This Week in Copiers Fifteen Years Ago
Second Week of January 2009
Real Copier Sales
We're starting to work on offering more cost per page total inclusive contracts. Where we supply the hardware and everything for x cents per page with a certain base commitment. I understand that in order to be successful at this, it might be necessary to offer some re-manufactured HP printers and partner with some good supply sources to get the lowest possible TCO... go here or the rest of the thread
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Weekend Copier Notes from 1/11/09
Neal ·
replacement was named for Tod’s old job. - In an effort to gain its customers back from IKON (which was acquired by Ricoh), Canon Business Solutions launched the “War Chest” program, giving sales reps ability to pay for up to 9 months of a competitive lease, - A year after being booted from the program, Canon announced that it is once again part of the U.S. Federal Government GSA contract for copiers. This will allow Canon to again sell to U.S. Federal Government. - The chairman of Canon, Fujio Mitarai
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Konica Minolta Launches Optimized Print Services Program
Art Post (Guest) ·
faced with deep economic challenges, Konica Minolta’s Optimized Print Services program not only reduces total cost of ownership, but allows customers to get the most mileage out of each of their printing assets,” said Rick Taylor, Senior Executive Vice President and COO, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. “With the introduction of OPS, we are making printing as seamless as possible so that our customers can focus on their core business goals.” The OPS program, driven largely by customer
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Konica Minolta Introduces bizhub 751/601 Series of Black-and-White MFPs
Art Post (Guest) ·
costs to help boost their productivity,” said Kevin Kern, vice president, marketing, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. “These new monochrome office systems have been designed to specifically provide large corporate workgroups and departments with a cost-effective document resource for all their printing needs.” Functional highlights include: Konica Minolta’s exclusive Emperon® Print System; fast, flexible scanning up to 75 originals per minute (opm); an all new look and feel similar
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Canon U.S.A. Honored with “ MFP Line of the Year” and Six “Pick” Awards from Buyers L
Art Post (Guest) ·
’ awards and numerous other ‘Picks’ for its wide format devices, scanners, fax-centric MFPs and printers. All those ‘Picks’ add up, giving Canon the most consistent quality of products across all spectra of the digital imaging industry.” The BLI Honors include: 2008 “MFP Line of the Year” For the sixth time in less than a decade, Canon has received BLI’s highest award in “MFP Line of the Year” for its comprehensive and user-friendly MFP product line. BLI testing showed that Canon’s MFP line offers
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New 50ppm Color printer from Ricoh?
Art Post (Guest) ·
50ppm color laser. Few thoughts, if this is coming to US market, they need to get a fiery on this. Oki is discontinuing their C9800 which leaves maybe one (Xerox), color laser printer (A3) with a fiery. Id anyone knows of any others on the market, I'd like to know about it. I know I could place a quite a few of these in a short amount of time, if they had a fiery. Art
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Re: Ricoh Introduction of the Ricoh Aficio MP C2050/C2550
Art Post (Guest) ·
quote: Anyone selling these new Low Volume B2C Models? With the Rocket Launch and focus that Ricoh placed on these new Products, I thought they would sell better. It sounds to me like you're not a "down the street" rep. The timing for the release of the product missed the mark. It should have been earlier in the year. Double Holidays Thanksgiving and the doom and gloom on the news has killed commerical sales, at least here in the NE. I'm suprised that Ricoh has no trade in promos for any of the
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This Week in Canon
Art Post (Guest) ·
- Canon announced more management changes. Tod Pike, who was in charge of the wholesale side of the office equipment division, and then of Canadian operations, was named President of Canon Business Solutions, which is the retail, or factory direct branch side of the company. He will report to Joe Adachi, CEO. Under Tod will be Dennis Uhniat, Executive VP. No replacement was named for Tod’s old job. - In an effort to gain its customers back from IKON (which was acquired by Ricoh), Canon
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New 50ppm Color from Ricoh
Art Post (Guest) ·
50ppm color laser. Few thoughts, if this is coming to US market, they need to get a fiery on this. Oki is discontinuing their C9800 which leaves maybe one (Xerox), color laser printer (A3) with a fiery. Id anyone knows of any others on the market, I'd like to know about it. I know I could place a quite a few of these in a short amount of time, if they had a fiery. Art
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Ricoh Introduction of the Ricoh Aficio MP C2030
Art Post (Guest) ·
Ricoh is pleased to announce the introduction of the new Ricoh Aficio MP C2030 Digital Imaging System. Built off of the Ricoh Aficio MP C2050/C2550 mainframe, the MP C2030 is competitively priced and is the perfect solution for first-time Color MFP buyers that require basic copy, print and scan capabilities. Out of the box, the device offers standard RPCS printing, G3 & LAN Faxing plus TWAIN Scanning capabilities for Windows only environments. For accounts that require PCL printing, the MP
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Canon reveals latest addition to imageRunner line
Art Post (Guest) ·
Canon announced the latest addition - the monochrome, multifunction 5050n - to its imageRunner line of printers today. The new imageRunner 5050n features Canon’s next generation imageCHIP system, print speeds up to 50 pages per minute and scanning speeds up to 65 images per minute. Targeted at businesses who want high volume quickly, the 5050n is equipped with standard network capability, a duplexing automatic document feeder, Printer Control Language (PCL) and Canon’s proprietary Ultra Fast
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Tod Pike to Lead Canon Business Solutions
Art Post (Guest) ·
Tod Pike to Lead Canon Business Solutions Canon USA Inc. of Lake Sucess, N.Y., announced that Tod Pike will become president of its subsidiary, Canon Business Solutions Inc. Pike joins the subsidiary from Canon’s Imaging Systems Group, where he has served as senior vice president and general manager since May 1999. Before that, he was president of office equipment and executive vice president and general manager of the Imaging Systems Group at Canon Canada.
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Canon USA "With Six You Get Eggroll"!
Art Post (Guest) ·
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 Canon USA "With Six You Get Eggroll"! That's the first thing I thought of when I read the report from BLI, that Canon USA had won yet another "MFP line of the Year" Award. Kudos to Canon for winning six out of the last eight years. You guys are doing something right! George Carlin stated go here for rest of blog
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NEW HV from Ricoh????
Art Post (Guest) ·
Is this the upgrade for the 1356PR0 or is it the same unit??http://www.ricoh.co.jp/pp/pod/pro/1357ex_1107ex_907ex/
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Copier Skins
Art Post (Guest) ·
I've heard that you can buy customized "graphic copier skins". Has anyo9ne else heard of this and if so, could someone point me in the right direction. From what I understand is that the graphics wrap on the copier, smililar to what is seen on cars.
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Print Management
We're starting to work on offering more cost per page total inclusive contracts. Where we supply the hardware and everything for x cents per page with a certain base commitment. I understand that in order to be successful at this, it might be necessary to offer some remanufactured HP printers and partner with some good supply sources to get the lowest possible TCO. Does anyone have any input on what HP printers might be a good fit for this? Thanks!
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Re: Ricoh Introduction of the Ricoh Aficio MP C2050/C2550
GMAN ·
Anyone selling these new Low Volume B2C Models? With the Rocket Launch and focus that Ricoh placed on these new Products, I thought they would sell better.
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Re: mpc2500
The E3100 will be compatible with the MP C2800/C3300 and the E5100 will be compatible with the MP C4000/C5000. How does Ricoh scanning with Fiery printing sound?
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Re: Recommended Paper Stocks
Note that this is only valid for the previous generation Ricoh Aficio MP C3500/C4500, and not the new Color MFPs that launched in October.
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Re: SMB scanning with Vista
I don't think there's any reason why Vista would be a problem. If it's an spf or has the AIO-kit and can SMB scan to an XP workstation it should be able to. If it has only the "Enhanced DDST" Print Kit, it will be only TWAIN.
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Re: New 50ppm Color from Ricoh
dmurrah ·
saw it at the Ricoh Orlando meeting but didnt see a Fiery Option. Quality was great.
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Re: Print Management
Art Post (Guest) ·
Use polek & Polek for supplies, they may even be able to help you with your question in reference to the HP printers. What's 5% coverage, 10% coverage, etc. follow the link: http://www.polek.com/pdf/page_coverage_examples.pdf
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Recommended Paper Stocks
Art Post (Guest) ·
Got this today from my Ricoh Support Rep, see attached file
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Muratec C4000
Art Post (Guest) ·
I'm getting conflicting information on the Muratec C4000 in reference to LAN fax: Can this system LAN fax?
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Document Management Software "Where do you stand?"
Art Post (Guest) ·
P4P Hotel Poll Document Management Software "Where do you stand?" -- Please choose one -- We are selling Docment Management Software We are planning on selling Document Management Software We are not going to sell
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