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1 Production Print Trends – Good Times Ahead

EFI by Frank Mallozzi, EFI

Production print has been hot in the last few years. Print in the office has been declining and many BTA dealers have turned to production print for business growth. Manufacturers have focused efforts and delivered digital presses that have helped dealers address this market competitively and profitably. Production print will keep giving growth opportunities for quite some time, and for good reasons.

2 Why the Office of the Future Is Evolving Beyond Hardware

Canon by Hiro Imamura, Canon U.S.A. Inc.

Focus on implementing integrated solutions and services as a platform, not simply procuring a piece of hardware. That is the mentality that future enterprises will rally behind when it comes to purchasing MFPs and other industrial equipment that will serve as the backbone of the offices of the future. The next generation of enterprises is driven by fostering employee productivity and adaptability. Employers, therefore, wish to promote productivity through flexibility in hardware solutions that act as a comprehensive software platform through the incorporation of next-generation technologies — including AI, cybersecurity and the cloud — that sit poised to offer the most to future employees.

3 The Magic of Digitalization – It’s the Scanner

by Joseph Odore, Panasonic System Communications Company of North America

Over the last several years the refrain that print is dead, paper is going away, and digital is where it’s at has become like a buzzing in the ear — prevalent, pervasive and often dismissed as background noise. But there is still some truth to that story — the important thing to understand is that it’s not just happening organically. There is a key to all of it, and that key is digitalization, i.e., the process of getting something into digital form. Yes, a lot of information in 2018 is born digital, but all of the information that came prior to the digital age started somewhere else. The need to turn information on paper into digital, useful data means that the scanner will continue to be an important hardware trend for a long time to come.

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Blogs

Kyocera Bets Big on Production, Solutions at Innovate 2018

by Amy Weiss Kyocera has spent its last couple of dealer meetings placing a heavy focus on solutions, even when there was big hardware news. And while the same could be said of this year’s event, there really was a notably big hardware announcement...

Making Money Selling Solutions – Dealers Weigh in at ACDI’s Solutions Summit

by Patricia Ames Living up to their reputation as problem-solvers, ACDI took it upon themselves to host a unique event recently that brought together technical folks from their home team, as well as from the product development team at PaperCut and...

Security in the Imaging Channel: The 2018 Edition

by Amy Weiss There was a time when cybersecurity was relegated to computers; when the imaging channel was more of an ancillary character in the story; collateral damage to a network breach, if you will. But of course, that has long since changed — with...

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