Features

Mixed MPS Messages Part 1

This is the first in an ongoing series looking at what dealers across the country are experiencing in the MPS market and their strategies for marketing or not marketing MPS. “I hate the word MPS,
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Talking Asset Management with Innovolt’s Walter Crowder

  The name of the game in the power protection world these days isn’t power protection, it’s intelligent asset management. The technology is evolving into solutions that provide power
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Uniting Acronyms with New Media

Acronyms play a big role in our industry: NEMA, ISO, and ANSI are just a few examples. So we at ESP/SurgeX thought we’d attempt to make an acronym for a blog post about acronyms. Hopefully you’ll
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Straight Talk with MPSA President Greg Walters, Part 2

Greg Walters seems to have done just about everything over the course of his career. He’s sold managed print services, he’s been an industry consultant with his new company Walters &
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Justice is Served at the Oregon DOJ with NSi AutoStore and Ricoh MFPs

Dan Ramos, enterprise technology services manager for the Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ), was seeing boxes of documents everywhere he turned and storage costs for those documents were going
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Straight Talk about MPS with MPSA President Greg Walters Part 1

Greg Walters seems to have done just about everything over the course of his career. He’s sold managed print services, he’s been an industry consultant with his new company Walters &
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Flower Power Turns Glens Falls Dealership Green

All it took was a little flower power for Tim Seeley of Seeley Office Systems in Glens Falls, New York, to see the green light. After Tim became involved with a girl with a hippie sensibility his
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The Back Story Behind the Applied Imaging/Ricoh Strategic Agreement

A couple of weeks ago we presented a news item on Applied Imaging, a Michigan office technology solutions dealership, entering into a strategic agreement with Ricoh to acquire various Ricoh
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Looking Beyond Power Protection with ESP’s Steve Galloway Part 2

(Editor’s note: Last week’s interview with Steve Galloway of ESP continues with a rundown on new products for the dealer channel, why dealers should consider partnering with ESP, trends affecting
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Looking Beyond Power Protection with ESP’s Steve Galloway Part 1

With 3+ decades in the imaging industry, including 28 years with Xerox, Steve Galloway, has been around. He’s pretty much seen this, that, and the other thing over the years and now as president
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Wipe Out: Toshiba Unveils e-STUDIO306LP with Erasable Ink Option

On Monday, June 24, Toshiba America Business Solutions held a Webinar for analysts and press to announce under non-disclosure the e-STUDIO306LP with the e-Studio RD30 eraser unit and erasable
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HP Managed Print Specialist Resell Program Offers Partners a Competitive Edge

  As more office technology dealers enter the managed print services (MPS) space, HP channel partners who have been providing managed print services under the HP Partner Managed Print
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