The organisation will generate synergies from shared resources such as warehousing, distribution, printing and central functions.

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There is, perhaps, no need to explain what happened next: Until the advent of the Internet, no journalist needed to know how a high-speed printing press worked because its functions and capacities were known and fixed.

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To seize these opportunities media companies need to outsource certain functions, as the San Francisco Chronicle did with printing, and then reallocate resources to news gathering.

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Multi-function printers are becoming popular with enterprises as they provide combined multiple functions such as printing, fax, photocopying, scanning etc. and as companies upgrade to the new line of printers, we can expect this division to maintain profitability.

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