A copier has a photo-imaging sensor. So does the cheapest laser printer out there.
How do you suppose Canon got developed its own sensor fab capacity? Answer: Selling photo-imagers to Hewlett-Packard for their laser printers.
Originally posted by Raffwal I find it funny that during the last years Hoya has been cursed as the blood sucking monster and Ricoh was supposed to be better. And now one of the first things they do is rise customer prices (in the US).
Yeah, but HoyaTax allowed those prices to drift all the way back down after Pentax-USA announced the BigBox distribution policy and raised the dealer minimums - so that only those three or four New York distributors could meet them. That move encouraged over-ordering and reselling excess inventory.
One
could infer Ricoh is essentially slapping Pentax-USA for
creating the gray market. However, I choose to believe P-USA kept the brand alive here and Ricoh is now helping Ned and John rebuild the full-service model.
Please note that
luftfluss has edited my signature statement for me:
Be of good cheer, Pentaxians. Ricoh has a plan
and you will bewhich they are implementing clumsily and yet you may eventually be
happy.