This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Last Week of September 2014)

Art Post · 9/25/1411:43 PM

Konica Minolta and Kodak Showcase New Front End Solutions for bizhub Presses at Graph Expo 2014 Industry Leaders Drive and Manage Digital Press Solutions With Common Production Process RAMSEY, NJ --(Marketwired - September 25, 2014) - Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. ( Konica Minolta ) and Kodak today announces the release of two new KODAK CREO Servers that will drive Konica Minolta's fully managed monochrome and color digital press solutions for commercial print and graphics

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Art Post · 9/26/1411:31 PM

solutions related to distribute and print opportunities as well as variable data streams in which the print solution may reside on the network or in the data-center environment. Responsible for selling RICOH digital high volume color, black and white and wide format solutions, as well as continuous roll feed solutions through Ricoh's RPPS group. The GPS also positions partner solutions around Heidelberg and Kodak platforms that are not directly sold by Ricoh to a designated list of RICOH and

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Art Post · 9/24/1410:54 PM

communication customers," says Kevin Kern, senior vice president, Marketing, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. "We look forward to showcasing the JETvarnish 3DS at Graph Expo 14 and the future results of this key partnership." Designed primarily for the digital print market, the JETvarnish 3DS will make the popular 3D tactile varnish finish available to all digital printers in the market today printing on widths up to 36 cm (14 inches). The JETvarnish 3DS can turn regular printed jobs

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Art Post · 9/24/147:46 AM

.konicaminolta.us . For a complete overview of Konica Minolta's EnvisionIT Production solutions and to access a detailed Graph Expo 14 booth map, click here . Follow Konica Minolta at Graph Expo 14 on Facebook and Twitter using the hashtags #KMWinnersCircle and #GraphExpo. Konica Minolta bizhub ® is a registered trademark of Konica Minolta, Inc.All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. About Konica Minolta Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc

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Art Post · 9/28/148:30 PM

media handling capabilities, ease of use and best in class image quality. These attributes ultimately enable printers to expand business opportunities and better serve customers with quicker turnaround times and enhanced image quality. The RICOH Pro C9100/C9110 allow print and marketing service providers to produce high-value, high-quality output such as marketing collateral (brochures and flyers), direct mail pieces (coupons and postcards) and even packaging applications. “Today, digital color is

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Art Post · 9/23/1411:28 PM

brochure, however could not find one yet. I did find the operators manual, and you can get that here. One more item, I checked the manual, and there was not a statement on how many original pages would fit in the document feeder. I'm assuming it will have the same specs as the MP C4503 series, this it should have a 220 page document feeder. Now, if Ricoh would only update their wide format line, now that would be a wonder to behold!! -=Good Selling=-

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Art Post · 9/25/1411:27 PM

Manufacturer of the Year,” Rick Taylor, COO of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc., for “Executive of the Year” and Carol C. Cannata, SVP, client services, THE CANNATA REPORT, in new category “Women Executive of the Year.” THE CANNATA REPORT UPDATES AWARD IN HONOR OF LAUDED INDUSTRY LEADER AND CHAMPION THE CANNATA REPORT rebranded is award from a plaque to a statuette entitled the “Frank” in honor of revered founder, Frank G. Cannata. This award was introduced live to a resoundingly

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Art Post · 9/25/1411:38 PM

OcÉ Arizona 6100 and the OcÉ ImageStream 3500. The OcÉ Arizona 6100 is designed specifically for higher volumesign and display print service providers. Comprised of the six-colorOcÉ Arizona 6160 XTS and the seven-color OcÉ Arizona 6170 XTS UVflatbed printers, this series comes equipped with the award-winningOcÉ VariaDot printing technology to offer “near photographic” printquality. These devices feature new productivity enhancements includingpneumatic registration pins and automated printhead

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Art Post · 9/30/1410:35 PM

and their strong industry presence in large-format and production printing," said Dave Erlandson, GM of Caslon PODi. "The Company's wide range of offerings allows them to tailor solutions to enhance customers' existing applications and new business opportunities. In addition to printers that produce some of the fastest and highest quality output on the market, Canon also provides customizable software solutions to streamline workflows, which is essential for any print shop to excel in today's

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Art Post · 9/24/1411:06 PM

MELVILLE, N.Y.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, todayannounced the release of uniFLOW V5.3, the newest version of uniFLOW. uniFLOW is an integrated software platform for device management, secureprinting, including mobile print, advanced scanning, document routing and accounting. uniFLOW V5.3 offers a variety of new features, such asenhanced scanning to cloud-based services and a new per-device scanninglicensing model. In addition, uniFLOW V

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Art Post · 9/25/1411:20 PM

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Art Post · 9/30/1410:25 PM

exceptional professional service offerings. Canon Solutions America helps companies of all sizes to improve their business by increasing efficiency, controlling costs and becoming more environmentally conscious. A wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A, Inc. Canon Solutions America is headquartered in Melville, NY and has sales and service locations across the US. For more information on Canon Solutions America, please visit csa.canon.com . About InfoTrends InfoTrends is the leading worldwide market

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Art Post · 9/23/141:32 PM

Ann Arbor, MI (September 18, 2014) —Edwards Brothers Malloy announced that it has acquired another Ricoh continuous form inkjet press. The InfoPrint 5000 MP monochrome press is being installed this month and will be operational in October in the company’s Lillington, North Carolina digital print center. It will be used for both print-on-demand as well as short runs up to 1,500 copies. “Our experience with our first Ricoh InfoPrint press in our Ann Arbor plant has been very good— we wanted to

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Art Post · 9/23/1410:20 PM

MONTREAL , Sept. 23, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) is pleased to announce a whole new packaging look, a realignment of the product line, as well as a series of product enhancements to its Xerox ® Paper and Specialty Media Line. In June 2013 , Domtar Corporation completed the acquisition of the Xerox ® Paper and Specialty Media Line for the U.S. and Canada . With its strong foundation in serving businesses and corporations, the Xerox ® Paper and Specialty

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Art Post · 9/24/1411:15 PM

customers and managed pages for Impact.” About Preton Preton Ltd. is a leading provider of advanced software for reducing printing costs. Preton’s award winning PretonSaver™ software offers enterprises and SMBs revolutionary savings on toner, ink and paper consumption and associated printing costs. Preton's patented Pixel Optimizer™ technology intelligently identifies and deletes wasteful pixels during printing, providing substantial savings without visibly reducing quality. Preton customers include

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Art Post · 9/24/1411:12 PM

ThePRINTERVERSE ALLIANCE!* Session 2 (multiple presenters) 4:00 – 4:45: “Techcreative”… What IS This Thing Anyhow? Presented by Semper International, LLC MONDAY (Sept 29 th ) 11:00– 11:45: Panel Discussion: Market Your Printing Company! Moderated by Mary Beth Smith 11:45 – 1:00: IHPS LUNCH LAUNCH! Telling OUR Story: What’s New with HP High-speed Inkjet Web Presses! 1:00 – 2:00: Selling Print in an Integrated World With Daniel Dejan 2:15 – 2:45: The Future For Women In Graphic Communications Presented by

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Art Post · 9/24/147:43 AM

The Ricoh ProTM C7100X series opens new markets and new opportunities for graphic arts Ricoh Europe , London 24 September 2014 – Today Ricoh announces the Ricoh Pro C7100X series of digital colour cut sheet presses, ideal for small to medium sized graphic arts business, direct mailers, service bureaux, digital printers and centralised reprographic departments. Its features are designed to support print service providers seeking to increase their current digital printing capacity, enter new

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Art Post · 9/23/141:44 PM

Check out Larry's resume attached.  Please help him out if you can, or if you know someone that is looking please send them to Larry.   Art

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Art Post · 9/23/1410:15 PM

Poster Printing lets you print 1 page across several pages, saving on outsourcing D Copy function copies both sides of an ID onto the same page 4,700 max paper capacity for longer, uninterrupted print runs Incredibly low power consumption. It can be programmed to power on and off with a Weekly Timer to conserve energy when not in use. Synchronised LED lights indicates location of paper jam Tiltable Colour 9" (23 cm) control panel lets you create shortcut icons to automate most used tasks Print and

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Art Post · 9/27/1412:09 AM

Kodak has enhanced the KODAK NEXPRESS Digital Production Color Press Platform to expand its capabilities and provide printers with new options for meeting their customers’ requirements. These configuration changes will become standard on all presses built in 2015 and will be available as optional or standard upgrades on the majority of installed KODAK NEXPRESS Presses. The new configurations of the KODAK NEXPRESS Presses will include the expansion of long sheet capability, the addition of Dura

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GR81 · 9/23/1412:31 PM

I have a Sharp 4101 that prints just fine on 8.5X11 but when the customer prints 11X17 the color alignment is off and it gets worse the closer it gets to the trailing edge. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Art Post · 9/24/147:41 AM

The RICOH (Booth 1931) Pro C7110x is a high speed, five color production class laser printer. This new edition to the Ricoh production print portfolio can print at speeds up to 90ppm based upon A4. The RICOH Pro C7110x has a maximum sheet size of 13x19.2; a maximum monthly volume of 240,000 based on A4 and a duty cycle of 700k. The RICOH Pro C7110x prints at 1200x4800dpi and delivers VCSEL image quality on a wide variety of media, from tree-based to synthetics and envelopes. This model has the

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jswinberlin · 9/25/1410:41 AM

We just replaced a customer's Canon with a Savin MP5002. This is a large medical office which receives hundreds of faxes per day. The Canon was forwarding the faxes to a folder in Paper Port that they use to route the information into their EMR software. The problem is the Canon was sending the faxes as single page PDFs which they like because they can then stack the ones for each patient as needed (they may receive several pieces of patient information from the hospital and it is easier to

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Art Post · 9/27/1411:58 PM

September 25, 2014 One of the greatest points of distinction between top sales performers and everyone else isaverage sale size. Great salespeople typically make much larger sales than the rest of theteam -- often by a factor of four to 10 times that of the typical salesperson. But how is this possible when Salesperson A and Salesperson B are selling the same productor service? The answer is that their approaches to selling are completely different. Here are thefive secrets that top performers

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Art Post · 9/23/1410:21 PM

With automation top-of-mind for print service providers, Xerox is dedicating its booth at Graph Expo to show how simplifying operations can lead to profitable growth. Xerox’s Graph Expo booth theme, “Let’s Automate and Simplify,” comes alive with the latest release of FreeFlow Core and other workflow solutions that eliminate costly touch points from the print process, while meeting or exceeding quality and production targets.FreeFlow Core 4.0 easily and quickly constructs workflows that

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Art Post · 9/29/1411:08 PM

MELVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 28, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canon Solutions America, Inc., a subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc. today announced that it held an event series designed to educate customers on how inkjet innovation is changing the print industry. The two-part Inkjet Insider Summit, held at the OcÉ research and development facilities in both Venlo, Netherlands and Poing, Germany, brought together Canon Solutions America executives, customers and industry-leading experts for information

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Art Post · 9/28/149:39 PM

the years we had three different fax partners. They were Teli (Sweden), Mitsubishi and then Brother. Fax sales in the eighties were HOT! Every business had to have at least one, and if you were fortunate to have some large accounts you couldn'tkeep them in stock. Selling fax machines was just like selling copiers, phone calls, newspaper ads, knocking on the doors was the way to fill your funnel. Here in the NY metro area, I can remember cold calling and always either going up against a dealer

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kathie · 9/25/144:27 PM

OH, I’m Miss Eagle Eye when I go anywhere!! The other local dealer lost his partnership with Ricoh (he was selling Kyoceras instead) so I am always looking for his customers to touch base with too. Sounds like you are in a much larger market than I am. Rarely, do I find even an in-house IT person much less someone who is in charge of Office technology. All the larger companies here are branch offices and decisions are not made locally. My FIRST question is always are you a local company?

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Art Post · 9/24/1411:00 PM

information about these new projectors, visit pro.usa.canon.com/projectors . About Canon U.S.A., Inc. Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer,business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions. With approximately $36 billion in global revenue, its parent company, CanonInc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranked third overall in U.S. patents granted in 2013‡ and is one of Fortune Magazine's World’s Most Admired Companies in 2014. In 2014, Canon U.S.A. received the PCMag.com Readers

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Art Post · 9/27/1412:13 AM

technology to synthetic materials specifically designed for emerging Memjet-class wide format inkjet printers. The new Mohawk Inkjet media line consists of four substrates designed to support a wide variety of printing applications. New products include: Mohawk Inkjet DuPont Tyvek - Waterfast matte inkjet receptive coating Mohawk Inkjet Polyester Pressure Sensitive Permanent Adhesive– Aqueous matte coated polyester Mohawk Inkjet Matte Backlit Film– Aqueous matte coated polyester backlit display film

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Art Post · 9/26/143:57 PM

Does anyone know when this copier was introduced to the US market?

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Art Post · 9/25/1411:29 PM

Print Audit® Releases Secure Version 1.2.3 with Support for Windows 8.1 September 25, 2014 Calgary, Alberta - September 25, 2014 - Print Audit®, the company that helps office equipment dealers grow their businesses, has released an update for the Client component of its secure release and pull-printing solution, Print Audit Secure . Print Audit Secure version 1.2.3 adds compatibility with Windows 8.1, as well as stability enhancements. Print Audit Secure is a print management service which

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Art Post · 9/27/1412:11 AM

The Buffalo Bills have signed Toshiba America Business Solutions to be the team’s “Official Copier.” Financial terms of the marketing deal were not disclosed. Toshiba will sponsor in-game instant replays and provide pregame and halftime stats and in-game photos to suite and club seat members. Toshiba will also work with the Bills to provide business content management solutions at the team’s administrative offices in Orchard Park as well as at training camp at St. John Fisher College in

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Art Post · 9/29/1411:11 PM

technology for higher image quality and better matching of brand colors. Eight-color printing, including the industry’s best white ink, and a unique, multilayer printing capability for superior visual appeal on backlit displays and other applications. “ The Garvey Group drives success for its clients because it has a higher level of respect for their marketing supply chain needs ,” said Frank Mallozzi, EFI’s senior vice president, worldwide sales and marketing. “ The VUTEk HS100 Pro press fits

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Art Post · 9/27/1412:16 AM

new EFI VUTEk printer installed this year – to accommodate growing demand for high quality inkjet graphics as part of a complete offering that includes offset and digital printing, graphic design, web development and marketing services. West-Camp Press has operated EFI VUTEk printers since 2007, when the company entered the superwide-format inkjet market to gain additional business from one of its existing commercial printing clients. Inkjet graphics investments for the 120-employee company have

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Art Post · 9/23/1410:25 PM

The move was officially completed yesterday, 22 September 2014, when the publicly listed HGL Limited announced to the Stock Exchange that Createc Pty Ltd, a 50 per cent joint venture company in the printing sector, had sold the Anitech business and most of its assets to Neopost Australia. Neopost, formerly GBC Australia, is owned by the French-based Neopost Group, which specialises in mail, shipping and software solutions. The Australian company has long been regarded as a market leader in

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Art Post · 9/23/1410:17 PM

we look forward to a strong and growing relationship.” Since the Pure Channel Program launched in the U.S. earlier this year, deal registration is exceeding all expectations, and Paragon expects high levels of success in Australia as well. Pure Channel features a high-impact “Pure Profit” strategy grounded in what Paragon calls “POP” (Paragon Opportunity Protection), which eliminates minimum revenue and tech training requirements, guarantees 30 percent margin protection and streamlines sales

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Art Post · 9/23/148:55 AM

We're using the Ricoh PCL6, no infrastructure updates that I know of. Customer is complaining about print processing time from all applications.All we did was replace the 2551 with the 2003. Processors in bothRicoh devicesare equal in specs.

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GIntel · 9/25/149:28 AM

I heard a rumor of this a while back, and considering Toshiba's BW production is based on the previous Ricoh BW production series, a new line is certainly due.

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darrell_amy · 9/24/143:11 PM

Originally Posted by gwalters2009: Interesting and an awesome amount of work for the standard copier dealer. Additionally, it is and always has been my belief that CONTENT maintains sustainability - so in your Step 5, most organizations fall short. Don't you think? Greg, It is a lot of work! That's why many dealers hire us to do it for them. However, sales reps play a huge part by: 1. Sharing relevant blog articles their dealerships post 2. Actively participating in LinkedIn 3. Following their

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darrell_amy · 9/24/143:13 PM

build a bridge between online leads and sales reps. Stay tuned!

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GIntel · 9/28/142:18 PM

Hey Art, Do you mean the Kyocera KM-2250 (pre-Taskalfa brand), if so it launched October 12, 2004. - Jake

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Former Member · 9/28/149:11 PM

Thanks for your email. I will be out of the office until Monday, September 29. I'll have limited access to email and will return your message as soon as possible. All the best, Andrew Jones Muratec America, Inc.

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Kitz · 9/29/143:19 PM

Cool features yes, image quality not yet up to Ricoh