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Special Report - Consumables & Office Machines

Consumed by

Change

oners and ink cartridges
Over the past Thave been two vital but fairly printers and photocopiers have
recognised this, which is one
few years the mundane items within a typical reason why so many have now
market for toners office inventory of products in started producing multi-function
machines. But what about
recent years. They are something
and cartridges that offices clearly can’t live the companies that make the
has been going without, but probably wouldn’t ingredients that go into printers?
Toner suppliers, it seems, are
get into a right song and dance
through quiet about. quick to insist that yes, there
Nevertheless, the office
has been a move to digital,
Bomb threats and fake money are just two of the cases that a project set up by
but fundamental
but no, there hasn’t been a
environment, as we are so
police and office product suppliers has helped in recent months
devastating drop in sales as a
often told, has gone through
change
result. Nigel Morris, marketing
something of a revolution
in recent years. More and director at Beta, says: “It’s always
more people are using digital been mooted that the paperless
technology not just to produce office is just around the corner,
documents but to view them as but there are numerous surveys
well. The companies that make and statistics that show we
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