Between the Lines

If you’re looking for a great way to ruin your weekend, ruin a relationship, kill the mood, or simply make sure you don’t get a good night’s sleep, constantly check your work e-mail or text messages. In this era where we’re always connected, always in the loop, always on call Read More

I have two articles about young people in the industry running in this month’s issue of The Cannata Report. It was a terrific topic to write about and I interviewed a dozen people under 40, one for an article focusing on young people working for dealerships and the other on young Read More

I just finished interviewing Chip Miceli, president of DPOE in Elk Grove, IL for a couple of articles I’m writing for ENX and The Cannata Report. As I was preparing for my interview, I got to thinking about how Chip is a familiar face at industry events, not just dealer meetings. Read More

If you’ve been around this industry as long as I have (28 years), and many of you have been here at least as long as I have, if not longer, you’ve seen a lot of comings and goings. Doors open and doors close. It’s the way it goes. Over the years we’ve all seen vendors, dealers, Read More

Let’s get this New Year off right. The holidays are over and it’s time to get down to business. Starting this week I’ll be running a series of short pieces from some of the movers and shakers in the office imaging business as to what they view as the key trends driving their Read More

It’s the end of the year as we know it and I feel fine. I hope you do to. I’m working on some informative articles as you’re reading this and I will be presenting those throughout the month. That’s no different than any other month; it’s what I do. Over the next few weeks you’ll Read More

Because of the Thanksgiving holiday it’s a short week for many of us so I figured I should get this week’s issue out sooner rather than later. As the year winds down along with my third year of publishing The Week in Imaging, this is an ideal time to give thanks to an industry Read More

As Lou Reed, one of my all-time music idols sang, “I guess that I’m dumb because I know I’m not smart, but deep down inside I have a rock and roll heart.” Some of you know about my rock and roll heart already. Besides my 27-year career as a journalist in the office technology Read More

I just returned from Orlando where I spent time at the Sharp and Toshiba dealer meetings. I’ll be presenting more detailed coverage on each of those meetings in next week’s issue of The Week in Imaging, but for now a brief observation. Each of these companies shared a vision that Read More

I’m a big fan of industry events. That goes back to my earliest days in the industry in the mid to late 1980’s. I still long for that one-stop networking experience of the old NOMDA and BTA shows.  You don’t really get that anymore, at least not the way it was in the ‘80s. Read More

A few weeks ago I wrote about what sometimes happens in social situations when I discuss what I do and half jokingly mentioned how saying I wrote about the office technology and imaging industry was a conversation killer. That was an exaggeration although it’s extremely rare when Read More

I cannot tell you how many times I have to remind my son to clean his room before it actually happens.  I don’t understand it. As a kid, I always cleaned my room. I couldn’t stand the disorder. Unfortunately, in this case, the apple fell pretty far from the tree. It’s not unusual Read More

Have you had an opportunity to look over the results of the 2013 Copier Careers Technician Salary Survey yet? I’ve been following and writing about their surveys for years and although the results are historically fairly consistent year over year, they still offer food for Read More

Last Saturday I attended a fundraiser for a local hospital. The hospital is a client of the engineering firm my significant other works for and since she’s heavily involved in a major building project for them and her firm was a sponsor of that evening’s cocktail hour, attendance Read More

There’s a lot going on this week in The Week in Imaging, including four more trends pieces. I’ve got four more on the docket for next week and may include another two or three in the Feb. 1 e-mail blast. Of course, if you don’t want to wait until Friday’s blast, check the Read More