This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago
Third Week of July 2019
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I have been in the industry for 25 years and something new just started recently. Private equity firms are buying copier dealerships. Not just one or two but 5 different ones in the US. I started my career at IKON many years ago and as the company started to come together as a company I recognized we were in trouble. At the time I thought HP would buy it but as you know Ricoh purchased it. Probably the single most important move in my....more here
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Konica Minolta’s DocPoint Solutions Receives Business Excellence Award
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, Managed Print Services and industrial and commercial print solutions.Konica Minoltahas been recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys for 12 consecutive years, and is proud to be ranked on theForbes 2017 America's Best Employers list. The World Technology Awards recentlynamed the company a finalist in the IT Software category. KonicaMinolta, Inc. has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for seven consecutive years. It partners with
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Canon Earns Nine Buyers Lab Summer 2019 Pick Awards in Copier MFP, Printer/MFP and Scanner Categories
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LBP664Cdw Outstanding Color Printer for Small Workgroups Color imageCLASS MF746Cdw Outstanding Color MFP for Small Workgroups Canon's Color imageCLASS LBP664Cdw and MF746CDw are great for small workgroups looking for a low-cost, reliable color printer or MFP. Both models are equipped with productivity-enhancing features, high-quality functionality and an intuitive touch-screen interface, which were key elements that stood out to Buyers Lab's team of professional analysts and technicians. Canon has
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Procurement and Purchasing Enhancement at Konica Minolta Enabled by SAP Ariba Solutions
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photographic film manufacturer over the 140 years since its establishment. Today, the company operates in diverse lines of business that range from office services to healthcare products and industrial materials and equipment, continuing to make forays into new businesses. A global enterprise that conducts sales and services in approximately 150 countries across the globe, Konica Minolta derives a large percentage of its revenue—roughly 80%—from its overseas operations. Konica Minolta aims to
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Canon Announces the Launch of the Green Environment Together Initiative
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codes across India - which comprises of 300 Camera collection points, 16 Camera repair centers, 254 Printer repair centers, 187 Copier, Scanner and Large Format Printer Sales Service dealers. (Data as of June 12, 2019). In sync with its corporate tagline - 'Delighting You Always', reinforced by World class technology, Canon offers an extended product portfolio, including copier MFDs, Managed Document Services, Fax-Machines, Printers, Document and Cheque Scanners, All-in-ones, Digital Cameras
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Ricoh Flatbed color printers
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has anyone sold any brand of flatbed color printers? If so would love to hear from you and have an open discussion what types of businesses use these and some of the applications.
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PrintEx: Ricoh flies flag for wide-format innovation
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Ricoh will launch several new wide-format solutions on stand D18, including a roll-to-roll latex printer and a flatbed UV device, which it will show along with its digital colour printers and its direct to garment printer. Henryk Kraszewski, senior product manager at Ricoh, says the Pro L5160 roll-to-roll latex printer boasts a number of key features including print speed of up to 46.7 square metres per hour; image quality; an option for high-opacity white; support for a variety of permeable
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Xerox Launches Suite of Compact Multifunction Printers with WiFi Direct and Mobile Printing
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B210 printer , and B205 and B215 multifunction printers , the devices offer high-speed wireless connectivity, allowing users to print anywhere, at any time. Each device features WiFi Direct technology that enables wireless printing without a router and mobile print functionality with Apple AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, Mopria and Android support. The series reaches print speeds of up to 31 ppm, while delivering high-resolution 1200 x 1200 dpi enhanced image quality. Taking cues from the Xerox
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Konica Minolta Launches AccurioPress C83hc
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to the market.” Both the AccurioPress series of printers and the IQ-501 Intelligent Quality Optimizer are designed and offered to the market exclusively by Konica Minolta. About Konica Minolta Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is a leader in industrial and commercial printing and packaging solutions. With a comprehensive portfolio of production print offerings, it delivers the latest innovations in printing, applications and expertise. Its All Covered IT Services division offers a
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Xerox Announces Second-Quarter Results, Delivers Increased Cash Flow, Earnings Growth and Margin Expansion
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Automation and Heritage Business Systems, to grow XBS’ foothold in key markets Launching new products such as the Xerox Baltoro ™ HF Inkjet Press and the Xerox Adaptive CMYK Plus Technology to capture incremental production volume Added and renewed several multi-year contracts with Fortune 500 and public sector clients such as Morgan Stanley, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the County of San Diego On track to drive gross savings in 2019 of at least $640 million under Project Own It, Xerox’s
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Copier salesman hits reset button, starts Second Profession: Portland Breweries Series
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Copier salesman hits reset button, starts Second Profession: Portland Breweries Series By Andre Meunier | The Oregonian/OregonLive Brewing beer sounded more fun to Charlie Goman than selling copiers. Go figure. (editor’s note: said with all due respect to copier salespeople who love their jobs). “I decided I didn’t want to wake up at 45 and still be a copier salesman,” said Goman. “I was on track to a lucrative career, but I decided it wasn’t for me.” So the 33-year-old set about changing his
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Epson Supports the Studio Makerspace at SIGGRAPH 2019 with Latest Epson Technology and Hands on Printing Demos
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LONG BEACH, Calif. , July 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --Epson today announced it will continue its support and presence at The Studio at SIGGRAPH 2019 , a unique experience that provides a place for artist collaboration and interactive learning. Epson is offering collaborative demonstrations on digital printing and providing wide-format printers for attendees to learn and perfect digital printing skills. The Studio will be open during SIGGRAPH from Sunday, July 28 through Thursday, Aug. 1 at the
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ThinPrint Hub Now Available with Centralized Management
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, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, IGEL, Konica Minolta, Kyocera Mita, Lexmark, Microsoft, MobileIron OKI, Parallels, T-Systems, VMware, Wyse Technology, Xerox and 10Zig. Press Contacts: Headquarters: Silke Kluckert, Public Relations Manager, Phone: +49-30-408-198-725, E-mail: press@cortado.com North America: VisiTech for ThinPrint, Kendra Westerkamp, Phone: +1-720-261-2300 E-mail: CT@visitechpr.com This ThinPrint press release is available at: https://press.thinprint.com/ , and images at
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Digging Deeper into Perfect Copier Web Quoting Tool
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I'm a fan of Perfect Copier web quoting tool, because web based quoting tool saves me an incredible amount of time. Over the last two months I've done about twenty proposals. Out of the twenty, eight of those have closed, six are stalled, five are still open and I lost one. I want to dig a little deeper and explain how I use Perfect Copier. If you're familiar with quoting tool you'l know there's a feature to email the proposal to the client or print the proposal. To date I've never printed a
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Sharp Launches Next Generation 4K Aquos Board® Interactive Display Systems
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products, including professional and commercial displays. Through U.S. Professional Display Distributor sales channels, Sharp is the top selling volume and revenue share brand of 60"+ Professional Flat Panel Interactive Touch Displays.*Sharp's professional and commercial displays are specially engineered for business applications and are offered in a wide range of sizes and varying capabilities. From high-impact displays for digital signage, to state-of-the-art ultra-narrow bezel video walls, to
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Color-Logic Certifies RELYCO Synthetic Papers for the Xerox Iridesse Press
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™ develops color communication systems and software tool sets for a variety of special effect printing applications.Color-Logic provides brand owners, product managers, corporations, and their advertising agencies the ability to differentiate themselves and their clients with a simple print production process that yields dramatic results.Color-Logic decorative effects utilize the existing workflows of printers and designers, yielding dynamic results without the use of special equipment.Color
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Canon cuts guidance as profit drops 56%
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TOKYO--Canon Inc. (7751.TO) said Wednesday its second-quarter net profit fell 55.6% to 34.52 billion yen ($319.0 million) from a year earlier, due to weaker sales in digital cameras and office printers. Net profit for the second quarter ended June missed the analyst consensus of Y48.68 billion provided by FactSet. Sales for the imaging system business, which includes cameras, fell 18.5%, while sales for the office equipment business dropped 7.5%. Those declines far outweighed gains made in the
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Ricoh expands IT Services portfolio with acquisitions of IPM and TotalStor
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services to become a leading player in digital transformation. Our goal in Spain and Portugal is for the IT business to represent 40% of Ricoh's turnover by the end of fiscal year 2020," explains Ramon Martin, CEO of Ricoh Spain and Portugal. Alberto Mariani, Senior Vice President of Office Services, Ricoh Europe, adds: “These exciting acquisitions further strengthen our thriving IT Services business. They align to Ricoh’s growth strategy and commitment to expand globally in IT Services by enhancing
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Canon and McAfee Partner to Help Enterprises Thwart Threats in the Evolving Cybersecurity Landscape
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MELVILLE, N.Y. and SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, and McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, today announced they have joined forces to provide enhanced embedded protection against malware execution and tampering of firmware and applications for a sometimes-overlooked endpoint—multifunction printers (MFPs). Through the partnership, Canon customers will now receive McAfee [®] Embedded Control as an
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Why are Private Equity Firms buying copier dealerships?
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I have been in the industry for 25 years and something new just started recently. Private equity firms are buying copier dealerships. Not just one or two but 5 different ones in the US. I started my career at IKON many years ago and as the company started to come together as a company I recognized we were in trouble. At the time I thought HP would buy it but as you know Ricoh purchased it. Probably the single most important move in my lifetime. What if there was another event like that right
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Xerox Plans Webcast to Discuss 2019 Second-Quarter Results
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://www.youtube.com/XeroxCorp . Xerox ® and Powered by Xerox ® are trademarks of Xerox in the United States and/or other countries. Contacts Media Contact: Caroline Gransee-Linsey Xerox +1-203-849-2359 Caroline.Gransee-Linsey@xerox.com Investor Contact: Ann Pettrone Xerox +1-203-849-2590 Ann.Pettrone@xerox.com
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Vandal threw pickles, damaged musical instruments, copiers at Indian River County school
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, the criminal smashed coffee creamers on the floor of the teachers' lounge, and put around 20 creamers in the microwave and more creamers on the copier machines. The vandal also broke two ukuleles in the music room, damaged a tribal drum, then dumped a bucket of water over near some computers. Deputies said there were no signs of forced entry, and the total cost of the damage is $200. If you know who the vandal is, call Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-800-273-8477.
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Ricoh Pro5160 question
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Does anyone know how long the latex ink will keep it's vibrant color before it starts to fade?
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Four sentenced in Xerox $9.5 million toner fraud case
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In the end the strange case of fraud involving Xerox toner was not quite as large as once alleged— but it was still pretty big. A federal judge Thursday sentenced three men for the fraud , once estimated to be about $24 million but ultimately decided to be closer to $9.5 million in loss for Xerox.While that's still a lot of money— and a lot of fraudulently sold toner— the difference shortened the possible length of sentences for the three men because of the factors considered in federal
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Xerox cuts full-year revenue forecast, shares fall
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(Reuters) - Xerox Corp ( XRX.N ) posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday, but cut its full-year revenue forecast citing organizational changes, primarily in North America. Shares of the U.S. photocopier maker were down 3.5% at $32.72 in trading around noon. Xerox scrapped a complex deal last year to merge with Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings Corp ( 4901.T ) after it ran into strong opposition from activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason. read the rest here
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Xerox investing in IT services
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capabilities to around a third of cores by the end of the year, added Visentin. It is planned to roll out IT services to the rest of the cores and Europe in 2020. The focus on IT services comes as Xerox’s print revenues continue to decline. Q2 sales fell 7.2% in local currencies to $2.29 billion, with equipment sales sliding 9% and post-sale revenue decreasing 6.6%. read the rest here
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Xerox jettisons 4.5K jobs in first half
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Xerox offloaded 4,500 jobs in the first half of 2019 through a mix of attrition, layoffs and a new outsourcing agreement, as the company enters its second year under the leadership of CEO John Visentin after a 2018 proxy battle led by billionaires Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason. Xerox has its headquarters in Norwalk, with the company’s global workforce dropping below 28,000 employees as of the end of June. In March, Xerox announced an extension of an outsourcing agreement with HCL, which reported
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Re: Ricoh Pro5160 question
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through the printheads. Heat is used to evaporate the water away, and to activate the polymers to bind the pigments to the media. The latex market has been driven by HP, mainly because it sits very well with HP’s thermal printhead technology. HP has been selling its latex printers for around five years now and has refined the technology, releasing the third generation inks last summer. The new inks address some weaknesses in that they use less heat than before and have much better scratch
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Epson and Partners will Show Attendees at RetailNOW How to Secure The "Return Customer"
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-T88V and TM-U220 receipt printers deliver outstanding results to its restaurant clients by facilitating taking orders on tablets, kiosks, mobile devices, website and tableside. Booth #115. www.northstarpos.com OrderCounter, hybridPOSprovider for the hospitalityindustry,will be showing how advanced printer communication with the EpsonOmniLinkTM-T88VI receipt printer willdeliver real-time, actionable dataand reduce customer support.The company will also be showing the printer's paper saving
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UBEO Buys AmPan Business Systems
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UBEO Business Services ,a printer, copier, and document management solutions company, has acquired AmPan Business Systems — a provider of multifunction office equipment. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. UBEO, co-headquartered in Austin and San Antonio, Texas, is a provider of printer, copier, and related office equipment. The company also has operations in Louisiana and California. read the rest here
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Copy and printing services contract extended for City of Apache Junction
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Jul 26th, 2019 · by Apache Junction Independent · Comments: 0 A contract amendment for copier and printer services was recently approved by the Apache Junction City Council. The council in a consent agenda July 16 voted to approve the first amendment to the professional services agreement for copier purchase and managed print services with Arizona Office Technologies for a period of one year. The city on Aug. 2, 2016 entered into a three-year professional services agreement with Arizona
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Thrive Adds Goodger & Demorcy to New York FinTech Leadership Team
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass., July 31, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Thrive, a premier provider of Next Generation Managed Services, is proud to announce new additions to their leadership team in the New York and FinTech business divisions. Scott Goodger , a long-term technology and sales veteran of Thrive Precision IT, has been named General Manager Executive Vice President for the New York market. "I'm deeply honored and excited to accept the challenge to become the General Manager Executive Vice President
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Re: Vandal threw pickles, damaged musical instruments, copiers at Indian River County school
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creamers can really mess up a copier. Thinking some new copiers are in order.
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Re: KM flat rate program
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device may be low. Curious if you have a history of the print volumes for each device for the last 12 months. Thirdly, toner is closely monitored and if the client uses too much toner it could result in a charge back. Here's a few links that wrote about a year ago that may help you. Four Ways to Compete Against the KM Flat Rate Program Five Reasons Why Copier Dealers Need to Implement Their Own Flat Rate Program The Flat Rate Program "The Good, the Bad the Ugly" 6 Reasons Why Flat Rate Service
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Re: Canon cuts guidance as profit drops 56%
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@grizzlyadams I'm not sure. Canon still made a ton of profit. Guess a 25% drop in revenue can be dramatic. Maybe someone else can tell us? @Ray Stasiezcko
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Cost Per Copy and Rate Lock
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I've bumped in to this a few times in the last few weeks and wanted some input. Lately we've beenup against a plethora of lower tier devices (Kyocera/Sharp/Toshiba boxes). In 3/4 of these situations, several of the competitors have been able to lock clicks for the term of the lease. They're coming in at $.0069 - $.0074 / $.04-$.05. Is this the new normal or has this always been an acceptable locked click rate?
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