This Week in Copiers Fifteen Years Ago
Second Week of August 2009
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Konica Minolta, CTWP Put Printing Technology to Work in "100 Percent Green"
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Konica Minolta, CTWP Put Printing Technology to Work in "100 Percent Green" Office bizhub MFPs Increase Office Efficiencies and Eliminate Waste at Waco Chamber of Commerce Highlighted Links Count on Konica MinoltaRAMSEY, NJ and WACO, TX--(Marketwire - August 12, 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, in conjunction with its local dealer CTWP, today announced
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Selling Copiers "Competing Against the Sharp MX-X401 color MFP"
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 Selling Copiers "Competing Against the Sharp MX-X401 color MFP" Wow, a 40 pager per minute color device from Sharp! The Sharp MX-401 color is one of the new A3 device that will copy, print and scan up to legal size. Keep in mind that this system will not scan, copy, fax or print 11x17. I've already seen the Sharp DX-C401 on the internet for under $4,000! So, how the heck can you go here for rest of blog
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RICOH DEMONSTRATES COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABILITY WITH TOTAL GREEN OFFICE SOLUTION
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. In particular, Ricoh’s Quick Start-up Technology is a green feature in B/W MFPs that allows the machine to power up from a low power mode to full operation mode within 10-15 seconds. Fleet Consolidation and Software Solutions Ricoh advocates for fleet consolidation of older scanners, faxes, printers and copiers into fewer MFPs to reduce energy. As an example, six black & white laser printers consolidated into one Ricoh color MFP can cut energy consumption significantly and save hundreds of
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Weekend Copier Notes from 08/09/09
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documents per month. The solution included 5 Kodak desktop scanners and DocuWare software, according to Director of Sales, Dan Nihiser. Sandy Jones and Nicole Moses were arrested in New Hampshire after allegedly making fake currency using a color copier. Both women were arrested after they use a fake $50 bill to buy lottery tickets. Heidelberg is apparently working on a high speed color inkjet production print system. The company has invested in inkjet printhead maker, Spectra, and plans to launch a new
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CHANNEL DETAILS UNVEILED AT KONICA'S
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Print function allows digital images to be printed directly from a PictBridge-enabled digital camera. Borderless 4" x 6" prints are also available. Printer-Based MFPs On The Way? Printer-based MFPs in higher speed ranges, such as 45- to 50-ppm, are also on Konica Minolta's radar. Indeed, the MFP and printer are converging with success from other vendors (see The Lowdown On Printer-Based MFPs from the April issue 2007 issue of Digital Imaging Review and BLI's recently published Special Report on
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Konica Minolta's New Management Team Members
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Konica Minolta's New Management Team Members Alan Nielsen is new Executive VP, Dealer Sales and Administration. David Hartman named EVP Dealer Sales, Midwest Region. Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Appoints Alan Nielsen Executive Vice President, Dealer Sales and Administration RAMSEY, NJ, April 15, 2008 -- 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, today announced
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Konica Minolta to Unveil MFP Security and Document Control Solution at GSA Expo 2009
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leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced that the company will unveil a new security and document control software solution at the GSA Expo 2009 (Booth #2721) in San Antonio, Texas next week (June 9-11, 2009). The company will also be showcasing bizhub and magicolor products that demonstrate Konica Minolta's commitment to providing high quality and reliable solutions that also support global green initiatives. Kevin Kern
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Andy Vincent Joins Konica Minolta
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Andy Vincent has joined Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. as the Senior District Sales Manager for the Eastern Region reporting to Todd Lalor, Regional Sales Manager. In this position Andy assumes responsibility for all aspects of the dealer business in the New England Marketplace. Andy has over 25 years of sales experience in both sales management and sales training. He started his career as a Sales Representative with Xerox Corporation and moved on to become a Branch Manager for Konica
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Konica Minolta’s bizhub PRO 1050 named "Most Outstanding Multifunctional Imaging Syst
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system configurations. The bizhub PRO 1050’s top-quality print results are also ensured thanks to Simitri™, Konica Minoltas extra fine polymerised toner that features improved halftone definition and solid fills. For over 40 years the Buyers Lab has been publishing the industry’s most comprehensive and accurate test reports on office document imaging and is also recognised for housing one of the most extensive databases of specifications and pricing on copiers, printers, fax machines and
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In Focus: Document Automation Requires More Than Scanning
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-enabled device. Its scanning software works with Canon, Gestetner, HP, Konica Minolta, Lanier, Ricoh, Savin, Sharp and Toshiba multifunction devices. Xerox offers its own capture and workflow solutions, and it bundles Nuance (formerly ScanSoft) PaperPort software to provide many of the same features provided by eCopy Desktop
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New Konica Minolta Printer For Design Professionals
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Secure job, Proof then Print, Print and Hold. The magicolor 7450 grafx is compatible with Windows® , Macintosh® and Linux® environments. As with all Konica Minolta printers that feature its proprietary Emperon print systems, the magicolor 7450 grafx includes comprehensive and convenient PageScope printer management tools that make it easy for individuals to set up, monitor, and control print features. In addition, the magicolor 7450 grafx features photorealistic resolution and PANTONE® color
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Konica Minolta Document Management Software > For PrintShop Mail Users
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(from Shaja) I enjoy using and selling PrintShop Mail. It would be great to be able to chat with other KMBS dealers out there who use it, too. Anyone feel up for a users group or maybe just an informal network of contacts?
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Danka Business Systems PLC Signs Agreement With Konica Minolta to Sell
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stronger as a result." Upon consummation of the transaction, DOIC will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta, and will maintain its current offices in St. Petersburg, Florida and elsewhere. Konica Minolta will supplement the product mix including network-ready multifunctional products (print, copy, fax and scan all in one system) and network printers in DOIC markets beginning in mid-2008. DOIC will continue servicing its customers with its highly trained sales and service teams. Frazier
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Kyocera monochrome printer range recognized in industry-leading 2009 awards
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standard Kyocera’s FS-3920DN was also awarded the Bertl’s Best ‘Best Productive Monochrome Printer’ award for its: - Exceptionally low printing costs in its class - ECOSYS long life consumables for reducing operating costs - Productive duplex functions for saving paper - Ability to print up to 42 pages per minute with up to 1,200 dpi resolution - Standard duplex unit for double-sided printing - Five paper trays for superior flexibility and high capacity with support for up to 120 lb. Index
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"How to Increase Sales & Profits for Color Wide Format Print, Scan & Copy".
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wide selection of hardware & software, and provide you with information needed to sell color multifucntional wide format systems, color scanners, color plotters, and many AEC software solutions. personally I have been selling Paradigm products for the last two years and their products have filled the gap when I could not place a Ricoh product and I have benefited from sales leads and sales for color wide format multifucntional systems. Paradigm Imaging will be giving away a free Canon scanner
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IKON Service Pricing for Kyocera
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transferred post from the RFG Board: This an email I recieved from a manufacturer rep. I thought this may be of interest to you. (Embedded image moved to file: pic11337.jpg) IKON is now selling and placing three Kyocera b/w models, the KM-3050, 4050 & 5050. Besides the odd fact that IKON is moving b/w sales away from primary providers, Canon & Ricoh, IKON has started a new service plan that is unique, and only available for the three Kyocera b/w models: o Plan A – Customer has no service
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Canon Introduces New Colour imageCLASS MF Series of Printers
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Save Cost, Time and Space with Canon’s New Colour imageCLASS MF Series The new colour printers offer advanced high-speed printing, eco-friendly benefits and network ready functionalities to meet the needs of today’s Small and Home Offices Singapore, 13 August 2009 – Canon, today, announced the launch of its three new colour imageCLASS MF Printers – the MF 8030Cn, MF 8050Cn and MF 8350Cdn. Compactly designed with new and enhanced usability, the printers are built to offer affordable all-in
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Konica Minolta Gator Bowl Tickets and Parking Go On Sale August 14th
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., Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop. For the second consecutive year, Konica Minolta was recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys. For more information, please visit www.CountOnKonicaMinolta.com . About The Gator Bowl Classic The Gator Bowl Association is a 501(c) 3 not-for profit organization whose mission is to provide Northeast Florida with the very best in college athletics
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Konica Minolta Named 2009 Supplier of the Year by Corporate United
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Konica Minolta Named 2009 Supplier of the Year by Corporate United Fortune 1000 Members Recognize Konica Minolta's Outstanding Efforts We are proud to honor Konica Minolta as our 2009 Supplier of the Year This honor is a testament to the remarkable products, services and overall performance Konica Minolta provides our membership. Winning the Supplier of the Year award for the third time validates our commitment of providing services to the Corporate United membership. Our relationship with
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Konica Minolta and Kodak shake on Nexpress deal
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Konica Minolta and Kodak shake on Nexpress deal by Peter Kohn May 27, 2009 Find more like: Konica | Minolta | Kodak | Nexpress | deal | service | partner | agency In what is seen as Konica Minolta’s gateway to the print-for-pay market, the company that came to PacPrint four years ago as a member of the “digital light” club is wielding its new NexPress agency as its pass to the vendor A-list. The deal was sealed under a volley of camera flashes on the Konica Minolta stand yesterday, as its
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Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index Again Rates Konica Minolta Number 1
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Walmart. "Konica Minolta is honored to be recognized for the second consecutive year as the top office copier manufacturer by Brand Keys," said Kevin P. Kern, vice president, marketing, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. "This accolade further reinforces our company vision that customers are counting on Konica Minolta for the entire gamut of their advanced digital imaging needs. Our award-winning lines of office systems, printers, production print systems, and application solutions
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Introducing the NEW bizhub PRO C65hc Digital Color Printing System
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Marketing Bulletin Bulletin #08-GB-120 Date: March 16, 2009 To: All Konica Minolta Sales Channels From: Marketing and Product Development Subject: Introducing the NEW bizhub PRO C65hc Digital Color Printing System Konica Minolta is extremely excited to introduce the new Konica Minolta bizhub PRO C65hc Digital Color Production Printing System. Following in the footsteps of the groundbreaking bizhub PRO C6501, the C65hc with brilliant and vivid High Chroma color output will again forge ahead of
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Konica Minolta’s Vision 2009 Provides Dealers with a Unified Roadmap for the Future
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By Scott Cullen, Contributing Writer If the purpose of a dealer meeting is to inspire and rev up dealers for another year of selling, then Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. (Konica Minolta) did a heck of a job in Orlando, January 11-13. A host of new products, solutions, programs, and initiatives, underscored Konica Minolta’s status in the upper pantheon of imaging equipment manufacturers and should go a long way toward keeping its dealers competitive, and if luck holds out, profitable
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Konica Minolta Color MFPs Receive Gold Medal
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Ramsey, N.J. - July 28, 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, today announced Wirth Consulting has awarded three Gold Medal Awards to Konica Minolta in the recent Head2Head Comparison Report. The bizhub® C253 received a Gold Medal for "Best Overall Performance," while the bizhub C253, bizhub C203, and bizhub C200 also received awards for "Overall Lowest
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iR 4570 end user opinion!
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-Minolta: This means it is a more solid construction. This makes it harder to break. This machine copies, prints from your pc, scans, and can also be set up to send faxes. It has its own internal hard-drive, so you can store documents on the machine and print from the copier, rather than your pc. The important factor for the machine lasting over the period of the lease is how many pages per month, year, etc. you are printing. We are not printing that many per month, compared to what the intended
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Canon iR 5055 fax setup questions
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a Canon imageRunner 5055 network printer I am working with, and I have 99% of the functionality set up , but 2 little things have me stumped. I am running a SBS2003 server, and have created a username for the printer called Canon. The printer already sends scans out to the Exchange server perfectly fine. All printing functions are working fine right now. 1. We have incoming faxes directed to the Fax Mailbox
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CANON U.S.A. AND TECHNESIS RELEASE iBRIDGE FOR CANON imagePROGRAF LARGE FORMAT PRINTE
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award-winning imagePROGRAF line of printers will help users to significantly enhance their organization’s ability to track and report on their large format print projects. ” “The integration between Canon imagePROGRAF printers and Technesis iBridge is so seamless that customers are ready to track and bill for printing within minutes of setup. The benefit for Canon imagePROGRAF customers is having the accuracy and accountability of each job sent whether it’s a technical drawing on bond paper or
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Konica Minolta Aftermarket Manager
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(from Gman) Moved from old KM P4P Message Board: 07/27/09 at 09:47 PM Reply with quote #1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As you know, Konica Minolta Business Solutions is fast becoming the most respected manufacturer in the office equipment industry. The KMBS Dealer Division is committed to providing the best sales and support personnel to help KMBS Dealers grow revenue, despite current economic challenges. In that respect, KMBS Dealer Division
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HP Takes Top Spot from Xerox in Global MPS Market
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$50B by 2013, and more than 50 percent of all devices will be under MPS contract. The data indicated that HP had overtaken Xerox as leader in the global MPS sector in 2008, with a 34 percent share of global market. The Photizo Group specializes in research and analysis of the Managed Print Services market. The annual MPS Market Forecast Report is becoming the de facto standard for analysis of this rapidly evolving sector. Photizo defines MPS as the outsourcing of hardcopy devices (printers, copiers
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"How to Increase Sales & Profits for Color Wide Format Print, Scan & Copy".
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"How to Increase Sales & Profits for Color Wide Format Print, Scan & Copy". Paradigm Imaging (Print4Pay Hotel Sponsor) will host a webinar "How to Increase Sales & Profits for Color Wide Format Print, Scan & Copy". This webinar is for all current wide format dealers and dealers that would like to enter the wide format market. Focus will be on how to increase sales of Color Wide Format Multifucntional Systems. Paradigm Imaging will introduce you to their wide selection of hardware & software
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Konica Minolta 6500 - Thoughts
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Konica Minolta 6500 - Thoughts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does anyone own and consistently run one of these as a color production machine? We currently own a Xerox DocuColor 5000, but we are considering getting rid of it and purchase the KM 6500 - Mainly for price, but we dont look the shiny toner that the DocuColor Produces. Anyone have any really good things to say about this machine, or bad things for that matter??
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Konica Minolta Document Management Software > Looking for DocForm tips
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(from Shaja)We're about to do our first Prism DocForm install. Anybody have any advice, caveats or suggestions?
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Colortrac will exhibit the latest SmartLF wide format GIS scanners at the ESRI World-
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technologies, simplified and reliable operation, fast scan speeds, and intuitive scanning and printing software solutions to achieve the best high quality color images at a lower cost than was previously possible. Malcolm, says "Our Booth 204 will give ESRI visitors a chance to see Colortrac's industry-leading technology in live demonstrations where we will feature two new large format scanners. The SmartLF Ci 40 is the most affordable, most accurate 40" wide format scanner on the market today, while the
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Selling Copiers "On The Road Again"
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Selling Copiers "On The Road Again" Most days, you'll find me driving around Central New Jersey visiting existing accounts or cold calling accounts that I've pre-planned. On the average I can do about 2,000 miles a month or more on my Eclipse (knock on wood 129K and still working). When you're on the road that much you pretty much see it all. One morning going through Long Branch I was stopped behind a pickup truck at a railroad crossing. The train had passed and the
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Kyocera Mita America Announces Powerful Version of Award Winning KYOcapture, Document
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FAIRFIELD, N.J. – August 3, 2009 - Kyocera Mita America, Inc., one of the world's leading document solutions companies, today announced that it has enhanced its KYOcapture, powered by AutoStore, the latest version of its award winning, server-based Document Capture Workflow Solution with the release of version 5.0. Working in synchronization with Kyocera’s color and black & white Multifunctional Products (MFPs), KYOcapture allows organizations to easily capture, process and route their paper
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