This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The First Week in August 2003

imaging systems, facsimile products, printers, scanners, digital duplicators and wide format engineering systems. Ricoh Corporation directly or through its subsidiaries markets and distributes products under the Ricoh, Savin, Gestetner and Lanier brands in North, Central and South America. For fiscal year 2002, Ricoh Corporation sales exceeded $2.8 billion. Information about Ricoh's complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at www.ricoh-usa.com . # # # All

DOWN Total second quarter 2003 revenues of $3.9 billion declined 1 percent from $4.0 billion in the 2002 second quarter, including a 6-percentage point benefit from currency. Despite continued economic weakness, equipment sales grew 8 percent including a 7-percentage point benefit from currency. Equipment sales growth primarily reflects the success of our color multifunction products, growth in DMO and growth in digital production. Post sale and other revenue declined 4 percent due to declines

-STUDIO3511/4511 serves as the cornerstone of Toshiba’s new product cadre, which also includes a new high-speed, high performance monochrome system, the e-STUDIO350 and 450; a new line of monochrome and color printers; and a new Toshiba developed integrated hardware and software document management solution called the e-STUDIO KS-1000. Toshiba also highlighted its net-ready eBridge technology, a unified architecture that incorporates copy, print, scan and fax functionality into a single board

Print a hologram? Almost, Xerox says A chance discovery lets printers superimpose glossy images on regular printouts, creating the possibility for document authentication along the lines of holograms on credit cards. It's a little much to expect a hologram to come out of your office printer, but scientists at Xerox think they have the next best thing. On Thursday, the company is unveiling a new technology it calls "Glossmark," which can use ordinary office printers to superimpose a glossy

7250 printers utilizing the COLORBUS Cyclone print server for proofing and short run printing application. The COLORBUS Cyclone print server is one of the leading industry RIPs capable of driving multiple machines at the same time without any significant performance loss. "Canon is very pleased to announce with COLORBUS, Cyclone print server support for our line of wide format printers," said Amit Bagchi, director of Marketing for Canon U.S.A. Printer Division. "COLORBUS brings unique capability to the

I am up against a KM3530, fully connected. When I pulled the BERTL report one of the big drawbacks listed was "no copier concurrency meaning that if the device is carrying out a copy/print/fax or scan job the device is effectively frozen for other copy, scan or fax users." Does this mean if a customer scans in a 50 page fax job that the job has to be completely sent before other jobs can be run? Or does it just mean there is no pre-scan feature. These seem like pretty strong and cheap machines

. Most large format documents have tiny details that must be reproduced with the utmost clarity. The Starprint 2000 printers use High-Definition Print (HDP) technology, direct-contact toner and calibrated LED heads to provide the image quality required by these documents. The Starprint 2000 Series Printers have been tested to work seamlessly with Minolta's MS7000. Once the document is viewed on the MS7000, it can be digitally enhanced and easily printed on a Starprint 2000 Printer, or scanned and

No. Were are a Ricoh/Kyocera dealer. We have Kyocera now for 2+years. Great product and great sales and service support.

Has anyone ever had to compete with or install a copier that works with this software.

Do you know if the Canon IR5020 w/ImagePass-M2 comes with Universal Send or if it is an option. If an option, do you have an idea how much? The brochure indicates it is "supported" but is not listed under the "standard" functions.

Anyone upgraded a 1035 with printing and scanning and want to sell the print/scan dimm? I have sold a 1035P and must have lost my mind when I thought I could buy just the scan dimm. Now I am sort of stuck in a situation with a gov't acct. and need to give them scanning without losing my hat. It has been a long time since I made this kind of mistake and they thought they were getting scanning at the P.O. price. Thanks for any sympathy, John

The IR 105 can't reliably run cardstock through the bypass. It keeps jamming at the feed rollers. I just had a customer who has 2 IR105's And bought our 2610 printer for a monthly run of 1000 custom size cards that are about 90#index. It's funny how Canon reps used to push the fact that they can run 110# through the trays????

Just a guess, but you may want to make sure the postscript option is installed. I have 2 customers that would like to print from Pagemaker, but they are having problems. They both have the Postscript option, which has not solved thier issue and Ricoh is of no help.

quote: Originally posted by Color1: We have two new installations of the Ricoh 470W, and are experiencing some problems with printing PDF files. I can open a file and print however, I cannot print larger than a 24 x 36 document. Unfortunately, my client saved the PDF as a 30 x 42. Any insight and help would be greatly appreciated! Official Response from Ricoh Answer (Anthony Marzano) 08/04/2003 05:48 PM Art, Currently there is a limitation in printing large size PDF files at 600 dpi. This

pressure on sales and margins, particularly in the U.S. field sales force. Our ability to successfully respond and improve sales and margin performance in light of these industry conditions, better manage our working capital, timely complete our Oracle rollout, realize capital spending reductions and cost savings from the new IT system and move to our new headquarters building remain the most significant factors to achieving our financial forecast for the fiscal year," concluded Lowrey.

I HAVE A CUSTOMER THAT HAS A CITRIX SYSTEM USING TOKEN RING.THE RICOH 2035 S/P DOES NOT SUPPORT TOKEN RING. USING A PRINT SERVER WHAT DO I LOSE. ANY OTHER COMMENTS WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

I have also heard the same. Canon is also considering following the path of Ricoh.

In the last three weeks. I have sold a 2105 and a 2090 and beat Canon! Then our last 1105, promptly squashing another Canon! An then another 2105 w/MP SX, Bookletmaker, Trimmer, Interposer and Jogger plus CL7000 thus eliminating another Canon possibility! Art

E-copy was just a way to get push scan to email/computer/etc. before Canon figured out how to get it into the copier without a seperate monitor and computer. The canon i models are less expensive than adding e-copy. E-copy does offer a little more user friendly applications, but I can not justify the cost versus an "i" model copier. Hope this helps.

If you use a print server through the parallel port, you will lose all of your network functionality (smartnet, scanning and the such). Most companies that are still on token ring have some sort of provision for ethernet devices, I would check for that as well.

Yes... well the .csv file directions didn't work for me. So I called Ricoh, they couldn't get it to work either. Only tried once as an experiment so far. Anyone successfully completed this procedure?

Looks surprisingly like the Samsung SCX-4216F http://www.samsung.com/Product..._Laser_SCX_4216F.htm (Which of course is also the OEM of the Ricoh 1160L) http://www.samsung.com/Product...Laser_SF_531PSKL.htm

Reuters Imagistics second quarter profit climbs Thursday July 31, 5:53 am ET NEW YORK, July 31 (Reuters) - Imagistics International Inc. (NYSE:IGI - News), which sells and services copiers and fax machines, reported a stronger quarterly profit on Thursday as margins improved and copier sales grew. ADVERTISEMENT Imagistics showed a profit of $5 million, or 29 cents per share, for its second quarter compared with $4.4 million, or 22 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue at the Trumbull

Is there a similar web site that is related to Mita products. It looks like our deelership is going to pick up the product line as well as Ricoh.

high-value products and solutions such as the Lexmark X215." Lexmark also announced today the Lexmark N4000e, a low-cost print server that networks USB printers. "The Lexmark N4000e is an excellent example of our push to meet the growing demand for affordable network printing in businesses of all sizes," Rooke said. The Lexmark N4000e expands the company's print server product line to make network printing more affordable and easier to use specifically in small- and medium-size businesses. The

I heard a rumor from a reliable source last week that Ricoh will end it relationship with EFI in the very near future and the fiery for the 2090/2105 will be the last EFI product on a Ricoh system. I also heard that Ricoh would be developing their own front-end for future products. Anybody else heard these rumors?

Is there a tracking feature for the jobs ran on the 2105? The system will display the job number. I am looking for a way to recall the amount of prints doe for that job from the display of the 2105 or 2090. Thanx Art

This business used to be fun when Xerox had the target painted on their backs. "The times they are a changin'"

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