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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…
Automatic Bates Numbering Machines: What are the Options for My Legal Office?
Bonus: Download Step-by-Step Instructions for Setting up Your Existing Machine Bates numbering (also called Bates stamping) is used in the legal industry as a method to label and identify legal documents, for easy identification and retrieval. Nearly all American law firms use Bates numbering during the discovery phase of litigation, where a large number of…
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…
It’s All in The Details
Utilize Ricoh/Savin’s 5th Color Printing Station at Your Business! You may have heard of Ricoh/Savin’s 5th Color Printing Station, available on the outstanding C7100X series production printer. Introduced back in 2015, the 5th Color Station allows you to utilize clear and white toner on your print materials that leave an impactful impression. Marketing professionals everywhere…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Taking Printing to the Edge on My Printer
While you may not be able to print true full bleed for in-house design work, I leave you with three tips to help you work around the full bleed limitation but still have professional results
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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Jeff Elkin
Jeff has been with Advance for over 25 years and currently serves as the President with focus on the technological advancements being made in the industry. Read Jeff's posts »
Kevin O'Brien
Kevin is our Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCIO) and has been with Advance since 2006. Read Kevin's posts »
Scott Guercio
Scott is the resident expert for all of the hardware and technology we offer at Advance. Read Scott's posts »