This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago

Neal · 8/31/093:07 PM

- price does not include annual software maintenance fees Printable Technologies announced that its variable data software, FusionPro, will now support the AFP print file format from IBM. It also is now compatible with DirectSmile personalization software. Hewlett Packard won a bid from the City of Langford, Canada for an undisclosed number of HP LaserJet MFPs. This was to change a situation of; “a printer next to a copier next to a fax machine”. The new contract will supposedly save the city

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GMAN · 8/27/092:03 PM

. In the position, Gerry will be responsible for managing all aspects of Konica Minolta Dealer Aftermarket business (parts and supplies) within the entire East Region. Gerry joins Konica Minolta from Ricoh Corporation, where her most recent position was Executive Aftermarket Manager for both Savin and Lanier brands for the Eastern Region. Gerry began her career at Ricoh, where she held a variety of sales and marketing positions, to later support various dealers in Sales, Telemarketing, Training

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/27/095:22 PM

Trade News | 27 Aug 2009 : A steep decline in shipments of printer, copier and multifunction (MFP) products in the first half of 2009 is likely to spur vendors and resellers to concentrate on managed print services. Latest figures from technology research specialist Gartner show shipments down nearly 25% in the first half of the year. There is no sign of a recovery in the second half, with Gartner predicting a double-digit decline which "in the worst case scenario could hit 30%". Gartner

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/27/094:48 PM

Here's quiz questions that will bring back the memories of the good ole days! Have fun and enjoy!!

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/25/099:36 AM

printing products, network controllers or toner products, or for a dealer in your area, call (800)-GO-TOSHIBA or visit the TABS Web site at www.copiers.toshiba.com : . About Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) manages product planning, marketing, sales, service support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Latin America, and

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/28/095:51 PM

, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, The Dow Chemical Company and KeyCorp to reduce operational costs by up to 30 percent and get more out of the print infrastructure they've invested in - from the office to the print shop to the virtual workplace. "Xerox's position in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant validates the strength of our offering, especially in these challenging economic times," said Stephen Cronin , president, Xerox Global Services . "In addition to short-term cost savings, our MPS

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/30/097:10 PM

our current products." Offtec's Office and Banking Business Development Manager, Mr. Tareq Shaqqou, commented on this saying, "We at OFFTECOFFTECOfftec Group Offtec make use of our distinctive capabilities to become the trusted provider of optimal business and technology solutions. Thus, we are introducing today a total enterprise solution using Managed Printing Services in a step towards standardization and comprehensive management of the fleet of printers and copiers." It is worth mentioning

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GMAN · 8/26/099:48 PM

I would not be surprised if your p4p hotel helped influence this new Toshiba EXCHANGE 'social' website. I believe that the p4p mission should be to provide the same platform within the Office Equipment Industry, yet be a forum for all people regardless of manufacturer (Toshiba, Ricoh, Canon, Konica Minolta, SHARP) affiliation.

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/26/0912:53 AM

Copier - Toshiba EStudio 2500c,3500c,3510c - Drum - Click here for funny video clips

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/28/0911:50 PM

Thursday, August 27, 2009 5 Habits of Highly Ineffective Copier Sales People Many of us in the business community grew up with Stephen Covey’s excellent book, the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It is both influential and insightful. Well, I'd like to introduce you to "5 Habits of Ineffective Copier Sales People" Be the most talkative person in the meeting – You know everything there is to know about copiers, so why ask the customer an questions that he or she .... go here for rest of blog

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/30/0910:07 PM

Zealand’s sales declined from $180.4 million to $174.1 million, while Fuji Xerox Finance recorded an increase in revenue, from $63.3 million to $66.9 million. Average achieved pricing per unit fell sharply, but the company sold more units year-on-year, Duffy says. “The owners are pleased with the performance,” he says. Falling interest rates in New Zealand led to part of the loss, a one-off $7 million, on swap derivatives, says Mark Allright, Fuji Xerox New Zealand’s chief financial officer

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/26/091:09 AM

Written by Dave Bailey Computing, 25 Aug 2009 The global market for printers, copiers and multifunctional products (MFPs) declined by a fifth in the first half of 2009 to 51.3 million units sold, according to analyst Gartner. The reasons behind the fall were "weak demand as both businesses and consumers reduced spending and the drop in shipments was also impacted by tighter inventory controls in order to minimise inventory levels in the channels," said Gartner senior research analyst Lai-Ling

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GMAN · 8/26/099:51 PM

emissions are about 40 percent below those of conventional toner. "We are honored to receive PC Magazine's top accolade, which gives our customers the confidence that they can count on Konica Minolta for all of their printing needs," said Richard Miller, Vice President, Printer Sales, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. "This award signifies Konica Minolta's commitment to develop quality products that are continuously evolving to help consumers stay ahead of the print management curve

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/28/094:55 PM

www.responsivesolutions.com . “To address the new realities of today’s business communications market,” said Frank Miller, President, Responsive Solutions, “printers must address both customer-facing and internal efficiencies. CUSTOMER+ is a Marketing Resource Center™ offered in a Software as a Service (SaaS) model that does just that. Responsive Solutions coined the term and has the most robust offering in the marketplace. Visitors to our booth at Print 09 will see how implementing CUSTOMER+ can ensure business

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/28/094:56 PM

Chicago, IL.,(PRINT 09) – August 25, 2009 – InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today announced its lineup of market-leading hardware and software solutions along with professional services offerings for the commercial print industry to be shown at booth #2082 at PRINT 09, September 11-16, 2009. InfoPrint will tackle current customer issues and concerns, such as mailroom regulation, postal tracking, TransPromo implementation and print cost reduction. The company

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/25/098:44 AM

year 2008 sales in excess of $20 billion. Ricoh Americas Corporation is a leading provider of document solutions. Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and software products help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents. Ricoh Americas Corporation directly or through its network of authorized dealers markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America. Information about Ricoh's complete

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/26/097:44 AM

represented approximately half of Océ's worldwide business in 2008, and employment is approximately 10,000. For more information about Océ, visit www.oceusa.com . Outside the U.S., consult http://global.oce.com . About Equitrac Corporation Making documents count for over 30 years, Equitrac is the world's leading provider of solutions to authenticate, authorize and account for use of today's multifunction printers, copiers, faxes and scanners. We are home to the industry's best-funded R&D program

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/28/094:26 PM

Onorato Announces New Cost-Saving, Energy-Saving Equipment Contract County will save $2.3 million over five years with new multifunctional devices PITTSBURGH — Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato today announced a contract with Imperial-based Amcom Office Systems to replace the County’s 406 copier/printer/fax machines with modern, Energy Star-rated multifunctional devices. The new equipment will save the County more than $400,000 annually or nearly $2.3 million over the five-year term of

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GIntel · 8/28/098:04 PM

I've noticed an increasing number of Ricoh's public sector contracts have shifted to a "Committed Both" CPC structure for office color MFPs, requiring a volume commitment for both monochrome and color prints within the same plan. I am familiar with this structure, but I wanted to confirm the CPC methodology since this may result in significantly inflated committed per-click costs depending on how CPCs are calculated. For example, I just saw the 28-ppm Aficio MP 2800 in a contract with a $138

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/28/098:54 PM

As Eastman Kodak Co. prepares for this year's largest print industry trade show, the company is going about it differently than in years past. It’s not taking Kodak equipment with it. Instead, the company is changing its trade show approach at Print 09, to be held in Chicago from Sept 11-16, with virtual displays and a talk show-like set of discussions about the commercial printing world. “If you go back to Drupa (a huge print industry trade show in 2008), we took a lot of equipment and our

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/28/0911:48 PM

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 TWIR "This Week in Ricoh" 8/25/09 Gathered from media sources from around the world, and a few moles! Isn't this a photo-copier brand?! In the early days, RICOH made precision instruments like watches . This RICOH 21J Automatic has rounded edges, making the watch look bigger than fact. The doom cystal also adds to the depth and volume of the watch. There is a raised red flower above 6 o'clock. It looks like a Lotus, a symbol of purity rising among the filth in Buddhism

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/28/0911:53 PM

TWIC "This Week in Canon" 8/25/09 Gathered from media sources from around the world, and a few moles! More details on the new Canon production b/w models, the imagePRESS 7000 series: - Apparently has issue with mixplexing, in that it has to clear every sheet in the engine before it can switch to either/or single of double sided print..... go here for rest of blog

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/28/097:52 AM

good job Chuck~ XEROX 5675 COPIER/PRINTER/SCANNER. A motion was made by Council Member Jones, seconded by Council Member Sudduth, to adopt Resolution R-1544-09, authorizing the Mayor to sign the three (3) year lease agreement and maintenance agreement with Berney Office Solutions for the lease of two (2) Xerox 5675 copier/printer/ scanner for City Hall at a cost of $552.96 per month.

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/25/099:34 AM

function devices like printers, copiers, scanners and faxes with multifunctional machines, said Palmer. The situation at the City of Langford is a common scenario across many organizations where they had “a printer next to a copier next to a fax machine,” said Jean-Paul Desmarais, senior marketing manager for business printing with Hewlett-Packard Canada Co.. Actually, in the past several years, there has been an awareness among IT managers of the availability of multifunction machines, said

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/25/0911:48 PM

Ok, its been ahile for me on this one. My customer is using Timberline accounting software and he needs to print forms. I am under the impression that we can direct the forms to a printer. But we need the printer to print the same form twice and then auto staple the form. How is this done? Is it additional software or just a modification of the print stream?

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/27/0910:47 AM

similar forms, Crabtree said. The onsite print center's nine Xerox support staff manages the more than 25 million printed documents Methodist uses annually. That includes an average of 2 million black-and-white forms that administrative and clinical staff use monthly, and more than 1 million color documents, including brochures. Currently, the print center receives more than 125 job tickets a day and processes about 93% of those in five business days or less. Large volume printing is done in the

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/27/091:55 PM

, August 25, 2009 – A2iA, the worldwide leading developer of handwritten and machine printed text recognition, information extraction and intelligent classification of paper documents, announced today that A2iA DocumentReader™ has been named a “Trend-Setting Product" by KMWorld magazine for the second consecutive year. KMWorld’s prestigious list is published annually and recognizes innovative products that demonstrate identifiable technology breakthroughs and have a significant impact on the

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/27/094:48 PM

Here's quiz questions that will bring back the memories of the good ole days! Have fun and enjoy!!

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/27/095:17 PM

Test Your Knowledge of the Copier Industry http://p4photel.com/eve/forums...81057841/m/625108051

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John · 8/27/096:56 PM

Is anyone familiar with this unit?Anyone have government pricing and CPC?Thanks,John

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/28/098:13 AM

problem was money. "While we had this huge requirement for retention, we also couldn't spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on software and hardware," Perry said. "We expected sticker shock. It turns out you can get everything you need out of one box." In the end, the software cost about $19,000 and the copier cost about $5,000, Perry said. The Ricoh machine also replaced the water authority's aging copier, scanner and fax machine. It can do all those chores. Tools in place Now that the tools are

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/28/0911:05 PM

We have members here what gives??

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/28/0911:46 PM

Monday, August 24, 2009 TWIX "This Week in Xerox" Gathered from media sources from around the world, and a few moles! Xerox’s Worldwide Product Marketing Manager for entry level production color systems, Dale Allen, gave out more details on the new DocuColor 7002 & 8002 models: - does NOT use EA toner (this is Xerox’s polymerized toner and EA is acronym for Emulsion Aggregate) - instead is “same formulation as in the previous generation with an additive to lower ... go here for rest of blog

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jswinberlin · 8/26/093:43 PM

I haven't put a consorted effort into selling Smart Accounting because the pop-up drivers are inconsistent in that upon installation, sometimes they pop up and sometimes they don't. I'd also be concerned about installing this on a print server and sharing it out because I believe there may be issues where the server keeps the previous user's code if the user does not enter in a user code. It would be much more simple if they would just put the pop up function in the universal driver and made it

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Shaja · 8/27/099:23 AM

Re Toshiba's site: The hitch in a social networking site for professionals in one specific competitive industry is the competition factor. Re P4P forums opening up across the board: I second Neal's opinion. There is a tech site that already operates that way (The Copier Network).

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Shaja · 8/27/094:18 PM

quote: Originally posted by Art Post: Could you elaborate a little more on this for me? Art C'mon, copier sales professionals are among the most competitive people I know. (Passionate, knowledgeable, competitive, all good qualities when used for good, don't get me wrong). How many times have you written about a direct branch going in to one of your accounts? You weren't too happy about that! Do you really want to "easily connect and share knowledge" with a sales competitor in your own territory

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/25/096:32 PM

level of response from technology vendors and marketing partners.” Broadhurst pointed to Direct Group as a leading example of successful and innovative TransPromo initiatives. “Direct Group leverages the latest technologies – including new Océ inkjet variable MICR printing capabilities – that allow marketers to fully capitalize on the potential of TransPromo marketing.” Océ is the only provider of integrated MICR printing on a full color, high volume production inkjet system. Océ printers help