Users Groups — Peert-to-Peer Networking

There is an informal qualification process and guidelines for membership, including the company having at least three pieces of production equipment and doing at least 75 percent of its digital work on a Xerox device, the Premier Partners manager adds.

Premier Partners is a Xerox effort for the most part, but there is an advisory council of printer partners that gets a voice in determining its strategy, generating topics for Webinars, etc. Creating online forums is one of the requests that has come up, Laurence says, so the company is working toward implementing some type of threaded or bulletin board forum in 2006. It also is going to launch a quarterly newsletter in the United States.