The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago
Second Week of February 2011
I had a great day today and it wasn't because I sold something. I had to visit and account to pick up original docs from a net new client. Five other vendors were in on the offering, I did not give away margin. I asked "why did you choose Stratix as your vendor", our new account stated "You were the only sales person that listened to my needs and gave us what we needed." Ah yes it was a great day to me!
Enjoy these awesome copier threads from ten years ago this week!
Konica Minolta creates new leadership team
Art Post (Guest) ·
Chemicals and Sony. • Jonathan Millbank, director of sales Millbank brings a wealth of experience in key leadership roles and extensive experience in the document imaging industry with companies such as eCopy and Nuance. In his sales leadership role with Konica Minolta, Millbank oversees all UK sales operations, both direct and channel. • Mark Lloyd, director of channel sales Lloyd has been with us for almost 12 years and was previously managing director of Konica Minolta Printing Solutions (UK
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Modern Office Methods Grows Through Acquisitions
Art Post (Guest) ·
including print production, a sector we had not traditionally targeted." With an additional 50 associates – bringing total employment to more than 220 – and eight new locations, MOM is one of the largest document management specialists in Ohio. McCarthy anticipates additional growth for the company as new positions and responsibilities result from the acquisitions. MOM is an authorized dealer of Canon, Ricoh, Lanier, Konica Minolta and HP and offers industry-leading document management solutions
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RICOH INTRODUCES NEW AFICIO MP C2051/MP C2551 COLOR DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEM
Art Post (Guest) ·
businesses and workgroups, this multifunction product (MFP) gives users the ability to handle all of their document-related processes with many features in a compact design. The Aficio MP C2051/MP C2551 is engineered to keep pace with the way small companies do business. With the continued growth of the mobile workforce, printing on the go has become a necessity. Ricoh HotSpot MFP technology is available on the Aficio MP C2051/MP C2551, allowing mobile users to print from a handheld device or smartphone
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Printing trends: software, the cloud, sustainability
Art Post (Guest) ·
consumers printing from mobile phones. Lexmark has applications in this area, such as Follow Me Print, which incorporates swipe cards and printing from remote offices. Ricoh is another printer vendor that is getting into the mobile printing space, with the HotSpot Printing for Mobile Devices offering, which allows users to send documents to special HotSpot printers via mobile devices. Ricoh New Zealand business solutions manager Greg Quirk says, in a statement from the company “We recognised the
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Possible future savings on a copier,
Art Post (Guest) ·
Barry Lewis blewis@jrpress.com Journal Review Online | 0 comments Possible future savings on a copier, the election of a new board president and the addition of a new piece of artwork all took place during Wednesday night’s Crawfordsville Park and Recreation meeting. Brad Case came to the meeting to talk about a possible new lease for a copier which could end up saving the department about $1,200 a year during the next five years. Case told the board he wanted to help out with the budget
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EFI adds AirPrint to corporate copiers and printers
Art Post (Guest) ·
AirPrint is wonderful for those of us who can use it to print to home printers, but until now, the technology has been useless for most corporate copier / printers. That's all set to change now that EFI is providing support for AirPrint to its signature Fiery print servers . The PrintMe Connect software enables direct wireless printing from any iOS 4.2 mobile device. The software is free to download, and it works for printing to any Fiery-driven printer. According to EFI, "It is a software
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The $35,283.24 low bid, submitted by Sharp Business Systems of Greenville
Art Post (Guest) ·
close, he said. The county received four bids. The $35,283.24 low bid, submitted by Sharp Business Systems of Greenville, is for the lease of eight black-and-white copiers and one color copier. The bid from the unidentified local business was about $2,000 more for the black-and-white copiers, but about $5,000 more on the color copier, county officials said. Even with the preference given to local vendors, the Greenville company won the bid. Livingston made a motion to accept the low bid on the
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Slashed funds kill printing services
Art Post (Guest) ·
campus is in the making. The bookstore is holding onto one copier to meet their needs, Vice President Carol Maga said. Funding is still going toward the 19 major copiers across the campus and toward printing projects of bigger sizes. There are still more areas that will receive copiers. One has already been given to the Bookstore for the printing of syllabuses, readers and other handouts. The Liberal Arts Building will receive a copier in the future due to the high amount of usage and traffic in
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Fuji Xerox’s Document Outsourcing Services Help JFE Engineering Reduce TCO and Enviro
Art Post (Guest) ·
TOKYO, – JFE Engineering Corporation signed a five-year document outsourcing service agreement with Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., which commenced the service in November 2010 on the group-wide basis at JFE Engineering’s head office, operation bases and affiliates’ premises in Japan. Fuji Xerox implemented its Managed Print Service (MPS), XOS, at JFE Engineering’s 21 operation bases and six affiliates across the nation in an effort to achieve higher business efficiency and lower operational costs. The
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Xerox enters production inkjet game
Art Post (Guest) ·
, demonstrating the integration between GMC's PrintNet software and the Xerox FreeFlow Print Server that allows this multivendor data stream support. Other partners at launch include Hunkeler, Solimar Systems, Kern, Lasermax/Roll Systems, and Böwe Bell+Howell. Target markets for the system include transactional printing; TransPromo; direct mail; books, manuals and catalogs; educational & children's books and newsprint. The product is supported with Xerox' extensive suite of business development options
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Re: IKON steals University of Kentucky MPS contract from Lexmark!
fisher ·
I don't find this story surprising at all. Lexmark is a printer company that lacks a complete competitive product line. Ricoh has a complete product line to fit a major university from production machines down to desktop printers. You can bet this was a very profitable deal for Ricoh. I don't even think low bidder would be an issue regarding Lexmark given how weak they are on any product beyond a desktop printer. Loyalty would be the only thing Lexmark would have going for it in this
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Up against a Xerox 6279
Art Post (Guest) ·
Can anyone help me with this??? I'm up against the Xerox 6279, the customer wants the device fitted with a Tameran rear stacker. The only problem I came up with is that the 6279 is a rear load toner device, thus you'd had to move the stacker every time you loaded toner. Plus the toner load is a top down approach. Customer prints 90% of the volume.
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Mailezy cuts offset outsourcing with new Canon digital device
Art Post (Guest) ·
Sunshine Coast-based mailing house Mailezy will now produce colour work in-house instead of subbing it out to offset printers after investing in a Canon ImageRunner. A large percentage of the mailing house's jobs are runs of less than 10,000. Mailezy, which is a Bulk Mail Partner of Australia Post, used to outsource colour print, such as letterheads, to offset printers and then overprinted the B&W variable data. The new ImageRunner Advance Pro 9065 prints the letterhead and variable data in one
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Copiers leave a green paper trail
Art Post (Guest) ·
In recent years, the amount of paper used for copiers and printers at UMass Medical School has topped 30 million sheets a year. Stacked on top of each other, all that paper would tower above New Hampshire’s Mount Washington. But that tower is shrinking, and it’s growing greener. According to statistics tracked by the UMMS Purchasing Department, the amount of paper used by the Medical School actually dropped in fiscal year 2010, and of the paper used, significantly more of it was made from
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Park Department to save money on copier
Art Post (Guest) ·
2/9/2011 11:56:00 PM Park Department to save money on copier By Frank Phillips Editor A new office equipment lease will save the Crawfordsville Park Department hundreds of dollars a year and provide a copier and printer that will better meet the staff's needs, said Brad Case, Crawfordsville, who sells equipment for Ikon. The parks department is currently paying $340 per month for a color printer that is usually used for black and white printing jobs. By switching to a new black and white
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Motive Systems, the developer of M-Files easy document management software
Art Post (Guest) ·
and services refurbished copiers, fax machines, printers, and scanners. With its customers relying heavily on traditional, ad-hoc methods for managing the documents processed with the products it sells today, the company saw an opportunity to integrate document management solutions into its offering as an additional value-added solution that is strategic to its customers' overall business. "Millennium Business Systems joined the M-Files reseller network because it was a perfect complement to our
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Re: Up against a Xerox 6279
Art Post (Guest) ·
stop printing (not sure what they mean here). BERTL's "file to print" test states that the Ricoh W7100 will only produce almost 700 square feet more per hour than the Xerox.
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Re: The Office Copier turns 50!
indy 5 ·
quote: Originally posted by SalesServiceGuy: Has anyone ever seen or used the Xerox 914, the grand daddy of all copiers? Yep, back in Sacramento in 1968 !
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Memjet develops printers for India
Art Post (Guest) ·
Memjet develops printers for India Deal with WeP Peripherals to focus on color printing Indus News Wire Memjet’s high-speed color printing components will be used by WeP Peripherals to offer color printing in India. Photo courtesy of Memjet SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Memjet, a provider of high-speed color printing technologies, has joined forces with WeP Peripherals Ltd., a print service provider, to offer color office printers in India. A new WeP printer, which uses Memjet parts, prints up to 60
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Usherwood Office Technology acquires Plattsburgh firm
Art Post (Guest) ·
said. Burgess served as an authorized dealer of Canon copiers and printers for the past 30 years. Editor's note: The Central New York Business Journal is an Usherwood client.
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Faxing error 00-23 on MP6001sp
I have a customer that is having issues receiving faxes, & the error page says "Quick Service Code 00-23." Does anyone know what this means?
How print management software can reduce help desk calls
Art Post (Guest) ·
New Article: How print management software can reduce help desk calls A new article has been posted on our blog by Yusuf Hasanogullari: http://printmanagement.diprite...ow+print+management]
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Xerox reveals prototype smart document system
Art Post (Guest) ·
Xerox Corporation scientists have developed a prototype "smart document" review system featuring a large touch-sensitive table on which users can sort documents by moving their fingers across the tabletop screen. The prototype is similar to the screens on smartphones or tablet devices, but is more than 150 times larger, allowing several people to work together. The new document review technology is designed to help users gather and group together similar documents quickly. The interface is
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IKON steals University of Kentucky MPS contract from Lexmark!
Lexmark's loss is a major win for Ricoh February 10, 2011 Analysis by: Edward Crowley Summary Lexmark loss of the University of Kentucky managed print services contract is a significant blow in terms of loosing a highly visible account in Lexmark's home city. This contract, valued in excess of $4M annually was a marque account for Lexmark. Analysis Ricoh, through it's IKON subsidiary, has won a marquee account away from Lexmark. This is a significant account in terms of revenue (see details
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Ricoh Vision in Orlando this May
Art Post (Guest) ·
Does anyone have any details on this yet, please post!
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Salesforce.com Connector for eCopy 5.0
Monte ·
Hello, My team has developed a connector for eCopy 5.0 and am looking for a beta site. If you know a company that has eCopy and Salesforce we are willling to grant them an enteprise licence at no charge if they are interested. Scan documents directly from your MFP to your salesforce account. Please contact me for more information.
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Windows network printing: Why we change it
Art Post (Guest) ·
From time to time, I get the question of why our product goes as far as to change the basic printing function in Windows, instead of just adding additional functions on top of it. Well, the problem is that many of the things we aim to do for our customers are simply not possible without changing the way printing is handled over the network. Let me explain. Traditional Windows network printing Our main focus and where we are truly unique is for companies with multiple geographically disbursed
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Local The Woodlands Non-profit in need of copier
Art Post (Guest) ·
Local The Woodlands Non-profit in need of copier Connecting Families, a 501(c)3 nonprofit agency committed to the prevention of child abuse in Montgomery County through Parenting Programs, Divorce Workshops, Anger Management Classes and Counseling Support, is in urgent need of a copier. If you have a copier or would like to make a donation towards the agency obtaining one, please call 936.441.4733 or go to www.resourcesforparents.org .
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New Sharp Smart Phone MFP User Interface
Is this the future of MFP control panels?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ture=player_embedded
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Re: Can you trust the Cloud?
quote: Originally posted by SalesServiceGuy: I am learning about scanning to the cloud from any MFP via email by opening a free account at www.box.net A business class Box account costs $15.00 month. You can even scan directly and securely to the cloud from your Ricoh MFP(to Microsoft Online, Office 365 BPOS, SharePoint). Just take a look at www.udocx.com or at our blog http://blog.udocx.com (you can find an articel about the security issue there as well). If you have any questions do not
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Re: Canon Merges Océ India Subsidiary
Art Post (Guest) ·
So, I guess the Canon Oce thing was good for you guys, now you have the best. That's pretty impressive Oce wide format, Canon and then Ricoh. nice, very nice
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Re: RICOH INTRODUCES NEW AFICIO MP C2051/MP C2551 COLOR DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEM
Art Post (Guest) ·
The 2030 was a tremendous bargin, with print, scan & fax, plus priced under the 2050SP, remember with the MPC2050SP youhad the add the fax and MSRP was about $1,045. The only catch was no large lcd display, no scan2folder, scan2email and a TWAIN scanner was standard. Nice entry level color, will be missed in the lineup, truly another blunder by not replacing this system. Art
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Re: Konica Minolta creates new leadership team
Art Post (Guest) ·
quote: period of recruitment, Konica Minolta now has a high-calibre leadership team drawn from every sector GMAN where are you, why aren't you in the list??
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Re: The Office Copier turns 50!
I was stunned to read: "The 914 was the Xerox copier that came with a fire extinguisher. On the market in 1959. I had a territory of 110 of these"
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Opportunity in Alaska
Art Post (Guest) ·
. Quotations are being requested in accordance with this RFQ and its respective attachments. (ii) This solicitation is being issued as Request for Quote (RFQ) Number: F1WOWJ1019AG02 for Full Service Copier Maintenance and Supplies at JBER Elmendorf/Richardson, Alaska. (iii) The solicitation incorporates provisions and clauses for commercial items in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-49. Provisions and clauses incorporated by reference have the same force and effect as if they were
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What is an EPS file?
Art Post (Guest) ·
An EPS file is a stream of generic PostScript printing commands. Thus many PostScript printer drivers have an option to save as EPS, or to add EPS DSC information to their output which you can "print to file". Saving as EPS was a feature of Microsoft's PSCRIPT.DRV Windows printer driver and Adobe's ADOBEPS.DRV Windows printer driver for Windows versions prior to Windows 2000.[2] Encapsulated PostScript, or EPS, is a DSC-conforming PostScript document with additional restrictions which is
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MP201
Ricoh914 ·
with the predecessor models. What’s New and Different: Increased Printing Speeds – now 21ppm letter, up from 17ppm on the MP 171 Series DOSS and HDD Encryption are both included in the Hard Disk Drive option when added to the MP 201SPF True Adobe PostScript 3 comes standard on the MP 201SPF The Scanner/Printer option is no longer available on the MP 201F MP 171 basic model will remain in the product line to meet requirements for a low cost copy only product that can be upgrade to scanning and
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Re: New A3 TASKalfa 305/255
Art Post (Guest) ·
Wow, I just got the wholesale pricing for this unit. It's awesome, I'm gonna post it in the document library, and special thanx to the P4P'er that sent it too me. All I need now is pricing from Sharp!
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Re: IKON steals University of Kentucky MPS contract from Lexmark!
GMAN ·
I'm willing to wager that Ricoh (IKON) was the LOW bidder. To the point where the University of Kentucky threw loyalty to Lexmark aside. IKON needed some type of newsworthy 'WIN' since they were acquired by Ricoh and the University of Kentucky gave them that opportunity.
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Re: New A3 TASKalfa 305/255
Sounds like Kyocera won't have much use for dealers if you can train a monkey to set it up and service it.
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Re: New A3 TASKalfa 305/255
Art Post (Guest) ·
If I were a Kyocera Dealer I'd be worried that this system will make it to the IT and VAR Channel here in the US.
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Re: New A3 TASKalfa 305/255
fisher ·
quote: Originally posted by SpartaGuy: Sounds like Kyocera won't have much use for dealers if you can train a monkey to set it up and service it. That is the future of most small and mid sized machines. Prepare yourself.
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Re: New Sharp Smart Phone MFP User Interface
This is going to ROCK the industry and once again Sharp is leading the way....there is nothing like this right now. They will debut this at the National Convention next month in Vegas. Here is a blog that will shed more light. Cannot wait for this to come out! Sharp's Interface
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