The Week in Imaging

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

This week we’re presenting a blast from the not-so-distant past in The Week in Imaging with a profile of Marco, a $150-million St. Cloud, Minnesota-based dealership that is setting new standards in growth as it expands into new markets and new product and services.  Throughout Read More

Next month The Week in Imaging celebrates its third year of publishing.  I’ve been writing about this industry for various dealer and end user office publications since 1986.  Barring any unforeseen developments, I plan to keep it up for at least another 15 years. If you receive Read More

The biggest challenge we have every year is choosing the Elite Dealer of the Year.  There were plenty of worthy candidates, but the ultimate decision came down to the quality of its Elite Dealer submission. We could have honored a bigger dealer, and there were many of those 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

Sometimes you just want to pull your hair out. You think everything is working out fine then you discover it isn’t. For those of you who have noticed some formatting issues with The Week in Imaging newsletter, I believe that’s been fixed. I spent a good portion of last Friday Read More

This week we present another group of 2013 Elite Dealers. When these awards were first presented by that other publication I worked for in 1988, the dealers honored as Elite Dealers that sold office technology could best be described as copier dealers. Today, most of our Elite Read More

The nominations are in, the judges have made their selections, and we’re proud to announce our 2013 Elite Dealers. This is an award that honors the best and the brightest in the imaging technology dealer community. The dealers we are honoring each week throughout the month of 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

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the more things change, the more things change. Having covered this industry as a journalist for 27 years now, I’ve seen a lot of changes as have many of you who have been in the industry longer than I have. Then again, those of you who 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

As some of you know I’m a big-time music fan. I produce a monthly concert series and spend a fair amount of money each year on music, albeit now it’s mostly digital downloads (I’m not a country music fan at all, but two of my favorite albums this year tread a fine line between Read More