This week we speak with John Lowery, president of Applied Imaging in Grand Rapids, MI, about what’s hot and what’s not in his markets. Applied Imaging is a long-time Ricoh dealer. What’s hot? Lowery: Production print has been great for us. This Ricoh 5100 Series is going to be a Read More

Print Audit’s Remotely Monitored Devices Growing Aug. 26, 2013 – Print Audit, the print management company, has announced that its device monitoring solution, Facilities Manager, is growing at twice the rate of its competitors. The number of devices monitored by dealers Read More

Sometimes you owe it to yourself to just get away. Don’t know why I feel guilty about taking five work days off to go on vacation, but I did. I was even planning on writing this column while away, but some way, somehow, I talked myself out of it and decided to focus on the Read More

Greg Walters seems to have done just about everything over the course of his career. He’s sold managed print services, he’s been an industry consultant with his new company Walters & Shutwell, he’s been a blogger, and he’s been a guest speaker at industry events where he Read More

This week Jason Habbal, vice president/sales manager with Vision Office Systems in Charlotte, NC, shares what’s hot and what’s not in his market. Vision Office Systems markets products from the Ricoh family group (Ricoh, Lanier, Savin), Canon, Kyocera, Samsung, and HP. What’s Read More

Dan Ramos, enterprise technology services manager for the Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ), was seeing boxes of documents everywhere he turned and storage costs for those documents were going through the roof. It was a crime what was happening at DOJ until Enterprise Technology Read More

This week Lew Watson, senior account manager with Systel Communications in Fayetville, NC, discusses what’s hot and what’s not in his market. Systel, one of the largest dealers in the Southeast, sells Ricoh, Konica Minolta, Panasonic, and HP products as well as offers a wide Read More

As some of you know I’ve been writing about this industry for 27 years now. That’s a long time. Time sure does fly when you’re having fun even if you don’t realize you’ve been having fun. I started in 1986 writing for Office Systems (later to be called Office Solutions), a Read More

Greg Walters seems to have done just about everything over the course of his career. He’s sold managed print services, he’s been an industry consultant with his new company Walters & Shutwell, he’s been a blogger, and he’s been a guest speaker at industry events where he Read More

All it took was a little flower power for Tim Seeley of Seeley Office Systems in Glens Falls, New York, to see the green light. After Tim became involved with a girl with a hippie sensibility his realized the family owned dealership could take that ‘green’ message to Read More

A few weeks ago I wrote about what sometimes happens in social situations when I discuss what I do and half jokingly mentioned how saying I wrote about the office technology and imaging industry was a conversation killer. That was an exaggeration although it’s extremely rare when Read More

Tim Seeley, vice president of sales, with Seeley Office Systems in Glens Falls, NY, shares what’s hot and what’s not in his market. Seeley sells Konica Minolta and Muratec products as well as office supplies through United Stationers. What’s hot? Seeley: [An MPS program that Read More

A couple of weeks ago we presented a news item on Applied Imaging, a Michigan office technology solutions dealership, entering into a strategic agreement with Ricoh to acquire various Ricoh accounts in Traverse City, MI and Northern Michigan. The agreement took effect May 1, 2013 Read More

I cannot tell you how many times I have to remind my son to clean his room before it actually happens.  I don’t understand it. As a kid, I always cleaned my room. I couldn’t stand the disorder. Unfortunately, in this case, the apple fell pretty far from the tree. It’s not unusual Read More

This week Matt Marsh, vice president of sales at RJ Young in Nashville, TN, shares what he thinks is going to be hot and what isn’t exactly hot yet in RJ Young’s various markets. What’s going to be hot? Marsh: Smart MFPs that run applications on the device as opposed to buying Read More