This Week in Copiers Fifteen Years Ago
Second Week of Novmber 2009
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Had a demo years ago on a fax machine. Had a big wheel from corporate wanting to do a ride along with a rep for the day. Customer wanted to see quality and asked one of their customers to send a test fax. As all the admin complained about the speed, the corp guy explained that a very detailed fax would take more time because of memory issues. As everyone crowded aroud the fax to innspect, a very vivid porn image was reproduced with striking detail. We made the sale.... more here
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Weekend Industry Notes from 11/08/09
Neal ·
’s of revenue - Copier revenue down 28% - B/W MFP revenue down 31.3% - Color MFP revenue down 29.4% - B/W MFP unit sales down 26% - Color MFP unit sales down 15% - Color MFPs account for 27% of units and 48% of total MFP revenue - Laser printer sales down 26.8% - B/w laser printer sales down 38%, color down 15% - Laser printer unit shipments (most sold by HP) down 60% - Xerox received the 2009 Harold W. Gegenheimer award from NPES, the association for suppliers of printing, publishing
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Canon in Las Vegas, Part 2 Powerful Tools for In-Plant Printers
Art Post (Guest) ·
of commercial printing operations can avail themselves of business development tools offered by equipment vendors. Capture (HP), MarketMover (Kodak), and ProfitAccelerator (Xerox) are replete with comprehensive business building tools, templates, guidebooks and more that print providers can use to bring in new and repeat business. This material is heavily skewed towards the commercial print operations and not necessarily adaptable to in-plant operations even though they may use the exact same
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Xerox Enterprise Print Services: From the desktop to the in-house print centre
Art Post (Guest) ·
Xerox's move to widen the scope of its MPS offerings across the enterprise addresses the need to manage and control printing as it occurs in several parts of the organisation—at the desktop, in the home or other remote locations, or in internal print-rooms. In itself, the office environment represents a significant source of paper output and is characterised by a range of printers, copiers and multifunction peripherals (MFPs). This environment can be a huge cost drain due to the lack of control
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Ingersoll Rand to cut operational costs by 30% with Xerox document management
Art Post (Guest) ·
Ingersoll Rand to cut operational costs by 30% with Xerox document management 12/11/2009 Global manufacturer Ingersoll Rand reckons it's seeing cost savings and greener operations since going live with Xerox Enterprise Print Services. William Gauld, senior vice president at Ingersoll Rand, explains that the company's nine-year EPS contract effectively brings multiple output devices, print budgets and vendor support systems all under centralised Xerox management. As a result, he says
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Re: A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Copier Demo/Appointment
kdbyrum ·
A customer was demo'ing a canon color copier with fiery in their office. I stopped by on the second day to check to see how everything was going. The office manager asked me if there was any way that images or pictures would just randomly print off the hard drive of the system. Apparently, some very explicit images had been printed on the copier right before I got there. Rightfully so she was absolutley furious. I explained that the pictures had to have been printed by someone in the office. We
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Xerox wins Gegenheimer award
Art Post (Guest) ·
Xerox wins Gegenheimer award Press release from the issuing company Xerox Corporation has been awarded the 2009 Harold W. Gegenheimer Corporate Award for Industry Service from NPES, The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies. Xerox is the first manufacturer of digital printing equipment to win the award, which recognizes leadership and participation in NPES and industry activities, civic leadership and technical innovation. "Xerox has been instrumental in
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Ricoh W5100
Art Post (Guest) ·
One of my cleints just needs a color scan solution, however the Ricoh Color Scanner is not on GSA, thsu I need to go to the W5100. Can this system just be confingured with the interface card and the scan license?? Thus the RW print license is not needed. am I correct or am I missing something. Art PS, I would use the netwrok acnning, however they need more control over scanning old documents.
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Océ Offers Customers Secure Printer Access
Art Post (Guest) ·
. Availability HID OMNIKEY brand readers are now available from Océ direct sales offices. A variety of acquisition plans are available, please visit www.oceusa.com . About Océ Océ is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. The company’s solutions are based on Océ advanced software applications that deliver documents and data over internal networks and the internet to printing devices and archives -- locally and around the world. Supporting the
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London Graphic Systems appointed Xerox reseller
Art Post (Guest) ·
Specialist print reseller becomes Xerox UK’s latest channel partner. Published on Nov 9, 2009 London-based supplier to the creative industry, London Graphic Systems, has added Xerox colour technology to its portfolio of specialist colour printing systems. “This is an exciting time for London Graphic Systems,” says Gordon Christiansen, London Graphic Systems’ managing director. Adds Peter Taylor, director, Production and Graphic Communications, Xerox UK: “The relationship Xerox has with London
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Frank Sinatra "20 Years of Experience in the Copier Biz"
Art Post (Guest) ·
n?A motion to approve a five-year multi-function copier agreement was tabled by supervisors to allow board member Frank Sinatra to view a demonstration of the equipment. He said Nov. 4 that he has 20 years of copy machine experience. The township will lease at least five copiers for the administration, finance, police, parks and MCA-TV. The vote to table was 3-1 with supervisor Marvin Eicher dissenting and Craig Swen absent. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg...57.stm#ixzz0We58iWWY
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CSU to shut down university print shop
Art Post (Guest) ·
printing technologies are rapidly replacing traditional offset (printing) for many forms of print marketing," administrators said in their justification. "There are fewer dollars out there, and buyers are carefully choosing where to spend." Cutting the eight jobs and dropping two others to part time will save the university $280,000 annually, administrators said. Administrators said print jobs will be handled by other staff using copiers and other digital equipment at the FastPrint and CopyRite
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Fuji Xerox adds three Nuvera models
Art Post (Guest) ·
magnetic readers and sorters. The machines boast productive printing capabilities with the Nuvera 200MX printing at speeds of up to 200 A4 duplex images per minute, while the Nuvera 288MX can print up to 288 A4 duplex images per minute. Other features include: Cheque Production Integrity : An optional feature that automatically tracks the total number of cheques in a run and captures every printed MICR line to determine if a number in a cheque sequence is missing, duplicated or out of order
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Print Audit Named 2009 TechRev Innovator
Art Post (Guest) ·
2009 TechRev Innovators, please visit: http://www.infoport.ca/techrev/bins/index.asp About Print Audit Established in 1999 and headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Print Audit is the fastest growing print management company in the world. By providing businesses with innovative and practical print management software solutions, the company has helped customers recapture over $150 million in printing and photocopying expenses while saving an estimated 190,000 trees a year. Print Audit has offices
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Canon unveils world’s fastest portable scanner
Art Post (Guest) ·
Canon imageFORMULA P-150 is the speediest USB-based portable scanner on the market, according to the tech giant. By Benny Har-Even, 6 Nov 2009 at 13:38 Canon has revealed a small USB scanner that it said offers the fastest scans per minute speed currently available from any portable device in its class. The imageFORMULA P-150 can deliver 15ppm, which the company claimed is twice as fast as its closest competitor. The compact device, aimed at mobile executives, is USB powered and its software
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requires a service contract for its fleet of departmental printers.
Art Post (Guest) ·
Wake Technical Community College requires a service contract for its fleet of departmental printers. These printers are all HP printers, and range from smaller departmental printers to larger departmental multi-function devices.
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"Lead" Looks like new copiers for Camp Ernst Middle School!
Art Post (Guest) ·
Site Based Budget for CEMS was presented to the Council. Mr. McArtor informed Council of copier proposals for CEMS. The current copiers are over four years old and cannot handle the work load. A Redbook (Accounting ) Training was held at CEMS for all Principals and Secretaries. After viewing the monthy Financial Report Carol Dwyer asked about the negative balances. It was explained that once all fee money is distributed most accounts will not be negative. Those teachers who do have a negative
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How long have you been in the copier industry?
Art Post (Guest) ·
Me? Be 30 years in March! Oh, that's a long time.. How bout everyone else??
BIZHUB C65401 COPIER AND MAINTENANCE "Due 11/20/09"
Art Post (Guest) ·
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Re: A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Copier Demo/Appointment
JasonR ·
I customer once called me to ask for the "White Toner" for their copier. I told them that their copier only had black toner, but they wanted white toner to print on black construction paper.
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Re: A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Copier Demo/Appointment
Art Post (Guest) ·
I have one!! In downtown Princeton, NJ (right across the street from Princeton University). Had just demo'd a small Adler Royal 209 (boy was that unit a piece of garbage). Well, rolled the copier gurney into the back of the car. Pulled out and into traffic, stopped at the light, and being young and foolish, I gunned the gas pedal with the green light. The car went forward the copier gurney and copier wne backwards and landed on the street, seems like I forgot to close the hatch!! It was a bad
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Re: Dealer and Direct Branch Counts
GIntel ·
Agreed, This info is hard to track down. Even harder if you want to be exact. For IKON I used the "400" figure that was published at the time of Ricoh's acquisition I pulled the 664 figure from a report on Vision 2007 Ricoh dealer meeting. That did include all RFG dealers. Interestingly, the report said that Ricoh had over 1,300 dealers in 1999. I took your suggestion and converted Xerox' GSA to excel and did the math. Agents added up to 540, but I assume that some of those are actually Global
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Re: GENERIC TONERS
JasonR ·
Excellent point about non-HP devices! I hadn't considered that! Regarding the HP outlook on 11x17 I have a story to relate. I was in an HP training class and the instructor was saying "There's no reason not to recommend this device to replace a traditional copier". Being a copier guy, I had to raise my hand and say "Well, what if they need 11x17?". His response was, "Only 4% of customers actually use 11x17"... and I pounced! I told him that statistic was misrepresented. The actual statistic is
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Copying His Way to Success
Art Post (Guest) ·
to set out on his own, not especially interested in spending the rest of his adult life as an employee. He wanted to run a business on his own. So in 1994, he started his own Xerox copy agency. It turned out to be a good move. One year later he harvested $24 million in sales. By last year he had grown company revenue to $44 million. Now he has 130 employees in offices in San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles, Oakland and Silicon Valley, Reno, Nev., and Portland and Eugene, Ore. How has he done
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OKI brings fully managed office automation service to market
Art Post (Guest) ·
OKI brings fully managed office automation service to market This division offers managed services on the OKI ES range of multifunction and colour printers. Johannesburg, 12 Nov 2009 OKI Printing Solutions has established an office automation division to meet the market's growing demand for fully managed print services. This new division, which became operational at the beginning of October, comprises dedicated sales, support and maintenance staff, which offer managed services on the OKI
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Re: A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Copier Demo/Appointment
JW ·
Rep: What's your copier volume? Client: Well, uh, everyone in the office uses it.
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Re: Weekend Industry Notes from 11/08/09
Art Post (Guest) ·
quote: - Muratec is now shipping the new MFX-4555 A3 b/w MFP, featuring: - actually made by Samsung of Korea - Base MSRP of $5995 - Can print up to 11”x17”, but can only copy up to legal size originals Not correct, this is an A4 device only and will not print 11x17 click here
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Re: Ricoh W5100
I don't believe you can use the Ratio Scantool without PB. Why can't you use the W5100 with the GW Scanner. I think this is all you need. Also, the WFCS is on the GSA Contract dated July 29, 2009. The product code is 100117FNG for $6,500. You need the "software key" that will allow you to utilize the scanner without having a Ricoh WF attached on the network. The product code is 100257FNG, $4,500 MSRP and the launch date should have been the end of October.
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