This Week in Copiers Twenty Years Ago
Second Week of February 2003
With all of the recent news about China with the recent the recent shooting of the SPY balloon and the downing of three "UFOs" (suspected from China), will this alert MFP buyers to ask "where are your MFPs manufactured"?
I remember in the eighties when many buyers wanted no part of copiers that were manufactured in Japan. Of course that all ended when Xerox partnered with Fuji and all copiers where manufactured in Japan. Leads you to ask "where was your copier manufactured?"
Enjoy these awesome copier threads from 20 years ago
Panasonic & Toshiba.......will copiers be next?
Art Post (Guest) ·
Matsu****a Announces Specific Plans Regarding New CRT Joint Venture with Toshiba January 29, 2003 10:05:00 AM ET OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2003-- New Company to be formed by integrating CRT businesses of both companies through business divisions Matsu****a Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. MC announced that the company has decided at its board of directors meeting held today to integrate its cathode ray tube (CRT) business into Matsu****a Toshiba Picture Display Co., Ltd. (New Company
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Weekly Factoid Copier Sales Discounts
Art Post (Guest) ·
Weekly Factoid - This Week's Topic; Average Discounts (Changes Weekly - last changed Jan. 28)Average discounts for connected multifunctional devices ranges between 21.4% - 23.4% depending on the speed of the device. Want to read about other exciting...
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Sharp Touts Software Advances
Art Post (Guest) ·
, according to Jarosław Wensker, product manager for Sharp’s copiers and printers. “In 1999 the market was better than it is now,” he said. “It was the best year of development of the market in Poland. After, the market slowed down, it began to get smaller and smaller. We started at a bad time.” He pointed out, for instance, that since then sales of photocopiers have dropped at least 6%. So to counterbalance Sharp’s ill-fated beginnings, he said it is pushing its sales forces at its dealers and
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Toshiba Info
Art Post (Guest) ·
From: Digital Daddy (Original Message) Sent: 12/18/2002 4:07 AM Hey guys and gals O need ASAP as much competetive info about toshiba as you got, I have to do some traiing for a large group and I want to provide them with helpful information Please respond ASAP as I am doing this Friday a.m. Thanks Sam I do not have access to Aficio league yet or I would go there............PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! First Previous 11 of 11 Next Last Delete Replies Reply Recommend Delete Message 11 of
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Bright Spot for Color Wide Format
Art Post (Guest) ·
change their message; Concern about "keeping up with technological change" is also on the decline, so shops no longer see the need to acquire the latest and the greatest in order to be competitive; Prepress-related processes like preflighting, working with PC files, and PDF workflow are sharply declining. "Increasing sales personnel" is decreasing as a sales opportunity at the same time that "working with print brokers" and "partnering with other graphic arts firms" is on the rise. When it comes
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e-copy
Art Post (Guest) ·
, and making documents accessible and easy to find for all employees.” The eCopy Suite of products, coupled with the high-speed scanning capabilities of a Canon digital copier or scanner, enable any user in an organization to transform paper documents into information that is easily integrated into all commonly used business applications. Using the eCopy Suite of products, companies can provide shared access to high-speed scanners or digital copiers that connect to the company’s e-mail and other
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CL3000 is on Ricoh-USA website
Ricoh has info on the cl3000 on website just no link to it yet. Go to cl5000 page and change to cl3000 and walla. Makes me wonder what other info might be already posted with no direct link to it.
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Re: CompTIA CDIA+(Certified Document Imaging Architech)
Jayson, I am also considering becoming CDIA certified. I'm working for a Savin dealer and I'm told that all Savin management is required to have a CDIA certification. I just recently finished taking the Ricoh U. Image Management Certification Program in an effort to prepare myself for the CDIA test. However, after finishing the Ricoh certification, I'm afraid that it may be too brand specific to do me any good on the CDIA test which I am told is completely un-brand specific. I would, however
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Re: OCR and Scan Router Pro
Art Post (Guest) ·
Topic: Scan Router Pro/ OCR and 1075 (6 of 7), Read 9 times Conf: ScanRouter Discussion From: Ron Albeck (ron.albeck@ricoh-usa.com) Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 01:59 AM When using the 1075 you can scan the 300 pages if you add them as they are being fed into the copier. However you can not OCR a PDF document it must be saved as a TIFF file for most every OCR application. ScanRouter does not OCR a document at all. DeskTopBinder will OCR a document but it will only save it as a Text File
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Re: Bright Spot for Color Wide Format
Art Post (Guest) ·
, every new sales opportunity is a blessing. But, if you’re a print provider, you may not be thrilled about your clients and suppliers buying their own equipment. Look for finishing services to make up for some of this lost work. Finishing is one arena most would rather leave to the printers, so they may not be losing as much business as they thought." Highlights Include Among creative professionals, commercial photographers reported the highest interest in wide-format printers with 11% planning to
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Re: 1232 launch
Ted ·
Does anyone know if the 1224C/1232C has magazine mode from the copier? Or just from printing like the 3800CMF.
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Imagistiscs fourth quarter
Art Post (Guest) ·
Imagistics posts fourth-qtr profit February 06, 2003 00:27:00 AM ET TRUMBULL, Conn., Feb 6 (Reuters) - Imagistics International Inc (IGI), which sells and rents copiers, on Thursday posted a fourth-quarter profit, due in part to lower expenses and sales in Canada. The company, formerly Pitney Bowes Office Systems, reported fourth-quarter earnings were $4.1 million, or 22 cents per share, compared with a loss of $300,000, or one cent per share, for the fourth quarter of 2001. Total revenue rose
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Re: Points added to lease rate factors
Jim (Guest) ·
I am somewhat of a journeyman in this industry and have worked for 8 different companies over 23 years due to moves and acquisitions. I have seen it all and added points on leases is common among larger dealers. That having been said, it is also common for dealers to attempt to break even on the sale of hardware after all sales expenses have been paid...most do not hope to actually profit from the sale of the unit, only from the resulting service and supply revenue. My point is, I learned long
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Re: 1060 1075 scan to email
Monte ·
Problem is once you are pasword authenticated you can still use the president as the sender. The password doesn't select the sender. Check this to be sure, but that's how it worked in my demo room two weeks ago.
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Re: Sharp Touts Software Advances
Pete Maimone (Guest) ·
Oh Yeh, So how come they still can't get mixed size originals to staple in the right position without turning the paper backwards, then going 3 deep on the touch screen display and selecting the backwards staple position just to get it right. That's in copy mode. don't even think to try it in print mode. “It will be easier and cheaper,”“There will be more investment and more demand for our products.” GIMME A BREAK!
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Re: 1224/1232 Maintenance Pricing
I was told that it is basically the CL5000 as a copier. The color rep who showed us the CL5000 said that the copier uses a different toner cartridge, but it is on the same order. All cartridges are arranged vertically on the left side, one drum, paper path up the right side like the 1022. I will be at a launch for the color copiers on 2/25.
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Re: Aficio 3006
Art Post (Guest) ·
I have two 3006 at print shops. Both Fierys have failed, I would recommend the customer having an MA on the Fiery also. Color is good for some non critical comps and proofs. I would only recommend a 24 month lease, incase his volume increases you can get him out easier. Art
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Re: Mita 3648 Wide Format
Art, Do you mean the 3648 and the FW470 are the same product? I asked that question of a Ricoh product rep recently and I was assured that the FW470 was 100% Ricoh. She said that the previous digital model was a Mita product, but that the current is not.
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Color lock out option setup on AP3800
Pete Maimone (Guest) ·
OK Graham or Lee, here's another one for you. I recently installed an AP3800CDT1 with the User Account Enhance Kit. We loaded the latest version of Smart Net Monitor for Admin from the Ricoh website. When we selected the device in SNM the user access control tab was missing. And we couldn't set it up to lockout specific users from color. Question#1: Does the fact that we only have a MAC workstation connected to it right now have something to do with the tab not being there? while the tab also
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1224 not energy star complient?
Does anyone know why the 1224 is not energy complient? I am not a tree hugger I just want to know how this might affect some of my government accounts and potencial sales to certain federal agencies.
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Mita 3648 Wide Format
Art Post (Guest) ·
From: david147 Does anyone have info on this machine? I have an account that is doing about 10,000 lin. ft. per month I'm trying to see if Ricoh has something comparable. david147
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650 very slow in mixed size mode!!
copyme ·
Does someone know why the 650 is so slow in mixed size mode? It runs at 10 cpm - 40 originals took 4 minutes. Ran the same batch on the 1055 and it took 1.5 mins - same as the customer's current Toshiba 6550. Has updated ROM version. Thanks.
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