Technology Trends

As workplaces continue their digital evolution, paper remains integral to many types of businesses. Just ask Howard Gross, president and chief executive officer of eBizDocs, a document…

COVID-19 has accelerated the shift to an office-agnostic work style, resulting in fewer MFPs, printers, and prints in the office and reduced profits for dealers…

Everyone likes money on the table. The decline of A3 and A4 pages changes the game for copier-printer dealers, some of whom are chasing a shrinking…

The world continues to grapple with social media’s influence as Facebook struggles with privacy woes and fake news and other platforms find themselves under closer scrutiny…

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…

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…

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

It’s time for more independent dealers to move upstream with their digital print offerings. That was a key takeaway from a recent briefing…

As we enter 2021, executives from the Japanese MFP industry group, JBMIA, and OEMs have stated their initiatives in response to the market changes…

We saw a lot of “bad” things happen in 2020, but there were also some good things that happened for the business-savvy among us, namely in production printing…

There is a wide array of opportunities to diversify your dealership beyond traditional office copy and print. New diversification opportunities are emerging every year…

Is there a downside to diversifying your product offerings? If only that were a rhetorical question. Far from it.   Oh, how I would like to say there are no downsides. The reality is there are plenty of downsides…

At this point, nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic that transformed the way the world lives and works, many changes are starting to look permanent. The workplace…

Xerography may be seasoned, yet the 79-year-old technology invented by physicist Chester Carlson still works remarkably well. His photocopying process uses an electrically charged…

As we look deeper into the arena of production print, we are aiming to give dealers a solid understanding of this potential opportunity. From our standpoint, there’s no better way…

All indications point to a resurgence in the sign and display graphics business as retailers reopen after pandemic-related shutdowns. In addition to pandemic-related signage…

Who said independent dealers can’t sell 3D printers?  It certainly wasn’t Greg Gondek, president of The Act Group in Cromwell, Connecticut, who…

It’s all Gene Roddenberry’s, the creater of Star Trek‘s fault. He showed us the flip phone on classic science fiction TV show way back in the…

The Japan Business Machine and Information System Industries Association (JBMIA) held its 60th Anniversary Ceremony in Tokyo on November 13, 2020. (JBMIA is a Japanese…

These days, you don’t have to hunt for interesting, industry-challenging topics; it’s more like you must pick and choose. One dominating issue of the past year, and most…

At least we’re somewhat used to it by now. The pandemic, I mean, and all the closures, limitations, masks, and rules that seem to come with it. None of it is much fun, and just…

One of these days, we are going to stop writing about the pandemic. I promise. But until it is eradicated and a faint memory in our collective consciousness, there is no avoiding…

The last time we spoke with Ed McLaughlin of Predictive InSight, we were introduced to a new predictive analytics and data collection agent (DCA) for the office technology…