Not only will a robust printing practice help VARs fend off the incursion by copier vendors seeking a bigger slice of the IT spend, but distributors want to convince solution providers that printing solutions can yield healthy double-digit margins.
Because many e-mails and documents are printed out for brief viewing and then soon discarded or recycled, Xerox invented printing technology that creates images that last only a day.
This year, printing vendors continued to look to the SMB market for color-printing sales and to tap the channel to reach that market.
Once again, market-leading and perennial Channel Champion Hewlett-Packard took the top spot in the network color laser printers category, although its margin of victory shrank from last year's survey.
Major IT vendors aim to deliver more managed services in 2007 as a way to drive profit for themselves and for channel partners.
Yet two new full-featured products from Hewlett-Packard, the ScanJet 7800 and the ScanJet 8350, are designed to help make scanner setup more of a one-pass process.
Document management solutions rank among the top five solutions midmarket IT buyers cited as spending priorities for the next 12 months.
Not too long ago, the smallest of offices could afford only inkjet printers when they needed color output. But today almost every vendor offers a color laser printer for well under $1,000.
Advanced printing solutions enable greater efficiencies, cost savings and new processes on all levels of government.
Lexmark rolled out a series of new printers, multifunction products and other devices to beef up its branded offerings and streamline its document hardware solutions.
Three high-speed, high-capacity multifunction machines offer color, finising and security options for small businesses.
Enterprise content management (ECM) deployments are getting more strategic, and process automation and business risk management are te fastest growing project priorities.
CDW Corporation and Danka Business Systems PLC debuted OneRate, a managed print service that enables subscribers to receive genuine HP toner and next business day on-site service for a flat annual fee.
Pennsylvania attorney general's office will cut printer costs by 21% over three years after conducting a thorough review.
HP and Xerox far outpaced the field, with 60 percent citing HP as highly innovative and 34 percent naming Xerox.
Microsoft Corp. unveiled a new photo format it claims will provide better quality at half the size of a JPEG image. Windows Media Photo (WMP) will be built into the next-generation of Windows, called Vista.
The key to designing smarter processes is to measure and analyze process results to identify activities and steps that can be optimized.
Version 8 of HP's Jetadmin software will include color control management, user- and application-level reporting and asset utilization analysis, and other new features.
Xerox has developed a significant new version of its document-management software, providing a single database for both transaction-oriented business processes and individual and group content management.
Plans call for Dell to provide installation, repair, and asset optimization for Boeing, as well as print supplies. It's part of a strategic move by both Dell and Lexmark to become more competitive in print managed services.
Boise Cascade, the supplier of wood and paper products, had a problem with customer data. For 25 years, essential customer data was extracted from documents, such as purchase orders and bills of lading, and stored in digital form on the company's mainframe.
An inspector general's report says FBI planning provides "reasonable assurance" that the new program can avoid the problems that plagued its botched Virtual Case File project.
Sharp Document Solutions Company of America said Tuesday it's making its Open Systems Architecture--used for developing custom applications for its multifunction hardware — publicly available for software developers and solution providers.
Adobe Systems and Ricoh plan to jointly develop and co-market scanning, security and print solutions based on Adobe's PDF format.
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