A little while ago I was talking to one of our clients in Hamilton ON and he described looking for a multifunction copier (MFP) as like looking for a furnace, "Something you have to do not something you want to do". His premise was this was a necessary evil not a necessity.
Office Document Strategies Blog
Multifunction Copier - Like A Furnace? - A Hamilton Comment
Posted by Lee Kirkby on Thu, Jun 30, 2011 @ 07:06 AM
Topics: e-mail, Multifunction Printer, Scanning, document management, MFP, Printer, office document strategy, Kyocera copier
Document Scanning and File Conversion, the Best Format
Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Jun 15, 2011 @ 07:06 AM
Document scanning has become a given technology in most offices. Once users start being able to convert files from paper to electronic form for use in e-mail, storage as records and for ease of portability the growth of electronic documents in the office mushrooms.
Topics: Scanning, document filing, document storage strategy, software tools, document management
99% of SMB's Report Problems With Document Filing - Survey
Posted by Lee Kirkby on Fri, May 13, 2011 @ 08:05 AM
In a recent e-mail survey I conducted, sent to over 700 SMB companies in the Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville corridor of Ontario Canada we found that document filing and retrieval was a serious problem.
Topics: Scanning, document filing, document management, Document
I want to go paperless. Of course my desk still has lots of paper on it. It would be so nice to only deal with electronic documents and forgo paper. Is this practical?
Topics: Software, Scanning, document filing, document storage strategy, document management
Sometimes I find I could really use a portable document scanner. I have access to MFP based document scanning in the office so I can easily convert paper to electronic records and create PDF's of paper documents for e-mailing. There are times however when I really would like to have a small portable scanner that could be taken with me for travel or use at home.
Topics: Scanning, document management, Document
Scanning has become a staple of most offices that use multifunction printer - copiers. Through these devices users have the ability to capture paper documents and use them in their everyday business. E-mailing has overtaken faxing largely due to the ability of businesses to easily adopt scanning.
Topics: Multifunction Printer, Scanning, document filing, video, document storage strategy
High Volume Scanning Gets Stopped By Lack of Support
Posted by Lee Kirkby on Fri, Dec 17, 2010 @ 16:12 PM
Topics: Scanning, document filing, document management, office document strategy
The Best Scanning For Your Document Imaging System
Posted by Lee Kirkby on Tue, Nov 23, 2010 @ 11:11 AM
There are three primary ways that you can choose scanners for your document imaging system. You can use scanning capability from a multifunction (MFP) based print device. You can install a dedicated scanner with network scanning capability or you can use desktop connected scanning from your PC.
Topics: Scanning, document filing, document storage strategy, document management, MFP
Some People Really Get Document Imaging in Ontario
Posted by Lee Kirkby on Wed, Oct 27, 2010 @ 17:10 PM
For over 15 years I have sometimes felt like I was an evangelist as I quoted, configured and promoted document imaging in our area of Ontario, Canada. In the past couple of weeks I have been gratified to meet and talk to people who have really understood the benefits and are adoptees of the tool.
Topics: Scanning, document filing, video, document storage strategy, document management, Document, office document strategy
Topics: technology tools, Software, Scanning