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Is MPS a Commodity?

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Scott Cullen

Doug Johnson, Scott Cullen, Supplies Network, The Week in Imaging

I keep hearing over and over again that MPS has become a commodity. I’ve been hearing it so much lately I’m starting to believe it. But what do others in the industry think? Earlier this week I asked Doug Johnson, senior vice president, Supplies Network, if MPS has become a

Photizo Examines the Impact of MPS on Page Volume

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Scott Cullen

MPS, page volume, Photizo Group

It almost goes without saying that MPS has had a dramatic affect on page volumes. Now there’s some serious research to back that up in a new Photizo Group report, The Impact of MPS on Page Volume. As Photizo points out, MPS programs have had an extraordinary impact on the imaging

An Industry Transformation

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Ed Crowley

The convergence of managed services and managed print services is going to be significant…huge for this industry in 2012. It’s a trend Photizo identified in 2010 and we are now seeing it come to fruition. There is a critical mass building in terms of programs and an ecosystem

How TGI Transformed Itself into a Successful MPS Provider

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Scott Cullen

If Frank Grasso, CEO of TGI Office Automation, could turn back the clock, he’d have hopped on that managed print services train sooner rather than later. Even though he missed the earlier train, that’s not stopping him from climbing aboard now and transforming his successful

A Peek Inside OKI’s Total Managed Print Portal

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Scott Cullen

Sometimes you just need to go where nobody has gone before and that’s what OKI Data Americas has done with their Total Managed Print (TMP) Web Portal that expands their existing MPS program and is available at no cost to OKI channel partners. The cloud-based TMP portal offers a

Meet the New Breed of Dealer, Not the Same as the Old Breed of Dealer

Friday, September 9, 2011

Scott Cullen

Here’s a new take on an old story; an IT company buys a copier company and then makes a move into managed print services. You don’t see that happen every day, but that’s what happened in 2006 when D.A. Rainsberger Co. purchased CBI, a long-time Kyocera Mita dealer and a

Outside the Box: Flo-Tech was Making a Case for Managed Print Before MPS

Friday, August 26, 2011

Scott Cullen

Sometimes it pays to be ahead of the technological curve. That’s where Flo-Tech, an office technology dealership based in Middletown, Connecticut was back in 1992 when the company was first founded. From the outset, the Flo-Tech’s sole focus was on printing and imaging. Back then

Lexmark on the Rise in MPS Market

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Photizo Group

(Editor’s note: The following article is a capsule overview of Photizo Group’s 2011 Lexmark Competitive Profile Report. Look for The Week in Imaging’s exclusive interview with Lexmark’s Manager of BSD Program Development Phil Boatman later this month.) Dwarfed by larger

Five Critical Elements to Expand from MPS to MDS

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Scott Cullen

Managed Print Services (MPS) have become the transformative business model in the printing and imaging industry. The recent economic climate has reinforced the primary driver of MPS of cost avoidance through reduction of printing, but it has also expanded the demands by customers