The Week in Copiers Fifteen Years Ago 3rd Week of November 2005
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity" Peter Drucker
Change is good, change creates desire, change creates new opportunities. Just another reason why the next 5 years of our industry will be th best we've ever experienced!
Enjoy these wonderful copier threads from 15 years ago this week!
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Stan and Jerry Spread the News About Ricoh Dependability
ART POST (GUEST) ·
management devices include, color and black & white digital imaging systems, facsimile products, printers, scanners, digital duplicators and wide format engineering systems. Additionally, Ricoh offers a wide variety of document and printing solutions directly and through strategic alliances enhancing office productivity and document workflow. Ricoh’s document management software enhances workgroup collaboration and offers secure storage, retrieval and sharing of critical information. Ricoh Corporation
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Ricoh Corporation introduced the G7500,
ART POST (GUEST) ·
Ricoh Corporation introduced the G7500, a versatile color laser printer that provides a cost-effective document management solution for small businesses at high print speeds. Documents as large as 11" x 17" can oftentimes slow down the printing process, reducing productivity and efficiency overall. The motive behind the development of the Ricoh G7500 was to create a color printer that was able to print larger, high-quality color or black & white documents quickly while keeping costs down and
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PrintStation 060R - MicroPress Connectivity
ART POST (GUEST) ·
060R HIGHLIGHTS: · Provides Superior Output at 1200 dpi (only Ricoh can do this) · Supports printing onto 12” x 18” sized sheets (only Ricoh can do this) · Supports multiple media stocks from most paper sources at rated engine speed (only Ricoh can do this) · Provides easy implementation and installation o SD Card via Ricoh’s GW based architecture-no third party connection · Ethernet Based Connection o No limitations on cable length not a Video Link The PrintStation 060R consists of (1) EFI
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Re: Vision 2005 Highlights
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Aficio 2105, Aficio Color 5560, Aficio 3245C, and AP900, as well as the 480W wide format product, all of which can handle a variety of duplicating and printing tasks. Education will feature black & white and color printers and duplicators such as the CL2000N, Aficio 3228C and the AP610N, as well as the SeriPrint Model 25 VDPH1, which all work to maximize efficiency and production. Marketing & Sales will focus on products and solutions that help generate and create custom marketing and sales
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Vision 2005 Highlights
ART POST (GUEST) ·
cool new features… We are going to rule the High Volume Market! WINNER! The CS2105 caught my eye, low volume color copier, printer, scanner, fax with a $799 MSRP. We may have this product during the first quarter of 2006. Hitachi Print Engine that is married to a Brother Scanner (or Samsung). The print engine is the same as the CL1000N. Great box to introduce color in the small office. WINNER! Seriprint VDP (link for video of SeriVDP) SERI VPD Video was show along with the new HQ9000 Digital
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What is @Remote?
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What is @Remote? @Remote is available first as a network appliance called the Remote Communication Gate (RC Gate). Today It can: perform auto-discovery of up to 500 Ricoh and non-Ricoh network connected printers and MFPs - For Non-Ricoh and legacy Ricoh devices, it obtains the total print meter - For newer Ricoh devices (based on GW architecture) it obtains Copy and Print and even Fax meters - Copy and Print reports are available in both color and mono counts - If the fleet has more than
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No Dulpexing feature???
Should Ricoh have made a duplex unit available as an option?
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Re: Print Mail vs. PrintShop Mail
SHAJA ·
I figured since I started this topic, I owe it to everyone to wrap it up. However, I am uncomfortable posting in this discussion thread since Ricoh's PrintMail staff became active participants. I do not feel that I can be candid here any more. So, any dealers out there who were waiting for the report on my testing are welcome to contact me; my contact info is listed in my profile. My company will be sticking with PrintShop Mail. If you are looking for a good beginning education into VDP
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Re: Print Mail vs. PrintShop Mail
ART POST (GUEST) ·
We created this web site to be candid and tell the good and bad about a product. These are our opinions!! I approved the Print Mail people hoping they can help us all in selling more of this solution. It is to their benefit that they can read the good and the bad, and if they don't like the bad..... then they can be deleted. Please feel free to be candid on the forums, if you send me and email I can show you how to post an annonomouslly (boy did i butcher that), if that would help at some time
Re: CONNECTIVITY CAFE
SHAJA ·
I got an e-mail reply from Carmine J Baratta, TSC Web Developer, Ricoh Corporation, Technology Solutions Center. Carmine says: "The Official URL for Connectivity Cafe is http://www.connectivity-cafe.com or http://www.rfg-configurator.com. "It’s a long story so I will give you the short version. An employee of Ricoh’s hosted the Connectivity Cafe for many years. We decide to move the website in-house and I don’t think that employee, now no longer employed by Ricoh, was very happy about that
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CONNECTIVITY CAFE
MERLIN ·
I just went onto Ricoh's connectivity cafe and it sent me to Canon's homepage. I even went to another PC to see if it does it again. It did. Has anybody else experience this. I did e-mail Ricoh today to let them know.
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Paradigm Imaging September/October 2005 Newsletter
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Please Reply to promo@paradigmimaging.com November/December 2005 Large Format Scanning Printing e-news Special points of interest: Graphtec Receives Rave Reviews From Satisfied Scanner Owners. Graphtec Scanner Promotions Until the End of the Year on CS600 and CS600 Pro. Paradigm Introduces a Dealer Volume Purchase Program on IS200-DS Scanners. New EIS Ultima II Scan-Print-Copy System with Enhanced Printing Capabilities. Meet The Paradigm Imaging Employee — Raymond Arrizon Click the Here to
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Nice 480 features
CHOPS ·
I come from the engineering/architectural world. These are some nice features the 480 has over the 470,from my perspective, which will appeal to the end users: The ability to auto-rotate while making a copy . Enables you to get more print sizes out of a single roll of paper. The Document Manager is a great tool to use for printing/saving sets of drawings that are actively being printed. Contractors will love this feature when a sub-contractor needs a set quickly. The secure Document Mall gives
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Re: Large Size Document Carrier
ART POST (GUEST) ·
I bought mine from Xerox, do a search for carrier sheet and you will find the link or go to http://www.xerox.xom
Re: CONNECTIVITY CAFE
SHAJA ·
It happened to me, too. I just went to the Aficio League, and I see that the link to the CC site is gone, also. It figures. Connectivity Cafe worked well, so of course Ricoh can't leave a good thing alone. (Edited by Shaja to say that was a cheap shot on my part and I take it back.)
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Re: CONNECTIVITY CAFE
JASONR ·
I tried the Cafe link here and it worked fine, I was able to configure a machine with no problems. In case you don't know, the Cafe isn't run by Ricoh, it is a service they contract with another company which is associated with a former employee of Ricoh.
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Re: Color matching 3228/35/45
JASONR ·
Well, remember that this profile only affects colors that are out of gamut. Perhaps your file only contains color data that is in the printer's Gamut? then you wouldn't see any change in files printed as long as all the colors are within the gamut. My driver doesn't have a User Settings under CMYK simulation, are you talking about the PC or Mac? (I'm looking at the PC PS driver). On the PC you cannot change the CMYK simulation (beyond the normal 4 choices), I'll have to look at the Mac driver
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Re: 480 meter counts
JASONR ·
quote: Originally posted by Wallin Team: Since we now have the ability to count square feet, would a 30x42 be 8.75 sqare feet? Or would the 480W count the 2.5 foot width as 3 feet since it's past the 2 foot mark? How does competition calculate square feet? Well, as far as how the competition counts, I can tell you that the Océ machines count square feet *EXACTLY*. So if you print a 30x42, you get exactly 8.75 on the meter. It does not round, up or down, in any cases. It is a mechanical meter
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Re: Nice 480 features
JASONR ·
You said "Document Manager" first, and "Document Mall" later. The 480 does have a "Document Manager" in that it can (optionally?) support the "Document Server" we are familiar with on the small format machines. It doesn't come with "Document Mall", another Ricoh product.
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Re: CONNECTIVITY CAFE
JASONR ·
More inside scoop, if anyone cares. That Former Employee's name is Jay Burton. He developed the whole configurator on his own and actually put it up in working form before "pitching it" to Ricoh as something they could buy from him. Ricoh claimed that he was an employee and therefore they owned it. From sketchy third and fourth hand reports, I think Jay and Ricoh reached an agreement under which they paid for the site. Jay stopped working for Ricoh around a year ago. I don't know what this
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Re: Nice 480 features
The 480W doesn't come with DocumentMall but it is my understanding that it can scan direct to DocumentMall giving contractors 24/7 access and the ability to print the files themselves.
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Can you say Katana????
ART POST (GUEST) ·
Previewed @ Ricoh Visionm, the worlds first 135ppm digital MFP. Lets talk about it!
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KIP 3000
ART POST (GUEST) ·
$268 per month for a 60 month lease, no warranty and the customer must pay .07 per square foot for paper, service and supplies from inception. From Patriot Blueprinting in Mount Laurel. $268 @ .0195 gives a retial price of $14,100!!! Hard to compete with this kind of price, we will really have to use our skills and solutions to beat this product. Please keep in mind that the KIP is bundled with print accounting software. Look to add PA5 to the solution for the customer.
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