HP an interesting article
 

An interesting article in today's business section of the paper focused on HP's
printer/supplies business operations. Found some interesting details I thought
I would pass along.

* Create 700 different inks/mo & perform 7000 tests on each.
* $12B sales in 03 representing 16% of revenue.
* Has more than 100 different types of ink and toner cartridges on the market.
* R&D $900M annually.
* Avg price for ink cart. = $28.
* Ave profit for ink cart. = $16.80
* Current ink cart dispenses 36k droplets/sec from 512 nozzles.
* Original ink cart design dispensed 1200 droplets/sec from 12 nozzles.
* Holds more than 9000 patents on printer related inventions.
* a paraphrase from an HP exec., "it's a razor and blade model, loose money on
the printer and make money on the supplies."

Mickey

An old retiree looking fondly back to the days when Bill and Dave were at the helm.

Mickey wrote in message ...
An interesting article in today's business section of
the paper focused on HP's printer/supplies business operations.

Probably this one in the NYT: http://tinyurl.com/2yff2
(Note that it won't be accessible in a week or so.)

Alan wrote:
Mickey wrote in message ...

An interesting article in today's business section of
the paper focused on HP's printer/supplies business operations.


Probably this one in the NYT: http://tinyurl.com/2yff2
(Note that it won't be accessible in a week or so.)
nope, totally different article.

Mickey

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Alan wrote:
Mickey wrote in message ...

An interesting article in today's business section of
the paper focused on HP's printer/supplies business operations.


Probably this one in the NYT: http://tinyurl.com/2yff2
(Note that it won't be accessible in a week or so.)
nope, totally different article.

Mickey

Are you sure it's not online? Just copy a phrase and plug it into
Google -- often features are syndicated and turn up in many papers.

Alan wrote:
Mickey wrote in message ...

Alan wrote:

Mickey wrote in message ...


An interesting article in today's business section of
the paper focused on HP's printer/supplies business operations.


Probably this one in the NYT: http://tinyurl.com/2yff2
(Note that it won't be accessible in a week or so.)

nope, totally different article.

Mickey


Are you sure it's not online? Just copy a phrase and plug it into
Google -- often features are syndicated and turn up in many papers.

Don't know if it is on-line or not. Read the article in the paper so
have no reason for looking on the net. It was an article from a news
service.

By any chance are you asking so you can read the whole thing? If so
your post did not state that.

Mickey

Mickey wrote in message ...

Don't know if it is on-line or not. Read the article in the paper so
have no reason for looking on the net. It was an article from a news
service.

By any chance are you asking so you can read the whole thing? If so
your post did not state that.

Well yes.

Alan wrote:
Mickey wrote in message ...


Don't know if it is on-line or not. Read the article in the paper so
have no reason for looking on the net. It was an article from a news
service.

By any chance are you asking so you can read the whole thing? If so
your post did not state that.


Well yes.
Tossed last weeks papers yesterday so no longer have the article.

Mickey