This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Third Week in June 2008

, profitable printing” = HP o “Print is Powerful” = Kodak o “Connect With Opportunity” = Xerox o “We Speak Image” = Canon o “Produce, Persuade, Perform..on the network” = Canon o “We’re Listening” = Ricoh o “Empowering Print Communications” = Sharp o “Leading Innovation” = Toshiba o “Print To Win” = EFI o “Business Beyond the Ordinary” = Oce’ - Ricoh claims it has sold its first Aficio Pro C900 production color system (90ppm) to Integrated Graphics Ltd, a print shop in England. - Ricoh announced it

and management software to large corporate customers  Graphic unit will offer printers and supplies to wide format users o Most of the U.S. employees of the printer division (3,400) work at the division headquarters in Boise, Idaho, which designs the products, while manufacturing is done overseas. - Ricoh launched a new print-only color laser system, the Aficio SP C420DN offering: o 31ppm top speed color or b/w o 1200x1200dpi top resolution at half speed (600dpi at full speed) o Does NOT offer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MT Business Technologies Acquires Ricoh Business Solutions Office Toledo, Ohio June 10, 2008 - MT Business Technologies, Inc., a leading independent provider of office technology solutions in Ohio, announced today that it has acquired the Ricoh Business Solutions (RBS) office in the greater Toledo Market. Ricoh Americas Corporation and MT Business Technologies have enjoyed a solid business partnership for over 25 years. MT Business Technologies is pleased to broaden

deliver on this promise,” said Nelson Cano, vice president, Sales and Marketing, CIMA Software Corporation, Inc. “We are excited about our admission into the Ricoh Technology Alliance Program as this is a great honor and we look forward to continuing our work with this innovative organization.” As CIMA’s signature document management solution, DocuClass is a robust, and user-friendly system for both operational office staff and the information technology department. For users, it features an

. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Washington. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com . About Ricoh Americas Corporation Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company Ltd., the 72-year-old leading supplier of office automation equipment and electronics, with fiscal year 2007 sales in excess of $19.4 billion, a 7.3 percent increase over the previous year. Ricoh Americas Corporation is a

. All of these enhancements make the Ricoh Aficio SP 8200DN an ideal printing solution for mid-volume customers with sensitive application needs. The Aficio SP 8200DN is designed to deliver high quality output across a wide variety of applications with 600 x 600 dpi image quality, fax print speed, large paper capacity, network readiness, and data encryption. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE RICOH SP 8200DN: • 50 ppm black & white printing with standard duplexing up to 11” x 17” • The latest GW controller

the most sustainable companies in the world. During Earth Day, the firm turned off all its lights as a "gesture of commitment to environmental protection." Today, Iwamoto said Ricoh has overtaken Fuji Xerox in the copier business. Iwamoto said "there is really no stereotype innovation model." "Every company tries to create its own innovation model to promote brand differentiation. Today, the Made-in-Japan or the monozukuri concept is no longer just for manufacturing high quality products as in the

192.168.0.42 for example, I start pinging 192.168.0.43 and up to find an open one. I assign this to the mfp (never use dhcp) and make it static. I connect the product and ping it to make sure it is at that location and can communicate. 4. I resist the temptation to make a pc/server a print server and spend the extra time installing a straight TCP/IP port on each client computer for printing purposes. 5. If installing LAN-fax, I show the customer how it works and send a test page. If they ask about a

I have a customer who has an old KMBS lease here in NJ, that was done back in 11/03, he dopes not have a copy of the t's & c's. Can someone pleae forward to me. art@p4photel.com

Customer wants to use User Codes to keep track of individuals and departments usage. Not an unusual request, right? Well, it works fine with printing from PCL or RPCS, but has anyone had issues with PostScript? We placed an MP C6000 w/PS3 and the users cannot print with VALID user codes when using the PS driver. We happen to have one in our demo room and it showed the same error. Our Ricoh DSR was in our office on Friday and helped us escalate to Ricoh support, but has anyone else had this

This is the only one I have heard of. In the same week Ricoh aquired a dealer and then sold an RBS location. What gives???? Yes, you are right, this can be used against RBS, and can be quite powerful. Think I'll print it off and keep a copy with me at all times!

I have a customer using drawbase and needs to batch print these files, does anyone have any ideas for us?

As you are aware this item has been discontinued and is NOT available any more from any where. But, we do occasionally have a customer in the field who at this late date may want to "connect" the copier and make it a printer/scan unit. Or, they bought the used trade in from a dealer, etc. You can order the "parts" necessary to build an interface by ordering the parts listed below. PLEASE SAVE THIS EMAIL S Part # Description G068 5750 Interface Cable B126 5560 Cover: Middle: C/Tbox B

Not sure really where to post this, so here goes. I use a Windows 2003 Small Business Server at the office and Remote Web Workplace to work from home. It appears that in order to enable printing to the printers from the house, the server establishes a connection by sending what appears to be a print job and then deleting it. The problem is that although I try to keep it clean, I often have many printers installed on my laptop and it ends up with hundreds or thousands of jobs in the queue of the

August 08 Ricoh Pro C900 October 08 MPC 1800, MPC 2800, MPC 3300, MPC 4000, MPC 5000 November 08 SPC 310N, SPC 311N, MPC 2050, MPC 2550, PRO C900s

come away from reading it with the mistaken impression that most of the USA's crude oil is imported from the Middle East. It isn't. According to some recent figures regarding crude oil imports, in December 2007 only 23% of the USA's crude oil imports came from countries classified by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as Persian Gulf exporters (i.e., Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain). The top six countries (by percentage of total USA imports) supplying

solution: We all ride bicycles! I did last week and put on 642 miles. I am now into a size 30 from a 42. I have also left copier sales and have just been added to one of the teams for the Tour De France!!!

I am somewhat surprised this has not had any responses. Here's a case where the local RICOH Business Solutions Office was acquired by a local dealership. Must've been a rather underperforming branch office. Does anyone know of other situations like this. This could be used to create doubt in prospects minds that they're dealing with "the manufacture" - "So what guarantees does that give you Mr. Customer . . . yada, yada, yada"!

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