Technology Trends

PRINTING United provides office technology dealers looking to diversify and expand solutions offerings in production print many opportunities to consider.

Edmund Sumner, managing director of SumnerOne in St. Louis, Missouri, describes his dealership’s entry into production print and strategies for success. 

Konica Minolta secured over 200 orders from customers worldwide and Ricoh added more than 100 orders during drupa 2024 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

In-plant customers represent a gateway to production print for MPS providers.

If you aren’t selling wide format printers, it’s a product category worth considering, especially for expanding your production print footprint.

Industrial print is one of those terms that defies clear definition. Like the sometimes mile-wide, mighty Mississippi River, the broad category represents many things in a vast ocean of different businesses.

We begin this special issue about production print with interviews with four dealers. Each of the first three represents a different manufacturer.

You’d think there would be a definition of light production, but there isn’t. Some vendors dodge the question by citing the jobs that fall into this category.

Broadly speaking, finishing includes corner and edge trimming, perforating, inserting pages, folding, die-cutting, fold-out pages, special trims, adding tabs, perfect binding, and more.

What can AI do to make a dealer’s organization’s workday, and their clients’ easier?

Frank travels to Datamax in Little Rock, Arkansas, to interview Barry Simon and key members of his team.

On May 23, Toshiba Tec’s President, Hironobu Nishikori, held a briefing on the company’s 2024 fiscal year management policy and announced the mid-term management plan for 2024–2026.

As the printing industry evolves, office technology dealerships are increasingly seeking to expand their offerings by selling production printers.

On Sunday, June 16, 2024, Katun Corporation held a grand opening for its new state-of-the-art Asia headquarters and research and development facility in Taiwan.

Rumors to the contrary, print is far from dead, and where there’s print, there’s an opportunity for managing that print with print management software.

The leasing companies have their finger on the pulse of the evolutionary changes sweeping the office technology industry, leading to new financing options.

Although lacking the glamour of many internet-enabled technologies, print remains a critical segment of technology that’s still happening in schools across America.

Canon Marketing Japan, which oversees the sales of Canon products in the Japanese market, launched on June 19 an option service that materializes Active Directory Integration for its cloud-based integrated ID management service, ID Entrance.

Highlights from the June PaperCut virtual Partner Summit.

Highlights, including notable production introductions from drupa 2024 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Konica Minolta and Fujifilm Business Innovation (Fujifilm BI) announced on April 15 that they have signed a basic agreement to begin discussing a business partnership for MFPs, office printers, and production printers.

During the past five years, we’ve noticed an interesting development in our Annual Dealer Survey—the increasing percentage of dealers who have identified Brother International as one of their top four providers of A4 products.

For the fourth consecutive year, U.S. Bank conducted a comprehensive survey, delving into the minds of finance leaders to uncover their top concerns, outlooks, and strategies.

The theme of Shaping Tomorrow at DocuWorld 2024 provided DocuWare partners with a roadmap for the future.

Does your dealership understand what it takes to catch the managed services wave?