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IN THIS ISSUE
04
Agenda
4G productivity boost for UK economy
12
Innovations
New products for the home, office and all points in between
16
Headsets
How headsets can help minimise distractions in
open plan offices
21
Mailroom Furniture
Height adjustability reaches the mailroom
22
Cover Story
The most powerful Philips PicoPix projector to date
24
Beyond MPS
How printer companies are compensating for
falling printer sales
25
Printer Security
Top tips for securing workgroup MFPs
26
Managed Services
There is still plenty of scope to cut print costs
28
Marketing Communications
The power of the handwritten letter
31
Drones
Business applications for ‘unmanned aerial vehicles’
34
Laminators
Why laminators are still an office essential
35
Air Purifiers
Why office workers should be thanking Volkswagen
38
Office Design
Trends shaping the modern workplace
42
The Month in Numbers
Workplace stress in numbers
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Recent results from HP, Lexmark and Xerox (see page 24)
highlight the challenges facing the printer industry as
customers implement paper-saving digitisation programmes.
A new report fromAIIM shows how the pace of digitisation
is accelerating and how quickly paperless processes deliver
a return on investment (see page 8). One reason why
digitisation has been patchy to date is that people still love
paper – for reading, for annotating, for scrunching up and
chucking in the bin. How long will employers tolerate such
habits when the savings offered by paperless working are so
clear-cut?
One of the strategies printer companies have adopted to maintain
demand is to make it easy to print, on the basis that people
can quickly lose the printing habit if it becomes too complex or
expensive. This explains why they are doing so much to simplify
printing from smartphones and why they are exploring alternatives
to the traditional model of cheap hardware and expensive
consumables. There is some evidence that by removing anxiety
about ink replacement costs, products like the HP Instant Ink
consumables subscription service and Epson EcoTank printers do
lead to a revival in printing. But what if you never had a printing
habit in the first place? Since installing an Epson printer with
extra large ink tanks I have been printing like it was going out of
fashion. Yet, our Millennial editorial assistant hasn’t printed a
single page. If it can’t be carried in a smartphone, she’s not
interested. And that’s a demographic and cultural change
that appears to be irreversible.
As well as attempting to stimulate demand for printing, printer
manufacturers have been trying to reduce the environmental
impact of printing through cartridge recycling programmes and
paper reduction initiatives, including the development of erasable
toner and reusable paper. As we go to press, news is coming in of
an alternative approach. Instead of erasing printed paper so that
it can be used again, the Epson PaperLab creates new paper out of
shredded waste, without the use of water. It can produce paper of
various sizes, thicknesses and types – from office paper to coloured
and scented sheets – at speeds of 14 A4 sheets per minute or
6,720 sheets in an eight-hour day. Epson is targeting PaperLab at
businesses and government offices that consume large amounts
of paper and have space to accommodate the self-contained
shredding/papermaking unit. It is certainly ingenious, but is it 20
years too late?
James Goulding, Editor
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