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I spent the first part of this week at BTA Grand Slam in Baltimore, home of the MLB Eastern Division Champion Baltimore Orioles. For a regional event, this had all the substance of a national event, or at least the sessions I attended did. What’s nice about this event is th Read More

It wasn’t so long ago I was thinking this was going to be a quiet fall when it came to travel and other industry related events. Was I ever wrong! My fall travel calendar is rapidly filling up after a quiet summer. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago in my article on the Toshiba Read More

OEM road shows are proving to be excellent educational opportunities not only for dealer principals, but for their sales reps, and depending on the agenda, their service techs too. Toshiba’s “Together Smarter 2014 Product & Solutions Summit,” which rolled through St. Louis; Read More

This week Mitch Taylor, sales manager for 4 Office Automation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, shares what’s hot and what’s not in his market. 4 Office sells Kyocera and Lexmark hardware as well as solutions such as Pcounter, PaperCut, and Equitrac. What’s hot? Taylor: The Kyocera Read More

I can always count on Lexmark’s Phil Boatman to succinctly answer questions related to anything Lexmark and that’s what he did when I recently asked what Lexmark has planned for its dealer channel in 2014. If you’re a Lexmark dealer you’ll find his comments noteworthy, if Read More

Over the past four weeks we’ve been presenting the highlights of the year from a wide variety of companies serving the office imaging space from hardware manufacturers, to solutions and services organizations, to the consulting and analyst communities. Taken together these Read More

Last month Lexmark hosted a dealer meeting in Lexington, KY. The two-day event with the theme, “Bridge Beyond,” was a non-stop educational experience for attendees bordering on information overload, albeit in a good way for the 125+ Lexmark dealers in attendance. There was plenty Read More

I received an e-mail last Friday from a reader with an interesting observation about the first 20 names on The Week in Imaging’s Top 40 Most Influential People in the Imaging Industry list. “Most of them are old.” That wasn’t meant to be negative, but was Read More

Ever wonder what the largest applications are for solutions sales within the imaging channel today? While attending Lexmark’s recent dealer meeting in Lexington, KY, I sat in on a breakout session focused on “Lexmark Solution Strategies” where that question was answered. The Read More

Phil Boatman, Lexmark International’s manager, business development for the U.S. dealer channel discusses the industry’s trends to watch in 2013 and the trends that will be affecting Lexmark’s business in the year ahead as well as what the company has in store to help their Read More

This week we speak with Ron Carr co-owner of Oklahoma Office Systems, LLC/OneSOURCE in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma about what’s hot and what’s not in his market. The dealership sells Konica Minolta, HP, Kyocera/CopyStar, Lexmark, Muratec, and KIP hardware and was one of Read More

Mark Mathews, president of Toshiba America Information Systems, offers his take on some of the trends that will affect Toshiba and the imaging and office technology industry in 2013. What are some of the trends that will drive your business and the imaging and office technology Read More

2012 a not so good year for the MFP copier industry or a good year for the MFP copier industry.  I’m thinking that most will answer a not so good year at least for the industry as a whole. I guess the biggest question that will need to be answered in 2013 is related to Read More

As 2012 comes to a close it’s time once again to recap the highlights or significant accomplishments of the year from the perspective of companies and organizations related to the imaging technology industry. Over the past month I’ve been presenting up to a dozen highlights Read More

This week we speak with Brian Kempke, vice president and general manager with Martin Whalen Office Solutions in Tinley Park, IL to find out what’s hot and what’s not in their markets. Martin Whalen Office Solutions was acquired by Global Imaging earlier this year. What’s hot? Read More