The Datamax Thinking Blog

Your organization’s security – including print security – should have its own well-defined persona because, frankly, procedures, solutions, and strategies are great but people are complicated.

We can all agree that as we peek ahead into 2024, cyber security was, is, and will remain a huge priority for businesses today. But are you and your employees all on the same page on how we get there? That's an entirely different question.

A proficient IT administrator derives satisfaction from automating tasks to enhance productivity, responsiveness ... and positivity.

IT staff fatigue is a real thing. It’s an issue often explored in  Nexthink's Pulse Report. Back in May 2020, we learned that 43% of IT leaders cited increasing support tickets as their biggest challenge since the start of the pandemic. “Since then,” reads the report, “70% of tech leaders we polled said their ticket and call volume continue to spike, with a majority of those reporting increases up to 50%."

For schools and their print environment, it’s about managing print behavior and costs in order to maximize their allotted budget. Print Management can help with that.

Schools are unique animals when it comes to printing.

So many users. So many types of devices. So many types of documents, all of which are essential to classroom functionality. On top of that, the classroom (and technology therein) is changing rapidly. Whether education is conducted on-site, remotely, or in a combination of both, the technology utilized should seamlessly integrate with different educational applications and offer cost-effective features, enabling schools to make the most of their resources.

Titled “Enhancing the In-Plant Product and Service Offering,” this white paper ultimately offers a window into the challenges In-Plant Printers are facing, and what certain outfits are doing to combat the hardships. 

Plain and simple: Peer learning is important. 

Your peers are often sources of untapped potential, be it sharing the latest and greatest, learning from others' mistakes, or just forging valuable connections and shifting the conversation from "I" to "we." But what about peers outside your facility, but within your own vertical space? Others in your industry can offer valuable insights that can positively impact your own operations moving forward.

Rather than relying on traditional on-premises print servers, cloud print management leverages internet-based technologies, enabling users to send and manage print jobs from any device, anytime, anywhere.

Thomas Edison's motto was said to be this: "There's a better way to do it — find it."

In today's fast-paced business world, finding more efficient methods for anything can be a game-changer, your print environment being no exception. Enter cloud print management, a printing solution that combines the power of the cloud with the convenience of printing, all of which gives your IT administrators and end users valuable Peace of Mind. For many organizations with a consistent need for printed documents, it's simply a better way to do it.

Whether it’s diminishing quality, limited functionalities, or the simple inability to find the right parts, there are certain signs that the office copier needs to be replaced.

Suffice it to say, your employees and your office copier develop a unique, oft-love-hate relationship over time.

From that glimmering first impression as the new device rolls into the office for the first time, to the frustrations with the inevitable paper jams, the employee and the device spend a lot of time together day in and out at the office, developing genuine familiarity. As a core hub for workflow functions, the copier is the consummate multi-tasker by printing, copying, scanning, faxing, and finishing to help move tasks forward in a routine manner.

Lexmark’s Translation Assistant offers real-time document language translation at your fingertips.  

The language we use in business, on campus, or in the hospital waiting room has a great impact on those we serve. The responsibility to use language effectively only heightens when it serves not as a bridge to better communication, but as an unbreakable barrier.  

When choosing your next copier provider, analytics help you make the right decision. These 7 stats help tell the story.

With the opening days of baseball in tow, diamonds are once again becoming sports fans’ best friends across the country.

Though the lore of the game lives deeply in American tradition, it’s changed, recent rules changes notwithstanding. Though baseball has long been a stat-driven affair, a new and emerging set of analytics (OPS, WHIP, WAR) help develop a new understanding of a player’s true value to his team.

What happens when Zero Trust encounters your print environment?  How do you avoid compromising an otherwise locked-down IT architecture? How do you retain the ability to print as needed? 

Trust is a difficult thing to come by anymore when it comes to cybersecurity measures. 

In their "Zero Trust Segmentation for Dummies" guide, Illumio reports that 76% of organizations experienced a ransomware attack in the last 2 years alone. Enter Zero Trust Security Environments. But what happens when Zero Trust encounters your print environment?  How do you avoid compromising an otherwise locked-down IT environment? How do you retain the ability to print as needed?

Whatever may be keeping you (and your equipment) down, reliability, efficiency, and general technician "know-how" are key factors in choosing your next copier repair provider.

"Up to Snuff." It's an old phrase that we all seem to decipher as "meeting a required standard," yet the origins of this familiar saying are unclear; furthermore, how a reference to smokeless tobacco came to describe "of good quality" is a little bewildering.

Subpar service, be it at your home or in your office, is more than bewildering...definitely time-consuming... and beyond frustrating. Your office equipment is no exception.