Moscow, October 27, 2020 – The Association of Quality Consumables Manufacturers and Suppliers (AQCMS) and Information Agency “Business-Inform” organized and held on October 27 the online-conference “Quality Cartridges on the Russian Market – the Requirements towards Products, and the Responsibility of Suppliers”. The Conference saw the participation by the representatives of 124 Russian companies, buyers of supplies for office printing devices as well as the heads of Russian and European supplier-companies specializing in quality alternative printing supplies. The Conference sponsors are CUHDO ltd., Uniton Service Ltd., and INKOTEC Ltd.
During the Conference two reports were presented:
— International and Russian Brands – the Well Known Name Doesn’t Guarantee the Quality of Products. The Testing Results of Popular Cartridges Presented on the Russian Market (Malinskiy Stanislav, Information Agency “Business-Inform”)
Theses of the report:
The popular global brands: the production, distribution, quality of products and regional policies;
The aspects of supplying into Europe and Russia – the mentality of buyer forms the respective attitude towards him/her;
Popular cartridge models, their price and quality – the results of quality testing of cartridges procured in Russia and Europe;
The most popular Global and Russian brands – the volumes of sales on the Russian market, price policy and testing results of their products;
Myths and reticence by Russian suppliers and sellers;
The International and Russian brands recommended for alternative supplying into Russian organizations and businesses in 2021 according to the results of independent testing.
— “High Quality Cartridge” and “Confirmed Quality Cartridge” Labels – the Approved Technical Requirements towards Products, and the Suppliers Responsibility
(Malinskiy Stanislav, Savinova Alina, Information Agency “Business-Inform”)
Theses of the report:
The evaluation of printing and prints quality – the International standards ISO/IEC, STMC and LEM methods;
Measured parameters and means of measurement;
The legitimacy if methods and measurements results;
The use of standardized methods of quality evaluation (STMC, LEM) in production does not guarantee the quality of products;
Myths on the web-sites of Russian and International office printing cartridge sellers;
Tricks and Manipulations by Sellers;
The “High Quality Cartridge” and “Confirmed Quality Cartridge” labels – the approved technical requirements towards alternative products to be supplied on the Russian market in 2021;
The organizing of supplied products quality control, and the suppliers responsibility;
The volume of 2021 supplies;
The potential suppliers and their products testing results in Russian and European laboratories.
The participants of the Conference discussed together with the speakers (the heads of supplier companies and the leading industry experts) the presented recommendations and testing results, practical aspects of quality cartridges procurement organizing and their printing quality control aspects, as well as the organizational, informational and legal support of “High Quality Cartridge” and “Confirmed Quality Cartridge” alternative supply labels.
In the end of the Conference, the Participants thanked the organizers and sponsors and expressed the wish to meet again within the framework of another AQCMS Online Conference for Russian corporative buyers of printing devices and materials.
