Technology Trends

On June 29, Epson Sales, Seiko Epson’s distributor in the Japanese market, announced that it would start a print service that links printers with Slack (Slack Technologies), a…

Back in the old days—more than six, seven hundred years ago—when the average person needed to read a document (usually something very official, say from…

Better late than never. While competitors have released a steady stream of internally developed A4 products, Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS) has been relying…

Health experts unanimously agree that wearing a facial covering is a key element of coronavirus-mitigation strategies. The CDC recommends all people two years of age and…

Necessity is the mother of invention. Nowhere is that adage truer right now than in the office technology and solutions space. Since June, Canon Solutions America…

Got data? Got information? You probably have both. Are they the same thing? Nope. Does it matter? Yep!  The 98 strokes you take to play 18 holes is data. The number…

Starting last  issue, The Cannata Report will connect with key industry players throughout the office imaging landscape for updates on how they are doing, new product introductions…

Given the unpredictable nature of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many employees across the country will continue to work from home for…

No one could have predicted the COVID-19 pandemic and what we are experiencing now back in March of 2019 when we published the article…

In the spirit of our July/August production print issue, let’s take a trip back to September 2019. Those were simpler times when we could come…

The printing industry has transformed itself into a hotbed of innovation. If that sounds like a joke, you haven’t paid much attention to the past three months…

Does the dealer channel need another print management solution? If you ask Ed McLaughlin, the answer is a resounding yes. Of course…

The last thing you are probably thinking about right now is expanding into wide-format. After all, it is another print technology, right? And we all know what has…

“Volume is not the best metric when it comes to production printing,” said Bob Barbera, director, production solutions marketing and a G7 expert at Canon U.S.A. “It used…

Attend any large print show such as Print or PRINTING United, and the focal point for most visitors is the hardware in various shapes and sizes that dot the show…

Digital technologies are changing every aspect of the printing industry, but perhaps none so quickly as in book publishing and printing where the benefits of digital printing…

If a company that manufactures and sells its own high-speed industrial printers sees value in Kyocera Document Solutions America’s first high-speed cut-sheet inkjet producti…

As people, we sometimes tend to make things more complicated than what they really are. For years, many companies entertained the idea…

I’ll be honest, after 30+ years covering this industry, there isn’t much that wows me anymore. I was there when fax started to take off, I wrote…

At a business briefing for analysts and press, held by Seiko Epson Corporation in early May, Chairman Minoru Usui and President Yasunori Ogawa presented…

Things were going reasonably well for the next generation(s), at least until a few weeks ago, when the coronavirus pandemic caused significant disruptions to…

The remarkably clueless MFP residing six feet from my desk refuses to differentiate between A4 and letter-size pages, opting instead not to print at all. The print driver insists…

If there is a bright side at to the coronavirus pandemic, global pollution levels have declined due to the massive number of people under quarantine. But that doesn’t mean…

Earlier today we were notified by Kyocera Document Solutions America that its president & CEO, Óscar Sánchez, would be sharing his thoughts about…