Canon Australia has been selected to join the Federal Government’s whole-of-government Managed Print Service (MPS) panel.
It joins rivals Fuji Xerox Australia, Konica Minolta Sharp, Lexmark, Ricoh and Kyocera Mita which were made members when the panel was announced in April.
Canon Australia director of business imaging Craig Manson said the MPS panel would help government agencies shrink print fleets and save money through the deployment of managed print services.
“The first Federal Government MPS panel is a great opportunity for government organisations to focus on the cost-reduction and fleet consolidation benefits associated with MPS and then go to the next level with increased productivity, heightened security and reduced environmental impact gained from a Managed Document Service,” he said.
Canon, along with every other company in the printing and document management space is attempting to remove the word ‘printing’ from its marking spiel and replace it with ‘services’ in a bid to appeal to organisation’s resolve to end years of spiralling costs.
Increasingly this has seen the printing game morph from largely a hardware business to one in which software is emerging as the key competitive differentiator, a trend confirmed by the growing number of software acquisitions in the space.
Most recently, Fujifilm Holdings Australia announced the acquisition of Australian print software specialists Whitech.
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