This Week in Copiers Fifteen Years Ago
Third Week of February 2004
Real Copier Sales (Greg Brown)
It was twenty years ago this week that we lost a valued Print4Pay Hotel member to a terrible car accident in Pennsylvania. I took some time to review the threads from that week and remembering Greg Brown who contributed some much to our site in in our early days of the Print4Pay Hotel. Greg you are still alive on our forums and your help was and still can be an inspiration to everyone. go here or the rest of the thread
Enjoy These awesome copiers threads from 15 Years Ago
New Sharp Ar-C260 Models
Art Post (Guest) ·
New Sharp Ar-C260 Models Feature Industry-Leading Color Copy Speeds And Functionality Sharp’s latest workgroup printers turn out 26 high-quality pages per minute MAHWAH, N.J., January 21, 2004 — Sharp’s new AR-C260 models deliver fast color copies at exceptional prices, making them excellent solutions for today’s multitasking and value-driven office workers. The new copiers not only produce high-quality color copies at 26 ppm (32 ppm in black-and-white), they print and scan as well. The AR-C260
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BIZ HUB Brand from KonicaMinolta
Art Post (Guest) ·
As reported http://konicaminolta.jp/about/...2004/0212_03_01.html and translated on Alta Vista: 2004 February 12th コニカミノルタホールディングス corporation The Konica Minolta business technologies corporation The Konica Minolta business technologies corporation (president: The Konica Minolta below Ota Yosikatu), new commodity brand "bizhub" of the information equipment which symbolizes "new life KONICA MINOLTA" (ビズハブ) it announces. Is sold after the 2004 the MFP product which April*this new brand
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What would you do?
bmiller (Guest) ·
tech were unkind to put it nicely. He called RICOH, as did I, and got a nay from the service line, as to where I got the green light from pre-sales support, so I can't be that mad, although wouldn't you think that he should have enough sense to realizee that a rep sold a piece expressing the limitations og a piece an not to open their mouth in a negative manner. O.K. now I am venting. I guess, at the end of the day, as you all face these types of decisions on your calls, how do you handle these
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Re: Tips on Buying Your First Color Copier
Graham ·
The IMPORTANT Question.... What are you going to be using this color copier for??? Business Color, Graphics Color, What kind of paper do you need to use? Do you use coated paper? You need to know the difference between 2 bit and 8 bit color and what it means to you... My Guess is that a MAJORITY of the salespeople on the street don't have the slightest clue about a number of color selling points and how to answer the tricky questions...(When I was new, I had a customer pull out a loop and look
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Re: New Sharp Ar-C260 Models
Art Post (Guest) ·
workers and saving wear and tear on the equipment. The units, available in January 2004, also feature best-in-class copy, print and faxing capability. “In today’s environment, businesses need to exploit all advantages available to them; the new MFP’s from Sharp provide businesses with a competitive edge in operating efficiencies,” said Steven Feldstein, senior product marketing manager, Sharp Document Solutions Company of America. “Our advanced Scan2 Technology increases the scanning speeds of
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Re: Here's One for ya
You know how elead has information by vertical market including digital demo originals? Surely there is an education verticle market section that will give you a wealth of ideas. Also may want to ask your Ricoh (or Savin or whatever) Major Account Sales Person about U.S. Communities pricing. This is a brand new nationwide pre-bid price structure that gives us DMAP6 cost for any municipality, city, county, school, etc.
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Re: Saddlestitch on 2232
Jay ·
Here is some interesting info. The saddle stich unit is identical the one sold by Canon and minolta/konica. But our spec are slightly differnt. For instance the canon can not have a 3 hole punch added. The kon/mon is speced for up to 24lb paper. We can do up to 34lb. Also on the Konica if you saddle stich anything larger the 8 1/2 by 11 then you can only set it for 25 sets or less.
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Re: We Will ONLY put HP on our network...
bmiller (Guest) ·
just involved in, the IT person who rattled off the history of HP to me, was XEROX man. Now he is RICOH. I displaced closed to 40 XEROX 32 network printers with our 45's. Now were taking on phasers with him. There are about 25 of these in his facility. Looking forward to another big hit, hopefully before the end of the first quarter. Glad I to see we are kicking HP's but!
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Re: We Will ONLY put HP on our network...
Congratulations on your success knocking out those HP and Xerox boxes. Here is info on HP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard They are actually considered to be the originator of the personal computer. HP Laser Printers, well, I believe those were all originally OEM'd by Canon, with HP made controllers I imagine. --- SOHO I think actually is an acronym for Small Office/Home Office ---
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Re: Does anyone receive a monthly
salesreps should be incentivized to promote clicks since that is where the profit is. Think about it...on that connected machine we sold last month, do most of us really care if print volume is actually being driven to our copier? Cell phone reps are incentivized, not by the phones they sell, but by the minutes that are billed. Why? Because the profit is in the minutes, not the phone. Gillette revolutionized the razor business by giving away the razor to sell the blades. Hewlette Packard is the same
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Re: Lost a bid
If you are talking about service support, they are all under the same umbrella ... and I think we will soon see uniformity among all of the RFG. As I understand, Ricoh has pretty much tightened up RMAP to be an exclusive use by Ricoh Corporate sales ... Savin did this about two years ago with their Major Accounts Program. The Savin dealer I recently left would buy everything at Government pricing. I think it would be obvious to Savin, but I believe for the most part they look the other way
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Just got backfron Ricoh Connected - East Region
I will upload the files from the clip drive next week.I was really well done.
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Tips on Buying Your First Color Copier
I'm writing an article "Tips on Buying YOur First Color Copier" for the May/June issue of Office Solutions magazine. I'd certainly appreciate it if members could share their insights as to what end users should look for when buying a color copier for mainstream office applications. (I'm not focusing on users looking for higher end systems for professional color output.) I'm particularly interested in any thoughts or issues that consistently come up when speaking with customers buying color for
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Re: Tips on Buying Your First Color Copier
By all means, do not buy first generation of a newly introduced model. I sold the new Savin C2408 and C3210 ... 50 bulletins later (maybe a slight exaggeration) and they still ... enough said. If they worked right, they would be excellent machines! Just the right combination of features to introduce color to the small and mid-sized office. Ricoh had the right idea with these, the engineers on the other hand ...
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Re: wireless nic on 224sp
bmiller (Guest) ·
have my ducks in a row. I have leanred with the RAM, RICOH really is overcharging, is this pretty much the same deal. They are just selling these "bridges" to the dealers instead of us just buying them retail for less money? I appreciate your help. There seems to be a new challenge everyday. This site is great with all of the feedback. Thank you all!
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Re: wireless nic on 224sp
I know the technology, I have not actually performed this specific scenario ... so those who have please verify that all functions are available. They should be because all the bridge does is take the place of the wiring. I had a customer hook up a 1055 with a wireless print server. The SmartNet would not work in this case because the wireless print server connected through the parallel port. But in the bridge scenario, connection is made through the Ricoh NIC so all functions should be
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Re: What would you do?
Art Post (Guest) ·
Brian: If this is situation is in reference to the envelope feeding on the 1224/1232, these machines are spec'd to run envelopes from the by-pass and this info is posted on Ricoh's TCS web site. As far as they were running from the cassette, I would have asked the customer if the by-pass would be ok on the new system. I have been doing this too long too have ill will and problems (even though, you can do a great job and still get "hung"). If the customer then stated no, I would have tried to
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Re: Lost a bid
toddlan ·
We had been a Savin dealer since 1975 and just recently changed to Ricoh. The support we recieve from Ricoh is so much better than Savins it is not funny. But, Ricoh does need to get control over Savin & Lanier because they continue to sell machines based stirctly on price and that is not good for the market over the long run. Savin never made us document anything when we needed price relief. Since they were letting Global sell down the street accounts using state pricing they couldn't say
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Re: FTP Scanning
Art Post (Guest) ·
machines can either be stored in the system’s address book or entered ad-hoc. The user simply selects the desired destination(s), and the fax is sent over existing network data lines. Both the sending and receiving machine must have an E-mail account and a user name registered in the device to enable Internet fax functionality. To enable Internet Fax functionality on the Aficio 2022/2027 Series, both the Fax Option Type 2027 and the Printer/Scanner Kit Type 2027 are required. Hope this helps!
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1060 with Mailbox...HELP!
I sold my first mailbox this week and cannot get print jobs to go to the mailbox bins. The driver sees the mailbox and will let users select any of the nine bins, but all print jobs go to the finisher shift tray (even if the user selects the proof tray, however, in copy mode the proof tray works fine). Just thought I'd try you guys and see if anyone has seen this before. So far, Ricoh has been no help (they actually told my service manager that they don't sell many of these and aren't very
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2015, 2018, and 2018D Launched today
SUP is around $250 lower for mainframe. Accessories cheaper also. All in One Kit (Print/Scan/Fax) retails for $1040.
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Re: Greg Brown
charge of arrangements. Born in Oil City, he was a son of Dale E. and Mary Kay Smith Brown, Bethlehem. He was a 1987 graduate of Liberty High School, Bethlehem, and also received a business degree from Moravian College in Bethlehem. He was an Army veteran. Brown was employed as senior account executive for Copyworld in Reading. He had won the Salesman Marketing Award for Eastern Pennsylvania. Also surviving is a brother, Grady A. Brown of New Tripoli, Lehigh County, and two sisters, Gretchen M
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Re: Saddlestitch on 2232
Neal ·
no reason it shouldn't work well. when i was with Minolta the 750 had the legal saddlestiching and it worked great. It's a great value for churches as many of them do their sunday bulletins on legal.
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Re: Tips on Buying Your First Color Copier
Art Post (Guest) ·
First of Six Tips to the customer: Tip #1: Buy a system that can handle 2 to 3 times the volume you'll think you'll do. Odds are, your color volume will grow and grow! Tip #2 When printing photo's make sure you know the print speed in the 1200 dpi mode! Tip #3 If you can get a duplex option, get it right away. Nothing is finer than a two sided proposal or quote in color! Tip #4 Understand your consumable yeilds and the average color coverage that the manufacturer quotes. Tip #5 Max the RAM
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Re: wireless nic on 224sp
bmiller (Guest) ·
So if I understand you correctly, you didn't even by the wireless 802.111 b or whatever its called wireless interface from RICOH? That would be great if that is what you mean.
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Re: wireless nic on 224sp
A wireless bridge converts, or "bridges", a wired ethernet appliance to wireless. D-Link 802.11g Wireless Bridge for $99.99 from Tiger Direct can give you faster commumication speed than the 802.11b Ricoh interface ... and because the connection is made through the RJ45 port on the NIC, all functions should be available. (As low as $30 for 802.11b wireless bridge.)
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Re: Here's One for ya
merlin ·
Other than the standard one orginal and muli copies. Covers for quizzes and test, combine orginals ( 4 orginals duplex) or sporting events, plays,and employment apps. 3 Hole punch. Teachers around here loves that one. Another good one is scan to pc. All teachers have texts books for students and workbooks for them. Have teachers cut the binder off the workbook and scan to there pc. Than they can print only the pages they need plus have them 3 hole punch, staple and covers.
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