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The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago

 

The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago

Last Week of April 2011

At times I've thought about how long I've been blogging about the copier industry. I wasn't sure how long it's been until I came across one of my blogs that I re-posted from the old site to the site we have today. Seems my first blog about copiers was posted on 1/7/2007. In 9 months it will be fifteen years! Time surely does fly by!

This was my first .....Has Ricoh Underestimated Color Scanning?

Enjoy these kickass copier threads from ten years ago this week!



Konica Minolta Launches Compact bizhub C25 All-in-One Printer for Desktop Convenience

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workgroups, home offices and small businesses that require printing, copying, scanning and faxing from the convenience of their desktop. With fast output speeds of 25 pages per minutes (ppm) in color and black and white, the bizhub C25 offers a sleek design in an ultra compact body measuring 15.9 x 22 x 19.8 inches (W x D x H) for space-saving desktop placement. Featuring the Konica Minolta Emperon® print system and the Simitri® HD color polymerized toner made from Biomass, a renewable organic
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Konica Minolta to deliver secure-printing systems to

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unauthorized access and improves office document/print workflow. Password-protected documents can be printed upon various types of user authentication so only the user can collect a document from a printer. Technical problems with the systems will be automatically reported to Konica Minolta service technicians. The systems are delivered by Konica Minolta’s German Business Solutions division, a supplier of full solutions for printing workflow in company offices.
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Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Promotes Rick Taylor to President and Chief

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opportunities within Konica Minolta's sales organizations in Canada and Mexico. "When I reflect upon Konica Minolta's success despite the recent economic downturn, I am extremely proud to represent the best team in the industry," said Taylor. "Konica Minolta is entering an exciting time in our history, and I pledge to our stakeholders, business partners, and customers that Konica Minolta will work tirelessly to continue growing market share while delivering on our mission that they can count on Konica
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Global MPS Conference Continues to Gain Momentum as Largest Managed Print Services Ev

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panel, which includes other high-profile executives from Canon, Ricoh and Xerox. “HP is committed to the growth and success of the managed print services industry, and one way we can show our support is to get behind educational events like the Global MPS Conference. The full agenda covers all kinds of topics that are important to MPS professionals everywhere, and we look forward to networking and sharing ideas throughout the conference,” said Feldman. Record Registrations Reflect Strong Interest
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AUXILIO Expands Managed Print Services Contract with New York’s Saint Joseph’s Medica

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care systems that does not sell print devices or software, AUXILIO provides its patient care customers a distinct advantage of partnering with an MPS company with the focus, experience and knowledge of the culture, nuances and specific needs required in a hospital’s print environment, and enables it to work with the widest range of print-related equipment vendors to ensure optimal solutions and highest performance at maximized savings. About AUXILIO, Inc. AUXILIO, Inc. is the pioneer of managed
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First Edge Solutions Deploys Océ VarioPrint Ultra Digital Printers and

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First Edge Solutions Deploys Océ VarioPrint Ultra Digital Printers and Océ PRISMA Software to Help Achieve 25 Percent Growth Combination delivers print speed and workflow critical to customer satisfaction and quality essential for compliance TRUMBULL, CONN. April 25, 2011 – Océ, a Canon Group Company and an international leader in digital document management, today announced that First Edge Solutions has deployed four Océ VarioPrint® Ultra systems along with Océ PRISMAproduction® workflow
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Top Ten "Why Copiers Should Have Warning Labels"

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Top Ten "Why Copiers Should Have Warning Labels" Yes sir, 31 years in the business and counting...over those 31 years I've seen and heard some strange things happen in the copier business. Here's some warning labels that I'd like to see on copiers. BTW, most of these threads came from Print4Pay Hotel Members forum. Enjoy! 1. Warning: If you don't insert the toner cartridge carefully you're gonna ruin your clothes and your co-workers are gonna have a good laugh. 2. Warning: Excessive weight on
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EFI Introduces New UV-Curing Digital Inkjet Printer With "Cool Cure" Technology

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VUTEk GS3250LX, as well as EFI's integrated end-to-end workflow solutions, visit http://www.efi.com . About EFI EFI (http://www.efi.com) is a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation. EFI's award-winning solutions, integrated from creation to print, deliver increased performance, cost savings and productivity. The company's robust product portfolio includes Fiery® digital print controllers and solutions; VUTEk® superwide digital inkjet printers, UV and solvent inks; Rastek™ UV
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Re: Xerox Marketing Campaign April2011

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When looking at the C300 vs Xerox "Free" printer comparison, it appears that Ricoh conveniently left out the Ricoh service supply costs in the calculation. Is that how you guys see it as well. It makes me doubt the rest of the data.
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quote: Originally posted by Old Glory: When looking at the C300 vs Xerox "Free" printer comparison, it appears that Ricoh conveniently left out the Ricoh service supply costs in the calculation. Is that how you guys see it as well. It makes me doubt the rest of the data. Seems that when I add service/supply for the C300 in, it winds up being very close to the Xerox prices. It's still lower, perhaps enough to win a heads up comparison lower, but it's more like the difference in most competitive
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Scan to SharePoint

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Scan to SharePoint Today we want to focus on a couple of questions we’ve received via email or during our Webinars. The “Scan to SharePoint” feature of UDOCX is primarily used by our customers to store business documents like contracts and purchase orders into general or specific SharePoint destinations. “Scan to SharePoint” by UDOCX simplifies the storing process of documents and turns the MFP (All-in-one printer/scanner/copier device) into an entry point for SharePoint. Instead of emailing
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Lexmark extends color workgroup product line with new MFPs

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right to discontinue selling these toner cartridges any time after it discontinues service support for this printer.
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List your favorite funny copier moments

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Who will be the first! We'll then vote on the top ten!
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Quick Reference Poster - Savin

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see attached file
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Quick Reference Poster - Ricoh

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see attached file
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Xerox Marketing Campaign April2011

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Enjoy!
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Ricoh Convergence "Who's Going?"

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Please respond if you'll be at the Peabody!
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MPC 2030 Wireless Connection

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Here goes, customer wants to print wireless and scan wireless. Problem: Cost of the Ricoh wireless solution. I thought we could add a wireless print server that would connect to the USB port for wireless printing and scanning, here are the specs: TRENDnet TEW-MP1U Wireless G Print Server Device Type: Wireless Print Server Interface: USB 2.0 Form Factor: Desktop Wireless Network Standards: IEEE 802.11g IEEE 802.11b Wireless Data Transfer Rates: 54 Mbps Wireless Network
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the pico-letter v8.03 - HP’s Trojan Horse

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Considering that HP is one of the clear Managed Print Services leaders, at first glance it can be amazingly hard to envy the vendor’s role in the MPS market because of its massive install base of easy-to-manage and often-consolidated printers. In a best case scenario, HP or one of its channel partners wins an MPS account that mainly uses non-HP devices, leading to net new hardware placements and pages. However, in basically every other MPS win scenario, the client already has a fleet of HP
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Average Monthly Page Volumes

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Aside from the ability to print ledger, What percentage of your A3 Copiers produce enough pages per month to offer better TCO than A4s?
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Average Monthly Page Volumes and A3 vs A4 TCO

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Aside from the ability to print ledger, I'm trying to gauge the need for A3s in most offices. What percentage of your A3 Copiers produce enough pages per month to offer better TCO than A4s?
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Re: List your favorite funny copier moments

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Several years back, I installed a fleet of Gestetner 60ppm MFP's in a large private school in DFW. The day after they were installed, a teacher decided to make transparencies (this was only 6 years ago, but they still used them) on the new machine. She made the mistake of grabbing transparencies that were not approved for use on a high-speed copier and proceeded to melt several transparencies onto the fusing unit. Not realizing what happened, she just thought the new machine was broken. So
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Years ago had a Lawyer come into our warehouse all angry yelling that her Fax machine we just sold her did not work at all. So we took the fax back to product support and did some testing and could not find anything wrong with it. After listening to her rant about documents not being sent we kindly asked her to come back to demonstrate what she was seeing as an error. she takes a sheet of paper fed it in, dialed the test number, hit send, and started yelling "See the paper just spits back out
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Re: the pico-letter v8.03 - HP’s Trojan Horse

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This is a great article, Art. (Art-icle)? Not being an HP dealer, we have definitely changed our MPS playbook to include service, support and supplies for these printers. This is especially true for those customers who have IT departments that are completely unreceptive to any other brand. Even in those cases, if we are doing our jobs correctly, we are usually able to persuade the higher-ups to place some of our workgroup equipment by showing the benefits in cost, efficiency and lessened IT
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Re: Xerox Marketing Campaign April2011

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I saw that also, which changes all of the numbers, someone goofed! From what I heard to today, this is going to be a mjor marketing campaign for the free printers. I'll make sure I blog about it as much as possible. If anyone has additional information about the free printer program please send me a link or the documents!
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Re: the pico-letter v8.03 - HP’s Trojan Horse

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Printfun, thanx!!! Please don't give me the credit all I did was add the link. GAP is awesome!!!
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Re: Xerox Marketing Campaign April2011

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Seems that when I add service/supply for the C300 in, it winds up being very close to the Xerox prices. It's still lower, perhaps enough to win a heads up comparison lower, but it's more like the difference in most competitive quotes, not "half"![/QUOTE] The difference, at the very least, is that after 36 months, the Xerox warranty will have run out and they will also still be paying the exorbitant supply prices. On our side of the ledger the equipment portion will be gone. Any comparison needs
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Lexmark today announced three new end-to-end, back-of

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us at www.lexmark.com/backoffice . About Lexmark Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) provides businesses of all sizes with a broad range of printing and imaging products, software, solutions and services that help customers to print less and save more. Perceptive Software, a stand-alone software business within Lexmark, is a leading provider of enterprise content management software that helps organizations easily manage the entire lifecycle of their documents and content, simplifying their
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