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By now, it should come as no shock that the statistics for printing in color are compelling. According to a recent Xerox study, business documents reproduced in color are resulting…

Is anyone really surprised anymore when a private equity firm invests in the imaging channel? Heck no! Private equity money continues to flow into the channel at a fast and furious pace…

I received a text about this Friday morning while attending the Brother press and analyst briefing at the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. Even though I had heard rumblings…

One advantage of attending a regional dealer road show is intimacy. Unlike a big dealer conference, regional shows allow for more one-on-one interaction while providing many…

Each year The Cannata Report asks dealers to identify the greatest opportunities for growth. Those findings are presented in our Annual Survey. We intend to do the same thing…

Ricoh has announced that it has received the 2019 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award for continued leadership and superior contributions…

RJ Young has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Business Electronics (BE), a privately-owned office technology and solutions provider…

Konica Minolta held its 2019 dealer meeting in Newport, CA, March 4-5. The theme of the conference was “Limitless.” The Cannata Report had a full contingent””CJ, Scott, and me””in…

As we head toward the third decade of the 21st century the present paints a bleak picture for the future of print. Here we are specifically referring to print within the…

Following up our 2nd annual Dealer of the Future issue, The Cannata Report launches our first-ever Inkjet-themed issue (April). To access, simply click here or on the…

Have you ever thought about the ink? Between our visits to PRINT and EFI Connect, we continue to see increasing numbers of inkjet devices, primarily designed for…

HP Inc.’s Kim Rivera (left) and Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, discuss lessons on reinventing an organization during…

In February 2019, OKI Data introduced three models in the COREFIDO EX series MFPs for the Japanese domestic market with an industry first seven-year warranty and…

Let me start this column with an anecdote. Officially, the culture of printing dates back to at least 3,500 BCE. Being bold, you may even go back to the days when our…

Show me a dealer who isn’t aligned with one of the many software providers servicing the dealer channel and I’ll show you a dealer who isn’t long for this world. Those…

Inkjet technology is poised to make a huge splash across the independent dealer channel. But is the channel ready for inkjet. Some OEMs think so. To get a sense of…

Ink has been around longer than writing. Some experts describe prehistoric art in Africa or France as paintings, but it’s basically ink on the wall. Sort of like what…

A day and a half. That’s all it took for Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. (KMBS) to share its vision with dealers at its most recent dealer meeting, March 3″“4, in…