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Quiz: What is the right IT Solution for my Business?

Is IT a pain point at your organization? Whether you have an in-house IT representative or a third party resource, your company’s technology needs to be working with your company, not against it! Take our short assessment below to determine the technology resources your business needs to grow and succeed. Learn about Managed IT Services…

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What Does My Business Need from a Managed IT Services Provider?

Determine which solutions are a “must-have” when deciding on a managed IT package. Are you interested in how a comprehensive IT solution could benefit your business? Click here to browse our Managed IT homepage! Managing IT has become an overwhelming task for many organizations as innovations in technology become more advanced, and the risk of…

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How to Print Envelopes on Your Canon, Ricoh, or Savin Printer

Two MFD manufacturers that Advance represents, Canon and Ricoh/Savin, both offer the ability to copy on, or print on, envelopes for most of their models, through the side bypass tray. However, we only encourage that for sporadic use. A more reliable solution for copier-based machines is a dedicated envelope feeding tray.

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The Wake-up Call No Business Wants

Is your business’ back up and disaster recovery plan up to speed? Your systems probably hold a few Terabytes’ worth of CRM and vendor data, billing and payroll history, legal and other documents. You generate vast amounts of new data daily. Yet, if you’re like 40% of small-to-medium sized companies, you don’t back up that…

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Top 10 Benefits of Adopting Managed Print Services for Your Business

Most organizations have a variety of contracts from several different service providers for their multifunctional devices, printers, software, and supplies. This fragmented approach to buying is inefficient and expensive, but there is a better way! What is Managed Print Services? Managed Print Services optimizes your print environment to offer visibility into your print spend, a…

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Print Personalization: Using VDP in Your Print Strategy

Variable Data Printing, Uses and Strategies for Your Maryland Business Everyone is impatient. We insist on getting what we want, when we want it. On-demand services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime contribute to this culture, creating consumers that want everything customized specifically to their own tastes and preferences. As a business, how do we…

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How to Increase Web Traffic from Business Printing

Designing Your Business’ Print Media to Increase Visitors to Your Website “Print is dead.” – We’ve all read this same article time and again for the last twenty years. Seemingly on a mission to prove the naysayers wrong, countless businesses’ print media has stood the test of time as an ever-important branch of their marketing…

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10 Reasons to Bring Print Production In House [INFOGRAPHIC]

  At your company, you are responsible for the production of final, printed, on-brand, professional materials. Whether that is an important customer-wide communication on company letterhead, or your next direct mail piece, you are the one managing the print process. Right now, you probably outsource at least some of these materials to a print shop.…

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Advance Celebrates 50 Years in Business in True Family Style

Advance kicked off their 50th anniversary celebration on Thursday, July 10th, with a full day of festivities for its entire family of 162 employees at the company’s headquarters in Cockeysville. The morning started with an intimate meeting hosted by Co-Founders, and CEOs, Alan and Lois Elkin, sharing stories of their 50 years building one of…

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