Let’s table the discussion on managed print services for now and look at the next big thing-Managed IT Services/Managed Network Services. This segment is gaining greater interest throughout the independent dealer realm.
OEMs Find Opportunities To Raise Consumables Pricing
by Charles Brewer
"Since the end of last year, printer and copier manufacturers have been busy raising-or preparing to raise-consumables pricing in the U.S. as well as in other regions.
What happened? Managed print (or MPS, or MDS, or OPS, or etc.) was to have been the strategy of the millennium. A market with a triple digit growth rate. The ability to lock in your account for three to five years. Gross margins of more than 50%.
Thinking ahead certainly hasn’t hurt Jim Loffler, president & CEO of Loffler Companies in Bloomington, Minnesota. Nor has a willingness to expand his business into areas that few other office technology dealerships had traveled before.
March marked the official launch of Seine Technology’s Pantum brand of laser printers worldwide. Though almost a year and half after their initial launch in China, this was for all intents and purposes Pantum’s coming out party that included a big stand at CeBIT, press releases, presentations, interviews, and although speculative, a few steins of Germany’s best brews (ah, CeBIT!).
Reporting From AIIM Conference 2012: History Repeats Itself (Just Much Faster) – You’re Sitting In The Middle Of The Convergence Zone
by David Anastasi
Coming from the RSA Security conference a few weeks ago and now attending AIIM, both in SF, my and others’ premise of "the Convergence Zone" seems to be more and more validated.
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