We Print 50 Trillion Pages a Year, and Xerox Is Betting That Continues (fortune.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: For most of its 111-year history, Xerox has been known as one of the tech industry's most innovative companies. Now the legendary copier company is reinventing itself. In January, Xerox made the bold decision to split itself into two, spinning off its business services operations into a separate company called Conduent. And Jeffrey Jacobson, a Xerox tech executive, was tapped as Xerox's new CEO. Speaking with Fortune's Susie Gharib, Jacobson says Xerox is still "one of the top patent producing companies in the world" and he's counting on that scientific expertise to pivot the company to be a leader in digital print technology. "If I look at the things we're looking at with the Internet of things, artificial intelligence and bridging the digital and physical," he says, "that's what I think we'll be known for."

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Re:Bullshit

[mhkohne]

I just looked at the data from the printer at my office. Small company (~15 right now), and our test results and much of our documentation are printed out so they can be stored forever in a filing cabinet (medical device). Among our printers, it comes to something shy of 5 pages/person/day average, which is about 1825 pages/year.

But Xerox doesn't just do relatively small stuff like that. Think of a financial planner, printing out 400 page reports several times per year for each of their clients. Is that shit useful? Absolutely not. But it's pages printed.

Or think of someplace that still sends paper bills- I know I get a paper bill every month from my utility company. At Nthousand customers, they can REALLY push up the average if they are running Xerox gear for that operation.

So yea, you and I don't print anything like that. But then someone else pushes way up on the average.