Is paper a problem in your office?

Here are just a few quotes I have found about paper. $300 Billion annuallythat is what companies are spending each year on services such as certified mail, courier, overnight express, and faxing. Darcy Fowkes, Aberdeen Group, Inc.

With offices generating more than 3 billion pages per day. Don Dixon, Senior Analyst, Gartner Dataquest

Today there are over 100 million fax machines worldwide. Per year, fax traffic now exceeds 400 billion pages, and the worldwide fax phone bill is more than 91 billion dollars. In fact, fax transmissions account for between 30 and 40 percent of the typical corporate phone bill today. International Engineering Consortium, Fax Technology and Testing Issues

Of the $300 billion market for delivery of paper-based documents, whether through the mail, overnight delivery, or fax, analysts think that as much as $100 billion could move to the Net in the next few years. Peter Burrows, Business Week

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Corey Smith is the Vice President of Innovation at Fisher’s Document Systems.