New tools for a new world. When you’ve been around for a few years, especially in printing, hearing the word “meta” immediately…
European Headlines
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The paper chase has become a lot more complicated. We’ve seen a lot over the past 24 months, and I’m sure there’s…
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Technology Trends
European Headlines: When the New Normal Is Yet Another New Normal
by Petra Dienerby Petra DienerReflecting on the changes caused by COVID-19. This article was actually supposed to be quite a different article—it was supposed to be…
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Managed IT
European Headlines: How to Become a Creature of Habit One Security Setting at a Time
by Petra Dienerby Petra DienerYour actions can set a great example for your customers. No doubt, we are all creatures of habit. Volumes have been written…
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The educated customer is on the rise, and their expectations are higher than ever. The magic word to meet these expectations seems to be “diversification,” followed…
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Technology Trends
European Headlines: Misty Watercolor Memories of the Way We Were
by Petra Dienerby Petra DienerWhat a ride. Eighteen months of radical change. While putting the words for this end-of-year column together, I’m in Vienna, Austria, and all unvaccinated adults have been…
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Availability down, margins up? Or as a German manager put it: “Change your talk track. Don’t talk about how much, talk about when.”…
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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…
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Technology Trends
European Headlines: How to Become a Production-print Champion
by Petra Dienerby Petra DienerSelling 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…
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Women/Young Influencers & DiversityOp-Ed & Commentary
European Headlines: 2021—why It’s a Good Thing We’re Honoring Outstanding Women of Our Industry
by Petra Dienerby Petra DienerEvery year, I look forward to the Women Influencers selected by The Cannata Report. I love it! The video portraits, the awards, the women, perfect. However, every time I read…
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Events & Meetings
European Headlines: on the Road Again… a Little Bit
by Petra Dienerby Petra Diener“On the road again Just can’t wait to get on the road again…” Willie Nelson Oh, this is so exciting. Things are bouncing back. Even here! Ah, you don’t get my excitement. I am on the other side of the pond…
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Technology Trends
European Headlines | Google Print: Did IT Ever Really Matter?
by Petra Dienerby Petra DienerCome 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…
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Technology Trends
European Headlines | Bridging the Gap: when Printing Meets Printing
by Petra Dienerby Petra DienerWe 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…
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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…
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Hello, Tech Support speaking, how can I help? And from this point forward, we expect a conversation with a human being, and, depending on the issue, an appointment…
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No doubt, the past six months have drastically challenged the way we establish, build, and maintain business relationships. For many of us, WFO (work-from-home) and online…
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Technology Trends
European Headlines: Together Forever for the Future
by Petra Dienerby Petra DienerBack 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…
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Technology Trends
European Headlines | Production Printing: an Industry Excelling Through Innovation
by Petra Dienerby Petra DienerThe 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…
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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…
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The first time I heard the coronavirus alarm bells go off was around mid-January while spending a couple of days in Munich to celebrate my dad’s 91st birthday. We talked…
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When I hear the word diversification, I think finance, portfolio, spreading money across a variety of investment opportunities to make, well, more money. If diversification…
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Technology Trends
European Headlines: You Say Secure Printing, I Say Secure Printing
by Petra Dienerby Petra DienerNot only am I living on each side of the pond for a couple of months at a time every year, I also work on both sides of the printing industry: office imaging and digital…
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Everybody talks about workflow. You have to have one; you have to document it; you have to improve it continuously; no workflow, no profit; and so on. Let’s…
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Issue Announcements
September Issue Provides Direction for the Future of Production and Industrial Print
by CJ Cannataby CJ CannataAccess the September 2019 Production and Industrial Print Issue via PDF and posts here. Dear members and friends, It’s no secret that…
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May 25, 2018″”D-Day for data protection. Or so it felt. In reality, this day only marked the start of the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation,…
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