For years now, the talk in technology circles has centered on the inevitability of the paperless office, but sometimes reality has a way of making such speculation seem premature at best.

While innovations in networks and computer systems have allowed much more storage of information in electronic form, the demand for paper documents–also known as hard copy–continues.

Marketers of output and scanning devices are only too happy to meet that demand with a new generation of hardware designed to deliver value and performance.

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