HP announced an organizational realignment to improve performance and drive profitable growth across the entire HP portfolio.

As part of this realignment, HP’s Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) and its Personal Systems Group (PSG) are joining forces to create the Printing and Personal Systems Group. The combined entity will be led by Todd Bradley, who has served as the executive vice president of PSG since 2005.

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Industry analysts foresee the web-to-print volume to grow dramatically —from 10% to 18% by 2014.

InfoTrends releases it latest research about the European printing industry. Study shows investment plans for digital color printing equipment top the list of planned investments.

Survey finds the office equipment market in Germany reached EUR 4.9 billion in 2011, almost the same as 2010.

Report from GfK shows sale of office equipment in Q4 2011 were down 3.95% to EUR 1.3 billion.
Copiers market increased more than 10% in Q4 2011.

Research finds the office equipment market in China reached CNY 3.47 billion in 4Q, 2011, increasing 9.6% compared to 4Q 2010.

Study from GfK TEMAX China shows the market in 2011 rose by 3.6% with CNY 12.97 billion.

Research reveals Western European has shipped 2.6% fewer printers/copiers in 4Q when compared to last year.

Research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has released its latest report Western European Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker. The report says the printer prices continue to be unstable because of the intensive competition. The revenues were declined from USD 3.8 billion to USD 3.3billion in 4Q 2010.

Research shows small office and home office (SOHO) is a major contributor to the global office market growth.