2020 was a challenging year for businesses and individuals alike. However, as the economy begins to open up completely across the nation in 2021, things are looking up. In fact, the global growth for 2021 is projected to be 5.6% which is a massive rebound from a difficult year. This presents a number of opportunities for businesses across all industries and there will be unprecedented need for printed materials.
Topics: Printing, HP, Ricoh, Sharp, Digital Signage, wide format, print infrastructure, events
Known as the Razor Blade Strategy, you sell a low priced product tied to a higher priced consumable item that is needed on an ongoing basis. This was HP's (Hewlett-Packard) Printer Business Model for many years and many desktop printer manufacturers followed right along. For the Managed Print Services (MPS) Providers, these were easy targets to be able to save customers thousands of dollars.
Topics: Pricing, HP, HP service, Ricoh, Sharp, #SecureYourBusiness, #ManagedPrintServices, Xerox, transactional, managed, enterprise, service agreement, maintenance agreement
No one gets more frustrated than when someone responds to this question with "It depends." Copier and printer pricing varies much like automobiles, because there are lots of options. We will try to make this answer as simple as possible.
Topics: Copier Pricing, Copier Issues, Copier Service, Net Promoter Score, Customer Satisfaction, Response Time, Customer Service Excellence, Good Service, Office Equipment Buying Guide, Office Equipment Purchase, Printer Pricing, Copier RFP, Office Equipment Criteria, Ricoh, Sharp, Xerox, Toshiba
As the name implies, inkjet copiers/printers use a liquid ink to produce an image. A laser copier uses a dry powder called toner to produce an image. These two materials are also applied to the media via different processes. The inkjet uses an array of micro nozzles to spray the ink onto the media where it dries. The laser process uses a series of static charges to transfer toner to the media and then applies heat to melt or fuse the toner to the surface of the media.
Topics: Copier Problems, Copier Issues, HP, Copier Service, Office Equipment Buying Guide, Office Equipment Purchase, Office Equipment Criteria, Ricoh, Sharp, inkjet, laser printer, pagewide, Xerox
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) is changing all aspects of our lives. With so many people touching the control panel, document feeder, output trays, and drawer handles every day, your office copiers and printers can be a hotspot for germs. Disinfecting surfaces during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is a best practice to limit the survival of the virus and prevent transmission. Download any or all of these cleaning guides to stay safe.
Topics: HP, Ricoh, Sharp, #SecureYourBusiness, #CustomerServiceExcellence, #MoreThanPrint, #MoreThanCopiers, #ManagedPrintServices, #IntelligentBusinessInformationServers, #remoteworking, #heretohelp, Stopthespread, #coronavirus, #covid19
On November 7-8, 2019, The Cannata Report, an intelligence resource for business technology and imaging solutions resellers, hosted its 34th Annual Awards & Charities Dinner to raise funds for Tackle Kids Cancer at Hackensack Meridian Health and 4th Annual Women Influencers Brunch in Morristown, New Jersey.
Topics: Industry Trends, Copier Problems, Copier Issues, Copier Service, Ricoh Service, Office Equipment Buying Guide, Office Equipment Purchase, Office Equipment Criteria, Industry Honors, Ricoh, Sharp, Leasing