This Week in Copiers Five Years Ago
Second Week of January 2018
Just wanted to ask, we're looking for copier brochures from the 60's 70 & 80s. I'd like to get as many of these brochures scanned and archived for our industry. I can accept mailed brochures and scanned brochures. If you have any please reach out to me apost@p4photel.com
Enjoy these awesome copier threads from 5 years ago
Looking to Connect with Dealer Principals or Sales Managers from Canada
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Please email me apost@P4PHOTEL.COM I'm looking for those that are currently selling Ricoh, Savin or Lanier along with Toshiba. Have some opportunities
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Ricoh Unveils Direct-to-Garment Printer
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printing easily produce a finished product. The Ricoh Ri 100 joins the Ricoh Ri 3000/Ri 6000 printers in building upon Ricoh and AnaJet’s (a Ricoh company) history of fast, high-quality garment printing. It prints up to 1,200x1,200 dpi in vivid mode, leveraging Ricoh’s industry standard-setting printheads and modular drop-size technology. “Over the years, our customers have asked for an affordable, low risk way to enter the DTG market and we’re proud to be the first to answer that question at a
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Introducing Trusted Business Solutions With New Canon Inkjet Card, Thermal Re-Transfer ID Card ...
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theft of cards and unauthorized usage of the printer. INKJET LABEL PRINTERS Investing in a color label printer provides businesses the option to print-to-label in real time, helping to promote workflow efficiency, reduce inventory management costs while saving valuable office space where pre-printed labels were once stored. From color-coded cardboard box labels to easily customizable coupons and wristbands, the new lineup of Canon Inkjet Label Printersoffer extreme durability. In addition, text
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Why Does the Practice of "Skating" Copiers Still Exist? Who Wins Who Loses
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Earlier today I had a call from another rep that works with me. He was pretty upset that a client was able to find the same MP 3555SP for sale on the web for $300 or so dollars under his sales cost. What even bothered him more was that the reseller was not an Authorized reseller for Ricoh, nor Canon. Which leads me to who is this web company buying the new MP 3555SP from? That web company (non authorized reseller) is buying the MP 3555SP from an Authorized Dealer. Most if not all dealer
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Brother to Demonstrate Advances in Retail Printing to Enhance the Shopper Experience and Deliver Operations Efficiency at NRF 2018
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, which make it easy for users to quickly print barcoded labels, tags and receipts virtually anywhere. Brother BMG will highlight its range of retail solutions including a just-released model from the Compact Laser Series, a comprehensive line of laser printers and all-in-ones that are ideal for small, tight spaces; INKvestment Series of ink jet all-in-ones well suited for cost-effective, higher-volume printing; and the award-winning QL Label Printer Series, offering high-speed printing of durable
Color Ink Builds Brands with New MGI JETvarnish 3D Print Enhancement Press
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New Color Ink JETvarnish 3D Campaign Sample MELBOURNE, FL USA (January 12 th , 2018) – In the Wisconsin heartland of America’s dairy country, there is a creative group of print professionals setting new standards for integrated marketing campaigns and corporate brand communications at a firm called Color Ink. Thanks to a partnership with MGI Global Partner, Konica Minolta, they will be scooping up the cream of the crop in decorative print embellishment applications with a new JETvarnish 3D
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Konica Minolta to Provide Enterprise Content Management Solution to a Government Agency
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SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – January 11, 2017– Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia, an integral value provider of customer-centric solutions, has been awarded a $400,000 contract to implement Enterprise Content Management Solution for a government agency to improve operational efficiency. The announcement comes as the government continues to boost Singapore’s efforts towards a more digitally integrated society. Earlier this year, Singapore was ranked first in the Asian Digital Transformation
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ETCS Announces Acquisition by Datamax
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About East Texas Copy Systems East Texas Copy Systems has served the East Texas area’s business technology needs for nearly three quarters of a century. With three locations in Tyler, Longview and Lufkin, East Texas Copy Systems is an authorized service provider representing Canon, Samsung, Océ , Lexmark and Kyocera brands. We also offer color copiers, fax machines and wide format printers, as well as deliver technology supplies from all major manufacturers. East Texas Copy Systems provides the
Selectec and Nordicdoc Announce Partnership
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(SmartSDK) devices. This brings organisations direct efficiency gains, by cutting out multiple steps from the traditional hardcopy to softcopy document management process. There are also various new and exciting enhancements for HP, Konica Minolta, Lexmark, Ricoh, Toshiba, and Xerox. BYOD printing challenges are now a thing of the past, with the update to PaperCut MF Mobility Print to now support macOS and Linux servers, in addition to the existing Windows server support. To round off the update
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Canon’s Focus on Innovation Once Again Lands Imaging Leader a Top Five Spot Among U.S. Patent Holders for 32nd Consecutive Year
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. This is the 32nd consecutive year that Canon Inc., has been ranked among the top five U.S. patent holders and for the 13th consecutive year, ranked first among Japanese companies for the number of U.S. patents granted. The patents granted demonstrate the company’s commitment to using a robust set of intellectual property rights to develop visionary consumer, business and medical solutions. “Having landed once again among the top three patent holders, Canon’s longstanding and continued commitment
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Xerox reportedly in talks for a deal with Fujifilm
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Corp. Fuji Xerox spread to multiple countries in the Asia-Pacific area, developing office and printing equipment. Carl Langsenkamp, a Xerox spokesman in Rochester, N.Y., said he was not willing to comment on the Wall Street Journal story at this time. https://www.usatoday.com/money
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Three Ways to Protect Your Ricoh Wide Format Plotters
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Over the years I’ve had many calls about how my clients can protect their Ricoh Wide Format Plotters. Wide Format plotters aka Ricoh Wide format MFP’s (multi-functional devices) that can copy, scan or print. In most cases what we recommend is not information that is available with the manufacturers user guide. Thus,we thought it would… Read More FYI, this is a link to my jersey plotter site, email me or Jesse if you need more info on how to make this happen
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Should I Lease or Buy a Ricoh MP6700SP in New Jersey?
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Should I lease or should I buy the Ricoh MP6700SP wide format? It’s a question that I’ll field at least a few times a month. MP6700SP In order to answer that question, I’ll need to give a little history about the Ricoh MP6700. The one great feature of the Ricoh MP6700SP, is that it’s a… Read More Note from Art: Content is King, I've wrote about 17 blogs in the last year and it's paying off. My goal is to attract those that are in the market to me. This is something I believe every dealership
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Managed print moving into the large format world
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The concept of selling managed print services to those customers using standard hardware has become well established and it is moving into the large format world. An increasing number of large format print specialists are starting to offer managed print services to customers that also want to incorporate some of the predictability of price that comes from an MPS contract. The small format world has been shifting over to managed print for the last few years and an example of the motivation for
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Sales Leaders: 3 Things Your Sales Reps Consistently Do To Shoot Themselves With Complacency Bullets
Learned As A Major Account Copier Rep On The Streets Of Los Angeles . I’ve been part of countless conversations with sales leaders and managers over the years, trying to understand how to motivate sales reps to do more than the bare minimum they have grown accustomed to doing. This reminds of the 5 Things Top Sales Reps Do And Why Most Just Shoot Themselves With Complacency Bullets . THE PROBLEM IS GETTING BIGGER BY THE MOMENT Inside the vast majority of sales teams, sits so much opportunity. The
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Where to Find Leads for the Contex IQ Flex Flatbed Scanner
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because the paper feed roller could tear original legacy documents. Below are a few of the departments that were listed as having wide format scanners. Science Humanities Print Room Engineering Art Library Facilities Print4Pay: Especially, any print4pay that offers black line and color wide format printing and copying. A shop that I know of has a few artists in the area that want their paintings scanned, in addition to others that want to scan oversized objects. You can sell this as an additional
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Looking for old copier brochures
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Does anyone have any old brochures hanging around from the seventies or the eighties? If so, could you scan and send to me so we can get them on the web?
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Canon U.S.A. Kicks Off 2018 with Announcement of New Executive Appointments
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MELVILLE, N.Y., January 11, 2018 – Beginning the New Year with a celebration of teamwork and an appreciation for those who have contributed to the company’s continued success, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is proud to announce new senior executive appointments and promotions, effective January 1, 2018. These personnel moves represent Canon’s commitment to elevating its own leaders and putting them in a position to succeed, both personally and professionally. “Every
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Ricoh USA Inc., will cut 150 jobs
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Ricoh USA Inc., which produces office equipment and offers related services, will cut 150 jobs in Houston. The Pennsylvania-based company, part of Tokyo-based Ricoh Company Ltd., told the Texas Workforce Commission in a letter that the affected jobs are at 820 Gears Road. A spokeswoman with the company confirmed that is a call center location. The job cuts are expected to be effective March 4, according to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act letter. The affected employees are
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Kinlaw to lead worldwide channel sales at Lexmark
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News Release Issued: Jan 10, 2018 ( 4:00pm EST ) Kinlaw to lead worldwide channel sales at Lexmark Lexmark, a global imaging solutions leader, today announced that Sammy Kinlaw will join the company as Vice President, Worldwide Channel and OEM Sales, effective Feb. 1, 2018 . A proven technology sales leader, Kinlaw has held a number of leadership roles calling on enterprise end users and the commercial channel. He spent the last 13 years with Lenovo, most recently as vice president North
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Re: Why Does the Practice of "Skating" Copiers Still Exist? Who Wins Who Loses
dimaxusa ·
your network. Printers have been hacked and if a security patch comes out, how are you going to know about it, get it installed and protect your business? What would happen if a hacker got on your network through the copier and you had to explain that the device was bought off a website that was not manufacturer authorized and was unsupported? To wrap up, as dealers we don't have many options to force the manufacturer to get involved and really stop this from happening. I think our strongest
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Re: Why Does the Practice of "Skating" Copiers Still Exist? Who Wins Who Loses
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install it on your network. Printers have been hacked and if a security patch comes out, how are you going to know about it, get it installed and protect your business? What would happen if a hacker got on your network through the copier and you had to explain that the device was bought off a website that was not manufacturer authorized and was unsupported? To wrap up, as dealers we don't have many options to force the manufacturer to get involved and really stop this from happening. I think
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Re: Copier aka MFP 25 Discovery Questions for Legal Vertical Market
And perhaps ask if valuable legal documents (in the paper drawers) need to be 'protected' by a Paper Drawer Lock. Legal companies should have a 'Paper-Refill-Procedure' in place, to avoid that un-authorized persons have access to valuable documents in the Copier or Printer. Locks for almost all brands and machine-types are available at the www.copiersolutionshop.com To get a complete overview of all available locks, check www.solutionconfigurator.com
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Re: Three Ways to Protect Your Ricoh Wide Format Plotters
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Most Ricoh wide format devices have a built in dehumidifier. The switch is on the side.
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Re: Three Ways to Protect Your Ricoh Wide Format Plotters
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fisher posted: Most Ricoh wide format devices have a built in dehumidifier. The switch is on the side. yup, and I believe it is for the drum. Thanks for the comment!
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LCA Leasing
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Just heard that they are exiting the copier leasing business. Anyone else hear that?
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EFI Launches Fiery Textile Bundle to Deliver Superior Quality and Streamline Reggiani Textile Printing Workflows
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in both direct-to-textile and transfer printing, plus it provides the production tools to handle step and repeat, changes in fabric dimensions during production, and brand color accuracy. The Fiery Textile Bundle was introduced at the recent ShanghaiTex tradeshow in China. The new products are part of a comprehensive EFI ecosystem that includes EFI Optitex 2D/3D design software, and EFI Reggiani digital printers such as the new Reggiani VOGUE direct-to-textile printer, which also made its
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Next Model after Xerox 770 Digital Press
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Xerox folks, I don't know very much about your product lineup. If you were replacing a 770 digital press what would be your go to machine that is most comparable now? The Versant 180 or the C70?
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Re: Sharp MX4100N End user pricing
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It's a little dated, however one of the only quotes I've ever seen that has a cost per scan charge.
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Another patent troll targets OEMs
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Following on from our report on the patent lawsuit handed to Xerox by MASA in December 2017, The Recycler has now viewed court papers relating both to that court case and to the patent infringement complaint brought by MASA against Ricoh. The papers describe MASA as a “wholly owned subsidiary of Midwest Youth AS Inc.” and explain that it provides services, funding and equipment for youth sports organisations “to help those organisations inspire youths in a positive way”. It also “promotes the
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