The Imaging Channel

About

The Imaging Channel is an integrated resource vehicle for the print and imaging industry that brings together the leading market information, business concepts, strategies, and people in managed print. This industry continues to undergo dramatic change – what are you doing to make sure your program thrives?


The Imaging Channel People

Executive Summit

The Imaging Channel Executive Summit is an annual seminar-style event targeted at those in charge of strategic planning for their managed print program. Beginning in fall 2010, the Executive Summit will blend keynote speakers and discussion panels to provide an environment where effective strategies can be shared, and new strategies can be developed.


The Imaging Channel Magazine

The Imaging Channel Magazine

The Imaging Channel Magazine is a publication for the managed print industry, delivering independent editorial coverage, executive interviews, financial analysis, vendor profiles, product reviews, vertical market analysis and more. Our publication will bring together the principal OEMs, vendors, distributors, resellers, and VARs to deliver leading edge information.


The Imaging Channel e-Bulletin

The Imaging Channel e-Bulletin

Bringing readers the latest breaking news, event information, magazine previews, resource excerpts and website highlights, The Imaging Channel e-Bulletin is delivered twice a month to requesting magazine subscribers and advertisers.


Targeted Market

Advertise

Advertise with The Imaging Channel to target the decision makers for managed print programs. Introductory North American circulation is estimated to be 15,000 qualified Principals and Executives in target audience segments.


Webcast

Free Webcast Now Available On Demand

Join us for our first webcast, Looking Under the Hood: Executives Discuss Their MPS Programs, as we bring together a group of executives to discuss their managed print programs. Registration is free for this opportunity to look under the hood of successful MPS programs.


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  • The Inevitability of Automated MPS

    What BTA Dealers Can Learn from VARs and Vice Versa

    To deliver an MPS program, you require the knowledge and expertise that both BTA dealers and VARs possess. While BTA dealers struggle to mold their current business processes to MPS, VARs are being slow to move into the MPS space. There is a lot they can learn from each other, and both have the potential to be successful in MPS. 06/01/2010 Read more

  • Managed Services from the Ground Up

    Notes from an Aspiring Startup 06/01/2010

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Emily Offshack
  • Live Together, Die Alone

    As an evolving industry, we all can, and should, learn from and lean on each other. Of course everyone needs to differentiate themselves—in the end, it's a competitive industry—but so much can be gained by sharing experiences, both the successes and failures, so that common mistakes can be avoided and proven strategies can be adopted. 08/18/2010 Read more

Charlie Brewer
  • All This over Misfiled T&E Reports? Really?

    Late in the day on Friday, August 7, word came that Hewlett-Packard's board of directors had sought—and received—the resignation of the company's CEO Mark Hurd. I'm not sure that Mr. Hurd and Ms. Fisher shared more than a meal, but I am skeptical all this furor is over a couple of expense reports. 08/18/2010 Read more

Product Profiles

  • Ricoh Aficio SP C430DN and SP C431DN

    Ricoh has managed to keep the operating costs of its two new machines down, and this will give them an advantage in the marketplace. The cost per page for a black-and-white document is only slightly over a penny, and color printing costs just over a nickel a page. Read more

  • Print Audit Facilities Manager

    Print Audit's Facilities Manager is a hosted device management program that provides automated collection of meters and other valuable device information, status alerts, supplies management, device costing, and report generation. Read more

  • Konica Minolta bizhub C35

    At just under 2 cents for a black-and-white page, the C35 has operating costs one associates with lower-end desktop units. Similarly, the cost of a color page is closer to what one would expect from a higher-end SOHO inkjet device, rather than a mid-tier color MFP. Read more

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