Meanwhile, Annodata has outsourced Connaught's printer services operations.
"The model is to go out to these businesses and provide printer services, providing a working contract to manage an entire printer fleet".
The traditional patent enforcement model is not well-suited to users of 3D printer services.
That last step is not an easy task — people generally use a pseudonym or alias on the 3D printer services, which adds an extra layer of complexity for tracking infringers.
In the fourth quarter it reported year-on-year declines in revenues from PCs, printers, services, servers just about everything, in fact, except software, where revenue was up by 14%.
In its fourth-quarter results HP reported not only the write-down of Autonomy but also falling revenues from PCs, printers, services, servers just about everything except software, of all things, where revenue rose by 14%.Often, write-downs draw a line under folly.
"You could have a fleet of printers serviced by robot-mechanics," DeSimone said.
Dell believes it can reach $80 billion in annual revenue in the next three to four years by expanding the company's current 4% share of the $1.4 trillion IT market on continued expansion into printers, services, storage and notebooks, CSFB said.
The research firm said Hewlett-Packard is best positioned for near-term stock appreciation but cautioned that margin concerns on printers, services and enterprise systems may exert downward pressure in the long term.
