Access4 have been shortlisted in not one but two categories at the PrintIT Awards 2026. The Award for Channel Enablement and the Award for Innovation. Winners take to the stage on Tuesday 8 December 2026 at The Royal Lancaster Hotel in London.
The PrintIT Awards, run by Kingswood Media, publisher of Print IT Reseller, are widely regarded as the flagship recognition programme for the UK printer, MFP and document technology channel. It is a room full of the industry’s sharpest OEMs, distributors and vendors.
What this means for print and IT resellers
For print and IT resellers, this shortlisting is really about the opportunity in front of them. The PrintIT Award for Channel Enablement is a brand new category for 2026. Created to spotlight vendors who help resellers grow into adjacent areas such as telecommunications, AV, IT services and digital transformation. Because resellers are actively looking for ways to broaden what they offer, they need a partner who makes that expansion genuinely achievable. Rather than just another product to bolt on.
That is exactly where Access4 comes in. Voice, UC, CX and UX represent a real opportunity for resellers. Bringing more value to customers they already have strong relationships with. All without needing to become telecoms experts overnight or build an entirely new operation from scratch.
SASBOSS is designed to do the heavy lifting. Offering a vendor agnostic platform that pulls provisioning, quoting and management together in one place. Adding voice, contact centre capability and AI powered tools to a reseller’s portfolio is straightforward, supported and genuinely low risk.
The PrintIT Award for Innovation, sponsored by Canon, celebrates something equally exciting: vendors and distributors who are shaking things up. Judges are looking for fresh thinking that makes a genuine difference. Whether through a bold new product, a smarter business model, or technology used in a way nobody quite expected. Being shortlisted for the PrintIT Award for Innovation reflects the practical difference SASBOSS makes for the partners using it. It turns what could be a complicated move into UC, CX, UX and AI into something manageable and profitable.
The timing has never been better
For resellers considering adding voice or communications to their portfolio, the market is offering a genuinely exciting opportunity right now. The UK’s PSTN switch off lands on 31 January 2027, and Ofcom’s own figures show landline customers still on copper dropped from 5.2 million in July 2024 to 3.2 million by July 2025. Cavell’s research puts UK cloud communications penetration at 57% and climbing, with more than 10 million users already on board. This is a fast growing market with real momentum, and resellers who step in now are well placed to make the most of it.
For resellers with a strong print or IT heritage, adding UC, CX, UX and AI capability is a genuine opportunity to build on customer relationships already earned, backed by a wave of market demand that shows no sign of slowing, and supported by a platform built to make that move simple.
Being shortlisted for both the PrintIT Award for Channel Enablement and the PrintIT Award for Innovation is a brilliant moment to celebrate, and a great reminder that resellers weighing up that next move into cloud voice, or looking to sharpen an existing offering, have a proven, independently recognised platform ready to help them get there.
The winners are announced on 8 December. In the meantime, resellers considering how to broaden their portfolio can find out exactly what SASBOSS offers by booking a demo today.
