I thought we’d start the New Year with a quick re-cap of the blogs produced in 2006 and solicit your thoughts on what we might cover in 2007. Having started The HP LaserJet blog on September 20^th, I covered a lot of subjects important to this industry from a marketing point of view. Below is a list of my blogs, with a short synopsis of each--you might want to bookmark this blog as a “favorite” in your browser so you have an index for this year and next:

Imaging & Printing Year in Review—a synopsis of realized Imaging and Printing trends from 2006
Universal adoption of Vista and Office 2007—printing issues around the adoption of Vista, the new Windows operating system, and relevant to incorporating Office 2007 into your printing workflow
Producing Marketing Materials In-house—the SMB opportunity for printing marketing communications pieces (brochures, flyers, etc.) within your workplace, rather than paying the costs for sending these out
Remembering 100 Million LaserJets—retrospective on shipping over 100 Million HP LaserJets
How to Secure Your Imaging & Printing—security issues around imaging and printing
Taking it Easy (a printer management perspective)—how to save resources in managing your imaging and printing devices
Saving Time with Universal Print Drivers—the advantages of employing Universal Print Drivers for your printing devices
Second Hand Rose?—the issues around using remanufactured print cartridges and benefits of using those originally designed for your printer
Imitation is the Highest Form of Flattery, just ask Xerox—relative evaluation of Xerox’s first printer-based MFP
How to Avoid “Copier Cloning” —advantages of printer-based MFPs over those that are derived from copiers
Enterprising Imaging and Printing—announcing the new HP Imaging & Printing devices launched in fall 2006
Printing and Imaging . . . Getting Trendy?—expected Imaging & Printing trends for 2006
Hi and Welcome to my inaugural blog!—initial blog laying out expected topics

The topics I’m considering for blogs in 2007 include:

• Instant-on Technology—how to get print jobs done faster
• Cost Per Page (CPP) and Total Cost Per Page (TCPP)—the realities behind operating and purchase costs for printers
• Ink vs. Laser Printing—relative benefits/challenges of each technology
• The Technology of Toner—how LaserJet toner actually works (many still think a laser “burns” the page)
• The Importance of Print Quality—the quality of your printed output reflects on the quality of your work and ideas
• Balanced Deployment and Edgeline Technology—how HP’s new printing technology fits within your imaging and printing fleet
• Obscure, but important HP links, as well as additional sources of information from HP

I would definitely like to hear if there are other subjects you’d like me to cover in this New Year--which promises to be very interesting in the Imaging & Printing market. There are also a number of HP blogs you might consider adding to your favorites:

David Gee's blog: Vice President of Worldwide Marketing
HP Software, Technology Solutions Group

Duncan Campbell's blog: Vice President of Marketing
HP StorageWorks Division

John E. Bennett: WW Director
HP Business Continuity & Availability

Ray Wu's blog: Director
HP Venture Management

Rich Marcello's blog: Senior Vice President & General Manager
HP Business Critical Servers

Susan Underhill's blog: Vice President
HP Global Certification & Partner Education

The Eye on Blades with Richard Fichera: Director
HP BladeSystem Strategy

The Marketing Excellence blog by Eric Kintz:
HP Vice President Global Marketing Strategy & Excellence

Archie Reed's blog:
HP Secure identity management blog

Pankaj Kumar's blog:
HP Application manageability blog, a Blog on rich, out-of box applications manageability

Photolink with Fred Zuill:
A community hub for photographers and anyone else who is serious about photo printing

Small business marketing toolbox:
HP Guest Blogger John Jantsch, who is a marketing coach and creator of the Duct Tape Marketing small business marketing system

Server blades from the inside:
The BladeWonk with Gary Thome

The Changing Face of Traditional and Emerging Media: by
Mary Bermel (HP Director of Interactive) and
Scott Berg (HP Worldwide Media Director)

William Vambenepe's blog:
Web services. Managing them. Using them to build an HP Adaptive Enterprise

Feel free to link back to my blog The HP LaserJet blog by Vince Ferrarro (http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/laserjet) and send me links in a comment that you think would be interesting . . .