This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of March 2007)

direct sales channel will begin a transition from selling Lanier branded products and services to selling Ricoh branded products and services. · Ricoh’s Gestetner dealer network in the U.S. will merge with the Lanier dealer network and form a new national dealer network selling Lanier branded products. The Gestetner brand will be phased out in the United States. “Establishing this new unified organization enables Ricoh to redefine our company and our business,” said Sam Ichioka, Chairman & CEO

MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC. Brother is a Registered U.S. trademark of Brother International Corporation. Epson is a Registered U.S. Trademark of Seiko Epson Corporation (SEC). [i] Published performance results based on laboratory testing. Individual results may vary. [ii] Speed compared to HP LaserJet 2840, Canon ImageClass 8180C, Konica Minolta Magicolor 2480MF, Brother MFC9420cn and Epson AcuLaserCX11NF [iii] Available in the U.S. and Canada only

Here's what I posted on my blog today! Ricoh Organizational Changes Ricoh has finally pulled the trigger on the much anticipated merger of Lanier and Ricoh. The new Corporation will be call Ricoh Americas Corporation. The U.S. business unit of Ricoh Americas Corporation will continue to be known as Ricoh U.S. Lanier's Direct Sales Force will be merged with Ricoh Business Systems and thier name will change to Ricoh Business Solutions and they will sell Ricoh branded products. Existing Gestetner

. (TABS) manages product planning, marketing, sales, service support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has four divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products Division; the Document Solutions Engineering Division; and TOPAC U.S.A., Inc., dba Toshiba Business Solutions (TBS), a wholly-owned

FS-C8100DN integrates seamlessly with virtually any network environment or combination of platforms including Windowsâ, Mac, Novell, Linux and UNIX with its 10/100BaseTX and high-speed USB 2.0 interfaces. The FS-C8100DN is available through authorized Kyocera dealers at a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $7,624. To find the nearest dealer, log onto Kyocera Mita America's dealer locator at www.kyoceramita.com/us . ABOUT KYOCERA MITA AMERICA Kyocera Mita America, Inc. (www

Xerox Corp. said Tuesday Russell Pea**** will take over as president of Xerox Office Group to replace Tim Williams, who retires in April. Williams has held the position since Feb. 2004. Pea**** began working for Xerox (nyse: XRX - news - people ) in London in 1982 as a field sales representative. His latest post with the company was as managing director of Xerox United Kingdom. Xerox Office Group constituted $7.6 billion of Xerox's 2006 revenue. The division engineers, markets and manufactures

Has anyone seen anything from Ricoh about how their machines are affected by the early daylight savings time change this year? I'd like to know which models' firmware will automatically adjust for the change or if we need to advise our clients on how to manually make the time adjustment.

Ricoh is pleased to announce the release of new model support for printing IPDS in IBM zSeries (S/390) and iSeries (AS/400) environments. RA2K Integration for IPDS is an internal software solution, which resides on the hard drive of select Ricoh print devices and enables users to send AFP/IPDS print jobs directly from their S/390 or AS/400 systems. This solution is designed to allow your customers to print professional laser-quality output, access standard finishing and paper size options

CANON U.S.A. AND ROCHESTER SOFTWARE ASSOCIATES SIGN MEAP LICENSING AGREEMENT FOR A CUSTOMIZABLE PRINT CENTER WORKFLOW APPLICATION RSA To Develop a Total Remote Hardcopy Job Submission Application using MEAP Technology for Canon imageRUNNER MFPs LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., March 5, 2007 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., and Rochester Software Associates (RSA), Inc., a leading provider of digital document workflow solutions, today announced that RSA will license Canon's innovative Multifunctional Embedded

CANON U.S.A. RECEIVES FOUR PLATINUM READERS' CHOICE AWARDS FROM BERTL Industry Subscriber Survey Bestows Four Awards on Canon MFPs and Office Equipment Solutions LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., March 2, 2007 – Canon U.S.A., Inc. had recently received BERTL Readers' Choice Platinum Awards for Customer Focus, Monochrome Reliability, Third Party Partners, and Ease of Use-Scan categories. The Readers' Choice Awards are the cumulative findings culled from BERTL surveys. The awards are chosen by BERTL readers

js give me make, model number and monthly volume of ink jet printer and proposed laser printer and I will get you the numbers, I beleive you you sell savin? if so make sure you give me the ricoh model number and I'll send this to you tonight.

the disks. Sharp was among the first to begin offering, a few years ago, a security kit for its machines to encrypt and overwrite the images being scanned, so that data aren't stored on the hard disks indefinitely. Xerox Corp. said in October it would start making a similar security feature standard across all of its digital copiers. Randy Cusick, a technical marketing manager at Xerox, said many entities dealing with sensitive information, such as government agencies, financial institutions, and

Not sure if anyone has heard, but the new line of wide format will NOT have color scanning! Got this from a very reliable source (our Ricoh WF specialist). Very dissappointing. Just a heads up

You would lose web image monitor, but fiery has a piece of software that comes with it called Command Workstation. It's a phenominal tool. You can control print jobs, reprint jobs, pull job history, color correct, interpose, and a wealth of other things. All the emailing functionality will still be available from what I've been told. Don't be afraid of the fiery, it's a great feature. I sold canon's for 5 years, never sold a color unit without the fiery option, it has tremendous value to

We have sold Fiery for years but never before on an MFP. Ricoh's Graphic Color boxes like the 6513 use Fiery and of course come with all the Fiery Utilities you mentioned. We also sell OKI and have some experience with the OKI MFP which has a Fiery RIP but the fax and email functionality is nothing like what we have become accustomed to with Ricoh. Let me ask again...does anyone out there have hands-on experience with the fax and email capabilities with the new Fiery controlled Ricoh MFP's

OKI Printing Solutions ships one millionth color printer TOKYO, March 6, 2007 OKI Printing Solutions*, the world’s second largest manufacturer of business color printers, today shipped its one millionth digital LED color page printer. The one millionth color printer – the award winning C3400 A4 printer – left OKI Printing Solutions’ manufacturing facility in Thailand, which is responsible for 47% of the company’s global manufacturing output. OKI Printing Solutions’ one millionth color printer

This is all great but we have no fax units to sell Ricoh does not have any...I have been waiting for 2 months now! -=Mike=-

Just to give you an idea of the kind of variation there is, I went to the BTA compensation Survey of 2007. According to their survey, the median compaensation for a salesrep with 6+ years experience was $127,500/yr with a maximum of $422,377 for a rep in the West vs. $54,000/yr. and $104,000 for a rep in the Southeast. There is a significant difference in the cost of living which effects both the employee and the employer and therefore also effects compensation.

The prospect is replacing an HP Professional series inkjet 1200c. This printer does 11 x 17, which is about 25% of their already small volume. If I had to guess I'd say under 2k/month, all color with mixed coverage, but probably an average of 15%. I borrowed some info I found on the net and found that so far the competition is working on laser products that do 11 x 17, putting them over $3000. This is the local chamber of commerce and I've told them I'd donate a Gelsprinter, or give them a

JS: I could not find the 1200c in my database, so I used a 1220c, the cpp seems to be in line with what you stated, however the real cost is provided in the CA sheet I have attached. Showing them this should get you a sale, also I had to used the ricoh 7300, the new info on the c811's are not posted yet. Let me know what you think

our new stylish, colorful C3 MFPs making copies or picking- up printed documents becomes a visit to a dazzling oasis of color instead of just another stop in a mundane, predictable office routine." Mullin noted that Panasonic office products have already proven themselves to provide workhorse reliability as exemplified by first-place customer- service rankings from J.D. Power and Associates and other prestigious industry associations. "Since a major selling point of our products has always been

Ricoh is pleased to announce the introduction of theSystems. The MP 1600L and MP 2000L match all the output speeds, volume ranges, document feeding and paper supply versatility of the MP 1600 and MP 2000, but offer Windows-based printed standard through the inclusion of a PCL6 Lite controller. In addition, these “lite” systems are intended to deliver simple network TWAIN scanning and digital monochrome copying capabilities standard to price sensitive customers. However, Scan-to and fax