Article: Hewlett-Packard, Office Supplier to Offer Products in Vending Machines.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 4 -- Sometimes it's the little things that make the day seem better.

Consider Kori Humphreys, property manager of the Three Gateway office building in Phoenix. The ink cartridge on her Hewlett-Packard printer is about to give up the ghost.

She doesn't have to track down a clerk or the key to the supply closet or fill out a requisition form to get a replacement. But she can take an elevator to the basement, stick a credit card into a vending machine and, plunk, there's her replacement cartridge.

That little transaction has the folks at Boise Cascade Office Products Corp. smiling.

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