What’s Killing the Printer Business?

Libraries often serve as community resources for printing, copying and faxing.  This is an interesting trend:

What’s Killing the Printer Business?

“The printer, once an indispensible peripheral, has become so peripheral that sales are in decline. How did the printer business reach this sorry state of affairs? Blame it on the combination of mobile devices and cloud storage.”

“The world is quickly moving beyond printers. They won’t die. There will always be a place for them, a dusty corner in the office and the den, just as there still is for copiers and fax machines. But printers won’t be necessary – not if you have a smartphone or tablet and an Internet connection. They’ll be – well – peripheral.”

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2012/07/whats-killing-the-printer-business.php

Stephen