Technology Trends

Though office demand for MFPs and printers is declining, demand for IT tools and services that digitize office workflows to make them more efficient…

COVID-19 has brought changes to the office world we could have only dreamt of 18 months ago. It has served up quite some new challenges, too…

Print management solutions remain integral components of MPS and office printing even as office prints continue their downward momentum. Nevertheless, there are plenty…

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged a lot of assumptions about office work—and the workplace may never be the same. Many businesses are…

Recently, Konica Minolta Japan held an online seminar for Japanese customers to promote the 29-inch sheet-fed UV inkjet AccurioJet KM-1e. The session, “Digital Print Can…

Selling a printer is one thing. Selling a printer as part of a managed print services program is another thing. However, selling a production printer is a whole different thing…

With 18,000 square feet, two stories, the latest innovations in LED lighting, a fully functional print shop, multiple meeting rooms, including space for a 100-plus person meeting, Konica…

In our June issue, I covered the business potential of wide- or large-format printing and how it can put money on the table for enterprising dealers. Bear in mind that “large format” is not…

Behind every good piece of production and industrial print hardware is software that drives the workflow and manages and enhances the output. With so much attention focused on selling…

For this week’s installment of The Way We Were, we are taking a trip back to March 2017 and a segment from our Virtual Panel Series with the OEMs…

COVID-19 is rapidly promoting telework as the predominant work style. Along with this, there is a demand for digital transformation (DX) within the workplace. The imaging industry…

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…