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The Week in Copiers Fifteen Years Ago

 

The Week in Copiers Fifteen Years Ago

Last Week of May 2006

Another day of rain, wind and temps in the fifties.   There's a chance it may all clear out for tomorrow.  Enjoy Your Weekend!

Enjoy these awesome copier threads from 15 years ago



Re: Death of the Copier Salesperson

Solutions Guru (Guest) ·
buying cycle that it yields the same result- limited or no competition. So you ask- "How do I, regardless of tenure and current account base- has a deadly success rate with bringing people into the market?" Simple - Learn and do an objective Assessment . Analyze the customer’s output devices - you know, the copiers, printers AND fax machines. See the volumes and real costs, not industry averages which are based on assumptions that no printer in the world will ever achieve. (Feel free to discuss
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Selling to a Car Dealer with Reynolds and Reynolds...

Solutions Guru (Guest) ·
The question is - does anyone know what kind of operating system R&R runs on and what print language it outputs. Second question is - has anyone successfully installed a printer or mfp to R&R and if so, how and with what hardware, middleware...? As you may already know - almost every car dealership out there runs their business on a system made by Reynolds and Reynolds (www.reyrey.com) or ADP. All of the printer output comes from this system and it is not a windows based operating system. As
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Selling to a Car Dealership running Reynolds and Reynolds

Solutions Guru (Guest) ·
The question is - does anyone know what kind of operating system R&R runs on and what print language it outputs. Second question is - has anyone successfully installed a printer or mfp to R&R and if so, how and with what hardware, middleware...? As you may already know - almost every car dealership out there runs their business on a system made by Reynolds and Reynolds (www.reyrey.com) or ADP. All of the printer output comes from this system and it is not a windows based operating system. As
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Re: Any comparison of Ricoh 240-480 vs Xerox 6204

Art Post (Guest) ·
bottle to be replaced. The unit will shut down if the waste toner bottle is full  The 6204 delivers prints out the front of the unit. With a full configuration of scanner and printer, this eliminates the possibility of using sophisticated finishing devices like a folder because it blocks the operator’s access in front.  The 6204 does not support DWF printing.  The cost of PDF support for the 6204 is $1400, twice the cost of the KIP 3000 PDF converter.  The BT Plot Assistant Software (print
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Merger Creates Unique Reseller Program

Steven Breault (Guest) ·
the market place, directs focus towards building a quality dealer network, and provides resources for these dealerships to succeed with Member’s products verses the competition.” Chris Zumwalt Director of IT Services Denitech Corporation Member Benefits Include: Territorial Protection* Powerful, Field Validated “10 Step Process” to Making Money Selling DM Solutions Guarantee of at least two-new customer software sales to get you started Comprehensive OJT Training and “Earn-while-You-Learn
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Re: Kyocera National Account Pricing

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We are a Ricoh/Kyocera dealer in New York. This contract is comparable with NY. The only thing different is we now have a deferred payment plan thru KM. You that state price, divide by 36 months. Zero interest/Zero buyout. This is on select models. KM 2050,3035,4035, and 8030.
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Re: FM Audit and other USB discovery devices

Solutions Guru (Guest) ·
I have used FM Audit, Print Audit and @Remote. Neal is right but I think we have spoken about that before. My results have been a bit better with FM Audit than Ricoh's lab testing but I spoke to Mark Pollack (sp?) about the FM Audit test and he told me it consistently missed 60% of the printers on the LAN network. They all have their quirks and they all only give you volumes - not costs. I need good data gathering tools as I do about 12 assessments a month now. I couldn't find anything adequate
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Re: FM Audit and other USB discovery devices

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We’ve used FM Audit at several locations to capture monthly print volume. I used it under ITs’ supervision of course. It’s a very useful tool. It won’t capture printers connected directly to PCs but, most of them are very low volume anyway. As for cost analysis, you can export to excel and plug in the cost per page for each model printer. Giving you the monthly or yearly cost. A very good tool for sales and cost justification.
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Re: Selling to a Car Dealership running Reynolds and Reynolds

Solutions Guru (Guest) ·
It is not all that welkl known but most car dealerships that sell over 300 vehicles per month willo generate over 500k in monthly volume. Especially target teh servie department. They will print 3-5 pages per repair order/vehicle/day. It is not uncommon for a delaership this size to service 25,000 cars a month that is about 125,000 pages in just RO's- now add dealership reports, sales, parts... They can easily get up to 500k per month. The hardest part is R&R and ADP have "Closed systems
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Color Cost Per Copy

Big Dog (Guest) ·
On the Ricoh color multifuction or printer, when copying or printing a set with mixed bw and color pages how many click are registered by the bw pages. Are they true black one bw click or processed black registering multiple color clicks?
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Re: FM Audit and other USB discovery devices

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quote: Originally posted by Solutions Guru: IF you are concerned about what Ricoh may do knowing your client name- just put a code number in as account name or something else that you can tell what client it is and Ricoh Corp will have no way of knowing anything about who your client is. Well... Not exactly. IP addresses are registered to companies, so when the data is sent, I can find the name of the owner of those IP addresses and determine their geographic location (at least to the city
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Re: Selling to a Car Dealer with Reynolds and Reynolds...

Indy_Dave (Guest) ·
Good luck! Everyone is familiar with the situation. When I talk with DOT, or Objectif Lune or any VDP outfit, the issue is always, how can I determine what to do with the stream. yes we can grab it and apply it, but there is no metadata in the header to identify a sale transaction from a service request to a used car transaction so there is no way to work with the print stream when the data hits a hot folder or other virtual printer. Let me know if you discover anything ????
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Re: cOLOR tHEORY

Art Post (Guest) ·
I received this file from a ricoh dsm, I will do a follow. Art Post
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Re: AFICIO 2090 MULTI-COLOR SETS

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The problem is solved. In the first problem. Use batch mode. You can pull from any tray. The second problem is a little more involved. You need to go into user tools, copy settings, INput/output and set up separation sheets per job. Go back to main copy screen request the number of sets, turn off shift sort, request separation sheet per set. Place orginal in doc feeder and select start. To give credit were credit is do, my Ricoh trainer came up with this. Here name is Amy Randilla. She is great.
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Re: cOLOR tHEORY

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Once again Art, you prove that at print4pay hotel you always get more than a little "bit" of information.
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KIP 3000 - problems with humidity?

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I have heard that the KIP has problems with humidity that cause it too produce a solid black print and waste a lot of toner. Anyone know if there is truth to that? Any KIP dealers aware of such a thing?

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