This Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago Week of
First Week of May 2014
Real Copier Sales (10 Years Ago)
I was born in the late fifties, by the time I was three years old, Xerox had introduced the first plain paper copier. The Xerox 914 was capable of producing 400 copies per hour!.......read more here
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Ricoh launches colour laser printers with low total cost of ownership: Ricoh SP C252DN / SP C252SF MFP
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Amstelveen, April 2014 , Ricoh Europe (Netherlands BV) has introduced a new series of desktop A4 colour laser printers that combine a low total cost of ownership (TCO) with advanced features such as wireless printing from smartphones and tablet computers. The Ricoh SP C252DN printer and SP C252SF MFP are highly productive, with colour print speeds of up to 20 pages per minute. Automatic double-sided printing as well as wired and wireless network connectivity and USB 2.0 are standard. Gerard de
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Copier Dealers Need to Embrace the "Next Big Thing"
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selling and servicing typewriters. They were able to see the futureof the plain paper copier. The future of 3D printers is the revenue streams that will come from the 3D printers consumables. Much like toner, developer and paper, companies and businesses will still need to print something, maybe just not on paper. -=Good Selling=-
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Print Audit Introduces Embedded Application for KYOCERA Document Solutions America
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installs directly onto Kyocera HyPAS-enabled MFPs, allowing users to control and recover printing, copying, faxing and scanning costs. Seamlessly integrated with the desktop versions of Print Audit 6 and Print Audit Secure, Embedded is a complete print management solution that eliminates the need for external hardware. Kyocera’s HyPAS (Hybrid Platform for Advanced Solutions) is a powerful and scalable software solution platform that optimizes the performance of Kyocera’s award-winning MFPs through
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Xerox Names Parmetech Top Reseller in the U.S. for Managed Print Services
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of 593 percent. Last year, we increased our staff by 40 percent to support our rapidly growing operations and deployments of Xerox's Document Management Services and Solutions. We look forward to expanding our partnership with Xerox and taking our business to the next level," said Ana Fernandez-Parmet, president of Parmetech. Parmetech provides a portfolio of Managed Print Services, development expertise, industry knowledge, the technical expertise to assess the current print/copy/scan/fax
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Konica Minolta Launches Order Automation and Multi-Channel Marketing Solutions
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of solutions and production planning, BIS, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. "Our EngageIT XMedia and EngageIT Automation solutions focus on bringing a heightened level of performance, workflow efficiency, profitability and cost savings to today's print customers, ensuring they can count on Konica Minolta for complete graphic communication solutions." Konica Minolta bizhubâ®, bizhub PRESSâ®, bizhub SECUREâ® and bizhub MarketPlaceâ® are registered trademarks of Konica Minolta, Inc. All
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Konica Minolta Launches Business Innovation Center in North America
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engine of growth for Konica Minolta, Inc. businesses, the North American BIC will work closely with a diverse range of entities, to include research institutions, partner companies, venture capitalists and startups, to identify new business areas, products, services and technologies. The center will have a broad focus with the goal to add new business and product lines that will bring emerging and disruptive solutions into Konica Minolta's portfolio. The solutions can range from cloud-based
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Ricoh : Production Print Solutions Assigned Patent
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ByTargeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va.,April 30--Ricoh Production Print Solutions,Boulder, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,705,141) developed by five co-inventors for a method and system "for printing simple data utilizing a raster image processor in a computer system." The co-inventors areJean M. Aschenbrenner,Boulder, Colo., Joseph S. Czyszczewski,Longmont, Colo.,Nenad Rijavec,Longmont, Colo.,Arthur R. Roberts,Boulder, Colo., andJames T. Smith II,Boulder, Colo. The patent application
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NEW KODAK CREO IC-309 SERVER DRIVES KONICA MINOLTA BIZHUB FULL COLOR DIGITAL PRESSES
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Ramsey, N.J. – May 1, 2014 – Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. ( Konica Minolta ) and Kodak have released the latest technology development in the KODAK CREO Server family — the IC-309 Server. Developed specifically for Konica Minolta’s bizhub PRO C1060 / C1070 models, the company’s latest front-end technology innovation is designed on a new architecture with the same robustness and usability existing customers have appreciated for years. First demonstrated at Print ’13 in Chicago
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New Ricoh MP C401 C401SR Spec Review
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(letter legal) Scan2usb and Scan2sd card Print from USB Print from sd card Copy resolution 600 dpi Print resolution up to 1200x1200 dpi Duplex up to 90 lb index 2GB RAM and 320GB hard drive Standard Color Copy/Color Scan/Color Print Options? There are too many to list, however, the MP C401SR comes with internal stapler. There's one more feature that I need to read up on, and that's the Mandatory Security Information Printing feature. I'll have to read up on this one. It's getting late, good
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Ricoh Unveils Powerful Yet Easy-to-use Interactive Whiteboard For Business
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line of products, services and solutions, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com . | About Ricoh | Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo , Ricoh Group operates in about 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2014 , Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 2,236 billion yen (approx. 21.7 billion USD ). The majority of the company's revenue comes from
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Instructions for adjusted color output for the Ricoh SP831DN PCL 6 Print Driver.pdf
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ACE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS BECOMES A RICOH CERTIFIED MANAGED DOCUMENT & BUSINESS PROCESS SERVICES PROVIDER THROUGH CHAMPS PROGRAM
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Malvern, PA, May 6, 2014 - Malvern, PA, May 6, 2014 – Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced that ACE Business Solutions has been officially confirmed as a Ricoh Certified Managed Document Business Process Services Provider through the Ricoh 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
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Seems Ricoh offers a Color 24x36 model wide format MFP
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ok, pretty miffed as to why we dont have this Ricoh product in the US. Ricoh in JP is offering the CW1200 color wide format printer, copier and scanner (max 24x16), why are they not bringing this to market in the US?? http://www.ricoh.co.jp/pdf/342.../MP_CW_2200_1200.pdf
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Why Won't Ricoh Bring the CW 1200SP Color Wide Format to US Market?
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based products to scan or print from USB or SD. 5. We need to have Ricoh ICE available for all of the systems. Should I go on? I'd rather not.....I'm done ranting!!! -=Good Selling=-
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Xeretec acquisition of Bytes Document Solutions creates Xerox super VAR
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Xerox ’s largest Managed Print Services (MPS) provider n the UK, Xeretec ,has announced it has acquired Xerox reseller, Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), part of the Bytes Technology Group (BTG), to become the vendor’s largest reseller in Western Europe in terms of scale, managed print services and large production equipment sales. Xeretec says the deal, for an undisclosed amount, will accelerate the pace at which it will achieve its goal of becoming a £100m turnover organisation by September 1
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Re: Canon C5325
NC_ACC ·
Yes. Several levels of. There is a free mobile printing app thatallows basic printing and finishing (Canon Mobile Print). Then, Uniflow mobile print app etc...
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Re: New Ricoh MP C401 C401SR Spec Review
kathie ·
We bought one of the C300 when they were clearing them out and imagine my surprise to learn we also had to put toner in it! All the other printer based models come with starter cartridges. Anyway, the toner cost more than the fricken machine!!
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Re: Canon C5325
NC_ACC ·
Art, Forgot to mention.. MFP must have one or both of the following options: PS print kit w/additional memory approx $400 - $600 Direct print kit w/ additional memory approx $100 App is free
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Re: Canon C5325
NC_ACC ·
And more more.. With the Direct print and or PS print, access to PDF files from a USB memory stick is enabled... otherwise just TIFF, JPEG can be printed from the stick and scan to the stick
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Could you hold margins or sell more color wide format systems if Ricoh marketed the CW1200SP in the US?
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Re: Print Production Pricing
When I was a Color Sales Specialist I made a living selling to the Print Industry. I agree that David's approach is spot on. Taking the consultative approach is an added value that will allow you not to have to be the cheapest price. Having said that, we as a company have moved away from pursuing the Print for Pay market. For the following reasons: They are often difficult to get financed (But they know it) They are slow to pay their Service charges They want to negotiate away what they owe in
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Lance Trollop: Setting the record straight on the Wausau School Board's copier contracts
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instance pursuant to law or district policy. The legal memo also briefly summarized some of the reasoning behind the plan, including noting that the vast majority of the devices were already under contract with the selected vendor anyway, the cost savings, user satisfaction, saving of staff time and so on. Administration continues to recommend a competitive bidding process once the district is no longer tied to any vendor, agreements or device, which will occur in approximately four years. http
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Re: Xerox C75 Press Question
The embedded Fiery is quite a bit cheaper, but comes very basic. I have had a few instances in which my customer had to buy the Impose package afterwards. The Fiery EX server includes Compose, Impose, and the Color Profiler Suite with the ES-2000 Spectrophotometer, a must have for all Print-for-Pay shops.
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Re: Seems Ricoh offers a Color 24x36 model wide format MFP
If it's as much of a POS as the CW2200sp, I have no interest in selling it.
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Re: Seems Ricoh offers a Color 24x36 model wide format MFP
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I've had success selling it, we don't offer anything else in that price range
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Re: Seems Ricoh offers a Color 24x36 model wide format MFP
fisher ·
Given how Ricoh priced the CW2200wide format I figure the street price would likely be $9,000 or more for the 24" version. Doubt many people would be buying a $9,000 24" system.
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Re: NSI Auto Store Installs
No experience with Output Manager, but have been VERY pleased with PaperCut so far. We have an installation in Phase 1 right now with 19 MFPs, all embedded with PaperCut (prox card authentication), XMedius Fax Server, PSI Capture Intelligent Routing, and DocAudit. Should be interesting to say the least!
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Intellinetics Announces New IntelliCloud(TM) Growth Strategy in Action: Muratec America, Inc. Partners With Intellinetics to Provide IntelliCloud(TM) to Its Reseller Network
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Muratec America, Inc. "The Intellinetics solution is easy to use, affordable, enterprise grade and directly integrates with our Muratec multi-function printers (MFPs)." IntelliCloud is optimized for price-sensitive SMBs that want to easily capture documents and connect them to business processes, reducing costs and increasing information accessibility, security and compliance. It enables resellers to deliver these capabilities as a device feature and/or as a managed services value-add to increase
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Ricoh is charging their customers to accept a phone call for meter reads or supplies!
Check out the article I wrote on TheCopierNetwork and let me know what you think about this practice. http://www.thecopiernetwork.co...-of-Customer-Service Vince McHugh
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NovaCopy Announces the Next Generation of Creaform GO!SCAN 3D Portable Scanners
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, manufacturing, energy, research, education and consumer products. “Creaform scanning technology guarantees a quick, reliable (as well as affordable) means for customers to enhance their 3D printing and prototyping processes,” said NovaCopy’s President of 3D Printer Solutions, Melissa Ragsdale. “These new scanners will provide NovaCopy’s customers a level of unmatched accuracy throughout their entire product development process.” 3D scanners are used in reverse engineering processes or product development
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Re: Light Production Color CPC Check
Color typically is $0.049-$0.065 We have not done any color below .04...yet. Our Xerox accounts come native with single-click 11x17 so we honor that. Other units we carry are case by case. Competitively, we end up single-clicking more often than not. Basically Print Shops have all become privy to this now and for the most part they expect it...not much we can do if we want the business.
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Re: NSI Auto Store Installs
Art: Not sure if this would help but there is a setting in the ABBYY componenet for allow pass through. This should allow the original file to pass through. I'm not sure if this would happen before the OCR process or after. If it happened before, the final product could be appended to differentiate the OCR'd document or directed to a different location.
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Re: Print Production Pricing
I'd like to bring this back...I think a lot of this topic has to do with how specialized the Commercial Printer is. Is this a Printer that offers something unique, or just wants to get the best price on their Digital machine to compete with someone who might still be using offset? I would say the majority of my Commercial Printers want the same thing, good image quality, accurate registration, and responsive support. Does that warrant a discount, no, but in the big picture, we're not providing
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Re: Question for those who work at multi-line Dealers
We are Konica and Xerox..KM by far is the superior product until you get to Production in which case we are pretty 50-50. Xerox, at least for us, offers some price advantage, especially in the entry-level to mid-range. Also, we are no longer the exclusive dealer of either as Xerox Agents are popping up everywhere.
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Re: Ricoh MP C401
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Any word if these address the mixed original scanning issue with the C300/C400?
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Re: Ricoh MP C401
The addressed the mixed original issue on the C300/C400 post launch. A firmware update corrects it. That being said, I assume the C401 will be able to recognize mixed sized originals.
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