Konica Minolta fights landfill overflow

Customers of Konica Minolta South Africa now have the option of recycling their Konica Minolta toner bottles, cartridges and imaging units through the company’s new recycling programme. The programme will allow local clients to reduce their environmental impact by...

DCC stocks Brother consumables

Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has announced the availability of a range of high-yield toner and InkBenefit inkjet cartridges for the latest Brother printers. This includes consumables for new Brother models such as the MFC-L2740DW, MFC-L8600CDW and...

Parallel import pressure boosts consumables

According to the latest insights from International Data Corporation (IDC), the Middle East and Africa (MEA) consumables market remained relatively flat in volume terms during the second half of 2013. However, it saw significant growth in value thanks to an on-going...

Refillable ink systems lower inkjet costs

Inkjet printers are often highly affordable to purchase and offer high quality full colour printing, however, the challenge around these printers is usually the cost of the ink itself, says Ruben Naicker, Epson product specialist at Drive Control Corporation....

China drives consumables growth

IDC’s China Quarterly Consumables Tracker (Q1 2013) shows that the total shipment of printing consumables in China in Q1 2013 was nearly 29,96-million units, declining by 8,2% compared with Q4 2012 and flat year-on-year. The revenue of printing consumables in Q1...