This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of November 2009)

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of commercial printing operations can avail themselves of business development tools offered by equipment vendors. Capture (HP), MarketMover (Kodak), and ProfitAccelerator (Xerox) are replete with comprehensive business building tools, templates, guidebooks and more that print providers can use to bring in new and repeat business. This material is heavily skewed towards the commercial print operations and not necessarily adaptable to in-plant operations even though they may use the exact same

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Xerox's move to widen the scope of its MPS offerings across the enterprise addresses the need to manage and control printing as it occurs in several parts of the organisation—at the desktop, in the home or other remote locations, or in internal print-rooms. In itself, the office environment represents a significant source of paper output and is characterised by a range of printers, copiers and multifunction peripherals (MFPs). This environment can be a huge cost drain due to the lack of control

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Bob Leone doesn’t hesitate when asked what makes him a successful businessman. And he is that. He just sold his wildly successful Xerox Corp. agency Mr. Copy, which he built from the ground up during the past 15 years, to Xerox itself. For a lot of money. How much? He won’t say. He’ll continue in his job, and expects to add up to 30 jobs in the next year or so. But he will talk about how he handcrafted his company into a dynamo in the copying industry. A Xerox employee for 20 years, he decided

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Ingersoll Rand to cut operational costs by 30% with Xerox document management 12/11/2009 Global manufacturer Ingersoll Rand reckons it's seeing cost savings and greener operations since going live with Xerox Enterprise Print Services. William Gauld, senior vice president at Ingersoll Rand, explains that the company's nine-year EPS contract effectively brings multiple output devices, print budgets and vendor support systems all under centralised Xerox management. As a result, he says

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printing technologies are rapidly replacing traditional offset (printing) for many forms of print marketing," administrators said in their justification. "There are fewer dollars out there, and buyers are carefully choosing where to spend." Cutting the eight jobs and dropping two others to part time will save the university $280,000 annually, administrators said. Administrators said print jobs will be handled by other staff using copiers and other digital equipment at the FastPrint and CopyRite

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magnetic readers and sorters. The machines boast productive printing capabilities with the Nuvera 200MX printing at speeds of up to 200 A4 duplex images per minute, while the Nuvera 288MX can print up to 288 A4 duplex images per minute. Other features include: Cheque Production Integrity : An optional feature that automatically tracks the total number of cheques in a run and captures every printed MICR line to determine if a number in a cheque sequence is missing, duplicated or out of order

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Specialist print reseller becomes Xerox UK’s latest channel partner. Published on Nov 9, 2009 London-based supplier to the creative industry, London Graphic Systems, has added Xerox colour technology to its portfolio of specialist colour printing systems. “This is an exciting time for London Graphic Systems,” says Gordon Christiansen, London Graphic Systems’ managing director. Adds Peter Taylor, director, Production and Graphic Communications, Xerox UK: “The relationship Xerox has with London

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One of my cleints just needs a color scan solution, however the Ricoh Color Scanner is not on GSA, thsu I need to go to the W5100. Can this system just be confingured with the interface card and the scan license?? Thus the RW print license is not needed. am I correct or am I missing something. Art PS, I would use the netwrok acnning, however they need more control over scanning old documents.

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Xerox wins Gegenheimer award Press release from the issuing company Xerox Corporation has been awarded the 2009 Harold W. Gegenheimer Corporate Award for Industry Service from NPES, The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies. Xerox is the first manufacturer of digital printing equipment to win the award, which recognizes leadership and participation in NPES and industry activities, civic leadership and technical innovation. "Xerox has been instrumental in

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. Availability HID OMNIKEY brand readers are now available from Océ direct sales offices. A variety of acquisition plans are available, please visit www.oceusa.com . About Océ Océ is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. The company’s solutions are based on Océ advanced software applications that deliver documents and data over internal networks and the internet to printing devices and archives -- locally and around the world. Supporting the

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quote: - Muratec is now shipping the new MFX-4555 A3 b/w MFP, featuring: - actually made by Samsung of Korea - Base MSRP of $5995 - Can print up to 11”x17”, but can only copy up to legal size originals Not correct, this is an A4 device only and will not print 11x17 click here

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is located on integrated memory, which auto loads when plugged into any Windows PC. It can therefore be used easily when on the road and on any compatible Windows computer. Paper is placed onto the automatic document feeder that opens up at the top to accommodate 20 sheets of paper. Trevor Dodsworth, head of marketing for business products, said its appeal was that is was no heavier than a bag of sugar. Also unveiled was the Canon DR2020U, a 20 pages per minute capable office scanner with an

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Wake Technical Community College requires a service contract for its fleet of departmental printers. These printers are all HP printers, and range from smaller departmental printers to larger departmental multi-function devices.

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OKI brings fully managed office automation service to market This division offers managed services on the OKI ES range of multifunction and colour printers. Johannesburg, 12 Nov 2009 OKI Printing Solutions has established an office automation division to meet the market's growing demand for fully managed print services. This new division, which became operational at the beginning of October, comprises dedicated sales, support and maintenance staff, which offer managed services on the OKI

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GIntel · 11/8/093:25 PM

Agreed, This info is hard to track down. Even harder if you want to be exact. For IKON I used the "400" figure that was published at the time of Ricoh's acquisition I pulled the 664 figure from a report on Vision 2007 Ricoh dealer meeting. That did include all RFG dealers. Interestingly, the report said that Ricoh had over 1,300 dealers in 1999. I took your suggestion and converted Xerox' GSA to excel and did the math. Agents added up to 540, but I assume that some of those are actually Global

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kdbyrum · 11/8/099:53 PM

A customer was demo'ing a canon color copier with fiery in their office. I stopped by on the second day to check to see how everything was going. The office manager asked me if there was any way that images or pictures would just randomly print off the hard drive of the system. Apparently, some very explicit images had been printed on the copier right before I got there. Rightfully so she was absolutley furious. I explained that the pictures had to have been printed by someone in the office. We

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n?A motion to approve a five-year multi-function copier agreement was tabled by supervisors to allow board member Frank Sinatra to view a demonstration of the equipment. He said Nov. 4 that he has 20 years of copy machine experience. The township will lease at least five copiers for the administration, finance, police, parks and MCA-TV. The vote to table was 3-1 with supervisor Marvin Eicher dissenting and Craig Swen absent. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg...57.stm#ixzz0We58iWWY

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they would have been without it. Since Cash for Clunkers ended, the office has seen a decrease in sales, but that is typical through mid-March since people steer away from purchasing new cars during the winter months. “We would like to set that money aside for further renovations of the building as needed,” Kohler said. Two computer funds supported by fines charged in each court case should be well funded for 2010, she said. Ten dollars from each case, excluding traffic cases which charge $5 each

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New Photizo 2009 MPS Tracker Study: 93 Percent of Companies Use MPS Provider Most also note reduction in carbon footprint as result of MPS programs November 12, 2009 – Lexington, KY – Almost one half of all Managed Print Services contracts are directly with equipment manufacturers, according to the latest MPS Decision Maker Trackerä study from the Photizo Group. The study also found nearly 95 percent of MPS sites reported a reduction in their carbon footprint as a result of more efficient

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GIntel · 11/8/091:59 PM

Thanks Chuck, I came up with 114 RBS locations based on Ricoh's July GSA, but it doesn't seem to adding up in terms of authorized dealers (just 143). I tracked down a count from Vision 2007 and Ricoh, L & S had 664. Considering the number of authorized dealers probably didn't expand too much, I'm going with that as a rough estimate for now. still open to suggestions and clarifications though....

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Chuck · 11/8/093:08 PM

Surely that 143 does not count IKON locations and your numbers may be suspect due to a dealers having multiple locations etc., etc. Also are you looking for JUST Ricoh or are you considering RFG locations/dealers. I also know that IKON uses a Phone Number/Home address of individuals as a "location" ergo, that throws off your count too.

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Anyone have an idea of how many sales people there are in the industry??

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JasonR · 11/9/099:57 AM

that 4% of PAPER sold in the US is 11x17, which is totally different. If the average customer used 11x17 4% of the time, and assuming 1,000 pages a day, that's 40 pages of 11x17 at every customer, every day. Of course in reality, lots of customers print 80-100 11x17 pages a day, and some certainly print 0, but there are still many applications that call for 11x17.