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Top Print Trends to Watch For in 2025
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Top Print Trends to Watch For in 2025

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“How will the printing industry survive the digital age?”  “Isn’t print dying”?  “Do commercial print shops still exist?”  These are a few of the questions facing the printing industry over the next decade.  Technological advancements, customer’s changing preferences, and concern over the environment have all contributed to the digital print industry needing to pivot to meet future challenges.

To offer sustainability to clients, print manufacturers have turned towards eco-friendly products and hardware offerings.  Newer inks that are “Greenguard” certified have made their entrance to the industry.  These inks meet some of the world’s most rigorous and comprehensive standards for low emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into indoor air.  Along with eco modes to control power consumption, today’s commercial printers have the environment in mind while blazing trails across the page.  It’s just good business not a political statement.

Speaking of statements, commitment to customer satisfaction is foremost at the top of the print industry to-do list for the future (as it always has been).  Changing client preferences affect how projects are printed, when jobs are budgeted, or even customer costs going up and down.  Today’s economy fuels these changing preferences but are not the only driver of customer requests.  Custom designs, large format printing, small format printing, and custom substrates are just some of the customer requests that the industry has to keep pace with. 

While technology waits for no one, the printing industry embraces technology daily.  The advancements in A.I., robotics, and 2.5Gb internet have shifted thinking across many industries.  Printing has had it’s share of growing pains but stands ready to meet the next tech wave.  Faster computers, printers, and scanners are the smallest leaps forward.  New software packages are also contributing to the tech wave by increasing the speed to preflight, process, and render (in batches) the largest print projects.

The rise of digital media and the challenges of surviving through the COVID-19 pandemic have left the print industry reeling but not as you might expect.  Statistics show that the print industry is actually growing steadily despite these setbacks.  The overall volume of print has decidedly declined since the internet but this means print shops have to adapt.  Adapt to the changing needs of clients, streamline workflows, and do more with less.  Innovation is the key to success for most print shops today.  Innovation, experimentation, and vision are the keystones to a great print shop.  Seeing the trends before being pushed into them.

Our favorite print industry trends set to reshape the digital print industry are A.I. or Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Print-On-Demand, 3D Printing, Smart Factories and Devices, and (of course) Digital Printing. 

Artificial Intelligence

AI is the latest new buzzword streaking it’s way across minds. For some, it conjures up images of The Terminator and SkyNet taking over the world. For others, it is just a tool like any other that we harness to advance the species. However you see A.I., it is here and here to stay.

The print industry is leveraging machine learning in many ways by enhancing efficiency, creativity, and customization. To enhance efficiency, automation programs get much needed upgrades to refine print workflows. Instead of manual intervention, AI-driven automation allow the machines to “know” and “see” what projects need priority, where the breakdowns are, or streamline resources and inventory purchases. Being able to monitor real-time performance of printer equipment is a game changer. Notifications by text that your printer needs attention, diagnosing the issue before you even get there, increase productivity and minimize downtime.

AI algorithms can analyze customer data, ordering preferences, or input data from other sources to create personalized experiences. Custom generated print materials from a personalized experience allow print businesses to expand engagement and create brand loyalty. The internet revolution demands businesses learn or die. Brand loyalty and customer engagement is the future of business. Print shops that have survived this long already know this.

AI-powered image capabilities expand the universe of print creation immensely. Allowing color matching like never before, machine learning image processing allows the printer to automatically adjust colors on the fly, change image resolutions between jobs, and create new images from text. Creating images from text may be the biggest jump for creators in decades but for print shops to be able to design high quality images on the fly. For clients, it allows small shops to add dollars to the bottom line by branching out into design work that makes a difference.

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Data Analytics

Data analytics can mean many things to many people but the essence is the ability to analyze massive amounts of data from any source to arrive at logical conclusions. In short, using data to gain customers and keep them is the goal of most businesses. They allow a business to drive growth through web forms, emails, mail-outs, or other advertising methods to collect the customer data. They further optimize processes by filtering, sorting, and understanding what you have collected then outputting into a readable format summarizing the data. This workflow gives insight into what print shops need to make sound business decisions for them and their customers.

Monitoring performance metrics through analytics gives the printer action items to improve performance, costs, or customer satisfaction.  Further analyzing the newest market trends and customer behavior helps print shops identify product improvements or growth in their marketplace.  Predictive analytics can advance the ball even more.

Predictive analytics help business forecast future demands.  Business can begin to predict, to some degree, how the market is going to react to a new product, what the opportunities for expansion there are, or optimize inventory for seasonal business flow.  These “predictions” are not infallible but they offer print shops decision making tools they never had before.

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Print-On-Demand

Print-On-Demand is exactly what it says. Print. On. Demand! In today’s fast paced world, no one wants to wait for prints, of any kind. Photos, letters, or signs all demand fast turnarounds. Print shops must adapt and overcome like the Marines. Delivering top-notch quality printing in today’s timeline meets the print shop “need for speed” in record time. Print equipment has jumped into lightspeed giving over 100 pages per minute prints in the best quality possible, in many sizes.

The shift to Print-On-Demand includes digital advancements, equipment advancements, and changing customer preferences.  Each item has been a game changer in it’s own right but harnessing the technology comes down to the excellent employees that understand the changing industry.  That is where Print-On-Demand gets it’s biggest boost.  Employees in print shops everywhere manage the jobs, equipment, and write the code necessary to advance the print world.  The real game changers.

3D Printing

3D printing is often misunderstood but is actually genius in it’s simplicity. Building a 3D printer, managing the software necessary, and creating great 3D prints is not easy. If it were, everyone would do it, right? 3D printing has definitely revolutionized the print industry. It offers those adventurous enough to grasp the opportunities the medium provides through innovation. As this next phase of printing takes root, no longer is 3D printing confined by small projects or only prototypes of larger products. Now those products are being made from concept to distribution using 3D printing. Businesses can now produce end-use parts for equipment, promotional items in house, and all with precision.

In the next phase of 3D print development, new custom designed products will reach the masses completely created through these methods.  Think custom furniture, in your color, on your back porch while you sip cocktails from custom designed glasses on a 3D printed deck!  The complex customization of 3D printing is the future of so many products.

Advancements in materials structure is giving 3D printers more unique options including metals, plastics, or bio-materials that are compatible with the environment around them. Housing crises may be a thing of the past once 3D printing hits it’s stride.  That is just the tip of the iceberg they say in 3D printing.

Smart Factories and Devices

What the heck is a “smart factory” anyway? The single most asked question about smart factories, I am almost positive. Smart factories are places where technology has taken over. They drive efficiency, innovation, scalability, and the ability to adapt to changes in daily production environments.

Automation and robotics are what most people think when you say smart factory like Detroit automakers using robots to build cars.  Today’s smart factories are so much more though.  For print shops, automated systems streamline printing workflows on the production floors, reduce manual intervention, and increase production throughput overall.  Meanwhile, networked devices communicate through the internet to monitor real time data, increasing production at every turn.

In print shops, smart factories can also mean smart devices and smart software to control them.  Document scanners that remove staples automatically, scan the documents, and then reassemble them again are already here.  Commercial High-Production Printers that can process multiple projects at one time into separate output trays are already here.  The future is already here.

Digital Printing

Digital printing is a simple term for printing on modern equipment. What is special about digital prints, and why it made it onto this list, is the speed, versatility, and quality that traditional print methods cannot beat. Since everything is digital nowadays, printing is moving more and more towards digital prints.

Digital printing gets rid of time sucking processes like setup and preflight for many project types. This enables quick turnaround times for Print-On-Demand.  Digital printing means that print shops can maximize inventory costs while minimizing waste to produce short-run prints cost-effectively.  Digital printing also allows print shops to have variable data printing runs.  This opens up more avenues for revenue growth organically. Combined with the newest inks and laser toner cartridges, digital printing systems deliver on their promise of quality vs. speed.

While many other opportunities for print shops to expand growth in the industry exist, we believe that these trends are the future of print.  At The Document Group, we follow the latest news and reports from the industry.  We are not the definitive authority on printing, but with over 19 years in business in the Houston Downtown Area, we might know a thing or two about it.

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Disaster Recovery – How To Review Your Plan
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Disaster Recovery – Reviewing Your Plan

Disaster Recovery – Mother Nature does not respect our intentions or plans.  That is clear.  The unfortunate yearly flooding in Texas, and in the neighboring State of Louisiana, serves as a wake-up call to businesses to guarantee that their data, and original paper documents, are properly stored in the case of disaster. Once nature has carved its destruction in your community, you can finally understand the need to have a plan.  A plan that addresses all of the possibilities.  File cabinets, servers, tablets, or boxes full of paper documents can be lost in an instant once nature strikes.  Your plan must address all aspects of your data.

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Starting With Electronic Data...Ending with Paper

Even tiny unforeseen circumstances happen every day that can activate your plans.  An auto accident makes an unlikely catalyst for your recovery plan to go into effect.  Think on this though.  If that auto accident hits the right telephone pole, or the exact transformer, it can knock out power to a lot of commercial and residential real estate.  This is just one example, but what if you are targeted.  That warehouse storing original documents from land deals since 1956 is mysteriously set on fire.  Or is hit by a tornado?  Either way, the documents are gone.

While the process you use to anticipate your technology and document related disasters is going to be unique to you, there are basic guidelines to follow when creating your plan.  You will need to closely examine your situation first.  Determine what data needs to be saved and from what sources.  Again, your methods may be different but as long as you gather the same information about your data, it does not matter if you are paper and pen person, or cannot use anything but your tablet to take notes.  Get everything into a form you can best keep organized, both in your head and out of it. 

When you have your list of sources, it is time to get down to crafting your plan.  You plan should include where those sources are, either digitally or in the real world.  You should know how much data there is in each source.  If it is paper, find a standard measurement you can identify with.  Boxes are a good measure.  A standard office box will hold approximately 2,500 pages of letter size paper.  If it is digital, you will need to know how much storage you will need in gigabytes, or even terabytes.  This can include a document management system in place at the main location as a best case scenario as well. 

When discussing electronic data backups and disaster recovery, often it is said that it should be an easy thing to just set data to flow where you want.  Most people do not understand that to properly have systems in place that provide that flow of information takes a village, and more, to accomplish.  Our best advice for this part of the equation is to contact your preferred IT vendor to help you determine the best solution for your situation.  However, some generalizations are true.  You need to replicate data across multiple networks at some point.  You need to verify data integrity always.  You need to secure your data against the best hackers out there.

Best practices suggest you have multiple copies of your data across multiple locations geographically.  Your live data (working data) at the office is one copy.  A local backup of your data on site to a different server location or to a local location in the surrounding community for quick recovery options due to less serious disaster recovery situations.  You will also need another location off site, and hopefully, across the country from you geographically.  This gives you three separate copies in three geographic locations that will best allow you to recover quickly.  Think in terms of your situation.  And get help if you are unsure.

Once you have your data figured out, it is time to tackle the paper. As everyone tries to tell us, paper is going the way of the dodo bird.  We believe it, but just have not seen the decline yet.  So we will address those ancient items also, the paper.  Back file scanning, archive scanning, or paper to digital conversion.  Whatever you call scanning your old, not accessed documents you absolutely have to save due to regulation, sentimentality, or legality.  That is where we come in at The Document Group.  We can help get you on a path to peace of mind for your paper documents.  We start by imaging your archive boxes and any non-active files you must keep.  We move on to active files once those are stored on your servers.  Regular scanning of current paperwork to your servers can be accomplished as well if you have that need.  Although paper documents are our focus when scanning, The Document Group understands that there is so much more to disaster recovery than the paper.

What Would Be Lost For You during A Disaster?

Even though many documents within organizations are produced and transmitted to others electronically, there is still plenty of paper that circulates within an average business.

Every day’s mail brings a new supply of invoices, correspondence, orders, and other documents.

  • Electronic documents may be printed out, annotated, and filed.
  • Files containing medical records, taxes, legal documents, and more from the past may still be in hard copy format.
  • Blueprints and other large-format documents may be in hard copy.
  • Irreplaceable photos may have no backup copies.
  • And the list goes on…

Water damage could wipe out years of compiled information or destroy projects in progress if there is no electronic backup system for your disaster recovery plan. While small amounts of flooded materials might be recoverable, saving boxes of documents after the fact is not feasible, nor is it safe as mold quickly grows in piles of soggy paper.

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Prevent Information Loss Through A Scanning Plan

The best way to prevent future damage is to work with an experienced provider of scanning services such as The Document Group of Houston. We are prepared to scan your materials on-site or back at our facility. Because we use experienced scanning professionals and state-of-the-art equipment, we can get through large quantities of documents quickly, while ensuring that quality and resolution of scanned images is high.

Besides providing a needed service that can help disaster recovery, The Document Group can develop a plan to get you on track. For example:

  1. We can help you prioritize the documents you have to scan if you are new to the process. We will develop a schedule for getting it all done.
  2. We can add permission to limit and access specific documents if your files include medical documents, legal documents, or other sensitive financial or confidential information.
  3. We can obtain hard copies of materials for a specified time or indefinitely store your documents in a safe, off-site facility.
  4. We can back up your documents on secure servers, so that even if a natural disaster affects your facilities, you would still be able to access your documents.
  5. We can schedule to scan any materials on a periodic basis, or work with your personnel to make sure that pertinent files are entered into the system.

Consider The Impact Of Document Loss On Your Business...or Your Home

As a businessperson, you may be concerned with the cost of the initial disaster recovery, scanning, and file maintenance.  However, consider the impact on your business if all your files were destroyed by fire, flood, explosion, or other unplanned events.

How could you reconstruct your customer files or your recent transactional history? Could you figure out your corporate documents or any of the historic files you might need for tax purposes? What about your historic photographs of company personnel, Christmas parties, and all kinds of events? All of these materials could be irretrievably lost in the case of a flood or other disaster.

A call to The Document Group will prove to you that the cost of safe, efficient disaster recovery is not as costly as you might imagine. For more information, contact us at 888-316-4670 or via our free quote form.

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Risk Management Scanning

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Does your company have paper files located in cabinets in the workspace or boxes of old documents warehoused in a storage area? This plan usually works well unless an accident or natural disaster disrupts your facility. Assuming your files even survive the incident, recovery can be slow as you try to keep your business afloat and piece together customer and product information. To avert this business interruption, having paper files scanned and kept in a secure off-site location is the smart solution for businesses today.

Devastation In West, TX

In April 2013, a terrible explosion rocked a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. This tragic event, which claimed 17 lives including 11 first responders, and injured over 160 people, also destroyed or heavily damaged 150 buildings onsite and in the surrounding area.  Amidst the devastating damage, the fertilizer plant as well as many businesses, schools, and homeowners lost years of paper records.

Risk Management Scanning Protects Your Business

Events like this explosion, as well as events such as fires, hurricanes, floods and tornados, and even intentional acts of burglary and terrorism, spotlight the need to have a thorough risk management plan in place to allow your business to resume operations as soon as possible. As a crucial part of risk management, scanning current and archived files and storing them in a secure facility can help you rebuild your files quickly and continue operating your business.

Onsite Scanning Protects Your Documents And Makes Them More Accessible

Having a company like The Document Group convert your files from hardcopy to versatile electronic images and maintain the copies allows you to minimize loss and downtime. Whether you want us to pick up the records and do the scanning at our facility or provide onsite mobile document scanning at your location, we can help you prepare for the unexpected – and the routine.

Studies show that archiving scanning makes files more accessible for everyday use, improves customer service, and assures privacy. When accessing records online, your staff spends less time shuffling and deciphering aging paper documents and more time serving your clients. Bottom line: scanned files require no storage space and improve efficiency while protecting you in case of disaster.

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With such a high volume of petrochemical facilities in and around the Houston area, it simply makes smart business sense to protect your valuable documents with risk management scanning. Don’t be caught off-guard by what you can’t control. Click here for a free quote for document scanning, or call us today at 713-343-4000.

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Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Proves Need For Document Scanning

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Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Proves Need For Document Scanning

Shortly before the Boston Marathon, a fertilizer company explosion rocked West, Texas. Though the tragic marathon event overshadowed the Texas explosion in the media, the impact of the explosion was even more devastating. Seventeen people died, including 11 first responders, while over 160 sustained injuries. More than 150 homes, schools, a nursing home, and other buildings and their contents were destroyed or damaged.  Many lost everything.

While these tragedies happen far too often, being prepared for the worst and hoping for the best is the way to go.  Disaster strikes and we are left to pick up the pieces.  Scanning your paper documents, keeping multiple backup copies, and keeping them in different locations is just good business practice.  

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The Toll In Business Disruption

Businesses located in the area faced a special problem. Any documents stored on site were incinerated in the explosion that rocked a five block area. As the residents of this small town rebuild their lives, many businesses were faced with reconstructing customer, student, and patient files in addition to finding new spaces. Unless the affected businesses had documents stored offsite or backed up electronically, the road to a smoothly functioning business was long and difficult.  

Business disruptions happen all over the world due to many different reasons.  Those that have their plans in place before disaster strikes are the lucky ones.  The lucky ones are able to get back to business quickly and with minimal re-startup costs.

 

Risk Management Scanning Protects Your Documents

Though the explosion in Texas started in a fertilizer plant, any business is at risk from accidents, fires, or natural disasters in their own facilities or nearby ones. Mother Nature does not care about the business of man. While businesses cannot predict, or even prevent, an accident or natural disaster, document scanning should be part of any efforts at risk management. Scanning transforms boxes and file cabinets packed with paper records into electronic images that survive when paper can not.

While nobody doubts the longevity of paper, vellum, and parchment products (see the Dead Sea Scrolls), there are so many ways paper can be destroyed that you don’t think about.  So much has been lost to history due to fire it is a tragedy of epic proportions.  Think the Library at Alexandria in ancient Egypt.  War and strife has led to many losses across time also.  How many treasures, stolen by conquering armies, were never seen again?  This is obviously worst case scenario but it still applies to your business documents all the same.

Industries In Special Need Of Archiving Scanning

Though disaster can strike any business, some industries are more dangerous by nature and pose greater risk to employees and to business documentation.

  1. Businesses using or storing chemicals. Fertilizer companies are prime examples.
  2. Businesses using nanotechnology, which manipulates atoms and molecules. Often used in many different industries, nano-materials are potentially explosive and toxic.
  3. Businesses that raise considerable dust, such as sawmills, flour processing plants, and grain silos. Accumulated dust is both explosive and flammable.
  4. Businesses that refine and store petrochemicals. Oil facilities in Texas might store millions of gallons of gasoline or oil at a time.
  5. Businesses that do spray painting. Boat yards, auto body facilities, and furniture companies employ ignitable chemicals in applying paint and coatings.

Enterprises that are more dangerous often have numerous safety measures in place to prevent accidents and function without incident that harms them or their neighbors. In Texas, though the fertilizer plant had safety violations on record, there were no accidents until now.

How Mobile Document Scanning Services Can Help

All this proves that any business must be prepared for unforeseen events. Document scanning can help you do this and has numerous benefits including:

  1. Assures that documents are safe from harm
  2. Electronic storage of scanned documents require no storage space
  3. The content is easily shared and accessible by authorized personnel
  4. Improved customer service as employees spend less time shuffling paper

Converting to electronic documents can be time consuming. However, in the Houston area, The Document Group has a qualified team of dedicated professionals who will come onsite to provide mobile document scanning services to make the process fast and easy. TDG can also provide services at their facility, but most customers prefer the convenience of onsite scanning. After the process is complete, TDG will take the records away for storage or shredding.

Regardless of your industry, document scanning is an easy way to minimize loss and prevent disruption of your business after a disaster. Contact us for a free quote for offsite or onsite scanning, or call us today at 713-343-4000 to learn more.

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Document Scanning: What Happens After The Initial Big Scan?

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Once your company has bought into the many advantages of document scanning, how do you keep the momentum going? You realize that keeping documents in paper takes up costly space, while confining the usability of documents to a single physical local. Scanned documents are available to anyone in your organization authorized to access them. After the initial scan, how do you assure that future documents are scanned?

Scanning Without A Document Management Plan Is Electronic Hoarding

The key to making sure that document scanning is an ongoing process is to have a document management plan, with strategies in place to assure that future documents are electronically captured. You want to make sure future scanning happens, which means that scanning is part of the procedure for handling any document. Even more important is making sure that the scanned material is part of a system that makes it accessible. If documents are scanned but not easy found, your organization has traded filing cabinet for electronic hoarding.

Many companies have their original digital conversion handled by a scanning service that comes in to physically scan the paper and develop a document management system often based on software. To outsource ongoing scanning means setting aside piles of documents that the vendor will either pick up for offsite scanning or do it at your location. This can pose logistical problems for companies if the documents are needed. Either people will make copies of documents so that original can be out of service for scanning, or they will have to gather up all the documents before the scanning service drops by.

Employees May Be Able To Manage Ongoing Scanning

Having employees scan documents as they go along can be an effective way to keep up with the process. This might be done on a network copier scanner or on a desktop scanner or all-in-one, and sent to the scanning systems where it is compressed and indexed for immediate use. The steps after the scanning might be managed by the scanning company if the files are uploaded to their servers. The scanning service will ensure that the proper software is in place to save documents in the right file format.

With a document management plan in place, one scan can even automate electronic document routing so that by pushing one button, a document will be scanned, formatted, and routed to the proper person or department. This is particularly important for materials where several departments must approve or be aware of the status, such as engineering changes, loan applications, accounts payable, or building permits. Scanning the document becomes a key part of the work process.

Involving Employees In Document Management

Having employees scan materials is an easy-to-implement policy if they have the right equipment. Since many companies have a centrally-located machine to copy, scan, and print and/or provide their employees with equipment at their desks, this can be more cost effective than having the scanning service do all the work. If you expect employees to do the scanning, it is important that procedures for how, what, and where to direct scans be very clear, especially if the documents involved have sensitive data or complex images.

Whether you need help with an initial scan, developing a document management plan, or continuous scanning, the Document Group of Houston, TX, can help you. Contact us at (888)316-4670.

Scanning Services Can "Green Up" Your Business

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“Green Up” Your Business With Scanning Services

Scanning paper documents to digital images advances the idea of  “going green” in huge ways.  “Being Green” is a familiar buzzword in modern business, but transforming your business into one that is committed to sustainability, low resource consumption, and waste reduction is more than just a notion.  Scanning allows you to turn a mountain of paper into a flash drive.  Depending on the paper mountain we are talking about, it could require a larger hard drive.  It still ends up being able to fit in your hands.

Recycling office paper, ink and toner cartridges, and soda cans is a good start, but to get to the root of “climate change” problem, your company – and your employees – must develop different attitudes about using resources, and creating waste. Forward-thinking businesses can move toward making the administrative side of their business “paperless”.  By scanning old documents and viewing them as electronic PDF files, time and money is saved. You can reduce the overall costs of your business by not paying storage fees.

Removing large collections of paper documents can convert that physical space into something that brings revenue.  A new insides sales employee or piece of equipment that makes the company more efficient are just two ways.  You end up educating your employees.  Both about the benefits of conservation and the company’s commitment while you streamline your process. 

On-Site Scanning Services Could Be An Answer Too

Document scanning is the ultimate green solution for modern businesses for two main reasons. First, paper documents take up physical space in filing cabinets and storage facilities. When your company, often with the help of an on-site scanning service, converts paper files to electronic ones, you may need less physical space for your operations, which reduces your “footprint.”

Second, after a scanning company has helped with the initial phase of document conversion, authorized employees who need the documents can access them online. Often, the user just needs to double check something in the file, so there is no need to print out the whole document. A user who needs a file repeatedly can even download the file to his or her computer for future use, which reduces the volume of corporate printing.

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Utilizing scanning services enables a company to reduce costs. If keeping paper copies for a period of time is mandated by law for your business, you can move old records to a less costly warehouse space, or even have them housed by the scanning shop.

Archiving paper documents requires employees to retrieve them. Though electronic documents do require oversight after scanning, a company can deploy workers in other areas or reduce personnel costs.

Employee Education

With electronic document storage systems in place after initial scanning services, companies who aim to be green must educate employees to be more conscious of the environmental impact of the goods and services they use. In modern offices with a copy machine on site and printer available for every user or workgroup, your employees are used to printing and copying what they need or want, without being concerned about cost. By encouraging workers to view scanned documents on the screen rather than printing them out, your company not only saves trees by using less paper, but also uses less ink and less petroleum-based plastic used in ink housings. A “think before you print” approach saves both money and resources.

Does your company need to green up its approach to document maintenance? The Document Group of Houston is ready to help you. With on-site scanning services, as well as pickup and storage of your documents, we can help your business go paperless. Contact us today to see how.

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