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No it is not true.
There are many other manufacturers of printers. In the inkjet lines the
three you mention are the main providers of consumer printers, the forth
being Lexmark. In the professional lines of printers, there are dozens
of companies involved, although some may use things like heads or
cartridges from a major printer company.
HP may be using some Canon engines in their laser printers, for
instance, at least they certainly used to.
Some other printer companies include: Kodak, Xerox, Okidata, Fuji,
Konica-Minolta, Roland, Encad, Mutoh, Colorspan, PrismJet, Apache, Iris,
Brady, Sharp... (some of these may now be out of business...)
Art
dan23 wrote:
> I have been told -
>
> 1 that there are only 3 companies which manufacture printers; Canon,
> Epson and HP.
> 2 All other brands are rebadged versions.
>
> Is this true ?