HP acquires Samsung's Electronics and printing business

[NumLock21]

Electronics and printing business for $1.05 billion. The acqusition will let HP access 6,500 of samsung printing patents and 1,300 employees who are experts in laser and printing technologies. 

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“As we ignite a renaissance in printing, we’re thrilled to bring together the industry’s best and brightest talent,” said Dion Weisler, President and CEO, HP Inc. “Together, we will build on more than 30 years of print leadership to accelerate our strategy, disrupt new market opportunities, and provide our customers and partners with unique and highly innovative print solutions.

With Samsung, HP now offers the industry’s strongest portfolio of A3 multifunction printers that deliver the simplicity of printers with the high performance of copiers. The fully integrated portfolio, including next generation PageWide technologies, offers opportunities to grow managed print and document services as sales models shift from transactional to contractual. Customers will have greater choice, reliability and uptime, with lower cost of ownership and more affordable color. The combined portfolio also features unmatched security such as HP Connection Inspector, HP Sure Start, Run-time intrusion detection and whitelisting, making them the world’s most secure printers

 

 

press release

 

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=2528332#.WgDMsZ1OnqA

Edited November 6, 2017 by Ryan_Vickers
fixed incomplete title

[Ekst4zy]

Printers... Probably the least interesting tech ever  

[Mooshi]

All I can picture is a printer with a finger print scanner in a weird location

[NumLock21]

Just now, Ekst4zy said:

Printers... Probably the least interesting tech ever  

Print is better than digital. But hand writing is better than printing.

Business still print stuffs.

 

 

[Techicolors]

will this revolutionize the ink cartridge industry? 

[UlsterRose]

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HP acquires THIS BUSINESS from SAMSUNG!!!

 

[mikat]

6 minutes ago, Technicolors said:

will this revolutionize the ink cartridge industry? 

Nah, they'll become even more expensive

[handymanshandle]

For a minute I thought it was Samsung's entire Electronics company it's just their printer division or whatever.

[suicidalfranco]

tfw the office i work in simply buys a new printer each time the toners are empty. Printers are the devils tool first and foremost. Never humanity as created a more evil contraception than this one, the atomic bomb doesn't even come close to it.

[The Benjamins]

7 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

tfw the office i work in simply buys a new printer each time the toners are empty. Printers are the devils tool first and foremost. Never humanity as created a more evil contraception than this one, the atomic bomb doesn't even come close to it.

my dad wants all the printers in his company to be removed. he looks at people strange when they bring papers into a meeting.

once they told him to not be on his laptop at a meeting, and he told them to they were living in the stone age.

[dizmo]

HP has always had pretty good printers, so it's not too surprising.

41 minutes ago, Ekst4zy said:

Printers... Probably the least interesting tech ever  

I dno, I love looking at printers. Nothing like a sleek looking unit with a massive touch screen display

...mind you I have a $700 printer so I'm definitely in the minority

[Trixanity]

15 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

tfw the office i work in simply buys a new printer each time the toners are empty. Printers are the devils tool first and foremost. Never humanity as created a more evil contraception than this one, the atomic bomb doesn't even come close to it.

I suppose if you stick your Willy into your printer and it gets stuck it could be considered an evil but effective form of contraception.

[NumLock21]

45 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

my dad wants all the printers in his company to be removed. he looks at people strange when they bring papers into a meeting.

once they told him to not be on his laptop at a meeting, and he told them to they were living in the stone age.

Paper is cheap. Your dad needs to stop having a pretentious attitude just because he owns a business. 

[The Benjamins]

34 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Paper is cheap. Your dad needs to stop having a pretentious attitude just because he owns a business. 

he doesn't own a business, he just thinks its stupid that some people don't want laptop in meetings because they are a distraction, but that is were he takes notes on.

[captain_to_fire]

Does it mean ink cartridges will become cheaper now?

[NumLock21]

1 hour ago, The Benjamins said:

he doesn't own a business, he just thinks its stupid that some people don't want laptop in meetings because they are a distraction, but that is were he takes notes on.

He can take notes with a pen and notebook.

[Shreyas1]

2 hours ago, dizmo said:

HP has always had pretty good printers, so it's not too surprising.

I dno, I love looking at printers. Nothing like a sleek looking unit with a massive touch screen display

...mind you I have a $700 printer so I'm definitely in the minority

That’s a lot of money to suddenly jam up and stop working

[dizmo]

1 minute ago, Shreyas1 said:

That’s a lot of money to suddenly jam up and stop working

Never had a problem.

If you're implying it could happen...well..whatever you spent on your PC is a lot of money to suddenly short circuit and stop working

[The Benjamins]

3 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

He can take notes with a pen and notebook.

how is paper and pen better then a laptop for taking notes, and presenting.

[NumLock21]

21 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

how is paper and pen better then a laptop for taking notes, and presenting.

It's cheap and light. 

Also a lot more reliable than a laptop.

[Orangeator]

Yeah if you get a good printer, you tend not to have problems. Those who buy cheap budget ones will have problems.

[PlayStation 2]

Great, expensive printers with even more expensive ink cartridges. I can feel the innovation already.

[Orangeator]

2 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Great, expensive printers with even more expensive ink cartridges. I can feel the innovation already.

Yes, but it's currently the only way to put images and textual pages to paper within a reasonable time frame.

 

[SansVarnic]

Anything legal needs to be on paper, I print legal and ledger size all the time for work. If it needs to be signed ... it gets printed.

HP printer will only get better by this acquisition.

[ARikozuM]

3 hours ago, The Benjamins said:

how is paper and pen better then a laptop for taking notes, and presenting.

F#$K, my paper ran out of batteries!  - No One Ever