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Sharp Earns Business Technology Association’s Top 2015 Channel’s Choice Award

Five vendors among award winners Kansas City, MO, May 8, 2015 Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America was recently presented with the 2015 Channel’s Choice Superior Performance Award by the Business Technology Association (BTA; www.bta.org). Pete Salmon, vice president
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How Vendors Support their Dealers Who Sell Light Production and Wide-Format Systems

In this month’s ENX magazine we examine what it takes to be successful selling light production and wide format as well as the pitfalls to avoid on the road to success. Here we identify what manufacturers can do to help their dealers be successful. (Note that the manufacturers
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Technical Tips

Subject: Canon IR3300 ADF Skew Question: Anyone know what causes this model of Canon to skew the original when trying to duplex? It looks like the original twists sideways just before it finishes scanning the first side, then sometimes will jam or re-feed crooked when it goes
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How to Be Successful Selling Light Production & Wide Format

As more dealers delve into the higher end production space, greater numbers are searching for opportunities with light production and wide format devices in not only traditional production environments, but within their traditional accounts as well. That’s because these devices
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Sharp: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Back in the mid to late ‘80’s I can remember always getting my butt kicked by Sharp.  Even better, if you owned a Sharp dealership you were in play to be bought by Alco Standard (January 1997 Alco Standard split into two companies with one becoming IKON Office Solutions).  It was
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Diversification: A Necessary Business Strategy in a Changing Document Imaging Marketplace

Last month I wrote about the various trends sweeping the document imaging industry, many of those underscoring the need for the traditional office technology dealer to diversify. Yes indeed, diversification is the name of the game as printed output declines and dealers look for
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Copier Makers Continue Assault on Low-End A4 Market with Mixed Results

While the market for digital imaging hardware and supplies is mature and various segments are declining, most copier companies have been reporting improved revenue for the past couple of years. The majority of copier makers are Japanese companies of course, and they’ve benefited
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The Document Imaging Industry Year in Preview: The Nearly Complete Edition

Since January 2 we’ve been presenting the Document Imaging Industry Year in Preview in ENX/The Week in Imaging with brief comments from industry players representing the hardware, solutions, services, and supplies side of the document imaging industry as well as key industry
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The Year in Preview: The Document Imaging Industry Shares Their Big Plans for the Coming Year

The past three years we’ve asked an assortment of players from the document imaging industry to share with us the trends that will be affecting their businesses in the coming year. Often, there’s a consensus on those trends, which often leads to a lot of repetition.  This ye
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12 More 2014 Document Imaging Industry Highlights

The hardware, solutions, services, and supplies providers continue to share their 2014 highlights. These highlights, albeit brief, paint a vivid picture of the document imaging industry in 2014. “I am pleased to note that 2014 was a very favorable year for Toshiba.  Coupled with
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The Top 10 Stories of 2014

If it’s December, it must be time to look back over the past year and reminisce about the year’s Top 10 stories. As is often the case, some of these stories are big ones, some of them are not quite as big, and others are ongoing trends that continue to impact the office imaging
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Between the Lines: Resigning the Channel to Digital Signage

I’m fresh back from Toshiba’s 2014 LEAD End User Conference in Dallas along with a ribbon cutting at the Staples Center in Los Angeles where Toshiba unveiled LA Interactive powered by Toshiba (see the press release in the news section). LA Interactive is a special
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What’s Hot & What’s Not?

This week Tony Nami, president of Prior & Nami Business Systems in Trenton, NJ discusses what’s hot and what’s not in his market. Prior & Nami represents Canon, Konica Minolta, Sharp, and Muratec. What’s hot? Nami: In addition to being a copier dealer we provide IT
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News Bytes

Prime Office Innovations Launches New Website to Feature Solutions June 19, 2014 – Prime Office Innovations (www.prime-office.com) announces the launch of their new web presence based on their theme, “From Print to Possibility.”  The new Website showcases all of the
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What’s Hot & What’s Not?

This week we check in with Brian Gertler, vice president of LDI Color Toolbox based in Jericho, NY about what’s hot and what’s not in LDI’s markets across the country. What’s hot? Gertler: MPS, production print, and visual communications. From a MPS perspective we just signed one
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