{"id":6936,"date":"2014-05-14T09:06:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T13:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweekinimaging.com\/?p=6936"},"modified":"2014-05-14T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T13:40:55","slug":"between-the-lines-this-industry-doesnt-sell-copiers-it-sells-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/the-week-in-imaging-twii\/editors-blog\/2014\/05\/between-the-lines-this-industry-doesnt-sell-copiers-it-sells-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines: This Industry Doesn\u2019t Sell Copiers, It Sells Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/high-tech.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/high-tech-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"high-tech\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>This week I present another five significant events of the past 25 years in the office imaging industry. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/elite-dealer-nomination\/#.U3NyIigzD_M\">If you missed last week\u2019s first five, you can click here to see what you missed.<\/a> One thing that\u2019s been clear to me since I started compiling suggestions for this project a few months ago is just how dynamic and truly exciting this industry is. A lot of us say we work in the \u201ccopier industry,\u201d but copiers are a misnomer. There\u2019s a lot more to this industry than copiers.<\/p>\n<p>I recently completed a two-part series of articles on young people in the industry for <em>The Cannata Report<\/em> and virtually everyone I interviewed doesn\u2019t feel as if they\u2019re working in the copier business, but in the technology business. They are spot on about that. Indeed, we\u2019re all in the technology business, which explains why it\u2019s constantly changing and much more exciting than outsiders or casual observers might think.<\/p>\n<p>I certainly think so.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I present another five significant events of the past 25 years in the office imaging industry. If you missed last week\u2019s first five, you can click here to see what you missed. One thing that\u2019s been clear to me since I started compiling suggestions for this project a few months ago is just how dynamic and truly exciting this industry is. A lot of us say we work in the \u201ccopier industry,\u201d but copiers are a misnomer. There\u2019s a lot more to this industry than copiers. I recently completed a two-part series of articles on young people in the industry for The Cannata Report and virtually everyone I interviewed doesn\u2019t feel as if they\u2019re working in the copier business, but in the technology business. They are spot on about that. Indeed, we\u2019re all in the technology business, which explains why it\u2019s constantly changing and much more exciting than outsiders or casual observers might think. I certainly think so. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80],"tags":[1411,275,328,462,343],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6947,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions\/6947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}