This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago
Second Week of July 2011
If there is nothing to do on a rainy Saturday, might I suggest a scouting day for you. Plan a couple of of routes on roads less traveled in your territory and do a search for businesses on those less traveled roads. Pick out a vertical or two, and then off you go, make sure to bring your business cards and take photos (for calling later). If there are cars in the lot then why not go in and introduce your self!
Enjoy these awesome copier threads from ten years ago this week!
Rick Taylor of Konica Minolta to Address Copier Dealers Association
Art Post (Guest) ·
Ramsey, NJ (PRWEB) July 13, 2011 Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced that Rick Taylor, President and Chief Operating Officer, was invited by Bob Shields, President, Copier Dealers Association (CDA) to present an overview of the company's growth strategy to CDA members at their business meeting on July 14, 2011. This will be Taylor’s second time
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Canon U.S.A. Implements Aggressive Energy-Saving Practices To Cut Energy Consumption
Art Post (Guest) ·
550 personal printers were removed from service, and replaced with imageRUNNER and imageRUNNER ADVANCE multifunction devices. Canon installed uniFLOW printing software to manage its fleet of document output devices, a strategy the Company recommends to its own customers. Among a variety of workflow enhancing capabilities, uniFLOW has the ability to route print jobs to the most energy-efficient printer available, determined by establishing a baseline of energy consumption that measures paper
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Print Audit® Expands its MPS Solutions to Germany
Art Post (Guest) ·
United States. For more information on Print Audit Deutschland, please visit printaudit.de/. About Print Audit® Established in 1999 and headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Print Audit (printaudit.com) is the fastest growing print management company in the world. By providing businesses with innovative and practical print management software solutions, the company has helped customers recapture over $150 million in printing and photocopying expenses while saving an estimated 190,000 trees a year
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Konica Minolta Obtains "Cleaner Production" Approval in China:
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governmental examination, was awarded with Cleaner Production approval by the local authorities as company that has achieved highly clean production. Konica Minolta Wuxi has been vigorously driving environmental protection activities, including continuous promotion of initiatives for saving energy and reducing waste and calls for voluntary energy-saving improvement proposals from local employees. In obtaining the approval, the company was highly recognized for its comprehensive initiatives that
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Applied Imaging, Michigan's Premier Document Management, Managed Print Services and N
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larger customer base, we have additional leverage and purchasing power. American Imaging customers will now have access to more products since we are an authorized dealer for Canon’s complete line of products, Kyocera printers and Oce high volume production print systems.” Customers will also benefit from Applied Imaging's managed print services, document management and network solutions programs. Applied Imaging has made a commitment to “Keep It in the Mitt,” a spirit that allows Applied
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Managed Print Services Sales Consultant
Art Post (Guest) ·
Managed Print Services Sales Consultant OneDOC Managed Print Services LLC - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area Job Description This position is for a Managed Print Services Sales Consultant. The requirements are to prospect and sell our programs to C-Level executives in the SMB marketplace. The territory is the greater Oklahoma City area. Desired Skills & Experience Our candidates will have 2+ years of B2B sales experience. We require a demonstrated ability to prospect, present, and develop proposals
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EFI Teams With Canon on Mobile Print Solution
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the mobile print arena, and we're confident Apple device users will welcome this new printing ability," said Toby Weiss, general manager of Fiery and senior vice president, EFI. "The combination of Canon's imageRUNNER ADVANCE technology with EFI's direct mobile print solution creates an easy, intuitive way for Apple device users to automatically discover a Fiery-based printer on their WiFi network and print with the touch of one button," said Sam Yoshida, vice president and general manager, Canon
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Edwards Business Systems and Konica Minolta Announce 1st Annual EBS Derby Day
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Scranton, PA July 07, 2011 Edwards Business Systems (EBS) and Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) are teaming up to present the First Annual EBS Derby Day at PNC Field, home of the Scranton/Wilkes Barre Yankees. The event will take place on Saturday July 16th from 11a to 4.30p; and all proceeds benefit the Boy Scouts of America Northeast Pennsylvania Council Summer Camper Program. We are extremely excited and honored to plan this event to benefit such a good cause
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New Xerox DocuColor 8080 Press Gives Printers a Competitive Edge
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DocuColor 8080 was built with this in mind," said Eric Armour, president, Graphic Communications Business Group, Xerox Corporation. "Technology like the DocuColor 8080 gives printers the power to expand capabilities, meet production demands, strengthen relationships with customers and capture more revenue." Options customized for any print environment Printing paper weights up to 300 gsm at 80 pages per minute, the DocuColor 8080 features three different print servers – users can select the
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Xerox prepared to continue with reseller acquisitions
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Simon Quicke July 8, 2011 4:09 PM Xerox will continue buying resellers that it believes will add value to its business as it looks to get a deeper stake in the SME market. The vendor has already picked up Scotland-based Canon dealer Concept Group and Middlesex-based NewField IT this year but has not ruled out adding to the tally. Speaking to MicroScope Douraid Zaghouani (pictured), president of indirect channels group, said that it had bought some companies in both Europe and the US and it was
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AUXILIO Awarded Managed Print Services Contract with Holy Cross Hospital in Maryland
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New Jersey, New York and California with some of the country's largest and most prestigious hospitals and health care systems. About AUXILIO, Inc. AUXILIO, Inc. is the pioneer of managed print services for the health care industry, working exclusively with hospitals and hospital systems throughout the United States. We are vendor independent and provide intelligent solutions, a risk free program and guaranteed savings. AUXILIO assumes all costs related to print business environments through
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Any info on Xerox Y-Soft Software?
I am competing against Xerox's Y-Soft software. I am proposing Ricoh's PCS Director (PrintAudit) Any ideas?
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Print Audit’s New MPS Suite Offers User & Device Tracking for One Low Monthly Price w
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management and printer management. The Suite’s printer management functions allow dealers to remotely collect meter reads, automate supplies fulfillment and report service information for managing fleets of printers and MFPs. The system can track printing from all brands of local and networked devices, ensuring customers are always billed correctly and supplies are tracked accurately. The Suite’s printing management capabilities allow organizations to track exactly what is being printed, where and by
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Xerox Flies High as Cirque du Soleil Official Partner
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taking care of business behind the scenes, visit http://news.xerox.com/pr/xerox...5325&id=E0C18497 . To receive Xerox RSS news feeds, visit http://news.xerox.com/pr/xerox/rss.aspx . For open commentary, industry perspectives and views from events visit http://www.facebook.com/xeroxcorp , http://twitter.com/xeroxcorp , http://twitter.com/xeroxoffice , http://twitter.com/xeroxproduction , http://twitter.com/servicesatxerox , http://twitter.com/xeroxevents , http://www.xerox.com/blogs
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Discovery Business Systems has new owners
Art Post (Guest) ·
John and Angie Mytinger have acquired the Medford branch of Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Discovery Office Systems and renamed the venture Discovery Business Systems Inc. The Mytinger's previously founded Copy Rite Business Systems in Southern Oregon. Discovery Business Systems is a Kyocera products dealer, offering copiers, copier/printers, network printers, fax systems and managed print services. The office is at 4044 Crater Lake Ave., Suite G. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and
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Xerox partners with Medco Health Solutions on new communications system
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we print and process documents," Medco president and COO Kenneth Klepper, said in a statement. The new five-year agreement, extends Medco's current relationship with the Norwalk, CT-based Xerox. Medco noted it had already cut its costs for printing, updating and sharing documents, by 25%, thanks to Xerox managed print services as well as accelerating claims processing from Xerox subsidiary ACS, the companies said. Medco Health Solutions is a leading pharmacy benefit manager and boasts the largest
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First benchmarking report for Managed Print Services is now available
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The findings within this new report titled ‘Navigating the MPS Jungle’ should help senior management to benchmark the performance of their document infrastructure, choose a provider, and decide which services to include within their MPS contract. London, UK. 5 July 2011: The concept of Managed Print Services is rapidly being adopted due to increasing evidence of cost savings, efficiency, and productivity benefits. However, these benefits are not being echoed by all users of the service, and
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Fuji Xerox Co-Develops a Technology to Automatically Extract Side Effect Data From El
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Leverages Natural Language Processing Technology in Healthcare Organizations - TOKYO, July 12, 2011 -- As a result of joint study, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., the University of Tokyo Hospital and the University of Tokyo's Center for Knowledge Structuring have developed a technology to extract data related to side effects from electronic medical charts. Cooperating with other hospitals, the three parties will conduct test demonstrations of a system using this technology to verify its effectiveness
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eGain Applications to Be Implemented by Canon U.S.A.
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guided help) and offers them with GPS-style navigation. These eGain applications will enable agents to resolve a broad range of pre-sales and post-sales customer queries, while empowering customers with the same capability through web self-service. "Canon customers are using a variety of agent-assisted and self-service interaction channels," said Joseph Warren, Vice President and General Manager, Customer Support Operations, for Canon U.S.A. "With eGain 10 and its underlying Customer Interaction
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Going Paperless: The Technology is Ready … the People Are Not
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Going Paperless: The Technology is Ready … the People Are Not Wed, 2011-07-13 12:34 — Chris Knowlton I could set up a paperless mortgage shop for you if you’d like one. I have all kinds of tools at my disposal. Adobe has made massive strides in the past few years and I can use bar codes, e-folders, iPads, tablets, Netbooks, secure document sharing and turning a widescreen monitor sideways is one of my favorites. I can set up your copier/scanner/fax/printer so that never spits out a single piece
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Xerox Hosts Informative Analyst Briefing at Gil Hatch Center
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also spoke about Xerox' cloud strategy, saying, "We are minoring in cloud and using it to our benefit. Our managed print services play is cloud-based and has been for a long time. But a hybrid model is appropriate in many cases." Dr. Sophie Vandebroek, Chief Technology Officer and President of the Xerox Innovation Group, spoke about Xerox' rich history of innovation. She reported that Xerox: Invests $1.5 billion in RD each year, jointly with Fuji-Xerox Has brought to market more than 100 new
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Re: New Xerox 7740 Wide Format Scan Solution makes colour and black-and-white scanning si
That is an interesting announcement - especially in light of the attached announcement back in February.
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Contex Americas to Showcase New Raster-to-Vector Tool for
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, value, high performance, and superb image quality. For more information, please visit http://www.contex.com . CONTEX A/S Svanevang 2 DK - 3450 Alleroed, DENMARK Phone: +45 48 14 11 22 Fax: +45 48 14 01 22 http://www.contex.com info@contex.com Contex Americas, Inc. 365 Herndon Parkway Herndon, VA 20170 USA Phone +1 (703) 964-9850 Fax: +1 (703) 547-3375 http://www.contex.com salesamericas@contex.com
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TMG Selected to Provide University Print Services and University Mail Services
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Tinton Falls, NJ, United States, 07/11/2011 - The Millennium Group was selected to provide university print services and university mail services by a major New Jersey academic institution - TMGofficeservices.com. The agreement extends eight years of success where The Millennium Group staffs, equips and manages independent administrative and student university printing and mail service operations. “It’s gratifying to know that our university print and mail services make a positive difference in
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Competitive Info Sharp MX2600N
Does anyone have feedback on shortcoming of this model and/or similar Sharps? A competitor has placed a few of these in our area and I'd like to have some competitive information. The one I saw yesterday has only been in the field a month or so and seemed very noisy and was displaying "Maintenance Required TA". Anyone know what that means? Appreciate any help!
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Re: List your favorite funny copier moments
kade85 ·
Back in the days of the Savin 75ppm clamshell monsters,we had joy of receiving several calls on one at a local college campus print shop for spots on copies.We would go there,clean the gook of the glass,show the end user what we had done and leave.Well after several occurences of this happening around the same time of the day,we decided to go in early in the morning to see if we could discover the cause.What we discovered was totally unexpected.As you all probably remember these monsters ran
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Productivity Apps, Low Gloss Dry Ink & Color Accuracy Add Versatility to New ...
Art Post (Guest) ·
/xeroxcorp, http://twitter.com/xeroxcorp, http://twitter.com/xeroxoffice, http://twitter.com/xeroxproduction, http://twitter.com/servicesatxerox, http://twitter.com/xeroxevents, http://www.xerox.com/blogs, http://www.xerox.com/podcasts . XEROX®, XEROX and Design®, FreeFlow®, Fiery® and Profit Accelerator® are trademarks of Xerox Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. DocuColor® is used under license. Prices, features, specifications, capabilities, appearance and
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Contex Americas Adds Automatic
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year of purchasing the entry level solution. Wiseimage is available on Contex's ecommerce site http://usaparts.contex.com/software.aspx or through authorized resellers in North and South America. CONTEX A/S Svanevang 2 DK - 3450 Alleroed, DENMARK Phone: +45 48 14 11 22 Fax: +45 48 14 01 22 www.contex.com info@contex.com Contex Americas, Inc. 365 Herndon Parkway Herndon, VA 20170 USA Phone +1 (703) 964-9850 Fax: +1 (703) 547-3375 www.contex.com salesamericas@contex.com
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Contex Unveils Soft Pack Transport Case for
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. Sold worldwide in more than 80 countries, Contex solutions are recognized in a wide range of industries for reliability, value, high performance, and superb image quality. For more information, please visit www.contex.com . CONTEX A/S Svanevang 2 DK - 3450 Alleroed, DENMARK Phone: +45 48 14 11 22 Fax: +45 48 14 01 22 www.contex.com info@contex.com Contex Americas, Inc. 365 Herndon Parkway Herndon, VA 20170 USA Phone +1 (703) 964-9850 Fax: +1 (703) 547-3375 www.contex.com salesamericas
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Lyra Names Robert Palmer as Director of Its Managed Document Practice
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strategic business solutions associated with office printing and document-centered collaboration and communication. The MDP is currently comprised of Lyra’s Managed Print Advisory Service, Office Print Monitor, and Copier Lease Tracker and Copier Price Tracker. In the future, the MDP portfolio will include other data analysis services and tools that focus on document usage in business, such as vertical profiles of document usage, printer and MFP service metrics, and print applications usage metrics
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Tim Brien of OKI Data Americas Named to Everything Channel’s List of 100 People You D
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within a vendor organization who are responsible for driving the behind the scenes efforts in channel marketing, operations and sales. The “100 People You Don’t Know But Should” are the Directors, Vice Presidents and Officers who lead their channel program without fanfare, exhibiting the strength, determination and creativity required to support solution providers on a daily basis. “Tim Brien’s work in Managed Print Services has helped evolve OKI’s comprehensive MPS program, Total Managed Print
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Re: Ricoh vs. the Wide Format Competition Video
fisher ·
Ha!!! Kip totally ripped off Ricoh's design.
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Re: Competitive Info Sharp MX2600N
Jomama ·
I dont know too much about this model but The TA code is indicated when the maintenance total counter reaches 90% of the set value. Pretty soon the Print feature will be disabled if the code isn't cleared.(So don't tell 'em)
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Re: Xerox Hybrid Color Plan
Thanks a lot for detailed answers. Great help to understand Xerox PagePack Hybrid Color Pricing Model. -- Steve Haun
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Re: List your favorite funny copier moments
JasonR ·
Our supplies department called me over to help them with a customer. The customer wanted to order "white toner" instead of the "black toner" they normally get so they could print onto black paper.
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Re: New Xerox 7740 Wide Format Scan Solution makes colour and black-and-white scanning si
Art Post (Guest) ·
this release is for the UAE, from what I understand is that Xerox will continue wide format business just not in the US or Cananda.
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Re: File Folders
Do you have a sales engineer on staff? That would be the best person to get info from regarding your organization's capability to scan, index, store, and retrieve paper files in an electronic format. If you offer to your clients a true Document Management platform with a relational database for indexing files, then this exercise will help your understanding tremendously. Your organization may already have a NFR (not-for-resale) version of the software(s) and would benefit greatly by opening up
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Lexmark Wins Another Deal
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Leading printing and imaging solutions provider, Lexmark International Inc. (LXK) was recently awarded a contract by TBC Corporation, one of the largest marketers of automotive replacement tires and services. TBC awarded a three-year Managed Print Services (MPS) contract, intending to use Lexmark’s expertise in MPS to improve and optimize its printing environment and reduce print output costs across its more than 800 U.S. retail tire and automotive maintenance stores, as well as in its
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File Folders
Here's another question from a newbie. I started this position about 6 months ago, previous sales experience was in advertising. My predecessor's filing system consisted of paper file folders in several filing cabinets. Some files are organized by customer name, other files are organized by zip codes and some have street names. I'm in the process of organizing my own system and would like feedback from you guys on a filing system that works best. Personally I'd like to scan everything into a
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