My apologies for not blogging as much in recent weeks. It's that end of year thing, and I'm still looking to hit some numbers/ I suffered a set back (kinda ) today when a client told me there was a new rule in place for purchases above ten grand. Yeah I know what that means, competitive quotes need to be gathered. It happens and I understand what I don't understand is why I can't catch a break every now and then. Seems the month, the quarter and the year is going to come down to the wire AGAIN!
Enjoy these really cool threads from 15 years ago this week!
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raises debt rating of three Japanese
that the outlook is stable. "Thanks to its strategy (which focuses on corporate-use copiers and printers), Ricoh has continuously improved operating profit margin," Moody's said. "In addition, contribution from its overseas operations -- those in the US and Europe in particular -- have increased, geographically diversifying the company's profit sources," it said. Moody's raised to Baa2 from Ba1 its senior unsecured debt rating on Konica Minolta, adding that the outlook is now stable. "Moody's
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Ricoh 1170L Fax (Savin SF-3810)
Has anyone had any experience forwarding with this machine. I have a customer who wants to have a copy print and then forward another copy to another fax. Seems like it should do it. I just haven't sold a stand alone fax in years, but this particular situation dictates it. Thanks for the help in advance.
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Kyocera Holds Grand Opening
December 10, 2004 08:44 PM US Eastern Timezone Kyocera Holds Grand Opening for North American Solar Product Manufacturing; Tijuana Celebration Includes Elected Officials and Industry Leaders from Mexico, the U.S. and Japan SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2004--Kyocera Solar, Inc. (NYSE:KYO) today held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially inaugurate its new solar product assembly operations at the existing Kyocera Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. maquiladora plant in the Tijuana Industrial Park
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Re: Can HP Protect Its Printer Kingdom?
Wait and see what the new product line up does. HP has most all of direct sales force selling MFP"S. They have a cpp plan direct from hp and if they need to they can buy IKON and kick out Canon and Ricoh. They will get their 10%. I am surprised that you would put a quote from Xerox (a has been now ain't company)in your statement.
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Need Ricoh 1018 Print COntroller and NIC
If anyone has a Ricoh 1018 Print Controller and NIC available, could you please let me know. Thanks, Mike
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Kyocrea follows Rioch's Lead!
. Copystar has been on an aggressive growth incline for the past two years under the leadership of Peter Morisco, vice president of sales, Copystar division, who now accounts for a significant portion of Kyocera Mita America’s U.S. dealer sales. This transition will improve the printer resellers ability to align themselves with the demands of IT and business professionals looking for cost-effective MFP and printing solutions that provide seamless integration in any networked environment. This also
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If You See Yourself as an IT Salesperson,
will. IT sales is not a job that's OK but you'd rather be selling margaritas at a bar in the Caribbean. It is estimated that there are over 2 million IT salespeople worldwide. Do you ever wonder how many are daydreaming everyday of doing some other job? As soon as you admit that this is your career and your profession . . . things happen. So how do you stop being a commodity salesperson? You start by accepting that this is your professional career. Paul R. DiModica President DigitalHatch, Inc
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Savin GSA
Does anyone have a copy of the Savin GSA pricing? If not, how about the Ricoh pricing? It is amazing when you can not get what you need in your own dealership.
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Re: no
The document server is a standard function on a Ricoh 650 copier. Make sure that you have not selected document server but rather the copy function key on the left hand side. If your control panel shows original modes on left, copy functions in the center and finishing options on the right then you have the right screen. Just to check the machine out you could hit the "user tools/counter" key and print a count page. Hope this helps you out.
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Sharp 355N
I need intelligence on this product versus the 2035. They are currently priced about 2k less than my similiar configuration. Thanks for the help.
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TWAIN on Savin 2522
I'm really getting sick of this TWAIN scanning crap. I've set up a TWAIN scanner on the Savin 2522, but the applications I've used have not pulled from the feeder. Any ideas?
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New Sales Rep Compensation plan
Would like to your thoughts on a new rep to the industry and sales. I was thinking of a base of 25K and commission of 5% of the sale. We are setting the sale price of the equipment. Is that fair? Please let me know your thoughts
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Ricoh Aficio 1022 sc codes 541,542,546
I have an aficio 1022 in the field that has been throwing intermittent fuser codes. I have updated all firmware replaced,entire fuser unit and installed a line filter/surge protector.It was doing it about once a week now it does it quite frequently in...
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Re: 1515MF Poll
Savin has the 3515MF's in stock. I haven't had much trouble getting them. I have had difficulty getting the AC104's like everyone else. Unfortunately, when the customer can't wait anymore and is threatening to cancel the order, I have had to call Carolina Wholesale to get one. Funny how Ricoh still supplies the wholesalers first before the dealers.
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can anyone help please
a client of mine has a Ricoh 650 and he has the following problem.when we press the start key the machine skans but does not print the memory goes to 99% and nothing happens if continue to press the key the memory lowers every time also the machine does not print test patterns...??????
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HP 815 MFP
Does anyone have competitive info on HP 815MFP...especially costs per square foot for ink, media, and service? Also need "real" speeds for copying, printing, scanning "D" size documents. I've been checking out HP website and speaking to their sales people. So far, everything's clear as mud. Many thanks.
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What's in our future?
Theres no author to this article, however I thought the article had some very good points. I will be posting the top ten trends starting with number ten and working back to number one! I will post one a day for the next 10 days. Happy Holidays! Anticipating The Top Ten Business Trends 10. Changing Nature of business-to-business sales. Suppliers of business products and services will have an increasingly difficult time identifying business sales prospects and selling through traditional channels
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P4P Polls, final tabulations
Over the next few days I will be posting the tabulations from our "on-line polls". Here are the first two: When asked: "Would you like to have Ricoh Product Managers monitor the P4P messages boards. 56% yes 25% No 19% Do Not Care When asked: How do you rate the 1515mf setup on the network for scanning, printing ,scanning , and LAN fax? 63% Easy, so simple, anyone can do it under 30 minutes! 25% Not so Easy, took more time than I expected, took me under 60 minutes! 0% Not so good!, took me over
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Re: NEW POLL, Document Management Software
I agree with Jim and Vince, if we want to bundle it we can still do it, it just won't come from the manufacturer. I think sometimes when software is bundled the seller is less likely to look for better options. The only benefit would be if Ricoh was given exclusivity on the product like Canon's Ewhatever you want to call it...
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Re: HP 815 MFP
quote: Originally posted by BigMac: Does anyone have competitive info on HP 815MFP...especially costs per square foot for ink, media, and service? Also need "real" speeds for copying, printing, scanning "D" size documents. I've been checking out HP website and speaking to their sales people. So far, everything's clear as mud. Many thanks. We sell a lot of them what do you want to know?
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Re: HP 815 MFP
to scan in color do you have a problem here. You can still put a 30" roll on the Ricoh and print 30x42" drawings. Much faster as well. Remember the ink yeilds on the cartidges for this machine are based on 5%. There is not a drawing out there I have seen which has a 5% coverage. They will be spending quite a bit on their supplies as well as having to keep more on hand since they will replace them more often. I would look to see if set printing is an application here as well. 500' rolls make a
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Re: Scripts
Great question. For many sales reps presenting a software solution is new territory. Attached please see questions and answers successful solution sales reps are using to introduce our electronic paper filing solution. Example: 1. What would it be worth to you if you could retrieve any filed document, in seconds, 24/7? Prospect Response __________________________________________________________ 2. Have you ever requested a document from a lawyer, doctor, or accountant? How long did it take to
Re: HP CPP
We have 750,000,000 pages under contract . the average is about 5%. The lie that many present is 12% to make the reason to print to an mfp look better.
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Re: HP CPP
I have some pages that represent page coverage for copiers and or MFP's, I will post them here. Recently, I had a customer that was averaging 9,000 pages per cartridge (reman). They were paying $70.00. This represents a cpp of .00777 per page! Of course this does not include the fuser kit, no on-site service, no phone support, no next day shipment of supplies, and no courtesy calls (on-site). I will post the scanned docs later.
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Re: Sharp 355N
I can't believe that there were over two hundred visits to our today and no one took the time to help answer your question! I have gone out of my way to research questions on this site, that I may do some good for someone on this site. I am not familar with the Sharp line and it just makes me steam when a question like this goes unanswered for a couple of days. There are a few us us who do most of the answering of questions and the rest of you sit back and go along for the ride. This site works
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Re: HP CPP
on our B2C products you can send a print job to it and there is an SP code that will tell you what the coverage amount is for each color. Of the ones that I have run they have all been between 9% and 13% when you add the total of the 4 colors. Usually with black only it is closer to the 10% level. Frankly, I don't have to make the mfp look better if I am doing my job right I am also replacing the hp printers with my gestetners. If all I am looking at is to place mfp's I will never gain TDV
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Re: HP CPP
Bill S, You really have printers out there doing a total of 3/4 of a billion clicks? Is that per year or over a period of years? What do you charge for your maintenance on that kind of volume? Do you include supplies?
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Re: Sharp 355N
Just got time to visit the posts. Actually you can find it tough to compete with this Sharp model. Probably it's only real weakness is you can't add an LCT and have 4 trays as the LCT mounts under the unit where the 2 additionla trays go. We handle both Rioch and Sharp and our techs tell us they'll take the Sharp over a 2035 anyday...that's tough to deal with. The previous model had some quirks with the softwrae...couldn't turn off collate, no rotate sort, couldn't do slip sheets in copy
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Could someone please email me
Could someone please email me the latest Ricoh trade-in spiffs. Thanx
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HP CPP
The prices posted for HP printing are way off base. Also, for those who think the average coverage on a page is 12%, it is actually more like 5%.
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Gestetner DSC338 network setup
I have a prospect for a DSC338 they have a hard wired PC network and a wireless Mac network. I think it will work if I add a access point and install the wireless option, but hopefully someone smarter than me can help. Thanks Ricohrick
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Great work
This is really one of the most professional sites ive ever seen. The way communication is flowing and knowledge is spread is amazing. We t Nashua SA also has a similar communcation portal called virtus. This portal is where we can discuss custmers and winning recipies. I know for a fact that we all at Nashua enjoy you site and hope to even grow the Ricoh brand stronger because of this. Thanks again. I would also like to wish you all happy holidays and a Merry Christmas. Regards Junior Franchise
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Intrepid Nationwide Maintenance
Anybody have any opinions (good of bad) about Intrepid Nationwide Maintenance? They've been in contact with me about servicing some printers and scanners for them locally. I'm just trying to find out if they are ok to work with. I don't want to have to deal with a bunch of B.S. after holding up my end. Thanks in advance!
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Intrepid Nationwide Maintenance
Anybody have any opinions (good of bad) about Intrepid Nationwide Maintenance? They've been in contact with me about servicing some printers and scanners for them locally. I'm just trying to find out if they are ok to work with. I don't want to have to deal with a bunch of B.S. after holding up my end. Thanks in advance!
SDM with XP SP2
Does anyone know how to make SDM for Admin work with XP SP2? I have done the things listed in the Ricoh White papers, but it still doesn't work. Has anyone figured out a work around that they can explain to me in an email or a post on this site? Thanks for the help. Ted
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