With heightened sales and earnings, Data Products moved to a new site in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California in 1968.

[1]: 123  They started acquiring other businesses, including Staff Dynamics, a personnel agency and Uptime, a manufacturer of card readers.

This delayed shipment of the Howtek Pixelmaster for about 2 years or until 1986 and also increased the manufacturing cost of the product even though the suit was dropped by Dataproducts.

[1]: 128  Jack C. Davis, 47, a former Harris Corporation senior vice president, replaced Graham Tyson as chairman and chief executive in May, 1986.

Clover Technologies Group, LLC (Clover) of Ottawa, Illinois, acquired the North American and European compatible printing supplies divisions of Ricoh Printing Systems America, Inc. (RPSA), manufacturer of Dataproducts and other compatible supplies brands, effective February 1, 2005, as announced by CEO Jim Schiefelbein and President Jim Cerkleski.

Dataproducts division, with its western U.S. distribution center, is located in Simi Valley, California, with manufacturing in Mexicali, Mexico and in Porto, Portugal.

The three plants provide over 200,000 square feet of combined manufacturing capacity of printer, fax and copier consumables.

Beginning in 1983, Sterling Software made an unsolicited offer that became a takeover attempt and finally resulted in a merger in 1985.