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Art Post · 5/31/1610:08 PM

, they’re asking for document workflow improvements, not just technology upgrades.” Kyocera apps streamline countless document-related business processes, add security and cost-control features, and enable mobile and cloud-based printing. The new apps include several “connectors,” which allow Kyocera MFPs to integrate seamlessly with many of the most popular document and content management systems. DMConnect Pro powered by Nuance A powerful addition to the DMConnect portfolio, one of Kyocera’s

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Art Post · 5/26/1610:18 PM

. Printerpoint is only $5 per device, per month, with no contracts or monthly minimums. Sign up today at Sepialine.com/Printerpoint for a two-week trial. About Sepialine: Sepialine is a San Francisco-based software development company that focuses on solutions which make selling, maintaining and using printers simpler and cost-effective. Their flagship product, Argos, helps architects, engineers and law firms turn printing costs into a revenue stream while simplifying print workflow. In 2014

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Art Post · 5/30/1610:13 PM

. Managed Print Services (MPS) can help streamline printing procedures, save time and cut printing costs. MPS allows businesses to better understand their print requirements and, based on that, where they can make minimum savings of 30%. In addition to benefits such as better print management, it allows organisations to tailor document workflows to suit their needs. Print volumes can be managed and reduced with the application of company printing policies, which can then be monitored via MPS. As

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Art Post · 5/26/1610:11 PM

– new ink that enables inkjet printing on traditional offset coated stocks eliminating the need for pre or post paper treatment A clear toner for the fifth station of the Xerox iGen 5 press Xerox Direct to Object Inkjet Printer – inkjet printing on 3D objects as small as bottle caps and as large as football helmets and shoes, eliminating the need for labels in many retail and manufacturing applications A Laser-Diode Coding and Marking Solution – working with partners Macsa I.D., S.A. and

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Art Post · 5/24/169:54 PM

, provides powerful, variable data publishing software that unites customer databases and creative content to help print service providers, marketing service firms, and small-to-medium sized businesses and enterprises, leverage customer data and create personalized, multiphase campaigns that use today's communication vehicles including print, web, e-mail, and mobile. XMPie is headquartered in New York with an RD center in Israel , and sales, support and professional service operations in the U.S

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Art Post · 5/25/1611:11 PM

ship the copier back early. Have an agreement as to what is going to happen with the hard drive in the copier. Some copiers actually have a feature that will scrub the hard drive for the end of the lease.If your copier does not have this feature I recommend buying a replacement hard drive and have the old hard drive removed and return to you. I’ve written this for the end user, however dealers and sales people can benefit from some of this, especially videoing the product before it is shipped and

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Larry Levine · 5/29/161:31 PM

attempts. (TeleNet and Ovation Sales Group) Only 2% of cold calls result in an appointment. Find new ways to reach decision-makers. (LeapJob) There is a great study out by Richardson , inside the 2016 Selling Challenges Study ; they surveyed more than 400 sales professionals and revealed the top three prospecting problems salespeople are grappling with today: Identifying triggers/sales signals that indicate issues you can resolve Identifying target accounts Qualifying prospects This is 2016 and

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Art Post · 5/31/169:58 PM

, and ensure the highest output quality in their digital print operations. Fiery is the industry’s leading digital print production workflow technology, and customers across the globe use Fiery DFEs to get maximum productivity and efficiency from their digital presses. Fiery products are also featured in EFI partner stands throughout drupa, including the Canon, Epson®, Landa, Konica Minolta®, OKI®, RICOH®, RISO and Xerox exhibits at Messe Düsseldorf. Expanding the world’s leading print and

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Art Post · 5/30/168:03 PM

Multi-Functional Printer (MFP) Services Solicitation No. RFP #16-023 Region South Carolina Agency Beaufort County School District Due Date Jun 13, 2016 Source To access the bid document, please visit the agency's website at below and search by your matched keyword: http://www.beaufort.k12.sc.us/ pages/BCSD/Departments/ Operati... Bid # Description Date Due Addendums RFP #16-023 Multi-Functional Printer (MFP) Services June13, 2016

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Art Post · 5/30/168:12 PM

TOKYO — It looks like a toy, speaks like a robot, it dances and sings, but most importantly answers your phone calls and sends your emails. Meet RoBoHon — the world’s first humanoid robot smartphone. The 19.5-cm-tall robot phone manufactured by Sharp Corp, officially went on sale Thursday, marking the beginning of the company’s efforts to develop next-generation communication appliances under the leadership of Taiwan’s Hon Hai, which recently took over Sharp. read more here (make sure you read

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Art Post · 5/24/1610:02 PM

Distributor of the Year for the ninth time, Konica Minolta South Africa is a leader in advanced document management technologies. A division of Bidvest Office, the company focuses on complete business solutions, including production print systems, digital presses, multifunctional products (MFPs), managed print services, vertical application solutions and related services and supplies. Konica Minolta is one of the only manufacturers in the digital imaging industry, over the past 20 years, to have been

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Art Post · 5/26/1610:34 PM

on display at InfoComm16 in the Ricoh booth #N647, alongside Ricoh's entire projector line. For more information on Ricoh's full line of projectors, please visit http://www.ricoh-usa.com/projectors and follow @RicohVision on Twitter and Ricoh Innovative Solutions on LinkedIn. Also, visit WorkIntelligent.ly to learn more about fueling collaboration for your organization to thrive in today's new world of work. | About Ricoh | Ricoh is a global technology company that has been transforming

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Art Post · 5/24/169:49 PM

need for global collaboration and it is easy to see how an automated, streamlined system can cut time and cost. To help bring products to market faster, reduce cost structures, grow sales and create more competition, Xerox introduced five new automation solutions for leaner manufacturing. For more information on each, click here . Personalizing Banking Across Digital Screens Banks are expanding their omnichannel capabilities, enabling customers to complete banking transactions on a variety of

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Art Post · 5/24/169:52 PM

include: twice yearly calls with your dealership team and representatives from Compass to check in and assess current needs; an in-depth annual review with your Compass sales representative; two hours per year of customized Web training; an invitation to join the Beta Testing Committee to get first access to new features and help shape the future of Sherpa; and more. Some Compass partners on this program include: All Copy Products, Impact Networking, Copiers Northwest, Documation of San Antonio

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Art Post · 5/26/1610:25 PM

Businesses today are faced with the challenge of optimizing processes, improving productivity, and reducing operational costs, while managing a remote workforce. To meet these demands, Upland Software, Inc. a leader in cloud-based Enterprise Work Management software, recently announced that it will streamline workflow and enable content capture from digital and paper sources through partnership with Kodak Alaris, a global provider of document scanners and capture software solutions. Upland

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Key Takeaways from the Company’s Dealer and End-User Conference George Mikolay 5/25/2016 Last week, BLI attended Toshiba’s 2016 Dealer and End-User Conference in Las Vegas, and found a company that continues to solidify its relationship with its dealers, and poised to take more market share from some of the bigger players in the industry. Toshiba has run their annual conference as a joint dealer/end-user event for several years now, and according to Bill Melo Chief Marketing Officer for

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Art Post · 5/30/166:46 PM

OMG, Teriostar?

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Art Post · 5/25/1611:32 PM

Who put in 18 plus per month? That's awesome!

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Czech · 5/26/163:33 PM

Probably Monte. He's a machine!

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John · 5/25/162:26 PM

Good info as always.

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Art Post · 5/24/1610:16 PM

Well, at least for me it gave me a chuckle, traveling north on the Garden State Parkway, I looked to the side of the road and saw a large white repair type vehicle with ladders. I then noticed the huge Xerox logo, it was then I remembered that Xerox manages the EZ Pass on the parkway. So much for copiers, eh?

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Art Post · 5/26/1610:36 PM

This product is very interesting, bundle with copiers, bundle with printers, nice promo piece also. I would love to see one of these in action!! Geesh, I could probably project a movie on the side of my house!!

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Art Post · 5/25/1611:29 PM

May 19 th , 2016, MOBILE, AL – Xante is proud to report that during April 2016 the total number of impressions produced by our customers has increased by 171% from this same period last year. In April, Xante Impressias around the world created 57 million digital color envelopes, as compared to 21 million during April 2015. “The growth in envelope printing has even been a surprise to us at Xante,” said Robert C. Ross, CEO at Xante. “ We believe this impressive growth is not only from traditional

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VinceMcHugh · 5/24/1610:21 PM

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Art Post · 5/30/166:43 PM

features." The ComColor GD series provides an entry into high-speed cutsheet inkjet printing with a low running cost for affordable color prints. Now RISO customers will have access to Fiery Command WorkStation ® , with the ubiquitous, award-winning, intuitive user interface and workflow used by more than a quarter million production print operators today. Fiery operators around the world can easily take advantage of the unique capabilities that RISO ComColor offers to answer the diverse demands of

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Art Post · 5/30/168:12 PM

HP Is Getting Its 3D Voxels On: What’s in It for theChannel? by Print Audit On May 17th, 2016, HP announced to the world that it has entered the world of 3D printing, though technically they yet have anything to sell. Many of us in the industry wondered what took them so long to put their stake in the ground. For an industry that is projected to grow to over $30 billion by 2022 with CAGR of over 28%, HP clearly sees the opportunity. Read more of this post

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Art Post · 5/26/1610:23 PM

At 5 bucks a month and no minimums that seems to be a good offer if you only want to monitor a few wide formats, right? But if you have a fleet of 500? That's $2,500 per month. I understand that not every client will want the monitoring. I'm out in the street every day, and probably the biggest complaint I get from clients is that they can't have more than one toner of each color on hand, I hear this from net new prospects also. This is a good fit for wide format market place, and I can see...

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Jason H · 5/24/168:33 PM

This should probably go in the canon section but since this section gets the most love I'm going to put it here... we have really amped up our wide format with canon. We have always been a toner based wide format dealer and never did much with ink but since we are no longer carrying Ricoh things have changed. i have been thinking about different vertices who can use WF outside the traditional AEC market....church's, car dealers, retail etc. I have even heard of funeral homes using them. I

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Czech · 5/26/164:12 PM

This is a great topic! I just got back from a wide format training session from Canon. Here are some verticals they recommended: - Malls (Kiosk promotions and advertising) - AEC - Funeral Homes (portraits and casket wraps) - Wedding photographers (they can sell 24x36 photo's for $150 to $250 and their cost is $4 to $5) - Any company that wants to focus on corporate communications but can't afford digital signage The Canon plotters are great, but we've learned to stay away from the MFP's

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Jason H · 5/26/168:59 PM

Canon was in my office a week or so ago and the guy mentioned funeral homes. I don't think I'll ever forget the story....apparently, some gang banger was killed and his family and friends wanted to have a big portrait of him at the funeral so they printed it out on an imageprograf. I'm looking forward to hearing others responses. Thanks Czech!

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Art Post · 5/24/169:57 PM

layers and objects of a PDF should be managed or constructed. Ensuring consistency in these areas is critical for printers who do “extra” work on printed content, such as complex finishing, varnishing, embossing, braille or barcodes to name a few examples. PitStop 13 update 2 will include several new Actions and default Action Lists that introduce users to this new standard and provide details on the benefits that this standard can bring to printers in all of these markets. These new Actions can

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Art Post · 5/24/1610:04 PM

This press release was orginally distributed by SBWire Lenexa, KS -- ( SBWIRE ) -- 05/24/2016 -- Medical Concepts, LLC has officially launched a Kickstarter campaign for SportsCard®, the first document management system for all emergency, medical, and health information. Born from a passion for consolidating life-saving information in a singular card, SportsCard® will enable users to pre-load emergency contacts, concussion baselines, important files, medications, allergies, vaccinations, birth

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Jason H · 5/26/1612:55 PM

There is probably not a single answer to this but I am working on a fleet management deal with a large organization. 13,000 laser printers and 20,000,000 prints per month. They want a service only option as they have a nationwide contract for supplies with large rebates. All of my TCO and cost calculators have supplies tied in. Anyone have a method to make this easy! i'm thinking the service portion per page cost would be quite small.

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Art Post · 5/26/1610:29 PM

to fully automated business processes, allowing enterprises to quickly get started with Digital Transformation." DTM essentially is about streamlining business processes by keeping document processes fully digital. Aragon further defines DTM as a technology that automates and streamlines internal and external document-centric business processes while delivering significant ROI via both hard and soft dollar savings. What makes Intelledox "hot" is the ability to import data to generate a

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Jason H · 5/24/1610:20 PM

Thanks Art! I'm with you. My mind just goes all over with places that use wide format and from my little bit of research and prospecting in our market it seems to be quite untapped and many outsource these things to the large format print houses.

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VinceMcHugh · 5/24/1610:22 PM

How many old timer Canon guys remember using this card? Vince McHugh

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Old Glory · 5/26/163:59 PM

I don't have the answer you are asking for but I do have some thoughts. Percentage wise, parts are going to be quite small, especially if PM kits are considered supplies in your scenario. That only leaves travel and labor with travel probably being the lions share since it seldom takes long to fix a printer. I would try to establish a trust-worthy calls/printer/year estimate based on your installed fleet makeup and volume and go from there. Apply your burden rate and add a little for parts and

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Jason H · 5/26/169:02 PM

Great points. I think this can be a cash cow for us. I agree that we need to have some ground rules set that says we will decide when a machine will be replaced...within reason. Customer has asked for a price with "free" printer replacement and straight service. I appreciate the feedback! Art, if GAP has anything I'd surely be interested in hearing about it.

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VinceMcHugh · 5/27/165:19 PM

I think I read that the average Printer requires a service call once every 18 months. Hope that helps! Vince

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Art Post · 5/31/166:22 AM

David Thanx, the slowing down of the system for thick stocks is not printed on the brochure, thus than for that piece of information. All the brochure states is that there is no slow down for up to 220gsm. Do you know how much the slow when printing over 220gsm? The manufacturers never print their limitations on the brochures, thus the reason for these forums, where we can bounce questions off each other and find out what those limitations are. Thanx for the reply, hoping to hear more. No, I'm