This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

Art Post · 9/25/1411:43 PM

Konica Minolta and Kodak Showcase New Front End Solutions for bizhub Presses at Graph Expo 2014 Industry Leaders Drive and Manage Digital Press Solutions With Common Production Process RAMSEY, NJ --(Marketwired - September 25, 2014) - Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. ( Konica Minolta ) and Kodak today announces the release of two new KODAK CREO Servers that will drive Konica Minolta's fully managed monochrome and color digital press solutions for commercial print and graphics

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Art Post · 9/24/147:46 AM

RAMSEY, NJ --(Marketwired - September 23, 2014) - Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. ( Konica Minolta ) today announces the launch of FileAssist, a fully-managed file storage and collaborative solution developed exclusively for Konica Minolta and hosted by All Covered -- Konica Minolta's Managed IT services provider. The company's first cloud solution, FileAssist is ideal for businesses of all sizes looking to collaborate and share information in a secure environment, while also

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Art Post · 9/30/1410:35 PM

Convention Center in Chicago. As the industry continues to evolve, facing increased customer demands and significant technological shifts, print and marketing service providers are developing new applications and making existing applications more efficient. This year in booth No. 613, Canon will demonstrate how the Company's solutions help enable creativity without boundaries and inspire innovation. "Canon's Graph Expo booth demonstrates the Company's commitment to advancing digital print solutions

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Art Post · 9/25/1411:38 PM

more efficient. This year in booth No. 613, Canon will demonstrate how the Company’s solutions help enable creativity without boundaries and inspire innovation. “Canon's Graph Expo booth demonstrates the Company's commitment to advancing digital print solutions and their strong industry presence in large-format and production printing,” said Dave Erlandson, GM of Caslon PODi. “The Company’s wide range of offerings allows them to tailor solutions to enhance customers’ existing applications and new

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Art Post · 9/24/147:43 AM

The Ricoh ProTM C7100X series opens new markets and new opportunities for graphic arts Ricoh Europe , London 24 September 2014 – Today Ricoh announces the Ricoh Pro C7100X series of digital colour cut sheet presses, ideal for small to medium sized graphic arts business, direct mailers, service bureaux, digital printers and centralised reprographic departments. Its features are designed to support print service providers seeking to increase their current digital printing capacity, enter new

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Art Post · 9/25/1411:20 PM

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Art Post · 9/24/1411:06 PM

offers more flexibility inprint infrastructure design and multivendor support to address customerswith heterogeneous printer environments. “Today’s multifunction devices have advanced to more than just a printcentric device,they have evolved to be and essentialelementinautomating and or optimizing businesses processes,” said Ron GlazResearch Director at IDC. “A key MFP enabler is the incorporation of intelligent document solution software. Canon’s uniFLOW V5.3enhancementsare very timely and relevant

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Art Post · 9/28/148:30 PM

@breakawaycom.com to schedule a demo. 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 products, solutions and services that improve the

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Art Post · 9/24/1411:12 PM

located at 1899 Preston White Drive, Reston, VA 20191 USA, telephone: 703/264-7200 , fax: 703/620-9187 , e-mail: info@gasc.org . ### Media Contact: Deborah Corn Principal, PrintMediaCentr (PMC) E-Mail: deborah@printmediacentr.com Twitter: @PrintMediaCentr #GRAPHEXPO, #PRINTERVERSE

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GIntel · 9/25/149:28 AM

I heard a rumor of this a while back, and considering Toshiba's BW production is based on the previous Ricoh BW production series, a new line is certainly due.

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Art Post · 9/24/147:41 AM

The RICOH (Booth 1931) Pro C7110x is a high speed, five color production class laser printer. This new edition to the Ricoh production print portfolio can print at speeds up to 90ppm based upon A4. The RICOH Pro C7110x has a maximum sheet size of 13x19.2; a maximum monthly volume of 240,000 based on A4 and a duty cycle of 700k. The RICOH Pro C7110x prints at 1200x4800dpi and delivers VCSEL image quality on a wide variety of media, from tree-based to synthetics and envelopes. This model has the

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Art Post · 9/26/143:57 PM

Does anyone know when this copier was introduced to the US market?

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Art Post · 9/28/149:39 PM

the years we had three different fax partners. They were Teli (Sweden), Mitsubishi and then Brother. Fax sales in the eighties were HOT! Every business had to have at least one, and if you were fortunate to have some large accounts you couldn'tkeep them in stock. Selling fax machines was just like selling copiers, phone calls, newspaper ads, knocking on the doors was the way to fill your funnel. Here in the NY metro area, I can remember cold calling and always either going up against a dealer

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kathie · 9/25/144:27 PM

OH, I’m Miss Eagle Eye when I go anywhere!! The other local dealer lost his partnership with Ricoh (he was selling Kyoceras instead) so I am always looking for his customers to touch base with too. Sounds like you are in a much larger market than I am. Rarely, do I find even an in-house IT person much less someone who is in charge of Office technology. All the larger companies here are branch offices and decisions are not made locally. My FIRST question is always are you a local company?

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Art Post · 9/24/1411:15 PM

customers and managed pages for Impact.” About Preton Preton Ltd. is a leading provider of advanced software for reducing printing costs. Preton’s award winning PretonSaver™ software offers enterprises and SMBs revolutionary savings on toner, ink and paper consumption and associated printing costs. Preton's patented Pixel Optimizer™ technology intelligently identifies and deletes wasteful pixels during printing, providing substantial savings without visibly reducing quality. Preton customers include

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jswinberlin · 9/25/1410:41 AM

We just replaced a customer's Canon with a Savin MP5002. This is a large medical office which receives hundreds of faxes per day. The Canon was forwarding the faxes to a folder in Paper Port that they use to route the information into their EMR software. The problem is the Canon was sending the faxes as single page PDFs which they like because they can then stack the ones for each patient as needed (they may receive several pieces of patient information from the hospital and it is easier to

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kathie · 9/25/147:28 PM

Oh, I do.. . That’s funny you say, ‘Does the copier just show up?’ Because I hear that a lot and that’s exactly what happens. My questions are a little more involved but I didn’t want to type all of that out. Even the little oilfield services places have HQ’s somewhere else and they go directly to the Ricoh Corp. I don’t say, ‘Is the decision-maker here’, exactly, but I do get to that answer. FedEx, Wells Fargo, Conoco-Phillips, to name a few of our Nationals, don’t even know they are getting

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Art Post · 9/29/1411:08 PM

sharing, technology demonstrations, and networking. The events also offered attendees a chance to learn what Canon Solutions America, the leader in inkjet technology with 44 percent % market share (W.E. and U.S.)1, is doing to keep its customers ahead of the curve. Cutsheet Goes High Speed The Inkjet Insider Summit,(held September 19-21) offered attendees a preview and live demonstration of the highly anticipated Niagara cut-sheet technology predicted to revolutionize the high-speed inkjet space

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Art Post · 9/25/1411:27 PM

orientation,” said CJ Cannata, SVP, brand strategy and development, THE CANNATA REPORT, “and it does much more. When Frank launched the survey in 1985, he gave the dealer community a voice. The survey and resulting awards is effectively a social media concept nearly 25 years ahead of its time.” 2014’s winners are: Ricoh Company, Ltd. for “MFP Manufacturer of the Year,” Lexmark International, Inc. for “Printer Manufacturer of the Year,” Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. for “Best-in-Class

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Art Post · 9/27/1411:58 PM

September 25, 2014 One of the greatest points of distinction between top sales performers and everyone else isaverage sale size. Great salespeople typically make much larger sales than the rest of theteam -- often by a factor of four to 10 times that of the typical salesperson. But how is this possible when Salesperson A and Salesperson B are selling the same productor service? The answer is that their approaches to selling are completely different. Here are thefive secrets that top performers

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copyme · 9/28/149:15 PM

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GIntel · 9/28/142:18 PM

Hey Art, Do you mean the Kyocera KM-2250 (pre-Taskalfa brand), if so it launched October 12, 2004. - Jake

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Kitz · 9/29/143:19 PM

Cool features yes, image quality not yet up to Ricoh

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Old Glory · 9/25/144:44 PM

ask who, and if they answer with something that resembles a Home Office answer, you need to followup with something like, "So a copier just shows up here without any input from you?" If they say yes, I still ask if they are happy with their service. You are there, you might as well ask the questions because I can tell you from personal experience (30 years worth) that you are giving up way too easily. Just because they aren't local does not mean that they have a central purchasing agent who

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fisher · 9/24/148:52 AM

NCP scanning is not new. Its been on Ricoh machines for at least 5 years.

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Art Post · 9/25/1411:29 PM

Print Audit® Releases Secure Version 1.2.3 with Support for Windows 8.1 September 25, 2014 Calgary, Alberta - September 25, 2014 - Print Audit®, the company that helps office equipment dealers grow their businesses, has released an update for the Client component of its secure release and pull-printing solution, Print Audit Secure . Print Audit Secure version 1.2.3 adds compatibility with Windows 8.1, as well as stability enhancements. Print Audit Secure is a print management service which

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Art Post · 9/27/1412:13 AM

technology to synthetic materials specifically designed for emerging Memjet-class wide format inkjet printers. The new Mohawk Inkjet media line consists of four substrates designed to support a wide variety of printing applications. New products include: Mohawk Inkjet DuPont Tyvek - Waterfast matte inkjet receptive coating Mohawk Inkjet Polyester Pressure Sensitive Permanent Adhesive– Aqueous matte coated polyester Mohawk Inkjet Matte Backlit Film– Aqueous matte coated polyester backlit display film

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Art Post · 9/24/1411:00 PM

projectors weigh approximately six pounds and are backed by Canon’s three-year parts and labor limited warranty and Projector Protection Program (Triple P). The new Canon portable projectors and their native resolutions are as follows: “The addition of these five new portable projectors enhances our abilityto meet the needs of diverse and growing presentation markets andapplications. Color reproduction and image quality is paramount in allCanon technologies, and these new projectors offer our customers

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Art Post · 9/28/148:42 PM

I'm not sure, I questioned someone about the model number an assumed it was a taskalpha, but it may be the system you mentioned. I need to call them back or stop in. Thanx for the info

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GCBS · 9/29/145:02 AM

There is the tasklfa 2550ci which is discontinued, or the taskalfa 2551ci. 2550ci doesn't have dsdp capability. 2551ci is much more versatile. There some other cool features.

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kathie · 9/24/146:26 PM

Not so much. It’s such a weird deal, like trying to sell cars door to door. I usually say something like: ‘I was in the building seeing…whoever, and thought I would stop by and introduce myself and the company that I represent. Then I leave them with a flyer that shows a couple of different machines and monthly costs. I never got any training so would appreciate any suggestions that you have, Art.

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Art Post · 9/24/1410:49 PM

When I cold call in person, I'm after a few things. Usually I do not bring a brochure unless I already know who the DM is. Here's what I want when I get in: The name of the DM for Office Technology The name of the gatekeeper When the DM maybe available or best time to call Does the DM have an assistant that will schedule appointments, if so what is the name of the assistant I also want to get a good look around, make mental notes of any hardware that I see. My old boss used to ask to use the...

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Art Post · 9/24/148:59 AM

fisher, ok, I'll admit I don't know everything and this was the first time I read that. Thus, I thought it was new!!! Thanx for the heads up on this.

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Former Member · 9/24/149:00 AM

This is an automated response. Carl Mica is currently out of the office and has limited access to email and voice mail. He will return to the office on September 26th. Thank you.

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txeagle24 · 9/24/145:14 PM

Does anyone know if this is replacing the Pro C651/C751 series, or is this an additional product series? That product seems long-overdue for updating.

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Art Post · 9/24/145:19 PM

I've been told this product is not replacing any existing products it is in addition to the existing production line

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Kitz · 9/25/147:45 AM

This unit is a net new production unit and will not replace the C651/C751.

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Ricoh914 · 9/26/1412:14 PM

I beg to differ. There is no reason it will not take that spot. It is available in 4 and 5 development configurations.

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Art Post · 9/26/1412:27 PM

Re: The Ricoh ProTM C7100X series opens new markets and new opportunities for graphic arts

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Art Post · 9/26/1412:28 PM

Does anyone have a hint as to what the MSRP will be for the base unit? The quote above might lead me to believe that this would be in the same ball park as the KM pro C1070.

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Art Post · 9/30/1410:22 PM

, offering print buyers a broader application range and greater value. “Brands are challenging PSPs to redefine traditional print deliverables and timetables, requesting creative new printed pieces in short runs with deadlines that are only feasible with digital printing,” said Yishai Amir, vice president and general manager, Americas Graphics Solutions Business, HP. “At GRAPH EXPO 14, we’re demonstrating new presses, unique applications and introducing HP Service Advantage to help our customers

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Art Post · 9/30/1410:31 PM

large sized businesses. With decades of expertise in the market and seamless integration with leading ERP software, IntelliChief takes companies of all sizes paperless with a typical ROI of less than one year. Users can create, capture, manage, archive, retrieve, and distribute mission-critical documents directly from their familiar ERP screens, eliminating the need for filing cabinets, storage facilities, fax machines, copiers, and paper files. Visit http://www.intellichief.com .

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