This Week in Copiers Fifteen Years Ago
Third Week of October 2008
Real Copier Sales
For 10 million clicks per month, it might be worth some investigating and I would start with what Duplo calls the Graphic Wizard or what Riso used to sell as the PS8050. I don't know who the manufacturer is. It is an inkjet device that attaches to the end of whatever printing device and applies limited variable data to whatever the device outputs. Good for envelopes, numbering of NCR, or marketing messages and operates at up to 6,000 pieces per hour. You can also add scoring or perforating
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Konica Minolta Launches Sleek and Quiet bizhub C20 Series of All-in-One Printers
Art Post (Guest) ·
through Konica Minolta’s North American direct sales and authorized dealer channels. The manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) for the bizhub C20 is $2,116, and the bizhub C20X is $2,765. About Konica Minolta Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop. In 2008, Konica Minolta was recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys. For more information
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Konica Minolta New Offerings at Graph Expo '08
Neal ·
again expanding its robust offerings for the production print market, all of which will be showcased during Graph Expo(R) 2008. The new offerings -- highlighted by innovative print systems and software enhancements -- enable commercial printers to improve productivity, quality and efficiency. Konica Minolta will showcase the following offerings at Graph Expo, which takes place at McCormick Place South in Chicago, Illinois on Oct. 26-29, 2008: -- bizhub PRO 2500P Series -- Printing up to 250 duplex
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RICOH�S DOCUMENTMALL SOLUTION PROVIDES DOCUMENT SECURITY AND ORGANIZATION FOR SALESFO
Art Post (Guest) ·
playing a vital roll in helping other companies reduce their carbon footprint.� A Ricoh survey of Salesforce users found that most companies still store and maintain important sales documents in hardcopy format creating a disconnect in the sales and business processes. The survey revealed that integrating secure document storage and scanning capabilities would deliver sales process improvements, increased security, and organizational-wide cost savings. With DocumentMall for salesforce.com, users enjoy
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CANON INTRODUCES NEW 24-inch S-SERIES LARGE FORMAT PRINTER
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Lake Success, October 15, 2008 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of office imaging systems, inkjet technology and digital photography equipment, today announced the release of the imagePROGRAF iPF6000S, a 24-inch wide large format printer using eight colors of LUCIA pigment ink, specifically targeted for graphic art professionals and print-for-pay (PFP) establishments. The iPF6000S is a new addition to Canon’s award-winning, speedy, eight-color large format printer line, the S-Series
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Ricoh Announces New Universal Print Driver
Art Post (Guest) ·
Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced the latest release of its PCL6 Driver for Universal Print designed to expand the versatility of an organization’s printing network. The Printer Command Language (PCL) driver enables users to print from a wide range of systems without downloading separate drivers for each output device, reducing a company’s total cost of ownership. It is compatible with a wide range of PCL printers and multifunction
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Xerox to Cut 3,000 Jobs Amid `Unpredictable' Economy
Art Post (Guest) ·
Xerox to Cut 3,000 Jobs Amid `Unpredictable' Economy (Update1) By Courtney Dentch Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Xerox Corp., the largest maker of high-volume color printers, plans to eliminate 3,000 jobs in the next six months and speed manufacturing cost cuts to cope with an ``unpredictable economy.'' The job cuts are being made in administration and manufacturing through voluntary buyout packages, spokesman Bill McKee said. Sales employees won't be affected, he said. The reductions represent 5.2
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Copier & MFP Sales Tips
Art Post (Guest) ·
Thursday, October 23, 2008 Copier & MFP Sales Tips MFP Copier Cold Calling Some of us like and most of us of don’t like it. It’s the COLD CALL, the day from hell or the day to have some fun. If you've been doing it as long as I have, well then you to have paid a small fortune in shoes, along with sore ankles at the end of the day. I must say the most daunting task is to open a door where you can’t see click here for rest of blog
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Re: SAP Systems
Attached you will find the SAP Printer Vendor Program document. You will see that Oce', KonicaMinolta, Sharp, and Kyocera are on it and Ricoh is not. Ricoh's response is "There is no reason to believe that any Ricoh will not work with SAP but at the present time, there are no plans to spend the money necessary to become SAP certified." We have a Fortune 500 company that is completely SAP and the only problems we have is occassional kick-back from IT because we are not on the list. However, I do
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Re: Ricoh to purchase IKON Office Solutions
Art Post (Guest) ·
Ikon’s last 12 months of sales or 8.2 times its earnings before income taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA. In contrast, Xerox Corp. paid $1.72 billion for Global Imaging in 2007. That’s 1.6 times sales, or 12.2 times EBITDA. Still there’s a world of difference between a deal proposed in 2008 and one done in 2007. The current times are more like the no-no days, rather than the go-go days. Goldman did include another 2008 deal in its comparison. Konica Minolta bought Danka Office Imaging
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Océ launches versatile wide format color printer
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prints have high durability for many years of outdoor use. The pigment inks are 100% water-based and solvent-free, resulting in a healthier working environment. Double printhead design combines speed and productivity Another new printing technology in the Océ CS2344 is the double integrated printheads. These combine high speed, quality and productivity on all types of printing work. Print speed is less than 2 minutes per full-color A0 print (draft mode with Océ standard paper). Further
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Xerox Chat with 4112cp
Art Post (Guest) ·
as it pulled from the trays into the imaging unit art: cool art: is the exp4112 controller internal or external Mark E: Fiery provides both an internal print controller as well as a stand alone version art: how do I know which is which Mark E: xerox ex print server is the name- Are you interested in this product? art: what is the max paper weight through the paper trays art: researching art: I have a quote on a canon Mark E: why don't we have the xrx production rep in your area provide you a
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70th Anniversary of Xerography!
Art Post (Guest) ·
documents and the ability to sort and staple documents. In recent years, photocopiers have replaced the older analogue process to the latest digital technology. With digital copying, copiers now effectively include a laser printer with an integrated scanner. This provides the copier with many capabilities such as automatic image quality enhancement and the ability to scan documents while printing them independently. Several digital copiers can function as high-speed scanners and can send documents
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New Heller Layoffs; Axed Secretary Tells of Disappearing Copiers
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difficult to work in Heller’s stripped-down offices and being laid off comes as a relief. She said she printed a document, but found that the copier had been been removed before she was able to pick it up. "I have to run down to the ninth floor to get mail and look through 18 bins," the secretary said. "We don't have any records people. They took away our coffee machines. Our cafeteria is gone." Many of Heller’s partners have moved on to other law firms. Those lawyers with expertise in intellectual
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Oce Business Services Shares Winning Document Management Strategies in an Economic Do
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). Oce offers the following guidelines to help organizations implement print/copy management practices that can drive down costs, enhance productivity, and benefit the environment: Leverage Workgroup Machines Replacing personal desktop printers with workgroup MFPs (multifunction peripherals that combine print/copy/scan/fax functionality in one machine) shared by departments can have a strong positive impact. One financial services company replaced 1,100 copiers and printers and 1,000 fax machines
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HP Unveils Innovative Large-format Printing Solutions
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sheets by up to 85 percent,(4) the HP Scitex FB7500 Printer delivers the highest productivity of digital flatbed printers in its price class.(5) An ideal solution for close-view POP/POS applications, exhibition graphics, signage, backlit displays and posters, the HP Scitex FB7500 Printer is built on the proven HP Scitex TJ Series printing platform, and offers the added benefit of HP Scitex X2 Printhead technology, which combines silicon-based microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology and
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Re: Some of my observations....
received on my BlackBerry but can't view because of the small screen. With this, I could walk into a Books-a-Million that has this and walk out with the print. The new MFP Platform is called Cosmos. Be watching for Big Bang information coming the week of November 17-21. During this week, Ricoh will be launching the new color boxes in 25 different cities. Ricoh's new selling strategy is called REV = Real Enhanced Value. Part of this initiative is 5 websites: ricohconnects.com for training
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Re: Former Mount Vernon schools purchasing agent charged with bribery
Art Post (Guest) ·
. Between mid-June and mid-July 2005, rose, the former head of purchasing at the school district, accepted a bribe of $3,500 from a sales representative of Ricoh Americans Corporation for his assurance that the company would receive a five year contract from the district for 73 digital copiers, support products and related services. On August 3, 2005, based on Rose’s recommendation, the school district gave Ricoh the contract which exceeded $1 million. Between June and September 2006, Rose
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Xerox Pricing Link
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Check this link out!https://www.xdocushare.xerox.com/dsweb/Services/Document-14694
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Charges hurt Ikon Office Solutions' 4Q results
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MALVERN, Pa. - Ikon Office Solutions Inc., which sells and leases copiers and printers, said Wednesday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit fell 21 percent, hurt by costs related to its pending acquisition and the restructuring a unit. Profit for the three months ended Sept. 30 fell to $21.8 million, or 23 cents per share, from $27.6 million, or 23 cents per share last year. The number of shares outstanding fell 21 percent to 96.7 million from 121.6 million last year. The company took restructuring
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Ricoh's Environmental / Green Policy
Foxtrot ·
Hi, i'm looking for a copy of Ricoh's latest Environmental / Green Policy? Thanks
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Re: Gas Price Check
Art Post (Guest) ·
I think if the DOW keeps going lower, so will gas, with that the saving grace for the econonmy maybe lower gas prices. With talking with a CEO of a frieghtliner dealer, sales have been dismal, and to many truckers not making money with the high cost of fuel. However in the last month, profits are back, and consolidation of routes are helping to squeeze additional profit. He and I agreed that if the DOW goes to 4500 so goes a barrell oil to $20. Thus that will be the economic stimulus that
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Re: Vision News 08 Orlando
Art Post (Guest) ·
Got it, well they are not A4, alas will this be a missed opportunity with the market changing to A4. Xerox, Samsung, Muratec and Sharp (Frontier, just heard their first commecial last night) all have seen the light with the coming of age of A4. I'm sure these units will be fantastic, however it will be tough to comepete in a tough economy with the likes of the Sammy 40ppm color that has an MSRP of under $6,500. I can't wait for the Big Launch to learn more about these units!!!
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Re: What's New MPC 4000/5000
Hey Art, I thought the same thing when I saw the note about the tri-color PCU. It reminds me of the days when we were selling the Savin 9918DP (Aficio 180) with the AIO cartridge. The manufacturer yield was 12,000 pages, but (real world) the customer was getting about 8,000 pages. Really wreaked havoc with the customer's cpp and cost our dealership a ton of money once customers realized they were getting nowhere near the yields that we had suggested (we lowered our AIO cartridge pricing to help
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Some of my observations....
IT Dude ·
It was refreshing seeing Yoshida back at the helm, however Ricoh obviously has a tremendous amount of damage control to do within the dealer channel. There were a number of dealers not present at the dealer awards dinner, and Ricoh obviously had no knowledge of this as they called out names only to get no replies. Quite a few whispers about Cannon agressively seeking out these disgrunteled Ricoh independents. Congrats to fellow P4P,er Drew Murrah as his company won an award in Black/White MFP
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Re: Gas Price Check
developing countries such as China, India and Brazil. Fears that turmoil in global financial markets will spark an economic slowdown in developed countries has helped push prices down from a record $147.27 in July. Last week, news of rising U.S. oil inventories, falling retail sales and slowing housing starts fueled concerns that the world's largest economy may face a major recession that will undermine demand for crude. "Oil demand in the U.S. will be a bellwether," Pervan said. "If the US, Europe and
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Re: Ricoh Americas Announces Organization Changes
At Vision 2008 they introduced Martin Brodigan as being the one who doubled revenue and took Ricoh from #3 to #1 during the 7 years he was there (2000-2007)
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Re: Vision News 08 Orlando
Art Post (Guest) ·
That's a real drag and I believe that Ricoh and Dealers will lose clicks and boxes if they do not have competetive A4 boxes. Ricoh touts their new LV color box will be $2,000 less than the MP2000, still that makes the unit higher than the sammy and the proposed frontier box, plus the customer will get 40ppm instead of 25 or 20ppm. I understand this whole value proposition however will the customers understand and enbrace it also. I guess that will be a question that will be answered over the
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Re: What's New MPC 4000/5000
Art Post (Guest) ·
. Improved Toner Quality New chemical toner for improved print quality and support of 1200 dpi printing. Yields are the same as previous models.
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Re: Ricoh's Environmental / Green Policy
I would suggest going to the infocenter in aficio league or to Ricoh's website. I don't know if there is a www.ricoh-south africa.com but at www.ricoh-usa.com you will find more than you probably care to read. FYI, Ricoh is about to install the first ever, 100% eco-powered billboard on Times Square New York...all power will come from solar and wind panals incorporated in the sign. If the power ever fails at Times Square, the Ricoh billboard will be the only thing lit.
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Re: Ricoh Introduction of the MP C2800/C3300 & MP C4000/C5000
IT Dude ·
The scan to SD/USB device was obviously and afterthought as this device looks and is attached very akwardly. Also it lacks the ability to print files from the flash memory where the majority of our competition can.
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Re: Former Mount Vernon schools purchasing agent charged with bribery
Art Post (Guest) ·
How about the rep and how about Ricoh Business Solutions!!!!!! They should also have the opportunity to GO TO JAIL!!!!!!!
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Re: Ricoh Americas Unveils Color MPC2050/2550
Art Post (Guest) ·
That's correct, good article to read, and also to all the naysayers that beleive A3 will still be the standard in years to come. If you don't have an A4 device to sell, you are gonna get you butt kicked by Sharps new frontier line, the current and proposed Sammy line (next year for 70 & 90ppm A4)
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Re: The Ultimate MFP
For 10 million clicks per month, it might be worth some investigating and I would start with what Duplo calls the Graphic Wizard or what Riso used to sell as the PS8050. I don't know who the manufacturer is. It is an inkjet device that attaches to the end of whatever printing device and applies limited variable data to whatever the device outputs. Good for envelopes, numbering of NCR, or marketing messages and operates at up to 6,000 pieces per hour. You can also add scoring or perforating
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The Ultimate MFP
Art Post (Guest) ·
system be developed that prints monochrome but allows the user to add a splash of color or logo with with ink similar to the Seri Printer? I would tend to think the market for a dedicated system would be tremendous. Thoughts from anyone????
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SAP Systems
Foxtrot ·
Hi, i'm looking for Ricoh's policy or accessibility or implementation document for SAP Systems - ie function available on SAP systems Thanks
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