Nevertheless, HP's growth suggests that there is still profit potential in its printer business which it so cleverly pioneered in the 1980s.
He did say that the company was seeing strength in its printer line, with unit sales up 28percentt year-over-year and unit sales of high-margin printer cartridges rose 43percentt.
HP could use a boost in its printer business.
Dell is moving into tonier territory in its printer battle with market leader Hewlett-Packard.
Serving the mobile printing niche also occupied by products like AirPrint, Breezy lets users who download its software print or fax a document via mobile from a series of compatible printer options in its network (Printers have to be connected to the the service to be compatible).
HP Puts Its Head In Printers Hewlett-Packard this week introduced new technology in its inkjet printers that could mean cheaper and higher-quality prints and might alter the economics of the printer market.
Voxeljet, based in Friedberg, Germany, sells its printers to companies in the automotive, aerospace, film, engineering, medical and consumer products industries.
When Times Newspapers (in the pre-Murdoch era) was embroiled in bitter disputes with its printers during the late 1970s, Harold Evans, then Sunday Times editor, told his journalists that if readers couldn't trust them to report their own paper's affairs, they wouldn't trust them on anything.
