This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago
First Week of February 2015
Real Copier Sales
Wrote this many years ago when I first started writing, I clean up a few things and added a few things to keep the blog current.
Clients are more skeptical than ever. How do you win the sale when your prospect knows nothing about you, your company or the excellent benefits that you and your company provide?....more here
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Bundled Cost Per Page for Sharp Business Systems
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maintenance service response. Sharp proposes to provide a comparable refurbished MFC in lieu of furnishing maintenance to the District-owned copier at The Abbey with no leasing charges. Copier models were specifically selected to fit the needs of each facility with all providing scanning, copying, printing, emailing, and faxing capabilities. The selected models feature the use of image preview on the copier’s touchscreen allowing document manipulation at the copier thus eliminating the need to scan to the
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RICOH ENHANCES WORKFLOWS AND REDUCES COSTS FOR LAW FIRMS WITH UNVEILING OF NEW LEGAL MFP
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, Vice President, Product Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “Knowing this, Ricoh has made strategic investments in both our people and technologies to help our clients see these improvements. The Legal MFP is a perfect example of a solution developed to meet our clients’ needs – enabling them to streamline workflows and lower overall output costs.” For a demonstration of Ricoh’s Legal MFP, please visit the Ricoh booth (#231) at LegalTech or reach out to Tracey Sheehy at tsheehy
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Twelve Tips on How to Return Leased Copiers
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Over the years, I would say that ninety percent of my clients leased their copiers with an option to buy the copier at the end of the term. Most of these leases had a buy out option for FMV (Fair Market Value). The general idea of an FMV lease is that the customer has no intention of ever owning the equipment and they will return it at the end of the lease. Most leasing companies have been and still are very aggressive with FMV rates (interest), however most will have clauses in the leases
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Sharp CEO States "I believe it is my...)
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capital for a business unit that is losing money. You can however can much needed cash for a business unit that is pulling a profit like the copier/printer business unit. Will the Japanese Banks lend more money to Sharp, sure they will, however you can bet dollars to doughnuts there will be many more covenants with those loans. Could one such covenant be the sale of profitable copier/print business unit? Sharps losses are not due to re-structure, nor a stronger yen, it is because of falling sales
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Canon U.S.A. Kicks off 2015 with Multiple Winter Pick Awards from Buyers Laboratory LLC
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the Canon Mobile Printing App 3 for your business user on the go needs. imageCLASS MF6180dw and imageCLASS MF6160dw printers: “Outstanding Achievement in Energy Efficiency” Canon's aim of providing energy-efficient products is evident in the new Canon imageCLASS MF6180dw and imageCLASS MF6160dw printers. Excellent for cost-effective black and white printing in connected multi-user businesses, the MF6100 series incorporates an Energy-Saving Mode that uses approximately 2.6 watts of power and
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OE Canada Acquires the Managed Print Division of TUC Managed IT Solutions
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expertise available. All team members of the TUC managed print division will transfer to OE Canada ensuring that the high quality service and personal touch is maintained. As the largest office equipment dealer in Southwestern Ontario and largest Toshiba office products and solutions dealer in Canada, OE Canada Inc. will deliver TUC’s managed print customers unparalleled service, support and product knowledge across all the major printer/copier manufacturers. “This acquisition will propel our
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Ricoh Canada Inc Honored at Laserfiche Winners Circle for Twelfth Consecutive Year
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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 2,195 billion yen based on the IFRS accounting standard (approx. 21.3 billion USD ). The majority of the company's revenue comesfrom products, solutions and services that improve the interaction
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Print Audit® Releases Facilities Manager Version 3.4.0 with the Best e-automate Synchronization of any 3rd Party RMM Tool
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service information for managing fleets of printers, copiers and multi-function devices. The product is included in Print Audit’s Premier membership program which gives office equipment dealers virtually unlimited access to all of Print Audit’s products for one low monthly price. Facilities Manager version 3.4.0 adds the ability to synchronize asset tags and location indicators from ECi e-automate. This is significant because it removes the need to maintain two systems whenever new customers are
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Re: Sharp CEO States "I believe it is my...)
Czech ·
No money means no RD. Sharp is getting destroyed in Canada. Since Konica Minolta purchased Pitney Bowes' imaging division (Sharp's largest dealer in Canada), they've been offering customers massive incentives to flip their Sharp gear into KM bizhubs. I think there's more value in Sharp's direct channel base customer list than the actual technology. I've always found the MX series to be lacking in quality and ease of use. Prices have come down on Tier 1 products which means Tier 2 products like
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Canon Business Process Services CaseData® eDiscovery Platform Now Offers SmartReview Predictive Coding
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. The company offers services including BPO, imaging, records and information management, print, mail and eDiscovery, and is an IAOP Global Outsourcing 100 Leader in 2014 for the eighth consecutive year. Based in New York City, Canon Business Process Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc. Learn more at www.cbps.canon.com and follow us on Twitter . 1. Anna, R. (2015) “Predictive Coding Slowly Becoming a Game Changer.” Above the Law , 12 January 2015. All referenced product
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Thomas Reprographics Changes Name to Thomas Printworks to Best Reflect Full Range of Services
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company offers its clients. Today, Thomas Printworks is a national print services company with theability to scale to the needs of its clients no matter how large or small. With roots serving the architecture, engineering and construction(AEC) industry, the company has dramatically expanded its services overthe years to also include comprehensive fulfillment and managed print services. Committed to addressing every printing need, ThomasPrintworks’ current services range from digital four-color
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Re: How to Install a Ricoh Copier on a Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10
Great info. It seems Mac users upgrade their OS much more frequently than Windows users. This is why most of our Mac users have chosen (been persuaded ) to use scan to email. However, there are times when scan to email is no substitute for scan to folder.
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Re: RICOH ENHANCES WORKFLOWS AND REDUCES COSTS FOR LAW FIRMS WITH UNVEILING OF NEW LEGAL MFP
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WOW, they uh stole, uh or used my idea!!! https://www.p4photel.com/clip/...-legal-brochure-docx
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Re: RICOH ENHANCES WORKFLOWS AND REDUCES COSTS FOR LAW FIRMS WITH UNVEILING OF NEW LEGAL MFP
Just what I was thinking.
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Re: Sharp Watch....It's Like Playing Battleship
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capital for a business unit that is losing money. You can however can much needed cash for a business unit that is pulling a profit like the copier/printer businessunit. Will the Japanese Banks lend more money to Sharp, sure they will, however you can bet dollars to doughnuts there will be many more covenants with those loans. Plus Sharps losses are not due to re-structure, nor a stronger yen, it is because of falling sales and stiff competition. Sharp had posted that they would make a 30 billion
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A Great Tip for "Why Referrals Still Matter"
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certain feature or softwareand they don't understand how they ever did business without it. Hint, hint, that is your cue to ask for a letter, you can also ask for a letter after the system has been installed. Ask and you shall receive. Along with good selling skills, testimonial letters need to be a part of your every day sales life. Remember, new accounts know nothing about YOU and nothing about the skills and knowledge that YOU bring to the table. Just to bring this up to date a bit, go through
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Centralized Address Book Management
From the XX54 Sales Information Guide: "This enhancement allows accounts with up to 11 RFG multifunction systems and laser printers installed on the same network to manage the address books stored in all of those machines from a central MFP designated as the Server machine. When the address book information of the Server machine is revised, the updated address book data is automatically synchronized with up to 10 Client machines the next time each MFP is turned on. The benefit is the time
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Sending with 2 fax lines
Our customer has a Savin MP5002 with 2 lines. My belief is that if one line is receiving and the customer goes to send it will automatically try the second line. Can anyone confirm this? I know they can select what line to send from at the control panel but I'm wondering if auto switching is the default. Thanks for any help!
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Omtool Reveals AccuRoute CX to Tackle Document Classification and Data Extraction Challenges for its Legal Clients and Customers Worldwide
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, AccuRoute Mobile. Omtool will be showcasing AccuRoute CX, AccuRoute document capture and workflow with AccuRoute Mobile to address legal document processing challenges in booth #310 at the annual LegalTech Conference in New York, February 3 rd – 5 th of 2015. If interested in seeing a product demo during the conference, Omtool may be contacted at http://go.omtool.com/LT15 . About Omtool Omtool (PINK MTL) is a trusted partner for document capture, fax and workflow solutions. The company designs
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Sharp Watch....It's Like Playing Battleship
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This will probably be one of my shortest blogs in recent years. Sooner or later if given enough chances your battleship will sink! The hits just don't stop coming! Huge debt, the sale of many properties and now this article from the Wall Street Journal. I for one would be looking to get out of Dodge real quick. Sharp Turnaround Plans Won’t Cut It
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Canon ImageRunner 3245i Meter Read
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Can someone post the steps to get the meter read on this device. I need to send it to a customer so they can send to me. Thanx!!
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A Little Something I'm Now Including in My Corp Email
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I'm putting this image in my signature email. Also, make sure they spell correctly!!!
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Local (USB) printer hurdle
As we are looking to start a new MPS initiative this year. We are looking at FMAudit and also a supplier who works in conjunction to FMAudit for order fulfillment. From what I'm hearing regardless of what the provider sayslocal (usb) printers are still difficult to monitor even with the use of agent software . Does anyone have feedback on this? How are you handling it? Although Iknow it is frowned upon by most IT support staff and myself I'm thinking we may have to resort to putting small
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Fishing 101: Benefits of Self-Service Support
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Fishing 101: Benefits of Self-ServiceSupport by Print Audit At Print Audit we pride ourselves as having the best support in the industry, but that means not only having excellent phone support but also providing a variety of 24/7 self-service options. There’s an old saying attributed to various wise men “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime”. Read more of this post
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Re: Buyer Zone: Yay or Nay?
So I tried them out from October until January and Jason was right on the money. For the first month two months the quality of leads were semi-decent, $27.00 per lead, won two (although couldn't get them lease approved) They had a minimum dollar thresh hold of $1K for hardware and for some reason removed it from their criteria in December. It went from legitimate A3 and small A4 to people looking for, at best, a $300 Staples printer, price shopping Costco for home office and used equipment. It
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Re: Scan to email Office 365
Posting progress here not because I like talking to myself but in case someone else might run across this in the future. The attached article is a brief overview...I'm going to continue to work on this until I get it working and hope to post results later.
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Re: Sharp Watch....It's Like Playing Battleship
LarryG ·
This may end up being a blessing for the Sharp copier division. If the division is sold to a company with money, they could be in a more competitive situation. Their new products are very strong. Overall, the copier division has been on a positive swing the last 2 years.
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