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<\/a>Color Copying Goes Mainstream<\/strong><\/p>\nFor a period of time in the 1990\u2019s and early 2000\u2019s the analyst community made the annual prediction that the coming year was going to be \u201cThe Year of Color.\u201d It was one of those predictions that if you made it year in and year out, eventually you were going to get it right. The truth of the matter was that throughout the late 1990\u2019s and early 2000\u2019s, color was slowly but surely expanding beyond the niches and into the mainstream office. Some of that acceptance was the result of the emergence of the Internet and the demand to print color Web pages and other business materials, another reason was because we don\u2019t live in a monochrome world and the added impact that color provided to business documents was beyond dispute. As color has gone mainstream we\u2019ve seen some backlash against the costs of outputting documents in color, but if you ask most dealers today, which devices they\u2019re selling have the most traction, color or monochrome, the answer is no longer spelled out in black & white, it\u2019s in color.<\/p>\n
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And the 25 Most Significant Events beat goes on as we present five more significant events from the past 25 years. If you\u2019ve been following along, it\u2019s interesting to see the connection, and not slight connections either, between many of the trends on this list. That whole analog to digital transition, the first trend on the list is without question the most notable. Equally notable is the channel disruption caused by the Mega Dealers, which has created a domino effect in other segments of the industry. As you read the next five events, I encourage you to think about how those are connected to some of the other events already highlighted in the first two installments of this five-part series. HP’s Edgeline Technology Goes Over the Edge Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and HP\u2019s much ballyhooed launch of Edgeline inkjet printing technology in 2007 was one of those times when the printer giant came up short. \u201cIt was so hyped up and the anticipation stretched out over a year or more,\u201d recalls Brian Bissett, publisher of The MFP Report. \u201cIt was at the time when inkjet was growing by leaps and bounds in the consumer and SOHO market and the idea that if it was unstoppable and would inkjet enter the [office] market and would HP dominate that with this new iteration of inkjet technology?\u201d Back in 2007 HP was still perceived as an extremely powerful company and Edgeline was a technology that could potentially revolutionize the market and change the competitive landscape with a new generation of Edgeline MFPs. \u201cThe reality was it was a bust\u2014technically, marketwise, operationally, design-wise, physically, everything,\u201d says Bissett. \u201cIt landed with a thud, and to HP\u2019s credit they tried it for a couple of years and then quietly put it out to pasture.\u201d Canon Changes the Face of the MFP with MEAP Canon\u2019s Multifunctional Embedded Application Platform (MEAP) introduced around 2005 represented the next phase in what MFPs in the office could do, might do, and should do. Canon was out there before any of the other vendors with a fairly comprehensive, robust, tested, documented software platform that let Canon sanctioned third parties or Canon itself develop applications that could run on or through the MFP and transported the device into a true computing platform. \u201cThat was a big step,\u201d states Brian Bissett of The MFP Report. \u201cOthers soon followed, but Canon had the vision and did it earlier and in some ways better than some of the others that came after it.\u201d The Demise\u00a0of the NOMDA\/BTA Show and the Emergence of OEM Dealer Conferences For anyone who ever attended a NOMDA (National Office Machine Dealers Association)\/BTA show in its heyday, that was the must-attend event for the dealer and manufacturer community up until the early 1990\u2019s when it lost its relevance as the major OEMs began hosting their own dealer events. Paving the way for those dealer events and partially responsible for the fall of the BTA show were manufacturers such as Mita and Sharp who found it much more cost effective to pour millions of dollars into their own events for their own dealers rather than spending money so competitors could get a firsthand look at what they were doing. Still, for anyone who ever attended those NOMDA conferences in the 1980\u2019s, it was a one-stop shopping experience and an amazing educational opportunity, and an event that brought the entire industry together in one location for three days. There\u2019s nothing like that today and for better or for worse there probably won\u2019t ever be anything like it again. The Emergence of Managed IT Services The industry is in the midst of this big event right now, an event that is opening up opportunities for many dealerships and creating confusion in others. \u201cDo we or don\u2019t we?\u201d With major OEMs such as Konica Minolta committed to this service, sooner or later there\u2019s going to be an industry wide embrace of managed IT services, including those who have tried and failed at it in the past. There are likely more open minds than closed about Managed IT these days even if the dealers who are truly successful at it represent a distinct minority. Color Copying Goes Mainstream For a period of time in the 1990\u2019s and early 2000\u2019s the analyst community made the annual prediction that the coming year was going to be \u201cThe Year of Color.\u201d It was one of those predictions that if you made it year in and year out, eventually you were going to get it right. 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<\/a>HP’s Edgeline Technology Goes Over the Edge<\/strong><\/p>\n