MPS

  Tom Day, CEO of West Point Products, oversees one of the office imaging industry’s leading suppliers, a supplier with a reputation for providing independent resellers with premium replacement imaging supplies, managed print services, and recycling programs. Day joined West Read More

Kyocera Document Solutions America Launches Four New ECOSYS Color Printers  Feb. 5, 2014 – KYOCERA Document Solutions America has announced the launch of four new ECOSYS color printers: the P7035cdn, P6030cdn, P6026cdn, and P6021cdn. The newly designed devices promise to meet the Read More

Some of you may already know that for many years I was the editor of Office Solutions magazine and for three years, an associate editor at The Office Magazine. During those years, and a few years as a contributor to Office Solutions between staff editorial gigs, I wrote many Read More

During the last three years I’ve been delighted to help rookies, newbie’s or whatever you’d like to call new people that are breaking into the Managed IT, Copiers and Managed Print Service  industry. I’m not a manager or owner (I was an owner once), I work down Read More

If you were at Toshiba’s LEAD dealer meeting last fall in Orlando you’re well aware that arguably the biggest trend confronting Toshiba, but everybody in the office imaging industry in 2014 and beyond is declining print volumes. What is Toshiba as a manufacturer and dealers and Read More

When I asked Gary Willert, president and CEO of LMI Solutions about the trend that’s going to affect his business in the coming year and what LMI has in store to help its dealers be successful, he gets personal and cites sustainability as a key trend. “10 years ago recycling was Read More

As always, Copier Careers is a reflection of the needs of our retained clients. Going into 2014, the majority of our clients are experiencing explosive organic growth due to MPS/MNS placements. To assist our clients to attain and maintain these accounts, Copier Careers is seeing Read More

What are you looking for in an MPS tool? If you have already responded to this question, who are you commissioning in your organization when it comes to evaluating it? Would I surprise you if I tell you that three out of nine organizations will ask their order fulfillment and Read More

When a major snowfall cancelled 1,500 flights the day before I left, and with the close proximity to four other major imaging manufacturer events, I wondered how productive 1105 Media Office Technology Group’s Business Imaging Expo on December 10-12th would be? Although the Read More

SurgeX Launches Defender Series MultiPak Nov. 6, 2013 – ESP/SurgeX has announced the Defender Series MultiPak, a Multi-Stage surge protector and power conditioner specifically designed to safeguard digital signage arrays. Available in four (SX-DS-154) and six (SX-DS-156) outlet Read More

This week Mike McGuirk, president of ProCopy Office Solutions in Tempe, AZ, identifies what’s hot and what’s not in his market. ProCopy is a Canon and Ricoh dealership with $12 million in annual revenues. They also offer MPS, MNS, and facilities management. What’s hot? McGuirk: Read More

Part 3 of the set of articles ”Lean Management in MPS” tasks about how the dealer’s business is influenced by the usage of an MPS solution that contains Lean components. The first advantages the dealer gets benefits his/her customers. As a result the dealer differentiates his Read More

This week Dave McGeney, vice president and general manager for Business Copy Associates in Saugus, MA, discusses what’s hot and what’s not in his market. Business Copy Associates sells Konica Minolta, Muratec, and Copystar products and is also big in document management, MPS, and Read More

In our previous article on Lean management in MPS, we talked, from the perspective of the distributor, how MPS benefits from Lean management principle: creating more value for customers with fewer resources (see more at Lean Enterprise Institute). Once a distributor implements Read More

In our previous article (Click here to read Part 1) we have established the link between Lean management and MPS. Indeed, this philosophy has brought many companies’ success (Wal*Mart, Inditex, Dell) and no matter the size of the company, it is top of mind of the most successful Read More