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In this week’s episode of Fridays with Frank, Frank G. Cannata discusses the latest news about Toshiba Corp. in Japan and what that might or might not mean…

Where would the dealer channel be without service and services? Service has always been a key revenue generator for the independent dealer channel…

Last month, I neglected to acknowledge a significant milestone. March 10, 2021, marked the anniversary of when I flew from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh to visit Deb and Joe Dellaposta…

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought rapid changes to companies’ work styles, which raises questions about the ideal set up for employees who must work onsite. Those changes…

Come December 31, 2021, it’s “hasta la vista” Google Cloud Print. Actually, it’s more like “auf nimmerwiedersehen”—until we never meet again. Having monitored IT and printing…

When Congress was debating the stimulus package enacted in December, there was little support for the idea of $2,000 stimulus checks being pushed by the unlikely alliance…

It didn’t take long for industry leasing veteran Fred Carollo formerly of TIAA Bank to secure a new position after it was announced that TIAA was leaving the office technology…

Can revenue from services replace the losses associated with the decline in A3 and A4? Yes, but dealers need to think further outside the traditional services box….

The COVID-19 pandemic changed many things over the past 13 months. Nowhere were those changes more pronounced than in print. Printing may not have expired…

According to research firm MarketsandMarkets, the enterprise content management (ECM) opportunity has grown to some $60 billion (from $23 billion five years ago), with the global…

Around this time last year, many dealers began helping clients migrate employees to the new (and sometimes scary or baffling) world of WFH (work-from-home). The…

Husband-and-wife team Natalia Lizarazo and Moody Haman were moments away from making the biggest financial decision any young couple makes. They were “ninety-eight…

In our third column on corporations immersed in the print world that are actively pursuing efforts to hire veterans, we present Ricoh USA. When I learned about Ricoh’s focus on engaging…

We know, we know. Click counts are declining. This has been happening for a while, it’s one of the things that bothers you and you’re wondering what…

Epson announced a single SurePress L-6534VW has produced the following commercial print volumes in an installation – 1.99 million square feet…

It is always a source of great interest in the channel when an OEM decides to sell its direct branches. We saw what happened a few years ago when Ricoh…