OKI Data Americas has been very busy of late on the product front, culminating with the announcement earlier this week of new monochrome single-function printers, monochrome and color MFPs, and label and receipt printers. It was truly an output device frenzy. Here’s a look at Read More

As some of you know I’m a big-time music fan. I produce a monthly concert series and spend a fair amount of money each year on music, albeit now it’s mostly digital downloads (I’m not a country music fan at all, but two of my favorite albums this year tread a fine line between Read More

Last month Lexmark hosted a dealer meeting in Lexington, KY. The two-day event with the theme, “Bridge Beyond,” was a non-stop educational experience for attendees bordering on information overload, albeit in a good way for the 125+ Lexmark dealers in attendance. There was plenty Read More

This week Gary Volbert, director of Loffler Management Solutions and Marketing,at Loffler Companies in Bloomington, MN, identifies what’s hot and what’s not at Loffler of late. Loffler represents Canon, Konica Minolta, HP, Lexmark, Océ, Riso, Toshiba, and also markets solutions Read More

Bud Karakey, vice president of operations for BEI Services, visits plenty of dealers in any given year. One thing he’s noticed during these visits and in the benchmarking data that BEI Services collects from dealers are the hundreds of thousands of obsolete parts and parts Read More

BTA West to Host Capture the Magic Aug. 1-2 in Las Vegas  June 28, 2013 — On Aug. 1-2, 2013, the Business Technology Association’s (BTA; www.bta.org) West district will host Capture the Magic, its annual educational and networking event, at the Mandarin Oriental in Las Vegas. The Read More

It’s always refreshing to see a smaller dealership hold its ground in a competitive market against larger independents and direct branches. That’s exactly what Advanced Copy Technologies in Cromwell, CT has been doing since its founding in 1974. Led these days by Greg and Cindi Read More

As much as the average office technology dealer likes to think they’re in the office technology business, the reality is they’re just as much in the supplies business if not more so. As a result they need a consistent and reliable source for their supplies needs above and beyond Read More

Higher Profits Through Improved Parts Management Overstockpartsnetwork.com (OPN) is a company created from a collaboration of two influential companies in our industry joining forces. BEI Services, Inc. and RecycledParts.US have come together utilizing their individual strengths Read More

Okay, here we go, the final 10 of our 2013 Top 40 Most Influential People in the Imaging Industry. I want to point out one more time that during the past four weeks I haven’t been presenting the Top 40 in any specific order, meaning the first 10 are not the most influential and Read More

Every other year The Week in Imaging presents its Top 40 Most Influential People in the Imaging Industry. It’s a broad mix of individuals consisting of those who make the tough decisions either at the top or at various levels within their organizations, those who others in the Read More

This week Casey Stewart, business development & marketing manager for Offix, an office technology dealership in Gainesville, VA, discusses what’s hot and what’s not in her market. Offix vendors include Canon, Sharp, Océ, Kip, MBM, Secap, EFI, HP, Samsung, eCopy, and Drivve. Read More

I received an e-mail last Friday from a reader with an interesting observation about the first 20 names on The Week in Imaging’s Top 40 Most Influential People in the Imaging Industry list. “Most of them are old.” That wasn’t meant to be negative, but was Read More

Ever wonder what the largest applications are for solutions sales within the imaging channel today? While attending Lexmark’s recent dealer meeting in Lexington, KY, I sat in on a breakout session focused on “Lexmark Solution Strategies” where that question was answered. The Read More

This week Kathy Vogler, marketing director, with Perry proTECH in Lima, Ohio identifies the products, solutions, and services that are hot and not hot in their markets. Perry proTECH carries Konica Minolta, Lexmark, Muratec, Sharp, and Riso Products and offers a wide range of Read More