"We are looking for solutions focused people who perhaps come from the non-traditional business imaging background such as software sales.
Unisource Worldwide is a marketer and distributor of commercial printing and business imaging papers, packaging systems, and facility supplies and equipment.
At Wednesday's conferenc Cathy Lyons, HP's Senior Vice President, Business Imaging and Printing cited statistics from IDC Research indicating that only 4% of pages printed in offices are in color.
It has shed businesses like imaging and nonwovens and has said it would sell close to $3 billion of other assets over the next 18 months.
"There has been strong interest in that business, as well as our document imaging business that is also for sale, and we are on track to sell them in the first half of 2013," Christopher K. Veronda, a Kodak spokesman, said in an e-mail.
A sales manager who works with Canon UK in the business-imaging group, which provides copiers, printers and software comments: "I've worked my way up through the business and there is a lot of support, training and development for staff.
As the talks intensified, he said, he argued that the acquisition would increase Hewlett's exposure to the suffering personal-computer market and weaken the company's most profitable business, printing and imaging.
The document imaging business, which includes small scanners and printers, will also be part of the portfolio.
Founded in 1829, RIT enrolls 19,000 students in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs, making it among the largest private universities in the U.S. The university is internationally recognized and ranked for academic leadership in business, computing, engineering, imaging science, liberal arts, sustainability, and fine and applied arts.
That same year, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing divested Imation, which included data storage and imaging businesses with well over $1 billion in annual sales but scant profits.
It spun off its personal and document imaging businesses to its pension plan and sold many of its patents.
