Post Walters: The Friday That Changed the Conversation based on Oct24

Friday nights in this business used to mean two things: catching up on service tickets and cracking open a bourbon. This one started the same way. Then Art, John, and Dion sat down, and by the time the hour was up, the whole copier world felt like it had tilted a few degrees toward the future.

We started with the usual;

Print United news, production sales, and who sold what on the show floor. 

But somewhere between Ricoh’s Android panels and Sharp’s rebranded Fujis, the talk got real. The old guard is still chasing speed, volume, and print quality while the next generation is talking open standards, autonomous systems, and robots that learn from service logs.

Dion called in from South Africa, where Halloween looks a little different but the questions sound the same: who sets the standards, who owns the code, who gets left behind. Then came the moment that pulled everyone forward. Someone mentioned putting a scanner on a Quasi robot. Someone else asked why not a printer too. Suddenly, the idea of mobile print and scan units rolling through offices didn’t sound crazy. 

It sounded inevitable.

That’s when it clicked. Copier dealers have the field teams, the contracts, and the service DNA to run this next wave. The tech just caught up to what they’ve been doing for decades.

This chat wasn't nostalgic. Maybe a little. It’s more of a handoff. 

From toner to lithium. 

From managed print to managed movement. 

From selling machines to selling time.

Welcome to Post Walters, where the old channel meets the next machine age head-on.

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