This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago for the Last Week in April of 2005

Konica Minolta Introduces the bizhub(TM) C450 Color Printer/Copier/Scanner Featuring the New bizhub OP Open Platform, the bizhub C450 Brings an Unmatched Level of Performance and Reliability to the Office MFP RAMSEY, N.J., April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) today introduced the bizhub(TM) C450. An ideal replacement for Segment 4 monochrome and color printers/copiers with its copy and print speeds of 45 pages-per-minute (ppm) B&W and

further with its 18-month-old foray into corporate copiers. That would be quite a climbdown. In November, 2003, Joshi predicted HP would take 10% of the copier market from the likes of Xerox (XRX ), Canon (CAJ ), and Ricoh by reselling a product built around technology from Konica Minolta. PROFITS IN NOZZLES? But, says IDC, HP had just 0.1% of the copier market in 2004. Its gear lacked cutting-edge features, says a manager and his HP business partner, and HP failed to invest in the marketing, sales

Fading demand for older copiers cited Xerox, the largest U.S. seller of copiers, said Thursday that its first-quarter earnings fell 15 percent amid slowing demand for the company's older black-and-white machines. . Net income dropped to $210 million, or 20 cents a share, from $248 million, or 25 cents, a year earlier, when the company had a gain from the sale of assets. Revenue fell 1.5 percent to $3.77 billion. Currency gains increased sales by 2 percent. Xerox was expected to earn 19 cents

devices to seamlessly capture, process and route paper or electronic-based documents to multiple locations and document management systems. KYOcapture is compatible with the following multi-function devices (MFPs); KM-3035, KM- 4035, KM-5035, KM-6030, and KM-8030. Additional Kyocera MFPs can be connected using Poll Directory or SMTP Capture components. "Copiers have shifted from standalone devices and are now part of the network infrastructure,” said Keith Kmetz, program director of hardcopy

has plans to develop the UK's largest resort casino. The Tesco superstore opened in December and is one of the largest in Europe. For Ricoh, this venue will provide a headquarters from which several new strategic services will be directed, allowing the company to achieve 30 per cent growth over the next three years. Ricoh is already the 8th largest IT company in the world offering a broad range of digital, networked products, including copiers, printers and scanners. Ricoh holds the number one

'Astounding Growth' for Production Copiers InfoTrends/CAP Ventures Releases 2004 U.S. Copier, Fax, and Printer Placements; Growth Driven by Color. Weymouth, MA) April 25, 2005…InfoTrends/CAP Ventures’ North American Digital Peripherals Solutions Consulting Service (DPS) has just released its 2004 placements for the U.S. printer, fax, and copier markets. Color Fuels Copier Growth Data published in the document entitled Preliminary U.S. Copier Market Placements for 2004 indicates that the

Could some one please send me the latest inventory schedule for Ricoh products. Are the 2228C's really on back order?? Help

has anyone ran into issues running somewhat large files in a secure print environment. Trying to print an 11mb file to secure print and the doc server and it is consistently timing out. Has anyone else ran into this and what was your solution to overcome. thanks for the help

Japanese companies team to protect content on removable hard drives Hitachi, Pioneer, Sanyo, Sharp to develop, license SAFIA scheme By EE Times 10:45 AM EDT Tue. Apr. 26, 2005 E-mail this article Print this article MANHASSET, N.Y. — Hitachi Ltd., Pioneer Corp., Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., and Sharp Corp. have agreed to develop and license Security Architecture For Intelligent Attachment (SAFIA) content protection technologies for removable hard drives used in consumer electronics and PCs

use cauion on some of the new small MFP's and faxes as they are not true ricoh controllers! The share thing should work ok with the local driver. The print server would also work, you'll have to set the port accordingly.

If this is what I’ve seen in the field, no good. We are already replacing it. When a multi page document is copied, the copies come out in reverse order on the bin. You would need an inverter. In user tools you can not send faxes, prints and copies to the separate bins. This unit wont save anyone money!

I haven't sold this option, but from what I understand it is basically another external exit tray which will give you a total of 4 exit trays when using the system as a MFP. The trays don't shift or staple. Normally if you don't add the booklet or stapling finisher, you only have the external and internal trays. The standard external tray copies and prints in reverse order and is pain in the rear - I'm not sure of the PT-460 trays. I've only used the standard external tray to route faxes to....

Well, another competitor to fend off! Ricoh has been seeling the Aficio 240W product to GEI aka Visual Edge for the past six months or so. I just ran into a non RFG dealer trying to sell one to one of my clients. Lucky for us that they have only sold about 60 units nationwide. If you do have to sell against them, make sure you hammer the home these points: Size of parts inventory Size of accessory inventory Knowledge of hardware Knowledge of software Major support issues Hope this helps!

Microsoft issued cautiously optimistic guidance for the fourth quarter and fiscal 2005 year. The company said it expects overall PC shipments to hit 9 percent to 11 percent growth for its fiscal 2005 year ending June 30, and for business PC unit sales to reach 10 percent to 12 percent growth in the same period -- exceeding that of consumer units. The company also expects server shipments for the full year to hit 13 percent to 15 percent growth, with Windows servers outpacing growth in the

And it’s made by Ricoh-why would a customer buy from a non-ricoh dealer??

You can share the printer and have other computers print through it. The computer has to be on.

How about ... The Hawking HPS1P 10/100M Internet Print Server is a powerful and convenient tool to connect your parallel printer to a 10/100M Network. ...or... The GigaFast EE171-PR USB Print Server allows a USB printer to be shared onto a network without a computer.