This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (First Week of May 2003)

. Canon stock, though, is up nearly six percent and the company recently overtook Sony Corp (Tokyo:6758.T - News) to boast the highest stock market value of any Japanese manufacturer outside the auto sector. Ricoh recently reiterated its goal, set a year ago, of 2 trillion yen ($16.8 billion) in annual sales by 2004/05, tapping a shift to faster, higher-resolution colour printers and copiers. "In the business year ahead, we'll be rolling out a lot of new colour products," Ricoh's Hirakawa said

Document Assessment service. To make it easier to buy from Xerox, the company is expanding its worldwide distribution channels, such as TeleWeb operations, resellers, dealers, agents and concessionaires in addition to direct sales. For the first time in the U.S., Xerox will offer selected office multifunction systems through key distributors and resellers in a pilot program aimed at providing a wider range of products to resellers who previously only sold Xerox printers. And in a break with

ever expanding array of technology suited for high production requirements," said Dennis Amorosano, director and assistant general manager, Canon U.S.A. Integrated Business Systems Division. "Through the implementation of these new products, customers can significantly impact throughput, be more productive, and support a wider array of On Demand applications." MICR Printing Canon is expanding its capability to support transactional, On Demand print applications through the delivery of the

I thought I had a 1232C S/P sold. Then the Canon Dealer invited the prospect (Canon Customer) to see a brand new unit just introduced. The person I heard this from is not the VITO so information is sketchy but she said it was an ImageRunner whose color speed was faster than the 1232C and that the B&W speed was the same as color. They said that they just got the first one in last week and that IKON didn't have it yet so it sounds like it truly is a new model. Can someone get back to me ASAP with

Does anyone have a customer that is using a CRM (my customer uses salesforce) and they integrate it with document mall? For instance when they select their customer in sales force those documents related to that client are avaialble. Any ideas?

I am doing a proposal and one of the copiers bid to replace is the FT3213. Any descriptions ono this would help. Thanks

I have a customer who is working in a novel 5.1 environment. They do not have a server, they just use straight IP and something called NDPS. One of my competitors just failed miserably with a gestetner 3502. I need to find a way to make this work....

We also have systems out in the field printing from UNIX through PCL. Can't tell you what 'flavor' the UNIX is right off the top of my head. However we also have other customers printing to Ricohs from UNIX through Postscript.

Yep, we got off to a slow start as well. Ricoh said we were running at the top of their growth list. Wondering where we are fairing at the moment. The light's on though. Already at 85% of this months quota and only 10% from List. Sounds like we may all have felt a little bit O' da world here at home... Thank goodness for the 1224 & 1232 for drumming up some opportunities all around. GOOD SELLING!!! -Greg

to provide immediate value in specific business environments. Building on the integrated print, copy, fax and scan capabilities of Xerox’s line of WorkCentre® Pro digital multifunction systems announced today, eight Xerox Business Partners have developed a rich set of solutions that provide advanced, customized packages for accounting, scanning and faxing services. “Our customers demand one-stop convenience to integrate their systems into existing enterprise architectures and streamline their

, more reliable interaction with the print engine. To be used with the Fusion Punch II Offset Stacker. Certified by Xerox, an accepted solution. Upgraded paper handling to accommodate a wide range of paper stocks with virtually no jamming. Uses the same quick change punching dies as the Fusion Punch. One operator can print, punch and offset stack documents. You need to choose a die set with this machine. Click Here... Productivity: Punches at the speed of the printer, up to 200 sheets per minute

Press Release Source: Canon U.S.A., Inc. New Canon imageCLASS C2500 & imageCLASS C3500 Bring Versatility, Affordability to Color MFP Market Tuesday May 6, 9:46 am ET Color Multifunction Solutions Allow Small Businesses and Workgroups to Scan, Send, Print, and Copy -- In Color CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 2003-- Canon U.S.A., Inc., a subsidiary of Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ - News), today announces the introduction of two new digital color printer/scanner/copiers specifically designed to address

NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR CANON MULTIFUNCTION DEVICES WILL ALLOW FULL CUSTOMIZATION TO SPECIFIC CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS Canon "MEAP" to Dramatically Transform Utility and Value of Multifunction Devices CHICAGO, May 6, 2003 - Canon U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), and a leader in networked imaging solutions, today kicked off the start of the Canon Digital Solutions Forum 2003 by introducing a significant advancement in the architecture of its multifunction devices (MFPs). Known as

500 Series represents a significant saving over comparable color printers, making it an overall price-performance leader. Still more barriers eliminated In addition to the costs of hardware and printing a b/w page, industry analysts identify several other major barriers to the purchase of a color laser printer by small to mid-sized businesses. They include the cost of printing a color page, service and color speed. At less than 8.8 cents per page4, the KX-CL500 Series offers among the lowest costs

I'll see what I can gather from the Savin Connections meeting, Seri Print is here.

Here are some specs from Savins Web Site! Excellent image quality and a host of productive features. The 4035/4035sp is a complete digital imaging system, with copier, fax, laser print and scan capabilities. -4035 comes standard with copy. Fax/LAN-Fax, scanner and printer modules optional. -4035sp comes standard with copy, print and scan. Fax/LAN-Fax module optional. Features 35 copies per minute, first copy time of 4.3 seconds, and 15 second warm-up time. Standard paper capacity is

I read the whole article and there was nothing about color in that article. Are you referring to the article that is datelined May 6th, 2003 and titled "Canon USA Introduces new product additions and Features for ImageRunner line and Print on Demand Environments?"

After speaking with the Product Manager, Ricoh has rated the max CV at 600K, and he belives this to be under what the potential is for the system. I believe we have a real tool here for DOT and OMS solutions and maybe able to create more talk in "back office printing". Art

This post is about terminology, even reading it myself I sound like a smart-ass, but all I'm trying do is give out some info, please don't take offense . Novell is the name of a company that makes a Networking product called Netware, Just like Microsoft makes Windows 2000. Novell Netware 5.1 is a server-based Product. If they actually have Novell Netware 5.1, there is no possible way they can have it without a server. NDPS is Novell Distributed Printing Services, this runs on the server and is

Agreed! Novel networks are just like Win2K Server et all networks. If they are using novel then they must have a server somewhere. Jason, you hit the nail on the head. Yes...we can print with Novel networks NDPS there are some downloads that you have do do but it works well once you get it running! Graham

One more thing....If they do Strait IP Printing to the PC's, then the Novel and NDPS is not an issue...That is only for printing through the server. They are probably using Microsoft Windows of some sort on their workstations with that, you can use Strait IP printing on the Workstations using Win2K, NT, and XP. On the 95/98/ME workstations, you will need to install SmartNet monitor for Client then IP Print. Feel free to call me if you have any questions. 208-870-4405. Let's get this deal

My experience with in house print shops shows me that if you avg no more than 1 pm per month everything runs pm to pm with no emergency calls. I Hope this helps. I can tell you these units have been more than superb in reliability. Scott

I looked on Canon's web site and these systems are not listed. Does anyone have any info on these? Art

Art posted today a Press Release from Canon that included information on a Binding System soon to be available on their 110 and 150 that sounds like the same thing we will have. The Press Release said the Suggested Retail will be $8,000. It didn't say whether that included any dies.

This info was cut and pasted from GBC web site Modular Series Punch for Plastic Color Coil Model Number: MP2000C4 Your Price: $1,495.00 Interchangeable Die Modular Series Punch Model Number: MP2500iX Your Price: $1,995.00 Interchangeable Die Heavy Duty Punch Model Number: Magnapunch Your Price: $3,995.00 USP13 Universal Speed Punch Model Number: USP13 Speed Punch Your Price: $27,995.00 AP2 Ultra Automatic Punch Model Number: AP2 Ultra Your Price: $19,500.00 Heavy Duty Semi-Automatic Speed

Ricoh IS01 Scanner $1,000.00 each Ricoh IS330DC Scanner $1,200.00 each Ricoh IS420 Scanner $1,800.00 each Ricoh IS450SE Scanner $1,800.00 each Ricoh IS450DE Scanner $2,200.00 each * ALL SCANNERS COME WITH STANDARD ONE YEAR WARRANTY * SECOND YEAR AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST For further info contact 585-387-9679 or reply to ricohscan@yahoo.com

Here 's the real info... Engine Life - 18 million This equals 500k/mo on 3 yr and 300k/mo on 5 yr. 800k is the Maximum Monthly Volume (THIS IS NOT A MONTH AFTER MONTH VOLUME 360k Between Scheduled PM 125k month is the EXPECTED VOLUME And now for the IMPORTANT number... The MCBF (Mean Copies/Prints Between Service Calls) is 98,000. This is the number that we really need to know. Hope this helps out, these are reality figures that I just got in our Lanier High Volume training. Thanks Graham

We have been told for a year now Ricoh will be updating the Page Numbering max digits to 5 instead of the current 3. For example: Page numbers are currently limited to 999; we have a number of law/court clients that need the ability to number to 99,999. It would also be nice to be able to include two letters in front of the number, again, for all the law clients out there utilizing 'bates' stamping. Anyone have the 'inside scoop' from Ricoh on this one?

we require one on all installs including faxes and printers. the cost is part of the pac.

Version E for the Printer/Scanner.

What about the new "print server in a box", will that do it? Art

When we had a Ricoh-led launch of these products, we were told 5K and 8K with no more than 1/3 color. I asked them the significance of 1/3 volume and whether the "1/3 rule" applied if they were only doing 2,000 a month. If their total volume was 2K, is there any reason those copies cannot be 100% color. Their response was back to the pat answer of the "1/3 rule". I asked if it was somehow necessary that "X" number of B&W go through the machine and they said "not that we know of" so I came back

I posted information on this last night in reference a press release for "Canon In The News". I am tring to find out more also. HEY CANON ANY OF YOU IKON PEOPLE STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND GET US THE INFORMATION??? Art

Win98 has not been a problem BUT on a MAC, it seems to work better connecting it by locking the NIC down to 10MBts per sec. For some reason that seems to speed up printing! Graham

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