Editors Blog

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 Read More

As Lou Reed, one of my all-time music idols sang, “I guess that I’m dumb because I know I’m not smart, but deep down inside I have a rock and roll heart.” Some of you know about my rock and roll Read More

I just returned from Orlando where I spent time at the Sharp and Toshiba dealer meetings. I’ll be presenting more detailed coverage on each of those meetings in next week’s issue of The Week in 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 Read More

I hope you’ve been enjoying reading the Elite Dealer profiles as much as I enjoyed writing them. It’s an amazing group comprised of dealers of all shapes and sizes from across the country. I’m 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 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 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 Read More

This is always an exciting time of year at The Week in Imaging as we announce the year’s Elite Dealers. We’re going to unveil a new group each week throughout the month of October with the final Read More

I was just reading an article from Software Advice on “How Does Twitter Use Twitter to Recruit?” Since recruitment is an ongoing challenge for the independent dealer channel as is learning how to Read More

That headline is meant to be ironic. Based on the early returns on our survey about how many dealers are charging for scans, it looks like there aren’t a whole lot of scan artists among the Read More

Terry Bogner of Austin Technology Group in Austin, Texas, had an epiphany a while back. He had one of those inexpensive inkjet MFPs at home that had seen its better days with the exception of the Read More