalog. Your section of the Catalog in PDF-format is a mini-catalog of your brand. You can place it on your web-site or virtual booth and send it to your Russian partners.

We collect information and advertising materials to be published in “Printing Supplies” Catalog (issue #46, 2021) until 24^th of September.

Details: bizinform@list.ru , info@sforp.ru

The Catalog contains information on supplies for laser, LED, matrix, and sublimation printers, copiers, engineers systems, duplicators, fax and MFP machines from the leading global manufacturers (Brother, Canon, Epson, HP, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Oki, Panasonic, Ricoh, Samsung, Sharp, Toshiba, Xerox, etc.). It contains detailed information on usage, resource, approximate prices, product codes, compatibility of the supplies.

Apart from OEM materials the Catalog will feature compatible materials, leaders of sales on the Russian market (ATM, IMEX, Ink-Mate, Integral, Mitsubishi/MKI, MyInk, UniJet, UniTon, etc.).

            This issue will feature considerably renewed information regarding OEM and compatible office materials for office printing devices of the leading Global manufacturers.

         The print-run is planned at 40000 copies.

            The submission of the materials ends on September 17^th (information and advertising).

            Should you have any questions regarding placing of information and advertising in the “Printing Supplies” catalog (issue #46, 2021) feel free to contact Information Agency “Business-Inform”.

            E-mail:bizinform@list.ru, tel. 8(495) 9886146

Information Agency “Business-Inform” web-site displays a new issue of the quarterly magazine, Business-Inform Review (issue #32, 2021). The magazine readers are the specialists of the office printing devices, supplies, and parts industry.

More than 30 articles have been published in the magazine’s main sections: Global Industry Leaders, Russian Market News, Marketing, Print Outsourcing, Information Security and Environmental Safety, Office Equipment and Printing Technology, Printing Supplies and Aftermarket.

In the “Global Industry Leaders” section there are interviews with Steve Weedon (Print-Rite Pelikan Solutions GmbH) “PELIKAN Brand Prides Itself on Quality and Customer’s Trust”, Volker Kappius (Delacamp AG) “Delacamp Is Greatly Experienced in Supplying Quality Products”, Jan Hagemann (INTEGRAL GmbH) “Customer’s Trust and Confidence Determines the Success of a Toner Brand on the Global Market”, Andrey Blinov (Static Control Components, Inc.) “The Risks Associated with Using Poor Quality Cartridges Do not Always Become Immediately Apparent”, and articles by Zoltan Matyas (GM Technology) “Turning Green Into Gold”, Volker Kappius (Delacamp AG)  “Myth Busting a Moving Target” and ITDL (India)  “ITDL – India’s Largest Manufacturer and Exporter of Compatible Toners”.

In the “Russian Market News” section there are press-releases of the conferences held by AQCMS and “Business-Inform” Group: “BUSINESS-INFORM Declares the Winners and the Nominees of the Open Quality Printing Contest (2021-02)”, “Quality of Toner Cartridges – Tendencies and Perspectives”, “Quality Cartridges on the Russian Market – New Search Possibilities”. The section also holds the interviews with the heads of the companies who became the Winners of the OPEN QUALITY PRINTING CONTEST (2021-02).

In the “Marketing” section one can find articles by Louella Fernandez “8 Factors to Consider When Selecting a Cloud Printing Platform”, Maggie Wang “Global and Chinese Laser OEM Market Leaders Revealed”, as well as the following articles: “10 Printer Market Trends – IDC”, “Global Commercial Printing Market Report 2020-2025”, “Global Printing Market According to Smithers”, “IDC study: Almost 80% of German Companies Are Planning a New Workplace Model”.

In the “Printing Outsourcing” section there is an article published “IT Sourcing Study Shows Outsourcing Is Here to Stay”.

The “Information Security and Environmental Safety” section holds the articles: “Security 101: The 'PrintNightmare' Flaw”, “New Critical Security Warning Issued For All Windows Versions As ‘PrintNightmare’ Confirmed”, “Microsoft Clarifies Its 'PrintNightmare' Patch Advice”, “More Printers Could Mean Security Problems for Home-Bound Workers”, as well  as an interview with Javier Martinez “Winning the War that Has to Be Won”.

In the “Office Equipment and Printing Technology” section you can find a range of articles and press-releases by Canon, Epson, Konica Minolta and Xerox, dedicated to new products on the Russian market of office printing.

In the “Printing Supplies and Aftermarket” section there are articles by Mark Dawson “HP Endorses Remanufacturing – are you paying attention?”, Ray Stasieczko “Is The Green Missing in HP Inc. Subscriptions?”, Kim Lee (HYB TONER) “Color Toners for Copiers are Different to Laser”, an interview with Wendy Duan (Mito Color Imaging Co., Ltd.) “Mito Queen of Color Shares Market Insights”, as well as several other articles: “Reducing Missing Jets Through Proper Printer Maintenance” and “Chipmakers Face Pressure Due to Chip Shortage”.

Especially for international specialists, several articles dedicated to the Russian and International markets have been presented in English (see English Pages section).

The digital version of the magazine can be found on Business-Inform agency’s web-site.

The printed version can be ordered starting from 01st of September, at the Business-Inform distribution department (www.sforp.ru, email: bizinform@list.ru, tel. +7 495 988-6146, Moscow, Barabanniy Lane, 4 (building 6)), Moscow specialists can purchase the magazine in RMS company shop (www.ramis.ru, +7 495 542-5098, Moscow, Medoviy lane, 4 (building 5)).

Moscow, August 12, 2021. The update of the Internet version of the “Printing Supplies” Database – presented on the web-site of the Information Agency “Business-Inform” – has been made (Our Products/Reference section).

New printer model descriptions have been uploaded describing new models of printers and MFPs of Epson, HP, Lexmark and corresponding OEM supplies. Sections dedicated to the branded supplies from CACTUS, G&G, UNITON Premium have been considerably complemented.

As of August 12, 2021, the Database “Printing Supplies” contains 21,466 descriptions of printing devices and corresponding supplies (cartridges, toners, developers, ink-containers, etc.), including 7,513 printing devices, 10,008 OEM supplies, 3,945 compatible supplies.

The detailed description of the “Printing Supplies” Database version 1.2 and 1.3 can be found on the Information Agency “Business-Inform” website in “Our Products” section.

As with all Information Agency “Business-Inform” products, “Printing Supplies” Databases are distributed both freely and commercially. The free installation of the “Printing Supplies” Database in the large Russian organizations (business partners of the Agency) began in June 2006. As of August 12, 2021, the “Printing Supplies” Database has been installed in more than 3800 public and large commercial organizations.

Details: bizinform@list.ru, info@sforp.ru

Moscow, August 02, 2021. The update of the Internet version of the “Printing Supplies” Database – presented on the web-site of the Information Agency “Business-Inform” – has been made (Our Products/Reference section).

New printer model descriptions have been uploaded describing new models of printers and MFPs of Brother, Canon, Epson, HP, Kyocera, Pantum, Sharp, Toshiba, Xerox and corresponding OEM supplies. Sections dedicated to the branded supplies from CACTUS, G&G, Hi-Black, ProfiLine, Static Control, UNITON Premium have been considerably complemented.

As of August 02, 2021, the Database “Printing Supplies” contains 21,334 descriptions of printing devices and corresponding supplies (cartridges, toners, developers, ink-containers, etc.), including 7,481 printing devices, 9,949 OEM supplies, 3,904 compatible supplies.

The detailed description of the “Printing Supplies” Database version 1.2 and 1.3 can be found on the Information Agency “Business-Inform” website in “Our Products” section.

As with all Information Agency “Business-Inform” products, “Printing Supplies” Databases are distributed both freely and commercially. The free installation of the “Printing Supplies” Database in the large Russian organizations (business partners of the Agency) began in June 2006. As of August 02, 2021, the “Printing Supplies” Database has been installed in more than 3800 public and large commercial organizations.

Details: bizinform@list.ru, info@sforp.ru

Moscow, July 28, 2021. – The Information Agency “Business-Inform” (Russia) has declared the Winners and the Nominees of the International Open Quality Printing Contest (2021-02). The Winners of the Contest in the section of alternative cartridges are: Pelikan CF244A, CF283X, CF226X (manufacturer –Print-Rite Pelikan Solutions GmbH, Germany), Uniton Premium CF244A, CF283X, CF226X  (supplier – Uniton Service, Russia), the Winners of the Contest in the section of toners for remanufacturing of HP CF244A, CF283X, CF226X cartridges are: Mitsubishi UT1907 and UT1917 (supplier - Delacamp AG, Germany), the Nominees of the Contest in the section of toners for remanufacturing of HP CF244A, CF283X, CF226X  cartridges are: IMEX AKO-3 and CMG-3, HANDAN (HGOA) HG-604 (supplier – РМС Ltd, Russia).

The Open Quality Printing Contest (2021-02) dedicated to evaluation of quality of alternative cartridges and toners for HP CF244A, CF283X, CF226X remanufacturing has been organized and held by the Russian-based Information Agency “Business-Inform” with support from AQCMS Association since April 26th till July 28th 2021. Both remanufactured and new-built cartridges (HP CF244A, CF283X, CF226X analogs) were accepted for participation in the First Stage. The quality evaluation was performed by the Information Agency “Business-Inform” specialists together with the Russian AQCMS Association and a number of Russian and foreign laboratories according to a number of International standards (for instance, ISO/IEC 24790:2017) and directives.

The First Stage of the Contest (since April 26th till June 11th) saw the participation of 43 Russian and 17 International brands. Each brand has been represented during the testing by 30 contest prints made by the corresponding brand cartridges after each 500 prints with 5% coverage. During the testing of cartridge quality at the First Stage, 32 parameters were evaluated, characterizing the actual yield of cartridge, the dynamics of optical density, background, general number of various defects, toner spending, etc. After the testing of all cartridges presented for the Contest Nominee-Cartridges have been chosen as well as Toner-Nominees. Also the Nominee companies were declared.

All the Nominees of the Contest are invited for participation in the Second Stage of the Contest which was held from June 14th until July 28th 2021. During this stage the contest cartridges were tested presented by the nominee companies for the Second Stage. During the testing of cartridge quality at the Second Stage, 53 parameters were evaluated, thoroughly characterizing not only the quality of prints made, but also the sustainability and environmental friendliness of the evaluated products.

       According to the results of the testing done during the First and the Second stages, the Winners have been declared:

New-Built Cartridges: Pelikan CF244A, CF283X, CF226X (manufacturer – Print-Rite Pelikan Solutions GmbH, Germany), Uniton Premium CF244A, CF283X, CF226X  (supplier – Uniton Service Ltd., Russia);

Toners for Remanufacturing: Mitsubishi UT1907, UT1917 (supplier – Delacamp AG, Germany).

The following have been declared of the Contest Nominees:

Toners for Remanufacturing: IMEX AKO-3, CMG-3, HANDAN(HGOA) HG-604 (supplier – RMS Ltd., Russia).

The Contest Winner and Nominee results will be included into the public report: “The Best Solutions in the Field of Office Printing 2021”, which is annually published by Information Agency “Business-Inform”, and supplier companies (RMS Ltd., Uniton Service Ltd., Delacamp AG, Print-Rite Pelikan Solutions GmbH) are recommended as suppliers of alternative consumables for HP printers in 2021-2022 years.

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