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Sharp Addresses the “For Sale” Sign Rumor

I’ve been speaking to a number of dealers over the last couple of weeks and have been asked a number of questions regarding the financial stability of Sharp, as if I would know the answer to that
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Great Expectations: What Dealers Expect from Their Manufacturers

It’s been approximately seven years since I’ve written about what dealers expect from their manufacturers. Even when many of those expectations are expected it’s still good to have someone else
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Color Reman, It’s All About Timing

When is the right time to take another look at reman color toner?  Where can you obtain unbiased data to assess the risk/benefit of the current market opportunity?  What is your risk profile for
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Drivve | Print and its Mobility Manager Module Redefines Printing from Mobile Devices

As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile, so does technology. That’s true whether you’re talking hardware or software, and nowhere is that more evident of late than in the world of office
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How the Other Half Does MPS: Office Products Dealers Leverage the MPS Opportunity Part 2

(Editor’s note: This is the second installment of an article I wrote that originally appeared last summer in Independent Dealer magazine www.idealercentral.com. It offers some perspectives
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Nevill’s Reed Melnick Comes Clean on the Kyocera Acquisition

  For many of us or maybe just me, the news on Aug. 5 that Nevill Business Machines in Carrolton, Texas has been acquired by Kyocera Document Solutions America was a shocker. Nevill has been
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How the Other Half Does MPS: Office Products Dealers Leverage the MPS Opportunity Part 1

John Givens, founder and chairman of Source Office Products, might not be providing his customers with managed print services (MPS) today if he hadn’t already had a service department in place
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Leafdoc Looks to Bring Online OCR Services to the Masses

Last year David Evans left ABBYY, the company focused on document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, and within a month had launched Leafdoc, a new company,
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MaxxVault: The Little Document Management Company that Could

Resellers looking for a document management solution have plenty of options. Since 2010 there’s been another option worth considering from MaxxVault LLC, a company that provides electronic
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Sharp Tells Dealers May the Irresistible Force Be With You

This story doesn’t take place in a galaxy far, far away, but in Dallas at the Sharp annual dealer meeting, July 15-18. When you’re #2 or wherever you are on the pie chart, you need to try harder
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Delving into Threat #3: When MPS Pricing Gets Insane

Remember Crazy Eddie whose prices were insane? If you’re from the East Coast you may, if not this video is the perfect introduction. Either way, this video blast from the past is a hoot. And that
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Cloud Control: OfficeDrop Looks to Raise its Profile with Device Manufacturers

Don’t look now, but the paperless office has arrived and it’s in large part thanks to cloud-based document storage solutions that the paperless office has grown in size and you can now access
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