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Issue #0633/3 - Volatile currency causes chaos and local price increases.

South Africa’s currency troubles are spotlighted by price increases from Hewlett-Packard, particularly on supplies products.

Amounting to an average 8.3% increase, almost every product is affected, whereas prices in other countries in the EMEA region remain largely unchanged.

Issue #0632/1 - restructuring on track – turn-around looks possible - Quarterly results have exceeded Lexmark’s expectations and brought some growth to the company for the first time in 12 months.

Issue #0630/1 - Some hardware price reductions are expected but new colour laser models also benefit from higher capacity toners and some supplies price reductions.

Issue #0629/2 - New GelSprinters are faster and better looking but still expensive to run.

As a second generation of products, the Ricoh Aficio GX range of A4 GelSprinter desktop colour printers benefit from much smoother lines and a more attractive design than the G500 and G700 of a year ago.

Issue #0628/2 - New range of inkjet machines from Epson include three that bristle with new technologies that should be attractive to users.