More on those trillions of pages

The Xerox blog "The Future of Documents" by Francois Ragnet has a recent post worth reviewing, attempting to reconcile HPs (NYSE HPQ) "total market size" number of 48 trillion printed pages today, growing to 53 trillion in 2010. He brings in a Lyra Research market assessment, that puts the 2006 worldwide paper market at 15.2 trillion pages, and goes on to delineate what they include in their estimate. It seems interesting that one number is three times the size of the other, especially when I look at the Lyra definitions and try to think of what they DONT include in their count (that would account for two-thirds of the HP-supplied number).

Ill invite readers with paper industry expertise to weigh in.

And as far as "How Big is Big"? I think I agree with Francois that yes, all these numbers truly are big!

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Great observations on the newspaper business

So this doesnt have much to do with printing, at least directly, but Im making myself a few allowances on a Friday afternoon heading into a holiday weekend.

Mike Masnick, in his usual incisive manner, has a great post at Techdirt well worth my readers while, in my opinion. He summarizes and analyzes the comments from a recent Charlie Rose show and its newspaper management panel in "WSJ Editor Claims Google Devalues Everything".

As those paying attention know, the long decline in newspaper readership has long been exacerbated by competing media forms, the latest being the Internet. And more recently the business is suffering, like most media businesses, from an overall decline in advertising correlated directly with the economic slowdown. But as Masnick points out, the opportunities granted by the Web and the perceived demon Google are enormous, and its up to the industry, at least those in the industry who plan to survive, to figure it out.

Where does this relate to print? It seems even still the mindset of too many of those in the business is stuck with the model of literally, the News-Paper business. "If it aint printed (centrally I might add), it aint a newspaper and we cant sell it."

Thanks, Mike, for the excellent thoughts!

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How to Fix Error B200 on Canon iP2770 and MP258

This time I will share experiences about How to Fix Canon iP2770 and MP258 with Error B200. This question is often asked and I will answer now. This answer is from my friend who want to share about his experience.

How to Fix Error B200 on Canon iP2770 and MP258 :

Here is step by step to fix Error B200 on Canon iP2770 and MP258, but No Result ( Unclear) :

• Reset Printer with software resetter = unclear.
• Press Resume button 15 - 25 minutes, print result is not good.
• Replace the catrid with the new one = result is unclear.

Finally this is the way How to Fix Error B200 on Canon iP2770 and MP258 :

Replace power supply / adaptor on your iP2770 or MP258. And the error B200 on iP2770 and MP258 will soon be resolved.

This picture is just an illustration.

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A little pressure on HP NYSE HPQ printer results

Marketwatch has an article by Rex Crum entitled "PCs and printers to highlight H-P earnings report" which is a change, from a printer perspective. Followers of recent HP earnings communications will know that printers dont typically get a lot of play, including from the HP (NYSE HPQ) executives explaining the quarterly numbers, and from the press and analyst community covering the company. (There are exceptions to this, naturally.) This is especially true on the revenue side. The very healthy profit margins from the Imaging and Printing Group, especially those of the supplies businesses, are of course very important to HPs bottom line, and tracked and discussed somewhat more carefully. But still, the HP vs Dell (NASDAQ DELL) battle in the PC sector generally gets the most attention.

Looking at the Second Quarter of 2008, Crums piece quotes a group of Banc of America analysts who are watching HP printer revenue numbers a little more closely this time. (Earnings will be announced after the markets close on the 15th.)

At Banc of America Securities, a group of analysts see "some challenges in printing hardware," and believe that this could provide H-P with a challenge in growing sales of printer units. B. of A. believes that H-Ps imaging and printing group will report sales of $7.48 billion, for an increase of 4% from a year ago, and there is some risk to the company meeting revenue estimates.

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