3D printers

It only seems like yesterday when Green Project, Inc. emerged on the scene providing an alternative to OEM imaging supplies. In this instance, “only yesterday” was about 8½ years ago, but my, oh my how things have changed for Green Project since then. The company has been Read More

Earlier this year I was talking to Ed McLaughlin, president & CEO of Valderus, about the industry’s difference makers. During our conversation he mentioned a distributor named ScanSource, noting the inroads they’d been making as a distributor of 3D printers. Whenever anyone Read More

That was the deal when I was in grammar school in the sixties. If you needed a copy of something, you went to the local library. I guess what I remember most about those machines is that a copy cost a nickel. The top of the copier had a rubber mat to put the original under and Read More

Earlier this month Impression Solutions announced that the company has begun distributing 3D Systems 3D printers. Initially, they’re taking on the Cube and CubePro 3D printers, and two handheld scanners, the Sense and iSense. In case you haven’t noticed 3D Systems, seems to be Read More

Anyone who attended last November’s Konica Minolta dealer meeting or read about it heard rumblings that the company was on the verge of partnering with 3D Systems to market 3D printers through the Konica Minolta Dealer channel. Those rumblings became a reality on June 5 when the Read More

I was born in the late fifties, by the time I was three years old, Xerox had introduced the first plain paper copier. The Xerox 914 was capable of producing 400 copies per hour. The speed per minute was under 7 pages per minute. Fifty some years later our current plain paper Read More

3D printers are hot and they got even hotter after President Obama made mention of them in his State of the Union address this year. My Google alerts now carry at least 10-15 mentions of 3D printers each week, before the State of the Union address, maybe five or six per week. Read More

This week we speak with Greg Gondek, president of Advanced Copy Technologies in Cromwell, CT. Advanced sells Kyocera, Lanier, and Riso equipment and also offers asset management, document management, and electronic workflow solutions. What’s hot? Gondek: Asset management and 3D Read More

This week we speak with Greg Gondek, president of Advanced Copy Technologies in Cromwell, CT. Advanced sells Kyocera, Lanier, and Riso equipment and also offers asset management, document management, and electronic workflow solutions. What’s hot? Gondek: Asset management and 3D Read More

You could do nothing and keep stealing pages from other vendors and have other vendors steal your pages. There’s no growth in pages! Many traditional copier companies are now embracing and moving forward with Managed Network Services. At one time I asked why the heck would Read More