This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago

Art Post · 12/5/1910:06 PM

RELYCO’s synthetic paper, carbonless paper and pressure seal forms are added to Konica Minolta’s Approved Media Guide Ramsey, N.J. – December 4, 2019 - Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leader in industrial and commercial printing and packaging solutions, today announced the testing and approval of RELYCO ® ’s most popular digital substrates and media for use on AccurioPress C3080 and C3080P high-speed digital presses, as well as the AccurioPress 6100/6120/6136

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Art Post · 12/4/1910:51 PM

, Merry Christmas" Dagnabit, I've asked for this for quite some time and you've never listened. I want a wide format copier/printer/scanner with an automatic document feeder! It only has to hold 20 pages. If you can do it for fax machines you can surely make it for the wide formats. Boy oh boy that's a lot of stuff to look for! To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas in 2018" To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas in 2017" What I Want for Christmas from Ricoh 2016 What I Want for Christmas from Ricoh

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Art Post · 12/4/199:37 PM

(Image credit: Image source: Shutterstock/Libor Píška) MFP and Print technology is evolving, but how will such changes impact on your business? Jason Cort, Director of Product Planning and Marketing, looks at the trends in document printing solutions set to gather pace throughout 2020 and beyond. As we look to the start of a new decade, we find that print and multifunctional printers (MFPs), still have a major role to play regardless the size of your business. It has been suggested that print

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Art Post · 12/6/1911:33 AM

Tony from Texas posted: curious that nobody mentioned Kodak. I was working for Danka when they acquired Kodak. It created a mess but the equipment was solid. I remember Kodak well, especially the EktaPrint, here's a cool link I found for the press release https://www.nytimes.com/1984/0...ktaprint-copier.html

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Art Post · 12/2/198:42 PM

development of its partners and customers in Egypt, MENA , and around the world. Canon Managed Print Services Managing a complex print service across multiple offices and print room sites, countries and brands can slow your business down, costing you time and money. Canon Managed Print Services ( CMPS ) helps to manage and monitor all the printing based solution from one portal, it allows managing end-user solutions and printer states as well. By easing the burden on employees with outsourced print

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Art Post · 12/2/198:57 PM

Enables dealer and/or customer to run security checks o Can select security level at device or remotely o Levels named “silver”, “gold”, “platinum” or “titanium” o Can print out security setting list from MFP o Allows Ricoh dealers to deliver MFPs as “hardened” devices to customers o (competes with Konica Minolta’s bizhub SECURE, bizhub SECURE Healthcare, bizhub SECURE Platinum, bizhub SECURE Notifier, RDT, etc.) - Announced will be launching V-CAT training program: o Remote access for dealers

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Art Post · 12/3/1910:07 PM

Foster City (December 3, 2019) – Continuing to highlight its innovative capabilities, the prominent technology provider Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) has received the prestigious Keypoint Intelligence - Buyers Lab (BLI) award for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Innovation’ for Workplace Hub and ‘Outstanding Workflow Automation Platform’ for its Dispatcher Phoenix 6. Konica Minolta’s Workplace Hub has been honored with the prestigious Keypoint Intelligence – Buyers Lab award for

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Art Post · 12/2/199:08 PM

- Maximum paper supply of 3,100 sheets o Max of 120lb. index - Optional fax board - Finishing options include internal stapling/hole-punching finisher or external stapling finisher - Built-in print controller o Freescale QorIQ T1024 1GHz processor o 4GB RAM standard o 320GB hard drive  Data security kit comes standard o 10/100/1000BaseT USB ports o PCL, XPS and PS print drivers o Optional OCR board

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Art Post · 12/2/199:10 PM

- Net sales up 0.2% to 414.1 billion yen ($3.9 billion) - Operating profit down 17.2% to 37.7 billion yen ($352.3 million) - Net income down 23.6% to 27.6 billion yen ($257.7 million) - Document Solutions Group (printers and MFPs) net sales up 0.9% to 90.7 billion yen ($848.2 million) o Operating profit up 3% to 9.9 billion yen ($92.7 million)

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Art Post · 12/2/1910:05 PM

cost of service and supplies for the existing copier. The next monthly number was the new copier with the folder and maintenance and supplies. Yes, my monthly number saved money and cash out of pocket. Did I do a good enough job selling the lease? I'm not sure, but hoping to find out in the next couple of days. -=Good Selling=-

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Art Post · 12/3/199:52 PM

Provided by PR Newswire Dec 3, 2019 11:01 AM EST PR Newswire MELVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 3, 2019 MELVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Canon Solutions America, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc., today announced that Graphic Village, a multichannel marketing solutions provider in the Greater Cincinnati region, expanded its digital printing capabilities with the addition of an Océ VarioPrint i300 sheetfed inkjet press to its already impressive digital printing footprint

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Art Post · 12/5/1910:11 PM

Carl Icahn posted an open letter to HP shareholders Wednesday morning, trying to pressure the board of the computer and printer company to reverse its rejection of the $22-a-share bid for the company from Xerox. The activist investor is a substantial holder in both companies and sits on the Xerox board. In the letter, Icahn attacks HP management’s “unreasonable refusal to engage in a customary mutual due diligence process”. He goes on to position the discussion as a matter of fiduciary

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Art Post · 12/2/199:10 PM

- Award from Grand Prairie Independent School District of Texas - Includes 350 MFPs, 100 desktop scanners, desktop printers, and production print systems and large format printers in two CRDs - Also included uniFLOW solutions, Laserfiche ECM, and PRISMA software

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Art Post · 12/3/199:54 PM

electronic document management tools, providers have the opportunity to eliminate waste while saving time and money . On average, providers spend upwards of 55 hours manually faxing every month, and for every 5,000 fax pages sent or received, a practice spends an average of $155 in supplies. Since 2009, Updox has helped providers save approximately 1 billion pages of paper through paperless fax – the equivalent of almost 16,000 trees. “We started with document management from Updox as we were

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Art Post · 12/2/199:07 PM

Smithers report The Future of Digital Print: Long-Term Strategic Forecasts to 2029 . The in-depth forecast from Smithers shows that the global digital print market will reach just over the equivalent of 3 trillion A4 prints in 2029 at an average CAGR of 5.3% in value over 2014–29. New digital equipment and consumable sales will grow, reflecting the cost-effectiveness of inkjet and electrophotography for short to medium runs. The new capabilities in digital printing will enable print suppliers to

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Ray Stasiezcko · 12/2/199:30 AM

It seems like those who benefit from convincing resellers of the glories regarding Managed Print Services. Keep raising the outlook. Are people really buying this nonsense? Well, we do hear the testimonials from those who invest or have temporarily invested in the channel's future, putting a whole lot of faith. In what I describe, as the delusion of MPS 2025. I recently attended an event for resellers, and yes, there was a Managed Print Services presentation. The presenter seemed to validate my

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Art Post · 12/2/199:01 PM

65% of IT decision makers believe paper will still be important to the workplace by 2025, compared to just 36% of office workers. 62% of office workers rank investment in digital collaboration tools as a priority, compared to 45% of IT decision makers. 58% believe print vendors must become a strategic partner to IT decision makers and lines-of-business. 49% expect digitization of paper-based processes to be very important to digital transformation initiatives by 2025, compared to 25% today

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Art Post · 12/2/199:07 PM

Report published by Smithers Market Research - Digital print output is forecasted to grow by 65% over next 10 years - Will reach $230 billion by 2029 - Growth driven by package printing, books and other graphic printing areas o Packaging will increase from $6.3 billion in 2019 to $32.5 billion in 2029 - Volume will reach 3 trillion A4 pages in2029 at average CAGR of 5.3%

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Art Post · 12/3/199:44 PM

experience that Google is doing all the right things to keep Chrome OS secure and lightning fast,” said Ryan Wedig, CEO of PrinterLogic. “This extension is great news for customers who see the value of Chromebooks but don’t want to send print jobs to the cloud.” With PrinterLogic’s direct IP printing platform, print jobs are sent directly to printers on the local network instead of being routed through the cloud. IT teams can automatically deploy the extension to Chromebook users within the G

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gap · 12/4/191:34 PM

Ricoh has a few customer support tools that give Ricoh access to the customer's MFP info (i.e. RemoteConnect and ARMS). Wondering if you as dealers or if customers ever have any concerns about Ricoh having access to this (what I assume is basic device) information? Thanks.

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Art Post · 12/4/199:30 PM

Activist investor Carl Icahn on is chastising HP Inc.’s board for rejecting Xerox ’s takeover bid. HP’s stock price rose more than 2% to $20.05 per share in late morning trading Wednesday. in an open letter to HP shareholders earlier Wednesday, Icahn said: “I cannot believe that the recalcitrance of HP’s board is driven by any real confidence in its standalone restructuring plan, which the market, shareholders and analysts met with extreme indifference and which seems to amount to little more

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Art Post · 12/5/1910:01 PM

Dec 5, 2019 Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa (KDZA) has sold a stake in its business to Nozala Women in a deal that will allow additional equity for black women. Kyocera has had a long-standing relationship with Nozala, which previously held a 15% share of KDZA. The Midrand-based document management company will be changing equity with its holding company, Kyocera Corporation – a Japanese multinational ceramics and electronics manufacturer – to sell an additional 20% stake to Nozala. The

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Art Post · 12/5/1910:08 PM

NEWS – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Print Industry Executive Geoff Loftus Joins EFI for New Customer Advocacy and Service Initiative FREMONT, California -- December 5, 2019 -- Electronics For Imaging, Inc. has embarked on a strategic initiative to enhance its commitment to customer satisfaction by strengthening global service offerings. Long-time print industry service executive Geoff Loftus has joined EFI to help drive this initiative for the company’s global inkjet operations. Loftus, who is

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Larry Levine · 12/1/1910:19 AM

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TML · 12/3/1911:13 AM

This is such a true scenario and unfortunately one we see in the "for profit" business world too. While I'm sure your numbers are sound, make sense and are well within the scope of saving them money, a seasoned vet like you is ready for the curveballs to come from the board members who have been in business for years and ask the off the wall questions or truely don't understand your offering. Good luck Art, hope you can move this one to your win column and it doesn't get sandbagged until the

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Art Post · 12/3/199:28 PM

TML posted: This is such a true scenario and unfortunately one we see in the "for profit" business world too. While I'm sure your numbers are sound, make sense and are well within the scope of saving them money, a seasoned vet like you is ready for the curveballs to come from the board members who have been in business for years and ask the off the wall questions or truely don't understand your offering. Good luck Art, hope you can move this one to your win column and it doesn't get sandbagged

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Art Post · 12/3/199:40 PM

M-Files platform to help enterprises on their journey to a truly digital workplace," said Scott Erickson , SVP of Worldwide Channel Sales at M - Files . "As an M-Files Certified Application Partner (CAP), Fujitsu demonstrates a like-minded commitment to delivering breakthrough technology that helps enterprises drive innovation across their organizations." About M-Files M-Files provides a next-generation intelligent information management platform that improves business performance by helping

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VinceMcHugh · 12/2/198:22 AM

Art, The first Copier I was trained on when I got to NECS was a Mita 1205. It was the replacement of the 111C but I soon found myself being sent to 111C calls and learned it on the fly. Once you got good at servicing the 111C and there where a lot of them in the field. Dispatch would send you to any Mita with a moving platen and say "You can work on this, It's just a big 111." LOL! It was a solid workhorse of a copy machine. That's My $0.02 Vince McHugh Vince.mchugh@yahoo.com

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TBA · 12/2/191:25 PM

The WG7200 series A3 inkjet models have been in the field in the US for a while now. They were announced in October 2018. Current models in the US are listed here: https://www.usa.canon.com/inte...nology/wg7200-series The models referenced above appear to be refresh versions of what's already available here. These product may look like imageRUNNER ADVANCE models, but they don't have anything in common. They may not be widely known by the dealer channels because they are being handled by Canon's

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Art Post · 12/2/198:52 PM

with Chaparral will allow them to do so with new companies while enhancing top-notch technology solutions in existing California and Nevada markets. About Office1 Office1 is one of the largest, privately-owned office technology providers in the United States providing innovative IT solutions, including copiers and printers, document imaging, cloud security and managed IT to companies in California and Nevada . Office1 seeks to innovate and modernize businesses through proactive, personalized

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Art Post · 12/2/199:04 PM

Total net revenue up 0.5% to $58.8 billion for the year - Q4 total revenue of $15.407 billion, up 0.3% o Printing division (printers, MFPs, PPS, 3D, printers, etc.) total revenue down 6% to $4.982 billion Operating profit of $777 million Supplies revenue down 7% to $3.16 billion Total hardware units down 9% • Commercial hardware units down 1% o Sales down 2% to $1.18 billion • Managed print service contracts had “double digit” revenue growth o Personal Systems division (computers, laptops, etc

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Art Post · 12/3/199:45 PM

BROOKFIELD, Wis. (PRWEB) December 03, 2019 James Imaging Systems is one of 137 companies chosen this year as a 2019 Elite Dealer selected to the prestigious industry publication’s exclusive list. James Imaging Systems is a leading business solutions provider of copiers, network printers, managed print services and document management solutions to improve efficiency and productivity workflow. We understand our client’s unique needs and challenges and match advanced technology solutions to meet