This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago

Art Post · 7/2/199:43 PM

innovation with social impact. The origin of the Xerox machine demonstrates how need, a passion for puzzles, and the creative spirit motivate everyday inventors. And its success in the marketplace implicates the role of business leverage and profit in productive creativity and innovation. The story is about rivals and claims of stealing ideas as well as about inevitable influence and borrowing, both which structure and inform incremental and ground-breaking invention. And if these tensions aren’t

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Art Post · 7/5/1911:47 AM

." Rebranded from MGX copy in April 2019 , Printivity is able to print more types of marketing and promotional items, including business cards, brochures, books, banners, magazines, and posters. The Ricoh award recognizes Printivity's ability to exceed customer expectations while providing quality marketing solutions and products. The company not only provides copy and print services, but they also have committed to providing marketing and promotional solutions to small business owners and anyone who

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Art Post · 7/7/198:16 PM

The BIG news from last week was the purchase of DocuWare by Ricoh. In my eyes DocuWare is the Premier Software provider in the Imaging Channel. Just my opinion. Who's next to be bought by the likes of KonicaMinolta, Canon, Sharp, Toshiba. Lexmark, Xerox? PS I'm no expert in this market and if one of the below has already been purchased please excuse. You can also write one in!

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Art Post · 7/1/199:05 AM

Hoping someone can help me out with this I have a client that has a KM MFP, they would like to add PaperCut. They would rather use us for papercut rather than KM. They would also like to have papercut working on the KM MFP. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this since I resell Ricoh?

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Art Post · 7/1/1911:02 PM

not aware of. UPS wants the franchise owners to diversify away from shipping. UPS wants them to add other printing devices such as wide format, and color wide format. Boy was my wife upset when I finally got back to the car. I apologized and told her about the chat. She stated. " I would expect nothing less". What started as a routine visit to ship a package ended up with a casual conversation about copiers and then some. I was not a sales person, I was a customer in his eyes and that led to

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Art Post · 7/2/199:01 AM

Well, it was not something that was unexpected. I mentioned this a few years ago in one of my annual copier predictions. Not that Ricoh would buy DocuWare but rather major copier vendors would acquire document management companies. Here's the link: 1. With Print Audit leading the charge with the purchase of NeoStream, the market is ripe for the likes of Ricoh, KonicaMinolta, Canon and Kyocera to acquire document management software companies. Own thedigital documents.

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Art Post · 7/5/1911:00 AM

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 2018, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 2,063 billion yen (approx. 19.4 billion USD). SOURCE Ricoh

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Art Post · 7/1/1910:00 PM

EAGAN, Minn.--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Scantron Corporation , a global, technology and services driven company whose experts provide comprehensive assessment and technology solutions , was named the 2019 Best Independent Managed Print Services (MPS) Provider by the Global Managed Print Services Association. This award recognizes Scantron as a best-in-class organization selling managed print services, not owned by a manufacturer. The MPSA is the only international, independent and nonprofit MPS

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will have access to one of the world’s most successful and reliable print servers for production-class digital color printing. “ We have installed a Fiery DFE to drive a 7-color digital press in Memjet’s headquarters demo center, and both our team and our partners are impressed with the way the Fiery DFE enables superior color and image control. It also offers customers advanced job management and the ability to produce versioned and variable print runs at engine-rated speed ,” said Eric Owen

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Art Post · 7/5/1910:50 AM

Jesse sent me this on the 3rd. This video shows some of the new updates for the Perfect Copier Quoting tool. It's awesome and I find my self using it most of the time now I can develop a professional quotes in minutes now. If interested please send me an email or reply here since there is special pricing for P4P Members.

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Bumble001 · 7/1/194:36 PM

What version of PaperCut do they have. You will need MF version and a license for the Konica MFP in order to have copy, print and Scan tracking. Depending on the MFP you may also need a memory upgrade.

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Art Post · 7/2/199:40 PM

training to deploy label printing solutions best catered to their customers' needs," said Andrew Moore , product manager, Epson America , Inc. The event specifically offered training for Epson's ColorWorks on-demand color label printers that help increase productivity and reduce the cost of using pre-printed labels. Ideal for high mix label requirements, ColorWorks solutions deliver fast, full-color, high-volume, heavy production labels. Products demonstrated at the event included the ColorWorks

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Larry Levine · 7/7/199:32 AM

? If you truly want to get to know your clients and prospects then take the sales hat off, roll up your sleeves and engage in healthy conversation. Are you having meaningful conversations with your clients outside of the selling process? How many relationships are you developing and building inside your current account base? Are you opening up a real human conversation with your clients? It's about uncovering the conversation your client is having with themselves. In doing so this opens up

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Art Post · 7/1/1912:51 PM

Waiting on the model number now. I'm a novice when it comes to PaperCut. The client would like to have the walk up print, copy and scan tracking.

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Art Post · 7/5/1911:19 PM

measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS such as net income. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as gross profit less selling, general and administrative expenses, and corresponds to income before income tax, depreciation and amortization, finance expenses, change in fair value of contingent consideration, transaction costs for acquisitions, initial public offering costs and other non-operating expenses. Management believes Adjusted EBITDA is an important indicator as it excludes certain

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Art Post · 7/7/197:48 PM

It's been more than a year since the 1Rate aka flat rate program from Konica Minolta. There's also been some dealers that have launched their own programs. Thus we and other P4P members would be interested in knowing how many time you're up against the 1Rate or Flate Rate program.

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Bumble001 · 7/1/1911:13 AM

Hi Art, I work on KM and have added PaperCut to units. What model are you working with and do you want embedded ? Bill

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Art Post · 7/1/199:58 PM

They don't have PaperCut yet. The KM model is the C659 I believe

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Jason H · 7/1/198:03 AM

GAP is great. Another alternative is printer-benchmark. Andy Slawetsky is the distributor for this. Very economical product. That’s what we are using.

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blackjack · 7/1/199:31 AM

We are going with printer-benchmark. It is exactly like BLI and a couple of other things I like. Their product includes production and solutions included in the regular price. People are (so far) very friendly. Thanks for all the help!! If anyone has questions, I would be more than happy to help.

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Jason H · 7/1/1911:34 AM

@blackjack we like Printer Benchmark. Unless something has changed it was much cheaper than BLI. I have yet to find anything I don't like with it.

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Art Post · 7/5/1911:16 AM

A team from the Technological University Dublin – Tallaght Campus are among six winners from Epson Europe’s first ever Win-A-Robot contest, where education institutes from countries across EMEAR were invited to submit concepts that demonstrate how Epson’s T series industrial robots could be used in an innovative way. In addition to the Irish team, teams have been selected from institutes in the UK, Hungary, Germany and Italy, for their innovative submissions around cobotics, food sciences, AR

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Art Post · 7/5/1911:11 PM

challenges that ECi’s core customer base does, so we understand what they are up against and need to effectively grow their businesses.” Ron Books The Pacsoft team and product portfolio will join ECi’s LBM and Hardlines (LBMH) Division, led by John Maiuri, according to the release. Pacsoft becomes the eighth company and 10th product ECi has acquired since the beginning of 2017. In December, ECi Software Solutions announced it acquired Print Audit, a Canadian company that provides device and print

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Art Post · 7/5/1911:16 PM

Fame. “Our partners are critical to the small and medium-sized business community, and we’re proud to honor the top performing partners with the Golden Datto awards at the event each year,” said Rob Rae, Vice President of Business Development at Datto. “We’re so excited for Dynamix Solutions for earning the Datto Hall of Fame award and demonstrating their commitment to growing their business and helping their clients succeed.” Dynamix Solutions is Canada’s premium provider of business network and

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Art Post · 7/5/1911:20 PM

growth, recurring revenue, product sales, vendor partnerships, business strategy, service specialization, industry focus and categories of offerings including but not limited to cloud, security, projects and consulting. ProviDyn®, along with other MSP 501 winners and award recipients, will be recognized at a special ceremony - the second annual MSP 501 Awards and Gala at Channel Partners Evolution - on September 9-12 in Washington, D.C. The 2019 MSP 501 list is based on data collected by Channel

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Ray Stasiezcko · 7/1/199:45 PM

believe that those MSPs whose monthly service contracts average less than $2,500 per month will quickly find themselves competing against innovative disruptors like Amazon, Google, and HP. Will the Master Service Providers see a mass exodus of MSPs from their ranks? I think, yes. If so, will the larger Master Service Providers modify their platforms, enabling them to deliver services directly to end-user in the way Konica's All Covered does? I can visualize Continuum along with other Thoma Bravo

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Art Post · 7/1/199:55 PM

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Art Post · 7/1/1910:07 PM

day. From directly within Microsoft SharePoint Online, Outlook and Teams, M-Files provides direct access to enterprise data stored in a variety of external repositories and line of business applications, such as on-premises file shares, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Server, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, legacy ECM systems, such as OpenText, and CRM and ERP applications, including Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365, all without needing to migrate any data. Users can now access this data

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