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Health and efficiency For small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), times have been tough and becoming more efficient is imperative, but printers and scanners can play a vital role in making that happen and helping to boost a business’ bottom line.
For SMBs in many sectors, these past few years haven’t been easy, whether it has been the effects of COVID, supply chain shortages, the cost of living crisis, recession or any other problem they have had thrown at them. What it has meant is that SMBs are looking for ways to become more efficient and save money as margins are often tight, and this is where the print channel comes in. For instance, how businesses manage their documents can make a big difference. Digitalising records can make processes more efficient, and there is a range of print and scan technology on the market that is geared towards SMBs – be that through price, size or functionality – and resellers have an important role to ensure customers get the right solution. Read more on p28.
and hospitality are increasingly demanding speed, efficiency and convenience from PoS systems – as well as mobile systems and ways to harness data generated for business improvement – and manufacturers are providing this. Read more on p33. Elsewhere in this issue, we have an interview with two of the team charged with bringing Fujifilm printers to UK resellers and end users. While Fujifilm might be a new name to the UK printer market, it is the number one printer brand in the Asia Pacific region and has more than 60 years of technological development behind it. Now, Fujifilm is expanding into the UK, and wants to build a network of resellers across the country to make this a success. Find out more on p14. The common thread through these articles
Dan Parton
In a similar vein, digitalisation is something that SMBs have been looking at doing to help increase efficiency and maintain competitiveness in recent years. But some are put off by the perceived barriers to doing this, including cost and lack of expertise. But these barriers can be overcome by resellers in the print channel, who can point to devices such as MFPs that can help businesses on that journey towards digitalisation. See more on p30. Technology in point of sale (PoS) systems is also helping retail and hospitality businesses, many of which are SMBs. Customers in retail
is that printing and scanning equipment is vital in helping businesses – SMBs or larger – to modernise and stay competitive. Print resellers need to emphasise this to SMBs and help them to make the right investments in print and scan equipment that will help to improve their business, boost sales and the bottom line. As always, I hope you enjoy the issue. If there are any topics that you would like to see covered in a future issue – or you have an opinion piece you would like to submit or a press release – please get in touch with me at dan@newsinthechannel.com.
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