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

via a selection of workgroup laser printers. In addition, the main Council office had the challenge of trying to make the best use of their print room, while keeping overall network traffic under control. It was also proving difficult to keep an ongoing account of printing, with different budgets required for different business areas. The subsequent tender process included a number of leading industry players including Canon, Océ, Xerox, HP, Kyocera and Ricoh. The outcome of the tenders was the

Japan, the 66 year-old leading supplier of office automation equipment experienced sales in 2000, in excess of $12 billion (US). Ricoh Canada is a wholly owned subsidiary with its head office located in Toronto and employing over 750 employees nation-wide. Ricoh Canada is ISO 9002 certified and has recently been awarded the distinguished EcoLogo designation. Ricoh has received the Energy Star Imaging Equipment Partner of the Year Award, for the last three consecutive years, from the U.S

/electrical equipment company and the world's 62nd largest company in terms of sales. Toshiba Corporation is a world leader in high technology products with more than 300 major subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. Fiscal year revenue in 2002 was approximately $47 billion. For more information on Toshiba copier, facsimile, multifunction printing products, network controllers and toner products, or for a dealer in your area, call 1?800?GO?TOSHIBA or visit the TABS Web site at www.copiers.toshiba.com .

cost to offices and print shops. The new Xerox 2101 Digital Copier/Printer delivers high reliability and advanced features - but costs about the same as competitive models with fewer features. The system prints or copies as many as 101 pages per minute (ppm) and addresses the growing need for advanced finishing, printing, copying and network scanning capabilities in high-volume office environments and low- to medium-volume print shops. "The Xerox 2101 builds on our highly successful Xerox

of satisfied maintenance customers in the US, Canada and Europe and is now ramping up the US distribution of Hitachi's Digital Document Publisher (DDP) Printer Solutions. Hitachi's Digital Printer series add an important element to Anacomp 's current array of output solutions that includes CD, Web, Microfiche and Laser Print Services, as well as Anacomp's industry leading Imaging Systems and Supplies. Anacomp Also Selling Hitachi DDP in Europe "Anacomp has been very successful in providing sales

to the company that can best match the overall council criteria" commented Margaret Lockhart, buyer, Central Purchasing Unit at City of Edinburgh Council and Ricoh was selected. "The Council are heavy users of print technology. We were able to offer a comprehensive package that met their requirements, but which would also ensure that future increases in demand could be effectively managed," indicated Peter Spiteri, regional sales manager at Ricoh. "Cost is always a key factor in the final

The Bidders List: New techniques for increased sales via RFPs By Greg Lohr Infotivity has been publishing request for proposal (RFP) software for almost 20 years now and the question we hear over and over again is: "How do I get on the bidders list?" In fact, we are hearing this question much more frequently now that digital copiers, multifunctional devices and network connectivity issues are driving most customers to re-evaluate their copier needs at the enterprise level. This article sheds

two Xerox (NYSE: XRX - News) DocuColor iGen3(TM) Digital Production Presses to expand the breadth of full-color, personalized marketing applications for its 75,000 real estate clients nationwide. The firm expects the Xerox production presses to help double its personalized color printing business in about two years. TPMC currently prints 4 million personalized pieces per month. John Wendorff, president and chief executive officer of TPMC, said the DocuColor iGen3 will allow his business to

The problem I have is that the units I am upgrading are 1035P's. Ricoh is still selling the printer scanner dimm but they are packaging it with the 64mb memory and nic card at a higher price. Am trying to save a few dollars as one of the machines I am upgrading I will have to eat the cost on it. Just call me: "Hard luck John"

Does anyone know what the following softwares do? Xerox Digipath 3.0 and Docushare 3. The brochures do not tell a lot and I have not run into them before. They sound like our Scan Router, and Ecabinet. Can you enlighten me?

Capitalizing on the success of Jim's request, does anyone have (3) Printer Scanner Units for sale? I will take all three which I need for a large customer of ours. Any help is greatly appreciated. John

We are installing our first Ricoh Aficio 2090 WITH SR90 Booklet maker today. It is subject to running the clients job twice. That's two runs of 125 11x17 booklets, totaling 15 sheets each, 60 to 64 images including cover. This could be a good success story that was up against Xerox and OCE. Got my fingers crossed, it ran well when we set it up in the warehouse after getting through a couple of set up glitches that were probably just first time issues...

I have found in the past after Ricoh has discontinued a product from the "sales side" they are still available from the "parts" side of the Ricoh house...you might ask your parts guy to check.

copier-printers. Ricoh’s product range of black and white and colour imaging solutions includes laser printers, digital connectable copier-printers, scanners, multifunctional devices, network utility and document management software. Ricoh’s technology enables businesses to improve the quality and productivity of their office communications. Environmental protection is a key company priority and Ricoh UK is proud to be accredited with ISO 14001 for its environmental management systems. Information

Lets make this the best board on our site, were we can share success stories. They can be by our dealerships, direct sales, or something we found on the web. from there we can email them to our potential clients, so they can see that Ricoh is the best!

important findings: they indicate that printer-only businesses are currently spending more than is necessary on their printing. Whereas, moving to multifunctional products could increase flexibility and deliver the competitive advantage of colour that business demands. New Ricoh products such as the Aficio 1224 and 1232, are sweeping away the financial barriers restricting the move from black to colour. This, plus the well-understood benefits of digital technology, means many more businesses will soon

white copier. Ricoh now holds the UK and Europe’s number one position as manufacturer of digital office copier-printers. Ricoh’s product range of black and white and colour imaging solutions includes laser printers, digital connectable copier-printers, scanners, multifunctional devices, network utility and document management software. Ricoh’s technology enables businesses to improve the quality and productivity of their office communications. Environmental protection is a key company priority and

Well, Micro Press and there maybe a solution that I am working on, will try and get back to you on this. I am working with a VAR who is currently sending information via VIPP to a Xerox laser printer. He asked if the same solution can be done with the 2090. I have put this request on the back burner (end of year for us), but will pick it back up in a few days. I will try and post the email I recieved from my client here. Art

Oh don't get me wrong I have send quite a few Aficio League gift cards out. However IKON always screws it up so I always ask for Independent Dealers unless Ricoh "says" there are none.

Central Buying Consortium The Central Buying Consortium has appointed Ricoh as the number one preferred supplier of copiers to major councils and community organisations such as schools, charities and groups across Kent, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Coventry and Birmingham. Ricoh was appointed along with three other preferred suppliers but was given number one status due to its competitive pricing, service and support. The contract will run until the end of September 2002 and could see the

How are some of y'all doing this. If it is an RMAP or DMAP customer with locations out of your territory, how do you build in charges (or do you) to get the installing dealer to connect and train them using the scanning, printing, faxing ont he PC's? Or is that part of the RMAP Maintenance or (almost insignificant) installer comp.? I don't think that is. Let us know. Ted

My customer is running XP Pro and printing to the 1232C with the PCL5c driver. When he prints from Word, in some places the spaces between text is removed and some of the text has an overstrike onto other text. The document doesn't look that way before it is printed and it doesn't do this with the RPCS driver. Any clues?

It's been awhile, one of my customers asked how to load an overlay file for printing with the AP2700 driver. I have tried and all we get is a printed page from the AP2700 with a: PCL XL error Subsystem: KERNEL Error: unsupported binding Operator: execstream Position: 11 I thought the overlay was to add a background logo or pic to every page, is this true? Art

The question a client of mine posed to me today was the following, I hope I can convey the request well... If you can think of the way Microsoft Word does a mail merge with variable data into a generic letter, that is what the client is looking for. He is just wondering if we have a solution which would enable his Print for Pay clients to be able to have printed personalized info on print jobs, either print from PC or walk up.

Any help addressing the need to be able to shift images on booklets made with our Ricoh Finishers, namely the SR90. When we produce booklets, then in some cases trim the booklet, the image looks to be off center in the page. Does anyone know of a solution that will push each image just the right amount per page so that each page of the booklet "looks" centered?

We got an order for 5 more units (Now 2035's) last month from U.S. District Court and 3 more units this week from U.S. Bankruptcy Court. I think we are up to 15 total units. For those who are new here, these are 35ppm S/P units that may never run a single copy or print! U.S. Bankruptcy Court was so impressed with the speed, Interactive Display, and ScanRouter Software, that they ordered 5 Aficio 1035's to do nothing but scan. Then they showed their program to U.S.District Court and they too

RICOH OFFICE SOLUTIONS presents "Takako Nishizaki in Concert" In support of The Pathways Foundation Ltd [8/5/03 11:45:54 AM] World-renowned violinist Ms Takako Nishizaki gave a charity concert last year in support of Society for Abandoned Animals Foundation. To replicate the remarkable success, this year Ms Nishizaki will hold a two-day charity concert in support of The Pathways Foundation Ltd in order to help children with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD). Children with Special Learning

He said it "ain't" Bate Stamping from Copier mode. Probably what the Seller is going to do is have them scan in the docs, and include a software program with the machine that will allow Bate Stamping when they print. Jeff said it took over 20 months of R&D to get the 2090 to Bate Stamp. For the 1060/1075 to do it, they would almost have to go back to the drawing board and write a program for those machines from scratch. So...don't hold your breath.

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