This Week in Copiers Five Years Ago
Second Week of April 2018
Real Copier Sales
It was last Wednesday when I looked at my funnel and thought, "this ain't good, there's enough in the funnel but nothing is moving". That's my hint that I need to put some rubber on the road. I spent the last part of Wednesday culling my CRM for some planned cold calls. Seventy-five percent of these were net news that were not co-operating with my phone call efforts, the rest were existing accounts that needed to have a visit. read the rest here
Enjoy these awesome copier threads from 5 years ago
KONICA MINOLTA DEBUTS ALL-ENCOMPASSING MARKETING PLANNING AND ANALYTICS PLATFORM
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Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is reshaping and revolutionizing the Workplace of the Future™ ( www.reshapework.com ) with its expansive smart office product portfolio from IT Services ( All Covered ), ECM, Managed Print Services and industrial and commercial print solutions. Konica Minolta has been recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys for 11 consecutive years and is proud to be ranked on the Forbes 2017 America's Best Employers list
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Memoirs of a Copier Sales Person "Why We Still Knock on Doors"
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It's been an interesting three months to start my thirty-eighth year in copiers sales. I started the year off with some type of fraking bug that kept me down an out for about three weeks. February ended up good, March was down and April is still waiting to finish. It was last Wednesday when I looking at my funnel and thought, "this ain't good, there's enough in the funnel but nothing is moving". That's my hint that I need to put some rubber on the road. I spent the last part of Wednesday
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How HP Views the A3 Copier Market
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giants Canon ( CAJ ), Ricoh ( RICOY ), Xerox ( XRX ), Konica Minolta, and Toshiba ( TOSYY ), who had market shares of 26%, 20%, 16%, 14%, and 6%, respectively, at the end of 2016. This is posted here
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Canon Solutions America Examines How to Align Your Wide Format Printing Investment with New Applications & Customer Demands
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inexpensive; is it cost effective to operate? What are the Limitations? Just as each printer type has its strengths, they also have limitations that must be considered: does it require media with a special coating; do prints have long dry times; does it require special ventilation; does it require preprint and post-print heaters to cure the media, resulting in higher energy consumption; will prints have a matte look? What are Key Applications? Each printing technology has its own strengths and
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Konica Minolta Debuts Continuous Feed Inkjet Solution
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Ramsey, N.J. – Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta,) a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced that it will unveil the latest offerings in its long line of market-leading production printing devices for the commercial print industry – the WEBjet 200D and WEBjet100D continuous feed inkjet presses – at the inkjet Summit 2018 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, April 9-11. The result of a three-way, marketing, distribution and servicing partnership with Super Web
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Toshiba Introduces Affordable Print and Apply System at MODEX 2018
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ATLANTA--(Business Wire)-- Toshiba America Business Solutions in collaboration with Panther Industries today announced the upcoming availability of an affordable, print and apply system at MODEX 2018 being held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The print and apply system – being previewed at booth B2652 throughout the April 9-12 event – couples Toshiba’s B-EX4T1 and B-EX4T2 thermal barcode printers with Panther Industries’ Shadow automated labeling system to power key
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Ricoh further invests in its inkjet portfolio, strategically supporting customer needs
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monochrome applications. An optionalfifth printhead array enables the use of additional fluid choices, such as MICR or security inks. Offering added flexibility, the RICOH Pro VC40000 supports a variety of configuration options, including compatibility with a number of different workflow monitoring and management software tools. For details on Ricoh's full line of production print products, services and solutions, please visit https://www.ricoh-usa.com/en/p...-industrial-printing
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Canon Solutions America Helps Canon Maintain Top Position in Total High Volume Inkjet Market Share
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Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, Q4 2017, Canon has also maintained its ranking as #1 in U.S. market share for both continuous feed and sheetfed inkjet. Canon Solutions America's Production Print Solutions division continues to be instrumental in Canon's sustained production inkjet leadership position. The division, operating as the U.S. sales channel for such game-changing products as the Océ VarioPrint i-series, Océ ColorStream 6000, and, most recently, the Océ ProStream Series, has helped
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Epson Introduces a Range of New Affordable and Compact Printing Solutions for Printing at Home
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Epson Introduces a Range of New Affordable and Compact Printing Solutions for Printing at Home Sub-$200 WorkForce and Expression Printers Offer Excellent Quality and Fast Print Speeds for Home Offices and Families LONG BEACH, Calif. − April 10, 2018 – Epson America, Inc. today announced it is expanding the WorkForce ® and Expression ® line of small business and home printing solutions. The new affordable, compact printers – the WorkForce WF-2860 All-in-One Printer and the Expression Home XP
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Xerox Wins Esteemed Design Award for WorkCentre 6515 Color MFP
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April 12, 2018 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time NORWALK, Conn.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--With its smart and simple design and all-new smartphone-like user interface (UI), the Xerox (NYSE: XRX) WorkCentre ® 6515 Color Multifunction Printer (MFP) has won a prestigious 2018 iF DESIGN AWARD from the International Forum Design GmbH. Winners of this coveted competition include brands such as Apple, BMW, Fitbit and Philips. Xerox’s award-winning look was developed by a global team of product designers
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Hockey's Vegas Golden Knights empowers its digital workplaces with Ricoh
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using innovative technologies and services enabling individuals to work smarter. For more than 80 years, Ricoh has been driving innovation and is a leading provider of document management solutions, IT services, commercial and industrial printing, digital cameras, and industrial systems. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in approximately 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ended March 2017, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 2,028 billion yen (approx. 18.2 billion USD
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Ovid Bell Press Gets Greener with PrintReleaf
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PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release For more information, contact dmason@printreleaf.com Ovid Bell Press Gets Greener with PrintReleaf D enver, Colorado; April 9, 2018 -- Ovid Bell Press--a major producer of publications for the short- to mid-run market--is the latest printer to offer customers the PrintReleaf certified reforestation service. PrintReleaf permits Ovid Bell Press customers to optionally plant trees equivalent to the paper used in their printing--thus decreasing the carbon
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Kyocera Previews New High-Speed Inkjet – TASKalfa Pro 15000c
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Fairfield, N.J. – KYOCERA Document Solutions America, Inc., one of the world’s leading document solutions companies, today previewed the TASKalfa Pro 15000c, in an exclusive exhibit at the 2018 KYOCERA Innovate dealer conference in Orlando, Florida. The TASKalfa Pro 15000c represents Kyocera’s inaugural product entry into the high-speed cut sheet inkjet market. With print speeds at 150 pages per minute in A4 (146 pages per minute Letter), regardless of media type, this full-color production
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HP Empowers Partners to Transform Their Businesses with Smart Printing
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and productivity. View the online press kit here. “ HP is at the forefront of print reinvention – transforming how industries, communities and people at home operate, ideate and create what matters most,” said Enrique Lores, President, Imaging Printing at HP Inc. " Relentless innovation and a laser focus on the customer allows us to create intuitive printers and predictive services that solve current business challenges and anticipate the future, driving success for our partners.” Industry’s
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Re: Memjet and Canon Enter Into Cross-License Inkjet Technology Agreement
GR81 ·
Canon needs to make serious improvements to the technology, The Oce Velocity, and the Xerox IJP 2000 were both Memjet large format machines and both were epic failures. Why would KIP get involved with Memjet? The 800 and 900 series machines are doing great against the HP Pagewide. If Canon can implement there printhead technology into the Memjet Printhead we may have something.
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Re: Memjet and Canon Enter Into Cross-License Inkjet Technology Agreement
Toshiba Tec has been manufacturing inkjet print heads for industry for many years. Japanese manufacturers that make and provide copiers worldwide are facing stagnation in the demand for their products, mainly due to the market saturation in advanced countries and a reduction in profits from consumables. As a result, they have lost their investment incentive for toner-based product development. While they are aggressively investing in and developing products for production and industrial
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Lexmark to Feature RFID Printing Solutions at RFID Journal Live! 2018
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Apr 10, 2018 Lexmark, a global imaging solutions leader,announces that it will feature the new line of RFID color laser printers and multifunction printers (MFPs) with RFID programming at RFID Journal LIVE! 2018, in Booth 1148, April 10 -12 at the Orlando County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. “With the announcement of the Lexmark RFID Laser Printer for Manufacturing solution, we’ve seen increased interest from customers who are seeking to print, program and customize RFID labels and tags
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Eagle Systems’ Cold Foil Installed at Utah PaperBox Marks a Significant Milestone in Cold Foil Implementation
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established themselves as one of the recognized top-five most diverse packing houses on the continent, capable of delivering services most others can’t. Yet it’s their refusal to rest on their laurels that brought them to PRINT 2017 last fall and into the Eagle Systems booth to purchase the company’s most-advanced cold-foil model, right off the floor. “ We first heard of Eagle Systems the year before at PRINT UV 2016 in Vegas, and quickly became impressed. A few discussions and demos later, we were
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Lead for Cost Per Page Copier Contract in New Jersey
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Jackson News Xerox Toner scheme lands Michigan man in prison with $1M restitution order
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By Nathan Clark nclark1@mlive.com LANSING, MI - A Lansing man will owe Xerox $1 million after he is released from federal prison for illegally acquiring and reselling toner. U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa of theWestern District of New York sentenced David Miedel to one year in federal prison and $1,031,680.24 in restitution payments to the Xerox corporation for conspiracy to transfer stolen property in interstate commerce, according to the U.S. Justice Department. read the rest here
Re: Kyocera to rebadge Ricoh MP Pro 8200EX?
I am disappointed in this. The last Ricoh rebrand was a fiasco. It will be interesting the price point for the TaskAlfa 1500c. It sounds like the cost per page is impressive so we will see.
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10 Sales Email Templates With 60% or Higher Open Rates
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As a writer for the HubSpot Sales Blog, I'm always crafting new email templates. And my favorite source of inspiration is in HubSpot Sales -- I'll open up "Templates" and browse the real emails HubSpot salespeople are sending their prospects. Not only can I see average open rate for individual templates, I can also gauge their performance by response rate and click rate (i.e., how many recipients clicked on the links within the template). The following 10 templates have 60% or higher open
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Attention Sales Leaders... 5 Key Ingredients To Fuel Sales Growth
, To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink , he writes about how we’ve gone from a "buyer beware" culture to a "seller beware" culture. There’s so much information available to customers today via the internet that customers are often well versed in their options and interests before the salesperson even enters the scene. It's incumbent upon sales leaders that their sales reps must understand the client's world. They must add value, not to just show up, throw up and educate them on a product or solution
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Re: Kyocera to rebadge Ricoh MP Pro 8200EX?
24dude ·
Definitely confirmed, saw it at the show and it was pretty hush until then. i guess we will see if this will fit into our Copystar line. we are only getting the 3 B/W versions 96/11/136 but we still need a color to compete in the production market.
Re: Memjet and Canon Enter Into Cross-License Inkjet Technology Agreement
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I think it was 5 years ago that Toshiba bought memjet licensing, just haven't heard of anything lately. I thought they would be one of the first
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Eight Baseball Idioms for the Office Equipment Industry
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for the Office Equipment Industry Spring Training : For those of us that are baseball fans the thought of Spring Training reminds us that Spring is right around the corner and the renewed hope that our team has the chance to be the World Champions. Most copier dealerships mark the end of their year with the last calendar day of the year. Typically most opportunities are squeezed, pushed and shoved into that last month of the year. January tends to be a month of starting over or renewing your
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HP and ImageNet Partner to Accelerate A3 Innovation and Growth
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and upgrades. 2 “HP is committed to driving growth for their vast partner ecosystem. We are using the cost savings we have seen on HP machines to invest in entering and scaling new markets,” said Pat Russell, CEO, ImageNet Consulting, LLC. “ImageNet has benefited first hand from how HP is reinventing A3 and service, and by taking a unified vendor strategy across our print portfolio, we are maximizing efficiencies and accelerating new growth.” ImageNet is an industry leader in document management
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Re: More Samsung to HP Transition Items
fisher ·
Wow. I wish that had been our experience. Its been a disaster and our rep who is no longer with the company was pretty useless. Perhaps that's why he's no longer there. Whole process has been a mess. We've taken on other brands in the past like Kyocera and Samsung when they started out and the reps in those instances were chomping at the bit to get us ramped up and selling their product. Not HP. I think the HP name would open a lot of doors and I'd love to get rolling with it but we are just in
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