Why did they have to go and kill all the fun?
May/30/2008 11:32 Filed in: Art
Print Gocco is being officially discontinued, they
claim they will continue production of ink, screens,
bulbs, etc for "the time being" Now, it's time for
somebody to step up and produce these supplies
longterm, so our gocco's don't become paper weights.
Save Gocco!
Article
Text:
Tokyo, May 30, 2008 (Jiji Press) - Riso Kagaku Corp. <6413> said Friday that it will discontinue shipments of its Print Gocco home-use greeting card printer in June because increasing use of personal computers has shrunk its demand sharply.
Cumulative sales of the Print Gocco topped 10 million units since its launch in September 1977. Sales of the product and related supplies reached 15.2 billion yen in the year to March 1994.
But sales sank to less than one pct of the company's group sales of 92.6 billion yen in the year to March 2008, as home-use PCs and ink-jet printers have been popular since the late 1990s.
Riso Kagaku said it will continue sales of related supplies, such as inks, for the time being.
The company mainly sells digital printers to schools and public institutions and high-speed ink-jet printers to companies.
By Jiji Press, (c) Jiji Press
Copyright © 2008 JCN. All rights reserved. A division of Japan Corporate News Network KK.
Save Gocco!
Article
Text:
Tokyo, May 30, 2008 (Jiji Press) - Riso Kagaku Corp. <6413> said Friday that it will discontinue shipments of its Print Gocco home-use greeting card printer in June because increasing use of personal computers has shrunk its demand sharply.
Cumulative sales of the Print Gocco topped 10 million units since its launch in September 1977. Sales of the product and related supplies reached 15.2 billion yen in the year to March 1994.
But sales sank to less than one pct of the company's group sales of 92.6 billion yen in the year to March 2008, as home-use PCs and ink-jet printers have been popular since the late 1990s.
Riso Kagaku said it will continue sales of related supplies, such as inks, for the time being.
The company mainly sells digital printers to schools and public institutions and high-speed ink-jet printers to companies.
By Jiji Press, (c) Jiji Press
Copyright © 2008 JCN. All rights reserved. A division of Japan Corporate News Network KK.
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