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ArticlesYeah, But


July 1996 / Bits / Yeah, But

The paperless office is approaching reality. Industry analysts estimate that the amount of printed information workers deal with will decline from about 70 percent today to about 30 percent in the year 2004.

Yeah, but analysts and vendors like Hewlett-Packard also say the amount of information we'll have to process will double ever y seven years. Even though we'll print less often, we'll still print a lot.

Copiers break down often. Instead of photocopying memos, we will e-mail them.

Yeah, but laser printers are fairly reliable, and people will still want to print: paper is portable, and it's easy to mark it up. Look for mopiers, which are fast laser printers that quickly make multiple prints, to supplant today's photocopier.

People who talk about distributed printing over the Inter net ignore the lack of standards that prevents this.

Yeah, but the World Wide Web Consortium is addressing these issues to make distributed printing easier. You can bet that delivery companies are investigating how they will integrate distributed printing into their overnight delivery services.


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