The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago

Guest · 10/18/107:41 PM

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Guest · 10/17/1010:23 PM

Reuters expect, on average, that Kodak's quarterly results on Oct. 28 will show sales down and losses up, even while most major companies are reporting improved results. All pretty grim. But one could argue Kodak stock is a diamond in the rough. Its price/share ratio — the value of all its outstanding stock divided by its 2009 revenues — is about 0.14. In many investing circles, a PSR of less than 1 indicates a value stock the market is overlooking. (For comparison sake, Xerox Corp. has a PSR of

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Guest · 10/19/108:35 PM

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct 19, 2010 -- Two new solid ink color printers from Xerox Corporation - the first desktop products under the ColorQube(R) brand - make color printing even more affordable for businesses of all sizes. The Xerox ColorQube 8570 and ColorQube 8870 solid ink color printers' cartridge-free ink produces high-quality color prints and generates 90 percent less printing waste than comparable color laser printers. With print speeds as fast as 40 pages per minute in both color and black

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Guest · 10/22/1011:09 PM

October 21, 2010 09:33 AMEastern Daylight Time OKI Printing Solutions New Color and Mono Multifunction Printers Improve Business Performance and Maximize Office Efficiency for SMB Market New High-Performing, Ultra-Fast and Space-Saving Multifunction Printers Complete Company Refresh of A4/Letter Portfolio MOUNT LAUREL, N.J.-- OKI Data Americas , which markets its products under the OKI® Printing Solutions brand, today announced the launch of new A4/Letter color and mono multifunction printers

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Guest · 10/19/109:00 PM

the letter did not specify the period in which the savings would occur. Copy machines throughout campus were replaced as part of a switch to W.B. Mason as the sole provider of office supplies to the College. Ricoh machines have replaced those produced by Conway, Dartmouth’s previous copy machine contractor. Faculty and staff received a general notice announcing the change in late summer, according to Gail Vernazza, administrator of the history department. Vernazza took issue with Moffatt’s

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Guest · 10/20/109:56 PM

The technology Dixie State College has to offer is both diverse and prevalent. There are printers distributed throughout campus, WiFi connections in every building, and a large section of the bookstore dedicated to selling technological devices. Recently the DSC IT department provided 20 Sharp scan/copy/printer machines across campus. These machines use the system already in place for prints and copies, and can be added by using a credit card on the printer balance site. "Students don't

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Guest · 10/17/1010:23 PM

It does not make sense to me that Xerox would want to acquire Kodak. Xerox has no interest in consumer imaging and the last thing it needs is two sets of pensions to deal with. Also Xerox is just about the only company that would not see a major change in its production lineup if it added the NexPress or Digimaster lines. I'm sure the color NexPress systems are pretty attractive to companies like Ricoh, Konica, and Canon though, who don't have an option in the color cutsheet heavy production

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Guest · 10/18/107:50 PM

was demonstrated applying varnish at what appeared to be full production speed, and was shown being controlled by another Canon innovation – a specially developed iPhone app. As well as the concept imagePress, the firm also unveiled two concept wide-format imagePrograf engines, the X and the Y. The latter is targeted at the CAD market, but the former could prove to be Canon's first outdoor-certified press. The machine was demonstrated printing on a vinyl substrate, and is understood to use

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Guest · 10/18/108:15 PM

IRVINE, Calif., Oct 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Kofax plc, the leading provider of document driven business process automation solutions, today announced a new agreement between its hardware distribution business and Canon Middle East, one of the region's leading business solutions providers. Under the terms of the agreement, Kofax's hardware distribution business, the leading distributor of digital scanners in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, will distribute Canon's full line of market

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Guest · 10/14/108:24 AM

Kyocera and Samsung as our largest lines now and Ricoh as a backup...why? because Ricoh chose to compete directly with us on the street...they went from 90% of our sales to aboout 20%....the competition with our supplier was not good for us and in the end not good for our clients. None of the suppliers are perfect and everyone of the brands has its challenges. In the end our job is to meet the needs of our clients profitably so we are around to serve them long term...and the clients who value that

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Guest · 10/19/109:00 PM

The story seems to be misleading. It reads as if WB Mason is now selling Ricoh machines. When I read that I almost flipped. I found the following story which states they are using Ricoh for the copiers and Mason separately for their office supplies. Strategic Budget Reduction & Investment (SBRI) Update #3: Improving Purchasing Power at Dartmouth; Office Supplies and Copiers/Multifunction Devices Dear Colleagues: Everyone in the Dartmouth community can make a difference in reducing the cost of

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Guest · 10/17/1010:27 PM

Do they have cause? Some on Wall Street think so. Credit ratings agency Fitch last week revised its outlook on Kodak debt from "stable" to "negative," meaning in its eyes investors should shy away from Kodak bonds. Fitch says it does not expect Kodak to generate free cash flow (money left over after a company pays expenses, debt and dividends) anytime soon while its sales and profits slip and while it continues to spend on restructuring and pension liabilities.

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Guest · 10/17/1010:29 PM

Indiana U. Engineer Finds Security Flaw in Popular Internet-Connected Copy Machine April 2, 2008, 3:45 pm By Jeff Young These days, it seems like just about every kind of gadget can be connected to the Internet — video game consoles, iPods, and even photocopiers (or multifunctional printers, as the manufacturers call the large machines that can copy or print from networked computers). Nate Johnson, lead security engineer for Indiana University, recently discovered a security flaw in a copy

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Guest · 10/18/107:56 PM

." Allens first signed up for the managed print service in 2005, and has replaced 408 individual printers in its regional offices with 206 multi-function devices. It has reduced its volume of printing per year from 61 million pages to 24 million over that time, a shift which has saved it $3 million purely in basic printing costs, Taylor said. Printer-related issues now account for 3 percentof help desk calls, compared to an industry average of 30 percent. The trickiest part of the transition was

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Guest · 10/18/108:02 PM

print shop functions. Ricoh's software based document solutions not only help to mitigate the issues and challenges that paper forms bring to health care organizations, but they address the costs associated with printing and provide rules management across the enterprise. SOURCE Ricoh Americas Corporation

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Guest · 10/18/108:12 PM

TM version X10 Océ Edition RIP software. ONYX Graphics software utilizes ONYX color science and a proprietary color engine designed to specifically address color and profiling issues unique to large format inkjet printing. The results are better neutral, saturated and dark colors, and consistent color fidelity. World’s premier selling flatbed printer product family The Océ Arizona Series UV flatbed printers have been consistently honored by the SGIA organization. In 2006, the year of the

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Guest · 10/21/108:10 PM

workers to upload their documents to the PrintMe cloud and securely print them on any PrintMe-enabled printer. The solution has thousands of placements worldwide, with millions of pages printed, making it easy to print on the go, whether it is guest printing in an enterprise, printing from a hotel room or airport, or just using a mobile device on the street. Now, with the launch of the next generation PrintMe mobile printing solution, EFI has enhanced the capabilities of PrintMe's "cloud aware

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Guest · 10/22/1011:12 PM

, told New Scientist: "We are using the ink-jet printer's ability to eject tiny pulses of material to achieve precise control." Ink jet printers work when a pulse of current heats up a coil of wire and creates a bubble that forces a small amount of ink down a tube an onto the page at high speed. The Japanese team adapted a Canon printer to squirt four "ingredient" scents and managed to get hints of mint, grapefruit, cinnamon, lavender, apple and vanilla, for a fraction of a second. Something

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Guest · 10/21/1011:17 AM

This is a Xerox product and I heard today that the OEM is Nuance, is this ecopy share scan or digi doc flow? My customer is using the Xerox Scan, Flow, Store on Xerox's and wants to use this in some Ricoh devices. What I got out of him is that they are scanning invoices with bard codes and Xerox's SFS does the bar code imaging at the server level, Please help!!!!!!

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SalesServiceGuy · 10/21/108:57 AM

Any idea what National Vendors are currently charging to remove a HDD from a copier and place it in the customers hand including all of the associated paperwork.? Toshiba Canada charges $300.00. This charge includes placing a new HDD back in the old original copier. Also, Canada's National TV broadcaster CBC ran a highly viewed TV report on copier HDD security http://en.video.sympatico.ca/i...secrets/641692961001

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Guest · 10/14/108:24 AM

A couple of thoughts based on my lengthy experience with both Sharp and Ricoh. Ricoh is far and away a better product. No doubt about it. As stated above buyers buy the dealership and the relationship with the sales rep in my experience not the brand name on the front of the box. Take it from someone who spent years explaining to customers who "Gestetner" was that had never heard of them........and now "Lanier". Finally, in this market I would urge extreme caution making any sort of employment

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Guest · 10/16/108:20 AM

Mount Laurel, N.J. – October 12, 2010 – OKI Data Americas, which markets its products under the OKI® Printing Solutions brand, announces the addition of the new B700 Series of monochrome printers designed for small to mid-size workgroups. The new B700 Series delivers powerful, ease-of-use features that produce crisp, clear documents at high speeds with less user intervention. The new series has a variety of performance-enhancing features including an alphanumeric keypad with a 5-line blue

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Guest · 10/18/107:11 AM

that machines should be able to build themselves. The machine that Dr. Bower’s Rep Rap Project built was called Darwin and it made 60 percent of its own parts, according to Mr. Leonard. The 3-D printer software is now available as an “open source,” a new concept of availability. “It’s called ‘open sourcing,’ open for inspection and copying, no proprietary rights. It’s a geek thing. The geeks have come out of the woodwork and there are about 60 different people worldwide making these printers

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Guest · 10/19/108:32 PM

feature improvements. Launched in January of this year, and downloaded by thousands of users, Fiery VUE is an innovative print application that makes production of professional-looking finished documents fast and easy for all office workers. Ideal for any functional group across an enterprise including sales, marketing, finance, legal, HR and training, Fiery VUE takes all the complexity out of producing professional-looking documents. Before printing, any office user can interact with the document on

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Guest · 10/20/109:58 PM

Jefferson Parish School Board sued for allegedly violating copier agreement 10/20/2010 7:48 AM By Michelle Massey A Jefferson Parish School Board has been sued for more than $75,000 for allegedly violating a lease agreement regarding its copier systems. CIT Technology Financing Services I filed suit against Jefferson Parish School Board on Oct. 11 in federal court in New Orleans. According to the complaint, the school board signed an agreement with CIT on June 15, 2006, in which it would make

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Guest · 10/19/107:44 AM

Scan2CAD on more than one PC and to share it with colleagues via a USB stick, floating network or fixed network licence, all at no extra cost. A fully-working 14-Day Trial of Scan2CAD v8 Pro can be downloaded from: www.scan2cad.com During 16 years of consistent software development, Scan2CAD pioneered the automatic conversion of raster PDF files, (ones created by scanning drawings and saving them as a PDF file), using its proven raster to vector conversion technology. In recent years, the

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Guest · 10/18/107:11 AM

quote: Originally posted by Art Post: “Well within our lifetime we will all have a 3-D printer in our homes, go online, download a plan, feed it to the printer and make a new part for something we have broken; the technology is advancing that fast,” Mr. Leonard said. Doubt it!

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Guest · 10/14/108:24 AM

Jack Daly said it best "People buy from people they like" I know a local RBS where the marketplace Manager let his #1 rep based on attitude Sure this rep sold but the Rep was not liked by his customers. Customers were purchasing from this RBS because they liked the Service Tech and Delivery guys. this showed me personally that its not just the sales guy who sales its everybody in the company.

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Guest · 10/18/107:11 AM

It may or may not happen, however how cool would it be to replace a broken plastic part from a stereo, cell phone, car, all of those little annoying parts that never get replaced. I could find many uses for this printer.

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Guest · 10/14/108:24 AM

I forwarded to all of my Sales reps today. Thanks,

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Guest · 10/21/1011:17 AM

Art, ScanFlowStore is just Xerox's name for DDF. They were the first vendor to have the original X-Solutions product before we had it and susequently was acquired by Nuance. The barcode recognition is an add-on module....

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Guest · 10/14/108:49 PM

I have forwarded to all of my Sales people. Thanks,