[Konica's] leaving is not a big deal. Their line has been thin, and they haven't updated it. They've been putting in minimal marketing effort.

What we will see is that consumers will rely on multiple processes. Retail printing will grow in the short term, but at some point it will level off and decline.

Their true advantage is their using inkjet print solutions.

Sony hasn't been in the SLR business, so they'll leverage the brand name to try to penetrate the [SLR] market. That's the one piece of the pie they've been missing.

One of the biggest issues all-in-one users face when scanning documents on their multi-function devices is the poor image quality. Kodak is addressing this issue head-on by integrating its image-quality features into a networked device that essentially performs similar functions as other multi-function devices when connected to a network.

Based on how quickly things are becoming obsolete, the whole infrastructure of imaging is changing dramatically.