This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

Art Post · 1/8/1511:12 PM

perform at their optimal, productively and securely. Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia Konica Minolta Business Solutions, a leading company in advanced document management technologies and Managed IT Services for the desktop to the print shop, brings together unparalleled advances in security, print quality and network integration via its award-winning line of bizhub® multi-function products (MFPs); bizhub PRESS® and bizhub PRO® production print systems; magicolor® color printers; and pagepro

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Art Post · 1/15/1510:52 PM

BLI Announces Color Printers and Printer MFP Pick Winners Date: January 14, 2015 Contact: Anthony Polifrone Tel: 201-488-0404 ext. 39 Fax: 201-488-0461 E-mail: info@buyerslab.com January 14, 2015 – Hackensack (NJ) – Announcing the winners of its highly anticipated Winter 2015 Pick awards in the color printer and MFP category, Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI), the world’s leading independent tester of document imaging products, awarded models from Konica Minolta, Ricoh and Samsung. Presented twice a

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Art Post · 1/15/1511:04 PM

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Art Post · 1/13/1510:35 PM

rate of just one per 175,000 impressions. “To run a combined total of 1.75 million impressions with just ten misfeeds recorded is remarkable,” Mikolay said. And not only is Ricoh’s current line-up highly reliable, they’re productive too. The devices consistently outperformed the competition when printing BLI’s job stream test, which is the most important measure of print productivity, as it provides users with a measure of how the device will perform in a real-world office setting. Award-Winning

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Art Post · 1/13/1510:37 PM

BLI Honors Five Vendors with Awards in the A3 Category Date: January 13, 2015 Contact: Anthony Polifrone Tel: 201-488-0404 ext. 39 Fax: 201-488-0461 E-mail: info@buyerslab.com January 13, 2015 – Hackensack (NJ) – Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) today announced the winners of its coveted Pick awards for the Winter 2015 season, naming Kyocera, Ricoh, Canon, Xerox and Samsung as the victors in the A3 realm. Ricoh also took home an Outstanding Achievement in Ease of Use award for its Smart Operation

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Art Post · 1/12/1510:13 PM

. The Canon imageFORMULA DR-M1060 is recommended by BLI for workgroups and departments with periodic A3 scanning needs. Stay tuned for upcoming Buyers Lab Pick, Outstanding Achievement and Line of the Year award announcements in the following categories: January 13 : A3 MFPs January 14 : A4 Printer and Printer MFPs January 15 : Energy-Efficient A3 and A4 Printer- and Copier-based devices About Buyers Laboratory LLC Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) is the world's leading independent provider of

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Art Post · 1/13/1510:41 PM

and Japan , Ringdale has a strong global partner network and relationships with the world's leading printing manufacturers including Canon, Hewlett Packard, Lexmark, Konica Minolta, Kyocera Mita, Oce, OKI, Ricoh, Samsung, Sharp, Toshiba and Xerox. About Buyers Laboratory LLC Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) is the world's leading independent provider of analytical information and services to the digital imaging and document management industry. For over 50 years, buyers have relied on BLI's

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Art Post · 1/8/1511:10 PM

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Wednesdaythat Canon Virginia, Inc. (CVI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc., will invest $100 million to expand its operation in the City of newport news. Canon Virginia, Inc. will add additional printer cartridge production lines and increase its toner manufacturing and filling. Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions. With approximately $36 billion in global revenue

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Art Post · 1/12/151:25 PM

end of the year for overages! Maybe we need to be proactive and give our customers a way to control printing. It's no secret that I'm a fan of Print Audit, and it's no secret that they are a Premium Sponsor of the Print4Pay Hotel. What is a secret, is that I was a fan of Print Audit before they were a sponsor. My goal for 2015 is to open the talk track of overages and the Who, What, Where, When, Why How of Print. -=Good Selling=-

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Art Post · 1/9/159:44 AM

Nothing is for FREE, we've heard this over and over through out our sales careers right? We share information, we are the relentless, we drive the sales, we seek new customers, we (Print4Pay Hotel) members are the top sellers in the industry. Our need for knowledge translates to increased sales, generates additional GP and above all helps us provide for our families. Without a doubt, the Premium Members of the Print4Pay Hotel are the best of the best. However, we all didn't start out that way

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Art Post · 1/10/1510:08 AM

," Gralla said. Neither Gralla nor Milberg would reveal the sale price, but Costar, a company that tracks commercial real estate data, listed it as $38 million. Sharp did not return calls seeking comment. The company is the U.S. sales and marketing subsidiary of Osaka, Japan-based Sharp Corp. It has been in Mahwah since the 1980s. The office building is completely occupied by Sharp, and the warehouse is largely rented by the discount retailer Amazing Savings, Milberg said. Sitex, founded in 2001, has

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Art Post · 1/15/1510:54 PM

IRVINE, Calif., Jan 15, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Kofax® Limited (nasdaq and lse:KFX), a leading provider ofsoftware to simplify and transform the First Mile™ of customer engagements, today announced a global partnership with XeroxCorporation. Under the agreement, Xerox will sell, market, deploy andsupport Kofax TotalAgility® to help organizations extend thevalue of Xerox’s managed print and document management services andproducts. Kofax’s sales and services staff will support Xerox in

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Art Post · 1/15/153:59 PM

, straightforward scanning and support for multiple ways of printing from mobile devices. What else helps set HP apart from the competition? In a word: value. “HP has always been the industry leader when it comes to packing their color printers and MFPs with value-added features that help users print faster, smarter and be more efficient at their jobs,” said Orr. “Combine this with the superior management and color control software that helps administrators lower costs and heighten security, and you’ve

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Art Post · 1/12/1510:17 PM

Datamax-O’Neil Announces Partnership with Print Audit® on Managed Print Service Solutions January 12, 2015 Orlando, Florida - January 12, 2015 - Datamax-O’Neil, a global provider of industrial-grade label and receipt-printing solutions, announced today its partnership with Print Audit®, the only provider of both device and user-based Managed Print Service (MPS) solutions as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. Since the launch of its new H-8308p label printer, Datamax-O’Neil now integrates

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jswinberlin · 1/14/159:24 AM

Ricoh, Kyocera or any other manufacturer develop a printer that rivals the HP when printing envelopes?My service department believes the HP does a better job because they use a fusing sleeve instead of a fusing roller which displaces the pressure more evenly with more surface area allowing the air to escape better. We are constantly striving to displace competitors' printers and spearhead print management. However, printers are very personal and most of the time if someone has a printer they print

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Art Post · 1/12/1510:15 PM

of image processing features and easy to use design, they both offer a lower than average total cost of ownership for similarly equipped models.” Stay tuned for upcoming Buyers Lab Pick, Outstanding Achievement and Line of the Year award announcements in the following categories: January 13 : A3 MFPs January 14 : A4 Printer and Printer MFPs January 15 : Energy-Efficient A3 and A4 Printer- and Copier-based devices About Buyers Laboratory LLC Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) is the world's leading

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Art Post · 1/12/151:44 PM

The “New Math” For Managed PrintServices by Print Audit One of the difficulties I’ve always had with MPS as it is marketed today, is the apparent conflict of interest that exists between MPS providers and their customers, under the Cost-Per-Page (CPP) billing model. Let me first point out that CPP is not a requisite of MPS. In the Managed Services space generally, Cost-Per-User or per Seat billing is more common. Nevertheless, most of the businesses I encounter who provide MPS in North America

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Art Post · 1/13/1510:32 PM

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Art Post · 1/15/1510:47 PM

By Laurie Weed, Solutions Consultant, Print Audit Referring to my blog on October 30, 2014, “ 5 Steps to Becoming an MPS Superstar ” I shared the five steps in a selling cycle that we all use to sell almost any product or service. The names of the sales steps could be changed but the activity remains the same. What MPS/MS Sales Professionals need to become Super Stars: What will they make? (They’re always tuned into station ‘WIIFM’ What’s in it for me?) What is the MPS/MS program? What do they

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jswinberlin · 1/12/158:50 AM

Yes, we had to add this for a medical office and I think it will make a big difference.

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Deanw · 1/14/151:11 PM

We service a lot of HP printers. We currently only sell Ricoh Kyocera. I am interested in also selling HP. Those that are currently selling HP, where do you buy them? Can you buy from HP direct or are their some resellers that you recommend? Thanks for any input!

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Art Post · 1/12/1510:24 PM

25 years ago, 1990 : A foot-long rat dubbed "Willard" ate the innards of a $93,000 Xerox machine in which he was living on Capitol Hill and killed the photocopier, a congressional worker said. Willard was later tracked down and succumbed to poison.

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Art Post · 1/9/153:32 PM

I always enjoy speaking with Chris Polek (CEO of Polek Polek )! In an interview we did awhile back, I had asked him what was one of his best memories from the copier business! Geesh, he went all the way back to before I was in the industry. It may be short but it's great read about a company that goes above and beyond with customer service. Me: Over your career in supply sales I’m sure you may have a funny or humorous story, can you tell us one? Chris: I think about back to our early days of

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Art Post · 1/10/1510:16 AM

. Lindquist embraced "bring your own device" and installed virtual desktops firmwide in 2010. The benefits of both programs quickly gained in popularity, and swelled a grassroots movement to take the firm beyond remote access mobility. We predicted that we would see hard cost benefits from the cost savings in removing management of paper; we also expected the soft cost benefits of increased productivity. But we also knew that our major obstacle would be the significant percentage—almost 100 precent

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Art Post · 1/8/1511:17 PM

company's flagship process automation platform, so organizations canadd secure and authenticated e-signature functionality to end-to-endbusiness processes powered by TotalAgility. "Electronic signatures are finally gaining momentum — driven by simpler,more accessible, and cheaper smartphones, tablets, and touchscreencomputers,” wrote Craig Le Clair, Vice President, Principal Analyst atForrester Research in a recent report1. “We see a wideningvariety of use cases demonstrating insights that can

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Art Post · 1/13/1510:38 PM

one!” said Leah Granger at the Law Office of Leah L. Granger when talking about the new foldering feature. “This makes sorting through documents much easier - I find it incredibly useful.” The addition of Folders has been received with an unprecedented amount of praise from the MyCase customer base. “That is exactly what I'm looking for, you guys nailed it,” raved Mark Fabiano from Fabiano Law Firm, LLP. Folders is one of many new updates launched in the new year along with batch printing invoices

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Art Post · 1/14/1510:28 PM

lessmaintenance saving my customers time and money,” said Derek Hiner,Imagetek, a Panasonic authorized Value-Added Reseller. “These new scanners will be a great solution for many of my customers and would beideal for courthouses, small to medium-sized insurance companies, banks, hospitals and healthcare offices.” The new KV-S1057C and KV-S1027C scanners include additional new features, such as: High-Speed, High-Volume Duplex Scanning: Up to100sheets can easily and quickly be loaded and

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fisher · 1/15/159:28 AM

Saw one of these more than a year ago sitting in one of Ricoh's labs and its finally on the market. Looks interesting. Its basically the MP301 type display mounted on a printer based MFP with an MSRP of $1,099.

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Art Post · 1/14/1511:13 AM

I just tried with the document server with one original, told it to print 20 and the staple. The foolish machine was then stapling after every one page that was printed. That was no help.

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Jason H · 1/13/1510:13 PM

Art, I've looked through a lot of stuff to try to find the speed and I don't see it anywhere. It almost appears to be unpublished. I'll log into Canons internal site we use and see if I can find anything for you.

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