May 8, 2014

The 25 Most Significant Events in the Office Imaging Industry of the Past 25 Years Part 1

Where were you in ’92? That was 22 years ago. How about in 1989, 25 years ago? Many of us were smack dab in the middle of this industry, doing some of the same things we’re doing now, or laying the groundwork for where we are today. This month we’re going to look at what some of
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Copier Dealers Need to Embrace the Next Big Thing

I was born in the late fifties, by the time I was three years old, Xerox had introduced the first plain paper copier. The Xerox 914 was capable of producing 400 copies per hour. The speed per minute was under 7 pages per minute. Fifty some years later our current plain paper
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What’s Hot & What’s Not?

This week Dan Tero, president of Image Works of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City shares what’s hot and what’s not in his market. What’s hot? Tero: People scaling back from larger machines and going to A4s. We’re putting three or four of these 40-ppm machines like we saw at the Kyocera
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Between the Lines: Trend Setting

I can’t believe I’ve been doing this since 1986. What, who am I kidding? I believe it. I started in this industry with a publication called Office Systems 86 in February of that year as associated editor for a two-year old trade magazine targeting decision makers in small and
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