Tetsuo Kubo

The Executive Connection Summit (ECS) with its focus on digital transformation, diversification, and diversity, offered movers and shakers from all segments of the office technology industry a glimpse into the future.

The company ushers in the new wave of POP production. Toshiba TEC, which develops, manufactures, and sells Toshiba-branded e-STUDIO color MFPs, has…

Joint delivery eases logistical burdens. In the North American market where you do business, how do you deliver MFPs ordered by customers?…

President and CEO Toshimitsu Taiko addresses the company’s most pressing issues. Konica Minolta’s new president, Toshimitsu Taiko, held a media round-table conference…

The company also announced its medium and long-term expectations. Ricoh executives, including President Yoshinori Yamashita, held a briefing for analysts on March…

To ring in 2022, top executives from four MFP OEMs revealed their New Year’s resolutions focused on the Japanese market. The days of concentrating solely on MFPs and printers…

Demand for MFPs and printers have risen, but supply chain disruptions continue to impact OEMs’ financial projections. Fiscal result announcements by OEMs…

On October 6, 2021, Brother Industries President Ichiro Sasaki announced the Brother Group Vision “At Your Side 2030” for the fiscal years from 2022 through 2030. The vision was created…

Recently, Konica Minolta Japan held an online seminar for Japanese customers to promote the 29-inch sheet-fed UV inkjet AccurioJet KM-1e. The session, “Digital Print Can…

Summertime is one of my favorite times of the year at The Cannata Report. That’s because that’s when we publish my two favorite issues of the year…

COVID-19 is rapidly promoting telework as the predominant work style. Along with this, there is a demand for digital transformation (DX) within the workplace. The imaging industry…

I am pleased to present one of my favorite issues of the year—our annual Young Influencers issue. This year we profile six talented young influencers, including…

COVID-19 has accelerated the shift to an office-agnostic work style, resulting in fewer MFPs, printers, and prints in the office and reduced profits for dealers…

The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), unanimously adopted by the member states at the United Nations Summit in September 2015, are international goals for a sustainable…

Where would the dealer channel be without service and services? Service has always been a key revenue generator for the independent dealer channel…

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought rapid changes to companies’ work styles, which raises questions about the ideal set up for employees who must work onsite. Those changes…

As we enter 2021, executives from the Japanese MFP industry group, JBMIA, and OEMs have stated their initiatives in response to the market changes…

The Japan Business Machine and Information System Industries Association (JBMIA) held its 60th Anniversary Ceremony in Tokyo on November 13, 2020. (JBMIA is a Japanese…

On October 9, Konica Minolta held a web briefing for the Japanese market with President Shoei Yamana and the company’s directors. The theme was, “Konica Minolta’s…

Epson Sales is finding growing interest for its inkjet MFPs in Japan thanks in part to a sales model designed to increase interest…

The impact of COVID-19 in Japan was greatest from April to May, when the emergency declaration was issued by the Japanese government, causing the economy to stagnate…

On June 29, Epson Sales, Seiko Epson’s distributor in the Japanese market, announced that it would start a print service that links printers with Slack (Slack Technologies), a…

The impact of COVID-19 was evident in the recently released financial statements by Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Ricoh, and Toshiba Tec whose fiscal years ended on March…