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THE PRINT & DOCUMENT WORKFLOW MAGAZINE
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ISSN 2055-3099 (Print) ISSN 2055-3102 (Online)
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Bulletin
The high cost of outdated processes
12
Opinion
Oliver Bendig picks six workplace trends for 2017
14
Cover Story
The Power of More with Panasonic scanners
17
Scanners
How Kodak Alaris is helping Cleardata meet
growing demand for its scanning services
19
Printers
OKI gets smart with new printer series
22
Managed Print
KYOCERA strengthens IT services capability with Annodata acquisition
23
Wide Format Print
Say goodbye to printer queues with HP PageWide XL technology
24
What’s New
A selection of the best new document products and services
26
Emerging Technologies
Why 3D print has limited appeal
28
Interview
Stuart Sykes explains Sharp’s ‘connected technologies’ vision
30
Software
How AMC Networks Inc. is improving printer
management with Nuance Equitrac
32
Workflow
Hollybank Trust goes paperless with M-Files
34
Office Print
Why print persists, despite our best intentions
WINTER 2016/17
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COMMENT
PrintIT
is available in a choice of
formats and media – printed page,
PDF or page-turning e-book. I bet
you are reading the printed version.
Some things are just better on
paper: magazines, books (a personal
preference, I admit), possibly even
presentations. As we report on page
8, there are even some businesses
that still send out printed meeting
agenda – that’s just crazy. Xerox company NewField IT used
to talk about good paper and bad paper; Infotrends talks
about required vs optional printing (see page 34). Whatever
you want to call it and however you classify it, paper still has
a place in the office, even if just for a few hours before being
put in the recycling bin.
The theory used to be that paper was a baby boomer habit and
that as millennials and digital natives entered the workplace, it
would disappear. Infotrends’ new research suggests that this is
a myth. Paper is here to stay and we’d all better get used to it,
learn to love it or at least develop a survival strategy. That said,
no one in their right mind wants to be surrounded by stacks
of documents and files. The key is to get rid of paper when it
is ineffective, as Hollybank Trust has done with its new digital
requisition process (see page 32), and use it when it adds
value (e.g. for creating, imparting or absorbing information).
One area where paper can be effective is direct mail. There is
evidence, much of it from Royal Mail Group (surprise, surprise),
that people still like to receive marketing communications in
printed form. OKI suggests that this tendency is growing as
people become disenchanted with the ever increasing volume
of digital communications. As we report on page 19, it has
just expanded its printer range with a number of new colour
devices optimised for on demand colour printing. The addition
of touchscreen user interfaces on OKI smart devices enables
users to retrieve, customise and print documents locally
for distribution to customers who prefer printed marketing
material, without the delays, expense and waste associated
with pre-printed material. Smart printing indeed.
James Goulding
,
Editor
