Toner Pirates Are Back: How to Spot Toner Phoners Before They Cost Your Business Thousands
Toner Pirates (aka Toner Phoners) trick offices into paying 5–10x for toner they didn’t order. Learn how these scams work,…
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Copier Cost & Pricing Guide for Your Business How to Clean and Disinfect Your Office Equipment Need a New Copier: Lease or Purchase?
How to Choose the Right Copier for Your Office
Buying or leasing a copier in Virginia? Learn how to choose the right copier for your office—based on print volume,…
Copier Lease vs. Rental: Which Is Right for Your Office?
How to choose the best option for your budget, needs, and productivity. Copier Contracts: Less Fun Than Coffee, But…
5 Proven Ways to Cut Printing Costs and Boost Office Efficiency
With 55 years of office technology expertise, Stone’s Office Equipment knows what’s draining your budget—and how to fix it.
How to Reduce Copier Downtime in Your Office | Stone’s Office Equipment
Real tips from a team that’s been fixing machines since the typewriter days. Downtime is frustrating. Whether it’s a…
Lease vs. Loan vs. Cash: What’s the Best Way to Pay for Office Equipment in 2025?
Learn whether leasing, taking out a loan, or paying cash is the best way to acquire office equipment. Compare…
Does Faxing Work With VOIP?
Why doesn’t my fax work with my VOIP Phones? Troubleshooting a client’s faxing issues. It’s late on…
Are your office equipment supplies Eco-Friendly?
5 Reasons Your Office Should Use Eco-Friendly Supplies for Your Printers Multi-million dollar toner recycling facilities have replaced the…
6 Common Printer and Copier Issues (and fixes)
When our government started listing ” essential ” companies during the pandemic, we wondered if office equipment…
What’s the best way to clean my copier and printer?
Tis the season – No, not the holiday season, but Cold and Flu, along with COVID. Many…
Is your IT working for or against you?
Stone’s is introducing a NEW way to think about IT services for your copiers and printers. Regardless of the…
Save Money on Color Prints
How Can My Office Save Money? This is asked all the time, and sometimes the answer is so simple…
Need a new copier? Leasing 101
When your office is ready to replace its existing copier, do you understand which lease is best? If you…
5 Advantages of Digital Signage
There are many advantages to Digital vs. Traditional Signage, here are five of them. Almost everywhere you go, you’ve…
Compliancy and Healthcare
Increase Efficiency While Remaining Compliant Can you increase efficiency and remain compliant? Healthcare providers understand the impossible task of…
Lease vs. Loan: Office Technology Explained
Before you sign Lease Financing vs. Loans or Cash Equipment or technology lease financing offers many potential benefits over…
Need a New Copier: Lease or Purchase?
During the shopping process of office technology, people ask if they should lease or purchase their copier. There are…
Managed Print Services: What do you know about your printers?
We can help you answer these questions, along with many more you’ve never thought of before. Each question asked…
What’s the difference between a Commercial Display and a TV?
Notice Vertical and Horizontal Mounts of Commercial Displays Televisions and Commercial Display may look the same…but there is…
Does This Make My Copy Look Wide?
Why would I need a Wide Format? You may not! Today’s printing needs are not a “one size fits…
Managing Healthcare Records
The ever-changing healthcare industry is under increasing pressure to lower costs and increase efficiency while providing higher quality care.
The Dirtiest Thing in a Restaurant
150106120 – chair and table with plate or dish on wooden table prepared for customer eat food in resturant Cleanest…
Video Conferencing 101
Video Conferencing From Your Home Made Easy With more people working from home than ever before, video conferencing is…
Connecting wePresent Wireless to your Sharp Display
When your office is looking for alternative ways to collaborate, try the wePresent wireless display hub. It’s a simple,…
Sharp Copier Overlay
In this video, we explain how to create an overlay used for creating letterheads, footers, or watermarks on documents…
Lexmark Print Cloud
This video will show you how to retrieve the meter count reading on a Lexmark print device.
Front and Back Card Copying to Single-Sided Sheet with Sharp Copiers
There are times when you may need to make a copy of the front and back of an insurance…
A3 vs A4 Printers
If you have shopped for a copier before, you’ve probably heard the term A3 or A4. What does it…
Create Letterhead on Your Copier
Are you still sending out your letterhead to printers? In today’s world of digital communication, printing a letter is…
How to Use Digital White Out on a Sharp Copier
What is Digital Whiteout? Have you ever made a copy of an original and needed to “whiteout” some of…
Save Your Office Resources with Managed Print Services
The silent killer in your office. You can ask almost any CEO or CFO about their companies balance sheet…
Do Your Employees Have Access to the Documents They Need?
Employees might be working from home Are the files and documents they need to do their jobs available to…
Five Tips for Holding a Successful Webinar
We’re becoming more comfortable with webinars But are we doing them correctly? Like many things in our life, we…
Need a printer for your home office? Don’t look to a dealer.
Working from home vs. Doing work from home Working from home means different things to different workers. With all…
Proper Equipment Care for Reopening Your Office
If your office has been closed and you are preparing to reopen, don’t forget about your printers and copiers.
Is Digital Signage a Sign of the Times?
Digital Signage can be used in nearly every business environment Times are changing Businesses, shop owners, doctors’ offices, and…
Do You Trust Your Coworkers?
A recent study shows why you should be concerned 8 in 10 Americans admit to creeping on others’ screens83 percent,…
Communicate Better with Digital Signage
Use Your Display To Promote PSA Communication is so important during a crisis, and now more important than ever.
How to Replace Paper in a Lexmark Copier
In this How-To video, we’ll show you how to quickly and easily load the paper in your Lexmark MFP,…
How to Change a Lexmark Toner Cartridge
In this How-To video, we cover how to quickly and easily replace the toner in a Lexmark MFP copier…
How to Load Paper in a Sharp Copier
In this How-To video, we cover how to quickly and easily load paper in you Sharp MFP copier correctly.
How to Replace a Sharp Copier Toner Cartridge
In this How-To video, we go over how to replace the toners in your Sharp MFP or copier.
How to Use Digital White Out on a Sharp Copier
In this video, we show you how to create digital whiteout on your Sharp MFP and Copier. Digital whiteout…
How to edit Address book on Sharp Copiers
In this video, we show you how you can edit your Address book in your Sharp MFP or Copier.
How to Access The Copy Count Meter on a Sharp Copier
In this video, we will explain how to get the meter reading off your Sharp MFP or Copier.
How to Create Shortcut Presets on a Sharp Copier
Learn how to quickly and easily create presets on your Sharp MFP or copier.
Color Printing Can Change Your Business for the Better
Today everyone is bombarded with stuff – think of all the content, from texts to emails, social media to…
Alternatives to Google Cloud Print
Google’s cloud-based printing solution, Google Cloud Print will be retired (by Google) and will no longer be…
Is your data at risk from employees working at home?
Businesses are asking employees to work remotely While it’s safer for the employee to work remotely to avoid the…
6 Tips for Working from Home Efficiently
With many employees working from home for the first time, we thought we’d share a few tips for the…
How to Clean and Disinfect Your Office Equipment
With COVID-19 and FLU, follow these guidelines: Disinfecting surfaces during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is a best practice…
Fearing Covid-19 Spurs Scammers Into Action
Hackers preying on a Pandemic We are seeing an increase in email phishing and scam attempts. Please do not click…
Credit Denied? Here are 5 Reasons That May Prevent Credit Approval
When deciding whether you should lease or purchase your next office copier, don’t be caught off guard…
How much does a copier cost?
We get this question a lot and it’s very hard to give an exact answer without learning more about…
Technology Trends of the 2010s
Take a look at some of the top technology trends that shaped the office in the last decade.
Copier Cost & Pricing Guide for Your Business
At Stone’s, we understand buying a copier is a considerable investment, and it can be very confusing. Our…
Flu & Coronavirus in the Workplace
Keeping your office well Now is the best time to consider video conferencing to keep your office and…
Can my printer be hacked?
4 Ways To Better Print Security Offices today have rules and policies about security, and some even have policies…
The Best Copiers of 2019
Sharp once again earned the Keypoint Intelligence – Buyers Lab (BLI) 2019 Copier MFP Line of the Year. Each year,…
Helping Law Firms Balance Caseloads
Thanks to billable hours, time truly is money in law offices. In document-intensive environments such as law…
Teamwork & The Modern Workplace
How business is done today is drastically different than how it was done five years ago. And five years from…
Sharp MFPs Bring Top-Notch Tech To Small and Large Businesses
Most businesses have come to rely on their office equipment for more than just printing and copying. Today’s modern…
WHAT IS MOBILITY PRINT
OVERVIEW We often get the question, What is Mobility Printing? Mobility Printing or Mobile Printing simply refers to the…
Reduce Printing Costs with Managed Print Services
The $6000 Word Here is a simple truth about monochrome vs. color printing. There are no pictures, nothing fancy;…
Do You Have a Plan?
On average, IT decision-makers are being asked to deliver 32% more projects year over year According to the…
Want A Safe Workplace?
Think Digital Signage What does an investment in safety do for your business? Every $1 spent…
How To Automate Your Document Management Processes
Think about all the ways your staff interacts with documents each day. Creating,…
How Can Color Printing Benefit Your Business?
Recent studies have shown multiple benefits to using color for business printing. For…
3 Ways Electronic Documentation Prevents Mistakes
Making your office as productive as possible is an important part of managing your business. Everything, from the people…
Is Managed Print Service (MPS) Right for Your Business?
Managed Print Services (MPS) manages and maintains your organization’s printing to reduce costs and increasing productivity. You don’t have…
4 Ways Your Business Will Improve With Better Document Management
Document management is a vague term. Everyone has to manage documents. If you write on a piece of paper,…
4 Ways to Stop Wasting and Start Saving with MPS
Printing wastes more than just paper, toner, or ink. Unmanaged printers create much more waste than you…
Managed Print Services: Small Changes, Big Difference
Managed Print Services can save both time and money. Have you ever considered how much time your employees…
Enhance Business Performance With Document Imaging
Document imaging is the process of converting paper documents into digital documents. The documents (images) are then stored electronically,…
Is Managed Print Service Right For Your Company?
Companies of all sizes are under the same pressures when it comes to how much time employees have to…