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First Week of June 2009
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As previously mentioned, the New Lanier East DSM (Tara Zailo), came from IKON where she was a Digital Support Rep and Trainer. In order to assume DSM responsibilities, she will need immediate training from her new counterparts. I look forward to observe her skill sets. She will handle TGI Office Automation, the RFG East Region's newest #1 revenue producing dealership after the loss of Comdoc.....more here
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Weekend Copier Notes from 05/31/09
Neal ·
sale of a 700 Digital Color Press and a 4112 high speed b/w system to PMT Digital print shop. - Ricoh Australia announced it will resell EFI’s PrintSmith MIS software for printshops. - A school in Illinois is suing a local copier dealer over a lease. Governor French Academy of Washington County, claims that it entered into a lease, which supplied them with 6 new copiers, and the dealer claimed the lease on the existing copiers would be paid off. Instead, the school continued receiving bills from
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Konica Minolta Named 2009 Supplier of the Year by Corporate United
GMAN ·
Konica Minolta Named 2009 Supplier of the Year by Corporate United Fortune 1000 Members Recognize Konica Minolta's Outstanding Efforts Ramsey, N.J. and Cleveland, Ohio - June 1, 2009 - Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, has been recognized as 2009 Supplier of the Year by Corporate United, a national Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) of Fortune 1000 and Global
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Anne Mulcahy to Retire as Xerox CEO; Ursula Burns Named Successor
Art Post (Guest) ·
1992 through 2000, Burns led several business teams including the office color and fax business and office network printing business. In 2000, she was named senior vice president, Corporate Strategic Services, heading up manufacturing and supply chain operations. She then took on the broader role of leading Xerox's global research as well as product development, marketing and delivery. In April 2007, Burns was named president of Xerox, expanding her leadership to also include the company's IT
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RICOH INTRODUCES PRIPORT DX 4545 FOR MID VOLUME DOCUMENT DUPLICATION
Art Post (Guest) ·
its Ricoh Priport DX 4545 digital duplicator. Ideal for mid-sized organizations that specialize in short to medium-run jobs like newsletters, bulletins, school permission slips, tests and work sheets, the Priport DX 4545 offers less per print costs than laser printers or copiers when producing between 30 and 4,000 copies per original. Ricoh’s newest digital duplicator delivers speed, quality and value as the Priport DX 4545’s print masters yield double the capacity of competitive devices thereby
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RICOH INTRODUCES THE PRO C550EX/C700EX COLOR DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEMS
Art Post (Guest) ·
in color or 60 ppm black and white, while the C700EX achieves 70 ppm in color or 75 ppm in black and white. In addition, interruptions are minimal as the systems hold up to 5,300 sheets of paper to support large printing jobs. Ricoh partnered with EFI to provide an efficient printing workflow and powerful color management capabilities on these new systems. The EFI Fiery E-8100 Print Server enables customers to compete more effectively and achieve the highest levels of efficiency in production
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InfoPrint Launches New Color Workgroup Solutions to Drive Cost Savings and Sustainabi
Art Post (Guest) ·
technology leadership with a focus on sustainability These newest offerings provide customers with faster color speeds, increased input and output capacity and advanced security features. The MFPs come with printing, faxing, copying and scanning capabilities as standard and provide higher print color quality via built-in temperature and humidity sensors. These solutions are suitable for a large variety of customers from IT, marketing or communications departments, small to medium businesses (SMBs
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Sharp(R) Frontier Series Powers Company Into the Color MFP Segment 3'S
Art Post (Guest) ·
-C310 and DX-C400 in Q1 of 2009. These units feature digital color copier, network printer and scanner capabilities in a single MFP, and a unique design that makes them aesthetically pleasing when placed directly in the workgroup. Sharp's newest A3 devices include the MX-4100N, MX-4101N, and MX-5001N, which were introduced in Q1 2009. With Frontier, Sharp has successfully leveraged the Sharp OSA® development platform to change the MFP from a print/copy device into an IT document management system
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EFI Receives Three BERTL’s Best Awards,
Art Post (Guest) ·
, visit www.BERTL.com or telephone 1-973-882-0200. About EFI EFI (www.efi.com) is the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation. EFI's award-winning solutions, integrated from creation to print, deliver increased performance, cost savings and productivity. The company's robust product portfolio includes Fiery® digital color print servers; VUTEk® superwide digital inkjet printers, UV and solvent inks; Rastek™ UV wide-format inkjet printers; Jetrion® industrial inkjet printing
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Print4Pay Hotel Blog Highlights Print Audit 6
Art Post (Guest) ·
Supply Company saving thousands of dollars a month in printing costs and who is stealing millions of their pages? With a light-hearted parody of the popular 1950s cop show Dragnet, Print4Pay Hotel owner and copier industry expert Arthur Post has illustrated Print Audit 6’s unique benefits in a MFP Solutions blog entry like no other. In the post, detectives get to the bottom of a puzzling mystery: a large print management dealer is losing print volume to the tune of 12 million pages every four months
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MUTOH INTRODUCES THE NEW RJ 900 DYE-SUBLIMATION PRINTER
Art Post (Guest) ·
of MUTOH America. The RJ 900 offers a maximum print width up to 42 inches and print resolutions of 360, 720, 1440 and 2880 dpi for different applications. The RJ 900 encompasses Mutoh’s patented Intelligent Interweaving (I²) “wave” printing technology, with draft quality speeds up to 426 sq/ft/hr. You can transfer high quality prints onto virtually any dye sublimation paper for sublimating on a wide variety of fabrics and rigid substrates. The RJ-900 delivers superior line sharpness and photo
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Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On
GMAN ·
In the latest 'transition' for the RFG (Ricoh, Savin, Lanier) Region, several changes were made regarding Dealer field sales support. As previously mentioned, the New Lanier East DSM (Tara Zailo), came from IKON where she was a Digital Support Rep and Trainer. In order to assume DSM responsibilities, she will need immediate training from her new counterparts. I look forward to observe her skill sets. She will handle TGI Office Automation, the RFG East Region's newest #1 revenue producing
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Lyon County School District 100K in Copiers Next Year!
Art Post (Guest) ·
contingencies, while the special education fund budget is $2.5 million. This doesn't include several funds for capital projects, such as the capital projects fund, building and sites funds and the bond fund. During Johnson's recent presentation, he said the current budget (2008-09) is projected to have an additional $188,000 in carryover, which will be added to opening fund balance. He said this money comes from cost-cutting measures such as delaying purchase of copiers until next year ($100,000), and from
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Daily Sales Philosophy
GMAN ·
Confucius Say, "man who run through airport turnstile sideways going to Bangkok." Yoshida Say, "Sales Rep working for IKON have long future, but short pockets."
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Recommended Movies for Sales
GMAN ·
What about movies? I am told TIN MEN is a good one, so I am going to rent the DVD this weekend.
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Rules Based Printing Software "Does Anyone Get It?"
Art Post (Guest) ·
Thursday, June 4, 2009 Rules Based Printing Software "Does Anyone Get It?" A few years ago we heard time after time that the vendor that "owns" the network would own the clicks to MFP's and printers. That may be fine if your dealership controls the network in a SMB account, and from talking to many in the industry it seems that most dealers are still concentrating on hardware and third party software solutions. Thus, a question was posed to me the other day in reference to MPS (Managed Print
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E-BizDocs Joins Kodak’s Document Conversion Center Program to Improve Image Quality a
Art Post (Guest) ·
and efficiencies by utilizing the latest versions of our high performance technology and software, which in turn helps reduce their costs and adds margin to their bottom line. We are sensitive to the competitive nature of their business and the DCC program provides a special discount for those companies using our production scanners and software in a services manner,” said Todd Leveque, Channel Sales Director, Document Imaging, Business Solutions and Services, Kodak. “These advanced technologies
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BOWE BELL + HOWELL Now Shipping Innovative New Production Scanner
Art Post (Guest) ·
users have had a chance to see it in action at tradeshows, training sessions and customer events since its launch in March. Users have raved about Ngenuity's ability to scan their most challenging documents accurately and efficiently, and requests for demo units have exceeded expectations, both in North America and around the world." Faster, More Versatile Scanning Ngenuity scans a wider range of documents than any other scanner in its class and it does so at best in class speeds — up to 150 pages
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Ricoh Pro 1106EX
Art Post (Guest) ·
Ricoh Pro 1106EX RIP,Stapler Finisher and LCT $37,600 cpc .0044 single click 11x17
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Canon ImageRunner 7095
Art Post (Guest) ·
Canon ImageRunner 7095 Saddle Stitch Finisher, LCT, Inserter, 2 & 3 Hole Punch Unit $27,000 CPC (100K min) .004 Single Click 11x17
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KonicaMinolta bizhub 1050e
Art Post (Guest) ·
KonicaMinolta bizhub 1050e Embedded Fiery, OS LCT, Stapler Finisher $31,800 cpc (200K min) .0035 single click 11x17
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Unable to Duplex Print from Mac 10.5 using InDesig
Art Post (Guest) ·
I cut n pasted this from the Aficio League, can anyone help with this??? Using Mac OS 10.5, Indesign CS3, cannot duplex print to the MPC3300 with Postscript. Have loaded the correct PPD for 10.5 or later. If convert doc to PDF, duplex works fine. My IT says "Duplex option does not seem to be available in the "Printer Settings" We have turned off Collate, we have created other documents. The PPD is correctly installed in Mac because everything works in all other applications. Does anyone know
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Re: Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On
GMAN ·
Chuck, with the current "troubled times" (words from Frank Cannata on the latest Live Wire / Cannata Report) at Ricoh, it now makes sense that either Savin or Lanier, or both brands, get elimintated. Just as GM sells Hummer and gives Saturn to the Penske group. It is a shame that on the 50th Anniversary of Savin, started in 1959, it's existence may disappear. I thin it will be Lanier for Dealers and Ricoh for IKON and RBS. The other option is Ricoh only, all the way, for both Dealers and the
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Re: RICOH INTRODUCES THE PRO C550EX/C700EX COLOR DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEMS
Art Post (Guest) ·
quote: Appears all of these "new" Ricoh devices have lower than expected duty cycles and average monthly impression targets. Traditionally Ricoh does fall into line with most manufacturers that followed duty cycles for laser printers and then transfered those types of volumes to MFP's. As we can see from the taksalha ci500 post on this board suggested that the system is capable of 200K per month. However these "pro" systems from Ricoh will have to establish a reliability level once they are in
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TASKalfa 500ci proposal
$14,375.00 w/ Print, Scan, & Finisher. $.010 per page b/w & $.045 per page color no minimums. Salesperson is telling the prospect it can handle 200k per month, but we all know that he's quoting duty cycle. Anybody seen one of these in the field? What can it REALLY handle?
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0% Financing Now Through June 30th on Select Models
Art Post (Guest) ·
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New Lanier East DSM
GMAN ·
To be named for replacing the Lanier DSM who resigned in March 2009. Her name is Tara and she has been moving and shaking her way through IKON and now becomes the new Lanier East DSM to handle NY / NJ / parts of New England. This coincides with a complete restructuring of the East Region supports structure. Tom Koening, Ricoh East DSM that joined the company in January 2009 after he met an untimely departure at Kyocera Mita, will no longer handle Atlantic Business Products in New Jersey. More
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Muratec Announces ScanTag Metadata Capture Integration with DocuLex
Art Post (Guest) ·
-proprietary content management software for use with desktop and production document scanners, as well as digital multifunctional copiers, facsimile and wide format units. Through an extensive international reseller channel, the company offers network-enabled document capture and image processing software along with browser-based document and content management, collaboration, email archiving, journaling and compliance, knowledge management, workflow and records retention programs, bundled and
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Re: Ricoh You're Gonna Love This BS!
GMAN ·
Finding it tough to sell Printers with the focus on VAR's and now IKON.
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Re: What Is The Real Reason...
CashGap ·
It couldn't be that the "normal" retirement age for men in Japan is 60, and that Mr. Yoshida is now past that age? I base this on the fact that his bio shows him joining Ricoh in 1967 with a bachelor's degree, so I assume he was at least 21 at the time, giving him a "born on" date of 1946 or earlier. I realize that doesn't fit with the "boogey man" choices in the poll... sorry to be a buzz killer.
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Re: Daily Sales Philosophy
GMAN ·
Confucius say, "warrior who lose battle must fall on sword." Yoshida say, "Sales Rep not prepared to close deal, get caught with pants down."
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Re: Daily Sales Philosophy
GMAN ·
Confucius say "man who walk mile in other man's shoes, must be careful for athlete's foot." Yoshida say, "if there truly was level playing field, IKON Sales Reps would be walking sideways."
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Re: Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On
Chuck ·
GMAN, your thoughts are intriguing and make sense. Any thoughts for the West where the Lanier name isn't quite as strong and Savin is?
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Re: KonicaMinolta bizhub 1050e
Chuck ·
Can you let us know if these are dealers, manufacturers or lunatics making these offers? How about what part of the country? Could they be negotiated, franchised print-4-pay customers? Help us out buddy . . . after 31 years in this biz I'm looking to get out but its too late.
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Re: IP Fax Solution & Questions
I just set up 2 machines in our office for IP Fax for the first time. You can find instructions here http://www.tscweb.net/ref/utilities/ip-fax_tool.ZIP You will need login credentials for TSC Web to get the information. As for routing the fax to a folder you can use fax forwarding to folder. If you don't want all faxes routed to the folder, you may need to specify special sender.
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Re: All Ricoh U.S. Employees,
GMAN ·
Looks like Ricoh will need to be working with someone else on Vision, Mission, Values in the new fiscal year, since Yoshida will soon be on a plane back to Japan.
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Re: Ricoh Pro C900
GMAN ·
As we knew, IKON is the 'loss-leader' for Ricoh and will at least be able to get the units placed in a few locations.
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Re: Ricoh pro C900 and C900s
GMG (Guest) ·
Appears the jury is still out on the reliability of the 90PPM device by Ricoh. On Friday Ricoh announced the release of the Pro C550EX & C700EX. Does anyone have an idea of what either of these 2 devices have for a max duty cycle or what the AMPV is? Always suspect on these newer released devices with high PPM and rated at low AMPV. Seem like a a problem for a light production environment for reliability and quality go hand in hand.
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Re: RICOH INTRODUCES THE PRO C550EX/C700EX COLOR DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEMS
GMG (Guest) ·
quote: Originally posted by Art Post: Cause for alarm??? Is this system not going to be offered to dealers?? Has anybody heard what the projected monthly volumes on these devices should be? Appears all of these "new" Ricoh devices have lower than expected duty cycles and average monthly impression targets.
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