Moscow, February 02, 2022 — Information Agency “Business-Inform” and the Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers and Suppliers presented the results of marketing research of the Russian cartridge market for laser printers and MFPs as well as the results of testing for quality and sustainability of the best and most popular cartridge brands presented on the Russian market.

The Information Agency “Business-Inform” and the Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers and Suppliers (AQCMS) organized and held the Conference, on February 2^nd this year, “Quality Cartridges on the Russian Market – 2021: Presenting the Best Ones!” During the Conference the results of marketing research of the Russian cartridge market for laser printers and MFPs as well as the results of testing for quality and sustainability of the best and most popular cartridge brands present on the Russian market were presented. The Conference was held in hybrid-format (physical presence and on-line). The Conference saw participation by the representatives of 143 Russian businesses and organizations, as well as the leading Russian and International experts.

During the Conference 3 reports were heard:

·  “Testing of Laser Cartridge Printing Quality – Global Experience, Methods, and Testing Results 2020-2021”.  (speaker - Nori Kawakami, “Business-Inform” Group)

The Report Theses: Prints’ quality and cartridge quality: main constituents, standards, methods; quality of cartridges according to the manufacturers, suppliers and buyers (users); general defects of laser printing, their origins and implications; the possibility to remanufacture and the sustainability – the important constituents of laser cartridge quality; the effectiveness of printing and the corresponding evaluation; the impact of components on quality, effectiveness, and sustainability of laser printing; presenting you the cartridges of the best Global brands: MSE, Dataproducts, Static Control, Pelikan; the usage of quality cartridges is always profitable: the evaluation of prints quality and cost per page of quality cartridges.

·  “The Russian Market of Laser Cartridges – Popular Brands and 2021 Results”. (speaker - Stanislav Malinskiy, “Business-Inform” Group)

The Report Theses: The Russian market of laser cartridges 2021: stats, tendencies, forecasts; the features of the Russian market growth in 2021; the growth of the market in 2022-2024 to provide the segment of alternative supplies; the issues of the Import Replacement and their solutions for 2021-2024; the Russian-manufactured products and their supply; Russian production and pseudo-production: the examination of declarations and offers by Russian and International companies in 2021; is it really the Russian production, who has checked and confirmed that; do they really have quality products, who has checked and confirmed that; the results of testing of the popular Russian brands in 2021: presenting you the best ones; special attention towards the cartridge resource: numbers declared and testing results; the issues of providing requirements towards informational safety in supplying of printing devices and corresponding consumables.

·   “Presenting the best Brands of Laser Cartridges and Corresponding Suppliers”.  (speaker – Alina Savinova, “Business-Inform” Group)

The Report Theses: Static Control Components (SCC), its history, production, and products; SCC’s quality control and remanufacturing solutions; Static Control’s laser cartridges testing: prints quality, efficiency, and sustainability; presenting the supplier of Static Control’s cartridges and remanufacturing solutions - Office Assistant company (Moscow); UNITON Premium (Green Line) brand, the production and features of Green Line cartridges; the quality control and the solutions for remanufacturing UNITON Premium (Green Line) cartridges; UNITON Premium (Green Line) laser cartridge testing: the quality of prints, efficiency, and sustainability; presenting the supplier of UNITON Premium (Green Line) cartridges and remanufacturing solutions – CUHDO company (Moscow).

The participants of the Conference discussed together with the speakers the provided information, recommendations, testing results, practical aspects of procurement organizing for quality cartridges and solutions for their remanufacturing. The participants of the Conference paid special attention towards the issue of organizing and coordinating the procurement of the presented quality cartridge brands from the recommended Russian suppliers, as well as towards the issues of organizing of the testing and quality control of procured and supplied products during 2022-2024.

As a nice surprise for all the Conference participants came the new issue of BUSINESS-INFORM Review magazine (issue #33, 2021) and its appendix “Testing and Quality” (January, 2022).

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Information Agency “Business-Inform” (Moscow) has started a preparation for print of BUSINESS-INFORM Review Magazine (issue #34, 2022). The magazine is aimed at the specialists of office printing devices, supplies and parts industry.

The main magazine sections are:

·        Global Industry Leaders,

·        Russian Market News,

·        AQCMS News,

·        Marketing,

·        Print Outsourcing,

·        Information Security and Environmental Safety,

·        Office Equipment and Printing Technology,

·        Printing Supplies and Aftermarket.

The Topic of this Issue is Results-2021 and Prospects-2022 in the Office Printing Industry

In this Issue of the Magazine:

·        The industry is recovering and continues to develop taking into account the new experience

·        Changes in the business organization of the world's leading companies

·        Changes in attitudes towards business and the environment

·        Changes in customer demand

The AQCMS News section will contain the AQCMS and Information Agency “Business-Inform” conferences’ materials for Russian corporative buyers of printing devices and supplies.

The print-run is 20000 copies.The magazine will be on sale (distribution) in March 2022. 

This issue of the magazine will be received free of charge by all participants of the conferences of the Information Agency "Business-Inform" in March - May 2022.

The digital version of BUSINESS-INFORM Review can be found on the Information Agency “Business-Inform” web-site, http://sforp.ru/birevieweng/ .

Regarding the placement of ads and information in the magazine, please contact us: 

E-mail – bizinform@list.ru

Moscow, January 17, 2022— Information Agency “Business-Inform” and the Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers and Suppliers presented the results of marketing research of the Russian toner market for printers and MFPs as well as the results of testing for quality and sustainability of the best and most popular toners presented on the Russian market.

The Information Agency “Business-Inform” and the Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers and Suppliers (AQCMS) organized and held the Conference, on January 17^th this year, “Russian Toner Market in 2021 – Focus on Quality!” During the Conference the results of marketing research of the Russian toner market for printers and MFPs as well as the results of testing for quality and sustainability of the best and most popular toners present on the Russian market were presented. The Conference saw participation by the representatives of 134 Russian businesses and organizations, 67 toner cartridges remanufacturing centers, as well as the leading Russian and International experts.

During the Conference 3 reports were heard:

·      “Toner Testing – Classification, Chemical Composition, Components and Physical Properties” (Speaker - Nori Kawakami, “Business-Inform” Group)

The Report Theses: Toners, their classification and usage in different brands; chemical and abrasive toners, the aspects of their manufacturing and usage in office printing; toner components and their role - polymers, magnetites, pigments, additives, etc.; toner formulas and technologies; manufacturing of abrasive toners – feeder, extruder, cooling system, grinder, refining and classification unit, etc.; modern productions of abrasive toners and their differences; production of chemical toners and its features; modern productions of chemical toners and their differences; toner quality and its evaluation in production and office printing usage; toner’s main characteristics as applied to the evaluation of prints; the testing results of toners produced in US, China, Europe, Japan, India, Korea, Malaysia and Russia; using of quality toners is always profitable!; environmental aspects in evaluating of toners’ quality; International agreements, conventions, directives; the influence of toner on the human health – modern requirements towards the particle size and chemical composition; the testing results of toners presented on the Russian and European markets in 2021.

·      “The Modern Toner Market – Main Tendencies and Technologies, Global Market Leaders and their Products” (Speaker - Kim Satoshi, “Business-Inform” Group)

The Report Theses: The modern market of toners – Japanese and American manufacturers of quality toners, Chinese manufacturers of popular toners; Russian production, its products and distributors; manufacturing technologies, sales volumes, Global market promotion policies; real and illusory leaders; general tendencies in development of toner productions and information policy of the Chinese companies and the Global market; presenting Global and regional leaders of the toner market and their partners; toner manufacturers, their manufacturing plants and products: Mitsubishi Corp., IMEX Co., Ltd., Tomoegawa Co., Ltd., Static Control Components Ltd.; Integral GmbH, Indian Toners & Developers Ltd., ASC Technology (Beijing) Ltd., Cangzhou ASC Toner Production Ltd. , CET Group Co., Ltd., Everlight/ Trend Tone Imaging, Inc. (TTI), Handan Hanguang OA Toner; testing of products and local factories; the production location matters!; comparative evaluation of prints and the environmental testing of regional markets leaders in 2021.

·      “The Russian Market – Leading Suppliers, Popular Brands, their Quality and Sustainability” (Speaker - Stanislav Malinskiy, “Business-Inform” Group)

The Report Theses: The Russian market of toners 2009-2021 – dynamics, tendencies, perspectives; the alternative market, its consumers and suppliers; the economic sanctions change the market and make it more quality-oriented; main manufacturers and suppliers of toner on the Russian market – the dynamics of the sales volumes, information, advertising and price policies, quality and sustainability of supplied toners; testing of 20 popular toner brands presented on the Russian market in 2020-2021; where are the competence and the quality?; facts and traditional myths of the Chinese and Russian suppliers – attention towards the details; defining the best toners and their suppliers for 2022-2023 procurements – legislative requirements and “invitational” contests; the procurement volumes for 2022 and their distribution; winners and nominees of OPEN QUALITY PRINTING CONTEST 2021; presenting the best toner brands and their suppliers - Mitsubishi, IMEX, Static Control, Integral, Tomoegawa, HYB toners; presenting the popular toner brands - Handan, TTI, ASC; comparative testing of the best and popular toners – quality and sustainability are always profitable!; Russian toners and their manufacturers – numbers and facts; suppliers of foreign toners under Russian brands: Who is who?; Information-Search System “The Global Market of Toners”, its functional features, contents, development perspectives and the usage experience during 2020-2021 procurements; using the Information-Search System in planning and preparing of toner procurements for alternative market; presenting the new Russian suppliers of quality toners and components for 2022-2024 alternative market; distribution of quotas and organizing shipments from US, Japan and China.

The participants of the Conference discussed together with the speakers the provided information, recommendations, testing results, practical aspects of choice and procurement organizing for quality toners for remanufacturing of cartridges for office HP, Kyocera, Brother and Lexmark printing devices. The Conference participants paid special attention towards the issue of coordinating the procurement of the presented quality toner brands from the recommended Russian suppliers, as well as towards the issues of organizing the input quality control of procured and supplied products during 2022-2024.

As a nice surprise for all the Conference participants came the new issue of BUSINESS-INFORM Review magazine (issue #33, 2021) and its appendix “Testing and Quality” (December, 2021).

AQCMS: info@aqcmsrus.ru, https://aqcmsrus.ru/?lang=en

BUSINESS-INFORM: bizinform@list.ru, https://sforp.ru/en/

Information Agency “Business-Inform” web-site displays a new issue of the quarterly magazine, BUSINESS-INFORM Review (issue #33, 2021). The magazine readers are the specialists in the field of the office printing devices, supplies, and parts.

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 Arnald Ho (Print-Rite) “Iconic Industry Pioneer Honored”, Jan Hagemann (INTEGRAL GmbH) “It Looks Like the Worst Is Over. We Do See Sales Figures Growing Again”, Volker Kappius (Delacamp AG) “The Percentage of Remanufactured Cartridges Will Go up in the Near Future”, Peter Knak (IMEX EU) “We Will Be Entering into More Niche Segments”.

In the “Russian Market News” section there are interviews with Roman Samoilov (Office Assistant) “We Will Continue the Active Development of the Company by Enlarging the Range of Existing Product Groups”, Brazhnikova Tatyana (CUHDO Ltd.) “Our Company Has Redirected Itself towards Environmentally Friendly Products”, press-releases of the Conferences held by AQCMS and “Business-Inform” Group: “Russian Office Printing Supplies Market – Tendencies, Perspectives, and New Players”, “High-Quality Cartridges and Toners, as Well as Their Suppliers on the Russian Market”, “The Russian Market of Office Printing Equipment in 2020-2025 – New Requirements Towards Information Safety”, “The Issues of Information Safety and the Corresponding Solutions Concerning the Usage of Office Printing Devices”, “Full Promotion Contract is the Fastest Way to Success on the Russian Market”. 

In the “Marketing” section one can find articles by Louella Fernandez (Quocirca) “Print industry opportunities when the chips are down”, “2022 Priorities: Channel Agility Will Create Competitive Advantage”, Ray Stasieczko “Colorless: The Day Businesses Stopped Printing in Color”, as well as the following articles: “There Are 875 Million Good Reasons Why the Paperless Office Won't Happen Soon”, “Are We Finally Headed to a Paperless Office?”.

In the “Printing Outsourcing” section one can find articles by Louella Fernandez (Quocirca) “The Great Resignation: 6 Opportunities for MPS Providers”, as well as the article “8 Reasons Why You Need Managed Print Services For Your Organization”.

The “Information Security and Environmental Safety” section holds the articles: “Office Environment Exposures May Trigger Asthma in Some Employees”, “Can a Printer Be Hacked?”, “Printers are Hackable”.

In the “Office Equipment and Printing Technology” section one can find articles by Ray Stasieczko “Should, The Document Imaging Channel Become a Franchise System?”,  “Ricoh Bought DocuWare, Will They Buy PaperCut Next?”, Maggie Wang (RT Media) “Toshiba to Split into Three Separate Companies”,  “Epson Releases Two New Supertank Color MFPs”,  as well as a range of articles and press-releases by Canon, Epson, Konica Minolta, Sharp 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 “How Consolidation, Protection and Sustainability Impact Us”, Maggie Wang (RT Media) “Half of China Switches Off Factory Power Supplies”, as well as several other articles: “Konica Minolta Shares Latest Update on Explosion”, “Konica Minolta Resumes Toner Production”, “New Specialty Paper Made from Stone Proves Sustainable”  and “Quality-First Brings Client Satisfaction and Market Growth”.

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 17th of December, 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)).