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Art Post · 2/20/148:16 PM

Newest A4 Monochrome Models Save Space, Time and Energy Ramsey, NJ – February 19, 2014 – Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) today announces the launch of the bizhub 4020 and bizhub 3320 monochrome All-in-One (AIO) printers. Combining compact size with advanced multifunction capabilities, the bizhub 4020 and bizhub 3320 A4 AIOs are ideal for small- to medium-sized print environments that demand productivity and enhanced usability. The bizhub 4020 and bizhub 3320 AIOs

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Art Post · 2/18/148:40 PM

offerscomprehensive security assessment and IT services through its AllCovered division. Improving operational efficiencies and reducing costs - With costs rising, healthcare providers need toassess all operating costs and implement solutions positioned to improveefficiencies and minimize waste without affecting quality of care. KonicaMinolta offers proven solutions that help drive down unnecessary printingcosts, eliminate analog fax lines, streamline workflows and businessprocesses, and improve document

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Art Post · 2/20/148:06 PM

with Hyland to give customers the highest level of technical support. And they get continuous OnBase training and the backing of Hyland, a highly respected channel-friendly vendor. In addition to achieving Diamond status, Konica Minolta has also earned Silver Partner status for sales performance and excellence in 2013. Click here to find out more about Konica Minolta's ECM solutions. About Konica Minolta Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is a leader in advanced document management

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Art Post · 2/17/148:55 PM

technology/scanning, making it an ideal solution for a variety of scanning environments. “Partnering with The Crowley Company to offer the UScan+ through Konica Minolta sales channels will allow us to expand our product offerings further to include micrographics equipment,” says Kevin Kern, senior vice president, Marketing, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. The UScan+ will seamlessly integrate (via PC) with all Konica Minolta desktop printers and bizhub MFPs to support film-based image

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Art Post · 2/20/148:39 PM

and nationally recognized leader in business technology and service since 1986, Loffler Companies has a history of giving back to the community, recently winning the prestigious Jefferson Award for Public Service. About Loffler Companies, Inc.: Loffler Companies is the leading business technology and services provider in the upper Midwest, providing integrated office technology and services partnered with leading brands such as Canon , Konica Minolta, HP, Toshiba, Microsoft, NEC, OCE, ShoreTel

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Art Post · 2/20/149:17 PM

Malvern, PA, February 20, 2014 - Commercial printing businesses can now easily expand into a growing signage and display market with new wide-format color graphics printers from Ricoh Americas Corporation that employ aqueous latex ink – a more environmentally-friendly ink as compared to traditional petroleum-based inks due to its lower levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The new RICOH Pro L4160 and RICOH Pro L4130 deliver high print productivity and quality as a result of technological

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Art Post · 2/20/149:20 PM

Malvern, PA, February 20, 2014 - Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced that Halsey Griffith Office Solutions has been officially confirmed as a Ricoh Certified Production Printing Professional Services Provider through Ricoh’s CHAMPS program for dealer transformation. CHAMPS is Ricoh’s innovative program designed to help dealers transform their business model to meet customers’ most pressing information management needs. The program qualifies dealers to analyze customer business

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Art Post · 2/23/1412:35 AM

! What's New Different Stapeless Internal Finisher (option) , I've never seen this on a copier before, for those that care about the environment, I would tend to think that this one little feature could win quite a few deals. How it may work, there may be a crimping device in the finisher that allows up to 5 sheets of paper to be bound together. Envelope Printing is now a standard feature. In our previous model, we needed to add an envelope tray. No longer with the new "03" series, you can print

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Art Post · 2/21/1411:07 PM

series of printers over the years," said Littleton. "I had real world colleagues who were telling me how well this equipment worked for them—that was a major selling point." On more than one occasion, Littleton had gone so far as to participate in a demonstration of the OcÉ VarioPrint 6200 and was "always pleased" with its performance. When it came time to get down to business and seriously consider acquiring new equipment, it was the system's reliability, speed, operating cost and ability to

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Art Post · 2/19/145:37 PM

screen MFPs including the MP 301 and MP C305 models. PCS Director is a Ricoh OEM software tool that can help Ricoh sales branches and independent dealers win more deals and keep more customers by offering a high-demand print management solution that adds thousands of dollars in savings to their proposals. PCS Director Embedded version 6.1.9 brings powerful cost recovery capabilities to small screen Ricoh MFPs. Embedded enables organizations to track walk-up print, copy, scan and fax jobs

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Art Post · 2/20/149:03 PM

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Art Post · 2/18/148:34 PM

known as the " Paperless Maturity Roadmap " and address the following areas: Enterprise Output Management Enterprise Managed Print Services Enterprise Fax Server Strategies Enterprise Forms Management Enterprise Point of Service Scanning Enterprise Content Management Business Process Optimization WHAT: Ricoh will be exhibiting a suite of healthcare information services and solutions that transform paper medical documents into electronic information, substantially improving the input, processing

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Art Post · 2/16/142:39 PM

systems represent Ricoh's entry into the signage and vehicle wrap industry.The Ricoh Pro wide format system willbeable to produce color signs, banners, wraps, point-of-sale displays with many different types of substrates. The maximum printing width of the Pro L4130 is55.6 inches and the Pro L4160 is 63.8 inches. In addition, these system are monsters, weighing in at 447 lbs and 529 lbs. One of the items I noticed on the spec page is that these systems use Latex ink. I did some quick research and

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Art Post · 2/18/1410:56 PM

I would like to see with a refresh or upgrade of the Ricoh W3601. 1. Auto Document Feeder: Darn tootin, no one else has one, and it would be an awesome selling feature. 2. Dump Plotworks: Get plotworks listed as an option or maybe go back to Ratio US and work a deal with them for the new plotbase. 3. Embedded USB Print Scan: Every other Ricoh MFP just about comes standard with this feature. Why do you have to purchase a print controller if all you have to do is print .pdf's? Hint to Ricoh

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Art Post · 2/21/1411:14 PM

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Art Post · 2/19/145:54 PM

://www.pacificoffice.com ) is a leader in managed print services and office solutions. Since 1976, Pacific has grown to become the industry's largest independent dealership with over twenty locations throughout Washington , Oregon , California , Arizona , New Mexico , Utah and Colorado . The company is also one of the world's largest dealers for Konica Minolta, Canon, Ricoh, Sharp, Lexmark, Toshiba, and HP copiers, printers, faxes and multifunctional devices, as well as Muratec faxes. At Pacific

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Art Post · 2/20/148:40 PM

but positive things about this series of printers over the years," said Littleton. "I had real world colleagues who were telling me how well this equipment worked for them -- that was a major selling point." On more than one occasion, Littleton had gone so far as to participate in a demonstration of the OcÉ VarioPrint 6200 and was "always pleased" with its performance. When it came time to get down to business and seriously consider acquiring new equipment, it was the system's reliability

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Art Post · 2/17/1410:15 PM

efforts in your dealership or your direct branch, For the first time ever The Week in Imaging and The Print4Pay Hotel will give Global recognition to the best of the best for our industry!! -=Good Selling=-

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Art Post · 2/18/148:23 PM

blank-page removal and proof and job review modes, but they'll also benefit from the unit's superbly energy-efficient design," said BLI Test Technician Joe Tischner. Aside from the e-STUDIO2550C's compact and energy-saving design - touting one of the smallest footprints in its class - the MFP integrates a Super Sleep Mode reducing power consumption to a mere 1.5 watts while in this setting. For additional energy savings, Toshiba's color printing product couples a low-temperature fusing toner and

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Art Post · 2/19/145:43 PM

, InterSystems. "We look forward to a long and fruitful partnership that helps clients around the world to capture, share, understand, and act upon real-time healthcare data, combining our strategic interoperability foundation with Ricoh's innovative technologies and solutions to enable safer, more effective and more efficient care." Ricoh will have ongoing demos of the solution at their HIMSS booth #3739 and InterSystems will have demos at their HIMSS booth #2741 on Monday, Feb. 24 at 4:00 p.m

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Art Post · 2/17/148:48 PM

I;m stuck! I have a W3601 in the field that is at the end of the lease (4 months left) , and the meter is 99k square, customer wants ability to print and copy in color. The average LF volume is around 1,000 lf per month. Which is about 500 "D" size prints, do you think the CW2200SP can hadle that volume and last 32 months??

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Art Post · 2/20/149:13 PM

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Art Post · 2/17/148:57 PM

services, real estate and capital asset management, manufacturing and logistics. The organizations selected for The Global Outsourcing 100 will be recognized at the IAOP 2014 Outsourcing World Summit, currently taking place in Orlando, Florida. Canon Business Process Services is exhibiting at the Summit with experts on hand to help organizations better understand how accounts payable, records, print and other outsourcing services can help reduce costs and drive efficiency. Official Global Outsourcing

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Art Post · 2/17/1410:04 PM

Thanx for taking a look at that. Other copier companies are doing well, in fact KonicaMinolta is doing very well. Ricoh has turned it around also, one of the biggest factors is the yen has devalued against the US dollar. Copiers a core business for Sharp?? I don't think so... Yes, Sharps financial health is better, but isn't it just a matter of time before that massive debt becomes to much to bear? Art

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Art Post · 2/20/148:16 PM

Kind of looks like a Lexmark, right?

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txeagle24 · 2/18/1411:06 AM

It's target Average Monthly Volume is almost 1,200 LF per month, so you should be fine. Hopefully, their page page coverage is low, because those print heads and ink add up quickly.

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Art Post · 2/18/149:32 PM

Fort Worth, TX— ECi Software Solutions ( www.ECiSolutions.com ), a leader in industry-specific information technology solutions, today announced the availability of an integration between its FMAudit solution and the ROI Print Manager software from Print Control Software Inc. ECi’s premier Managed Print Services (MPS) solution, FMAudit, and ROI Print Manager software combines leading technology for understanding and managing users’ printing data. With one click, FMAudit clients can launch ROI

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Art Post · 2/19/149:08 PM

productivity use. It includes the scanner, an intuitive touchscreen, Nextimage Repro's powerful software features, and a height-adjustable stand with the option to operate the screen from left or right. IQ Quattro MFP2GO is an easy plug-and-play solution that turns a printer into a copier. It includes the scanner, MFP2GO controller, and a low or high stand. IQ Quattro MFP Repro can turn all new or existing printers into powerful copiers. It includes the scanner, intuitive Nextimage Repro software

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Art Post · 2/23/144:01 PM

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Kitz · 2/17/143:42 PM

Do you know if this is a Ricoh print engine?

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SalesServiceGuy · 2/17/146:43 PM

I suspect Sharp probably uses the business year that ends in March 2013 as their FY2013 4th quarter. Slide 19 is most related to the copier business. It does not indicate that they are doing great but I would not expect that neither are most copier vendors. Generally, Sharp's financial health has improved considerably.