Next month The Week in Imaging celebrates its third year of publishing.  I’ve been writing about this industry for various dealer and end user office publications since 1986.  Barring any unforeseen developments, I plan to keep it up for at least another 15 years. If you receive Read More

This week Greg Gondek, of Advanced Copy Technologies in Cromwell, CT discusses what’s hot and what’s not in his market. Advanced sells Ricoh, Kyocera, Riso, HP, and Xerox devices as well as 3D printers.  What’s hot? Gondek: We’re selling a lot of mid-size  color, 40-, 50, 60-, 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

Serving a small rural market suits Century Business Products just fine. The Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based copier dealership, overseen by a trio of owners, Aaron Gerdes, Brett Gildemaster, and Kevin Jergenson, is racking up $10+ million a year in revenues selling Kyocera and Read More

As the office technology industry and the technology itself has evolved, finance companies are evolving as well to better serve the dealer channel by introducing new programs and products, and enhancing existing programs to keep pace with the latest industry trends and offerings. Read More

I hope you’ve been enjoying reading the Elite Dealer profiles as much as I enjoyed writing them. It’s an amazing group comprised of dealers of all shapes and sizes from across the country. I’m honored to present these awards each year and every year get to know some of these Read More

The biggest challenge we have every year is choosing the Elite Dealer of the Year.  There were plenty of worthy candidates, but the ultimate decision came down to the quality of its Elite Dealer submission. We could have honored a bigger dealer, and there were many of those Read More

MERIDIAN IMAGING SOLUTIONS www.whymeridian.com Alexandria, VA President/Owners: Matt Williams/Terri Sullivan Year founded: 1995 Number of employees: 107 Primary hardware vendors: Ricoh, Konica Minolta, RISO, HP, Lexmark Primary solutions and services offerings: Nuance (Equitrac Read More

Here’s the deal:  “As businesses look to gain control of their outsourcing costs without sacrificing quality, the Print On-Demand market will continue to see production work trickle down from traditional printing methods to digital. The Sharp Pro Series MX-6500N and MX-7500N were Read More

FLEXPRINT, INC. www.flexprintinc.com Mesa, AZ President/Owner: Frank Gaspari Year founded: 2005 Number of employees: 150 Primary hardware vendors: Ricoh/Lanier, Sharp, HP, Lexmark, Xerox, Kyocera Primary solutions and services offerings: Nationwide MPS Approximate/Average yearly Read More

Every year it’s a fascinating exercise reading the Elite Dealer nominations and then taking that information and creating those profiles that we’ve been publishing throughout the month. Unfortunately, some fascinating stories must be left on the cutting room floor to accommodate Read More

Beyond Technologies Becomes Authorized Digital Gateway Training and Consulting Provider  Oct. 24, 2013 – Beyond Technologies, Inc. has announced that it is now an authorized Digital Gateway training and consulting provider. With more than 30 years of office equipment industry Read More

Last week I spoke with Mike Morper, vice president of marketing for Notable Solutions, about the latest enhancements to NSi Mobile, its productivity app for organizations looking to extend business processes to their mobile workforces as well as NSi Output Manager, an integrated Read More

I’m a big fan of industry events. That goes back to my earliest days in the industry in the mid to late 1980’s. I still long for that one-stop networking experience of the old NOMDA and BTA shows.  You don’t really get that anymore, at least not the way it was in the ‘80s. Read More

Whenever I ask Andrew Ritschel, president of Electronic Office Systems (EOS) in Fairfield, NJ, a question I know I’m going to get an earful. Recently, I asked him what’s new and relevant for office technology providers in the current U.S. market place. “Selling quality products Read More