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…
Magazine Features
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…
- Technology Trends
EUROPEAN HEADLINES: PRINT 4.0—DON’T LET OUR CULTURE DIE
by Petra Diener April 4, 2019Let 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…
- Op-Ed & CommentaryTechnology Trends
2019 VIRTUAL PANEL SERIES | SOFTWARE: POWERFUL STUFF
by Scott Cullen April 4, 2019Show 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…
An intriguing aspect of all these dealer acquisitions has been the quiet return of some dealers who had sold their businesses and are returning now that their…
- Women/Young Influencers & Diversity
YOUNG INFLUENCER BRANDI NOYE’S UPWARD MOBILITY
by CJ Cannata April 4, 2019Get a few our tenured industry leaders in a room together at a convention and no doubt, you’ll hear plenty of stories about how much the copier industry has changed…
So it seems, just like that, winter has turned into spring! Does time just simply move faster when you’re always on the road?Sharp’s recent Chicago Road Show…
- Op-Ed & Commentary
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK | HARD COPY: ENDANGERED SPECIES
by Scott Cullen March 7, 2019If you are a traditional office technology dealer selling print technology and nothing else, your days are numbered. Would you like to know how much…
This past month, The Cannata Report attended Canon’s Annual Media and Analyst Event; celebrated a milestone with Impact Networking; toured WiZiX Technology…
Demand for office MFPs and printers has hit its peak, and copier manufacturers are developing new businesses that are expected to grow in the future. One new business…
Let me start this column with an anecdote. As we all do, I recently downloaded a report from a dealership’s website. Of course, to download this report, I had to leave my…
A sea of change is in store for the dealer of the future, driven in large part by the shifting tides of technology and new business models. Many of the forces that will shape…
Last September, I gave a presentation at PRINT 18 about augmented reality, an awkward and nebulous phrase that is usually abbreviated to AR. Much to my surprise,…
Never underestimate a company that can attract more than 1,000 users to a user conference—and that’s not counting all the partners exhibiting in the exhibit areas or…
- Op-Ed & Commentary
VIRTUAL PANEL SERIES | MANUFACTURERS: TIME KEEPS ON SLIPPING INTO THE FUTURE
by Scott Cullen March 7, 2019Our Virtual Panel series continues this month with comments from the Big Six OEMs, as well as HP and Xerox. The panel responded to numerous…
It was a long time in coming, but we finally made it to Ray Morgan Company (RMC) in Chico, California. This 62-year-old company enjoys a wonderful reputation,…
On November 8, 2018, wild fires blazing across Northern California, destroyed the town of Paradise. Known as the Camp Fire, it was the deadliest and most devastating…
Credit Jocelyn Gorman, vice president of sales with Document Solutions, Inc. (DSI), for introducing the family business to the value of marketing. The Albuquerque,…
After publishing our last Veteran’s Way column, “Al Schmid, a Guadalcanal Marine,” in our November 2018 issue, I received an email from an old friend and…
So, who wants to bet they’ve logged more cross-country flights than me this year? As I write this, I’m cruising at an altitude of 35,000 feet somewhere over…
- Op-Ed & Commentary
ON THE RECORD | FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CEO’s DESK: FEBRUARY 2019
by CJ Cannata February 10, 2019It’s my pleasure to write this letter in our February 2019 issue for several reasons, some of which are “firsts” for The Cannata Report. This month, we are excited to…