This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Third Week of March 2014)

I could much of anything for 19 years ago for history. A lot about the Iraq war, and US Presidential race. Thus I thought I would switch to music! Check out the You Tube Video on the left. My fav is Hey YA! Canon unveils "hybrid" color printers 3/10/04 9:11 PM Topic by Guest users that only occasionally need their pages printed in color. ADVERTISEMENT Canon U .S.A. Inc., a unit of Japan's Canon Inc., unveiled the Imagerunner C 6800 and Imagerunner C 3100 Series, expanding its line of black-and

through the entire print run which enables easy printing.” About Konica Minolta Business Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.: Konica Minolta Business Solutions is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies from the desktop to the print shop. Konica Minolta is the global developer, manufacturer of multi-functional peripherals (MFPs), printers, equipment for production print systems and graphic arts, equipment for healthcare systems, measuring instruments for industrial and healthcare applications

product development engineer and manager, including 12 years at Xerox creating mid-range and production digital printing products. WHAT: Szymanski will discuss how color tuning and image quality optimization begins at the basic machine setup level. A printer or copier must first operate properly, in a consistent and repeatable manner, before consistent and accurate color reproduction can be achieved and maintained. He will detail a three-step process, including print engine setup, densitometric tuning

while saving an estimated 190,000 trees a year. Print Audit is the most comprehensive provider of managed print services (MPS) and print management solutions. The company enables organizations to monitor and control their printing costs via a broad range of capabilities that include secure print release, follow-me printing, rules-based printing, cost recovery, in-depth print assessment and remote meter reading. Print Audit has offices located in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, South Africa

focused sales force dedicated to both the North American and South American regions. When it comes to color and light measurement, the world looks to Konica Minolta. Darlene Giordano Marketing Manager Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. +1-201-818-3526 darlene.giordano@konicaminolta.com http://sensing.konicaminolta.us Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140318/NY84540 SOURCE Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/...796328#ixzz2wNri37ri

Friday, 21 March 2014, 1:49 pm Press Release: Ricoh Software sales and customer solutions put Ricoh on top Ricoh Group announced as Kofax Global Partner of the Year Auckland, 21 March 2014 - The Ricoh Group was announced as Kofax Global Partner of the Year at a conference in California last week in acknowledgement of its outstanding results and long-term partnership with the business process automation software company. Ricoh New Zealand was also recognised for its depth of technical and

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 Press release from the issuing company MGI to hold a Press Conference at IPEX 2014 Ivry Sur Seine, France –MGI Digital Graphic Technology, a world leader in digital printing and finishing equipment, is pleased to announce they will be discussing their strategic alliance with Konica Minolta, as well as previewing a new product lineup at IPEX 2014 during their Press Conference scheduled to take place on Monday, March 24 th at 15:00. MGI will describe how the strategic

takes care of their document and printing needs, with the aim of driving savings and productivity, and realize positive business outcome on our customers' behalf." About Canon Singapore Pte Ltd Canon is a global leader in photographic and digital imaging solutions. Canon Singapore Pte Ltd is the headquarters for South Southeast Asia driving sales, marketing and service strategies. Besides handling the domestic market, the company leads 18 other countries including subsidiaries in India, Malaysia

automotive dealer industry that can help dealerships transition their Service, Sales and other departmental document workflows into a paperless model. IDEAS can save dealers a significant amount of processing and labor costs associated with the storage, printing, scanning, and shredding of documents. In addition to cost savings, minimizing the frequency of printing has many environmental benefits as well. With today's new car "wrap around" service model, in which vehicle maintenance is all inclusive

since 2009. For details on Ricoh's full line of products, services and solutions, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com . | About Ricoh | Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in about 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2013, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,924 billion yen (approx. 20 billion USD). The majority of the

out three years ago with a single RICOH Pro C901. In the ensuing years, the company has quintupled its fleet with two in Sacramento, two in Redwood City and one in Fort Wayne, Ind., all buttressed by a stable of black and white Ricoh production printers. "The transition from print service provider to marketing service provider, though difficult, opens up a multitude of opportunities for companies like Pacful that achieve it," said Tim Vellek, Vice President, Production Printing Business Group

expertise you expect, but small enough to provide the support and attention you demand. Learn more at www.mindSHIFT.com . About Ricoh Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in about 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2013, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,924 billion yen (approx. 20 billion USD). The majority

Readers’ Choice Award for Service and Reliability in the digital camera and printer categories for the tenth consecutive year, and for camcorders for the past three years. Canon U.S.A. is committed to the highest level of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent U.S.-based consumer service and support for all of the products it distributes. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon

; the ECOSYS P2135dn and P2135d printers include print-from-USB capabilities for on-the-go printing. Equally important, all six devices offer crisp image quality at impressive speeds. The ECOSYS M2035dn, ECOSYS P2135dn and ECOSYS P2135d generate black-and-white pages at the rate of 37 per minute [ppm]; the ECOSYS M6526cidn, ECOSYS M6526cdn, and ECOSYS M6026cidn MFPs produce color and black-and-white documents at 28 ppm. All ECOSYS devices come complete with KYOCERA’s patented long-life drum

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theirs, we only needed one. My road to earning the sale will be to educate the prospect that even with zero breakdowns, my competitors system will be down at the very minimum three times as much as my Ricoh. I'll you all know how this works out and remember to do those side by sides and you can get all of the neat information that I used from BLI. -=Good Selling=-

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in the digital camera and printer categories for the tenth consecutive year, and for camcorders for the past three years. Canon U.S.A. is committed to the highest level of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent U.S.-based consumer service and support for all of the products it distributes. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company’s RSS news feed by

Digital Express, one of Cape Town's largest high-end commercial printers, has doubled its digital printing production volume and slashed operating costs with the purchase of a Xerox Colour 1000 digital colour press from Bytes Document Solutions and Oxbow. "As a Xerox digital shop, we've worked with different types of machines over the past few years; however, in order to get the business where we wanted, a decision was made to overcome the volume limitations of the technology, mainly due to

So.....this has been annoying me quite awhile. It's about selling professional services for workflow. Recently, I put upa poll on the P4P forums in reference to what we (salespeople) are charged when we sell billable hours. Out of the responses we've received, 57% of sales people reported that their cost is in between $126-$150 per hour, 14% for $101 - $125, another 14% $76-100, and then 14% for under $75. You can take vote in that poll here. We then asked "How much do you charge?", this would

. I use Quora and Print Planet . I got one of my biggest leads from a user who read threads that answered about duplicators on Print Planet. -=Good Selling=-

Canon puts document management in the cloud 03.20.14 Canon has launched a cloud version of its Therefore document management platform, hosted by Fujitsu Australia. Therefore Online is designed to provide a full information management and workflow solution for businesses across various information sources including paper documents, barcodes, email, internet forms and electronic files such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs, and more. Jeremy Plint, Assistant General Manager, Canon said, “We’ve

“Traditionally, our industry’s model has stated that sales reps should receive compensation equal to 10-14% of the hardware revenue produced during that year. As an example, $1,000,000 in hardware sales should equal $100k-$140k in total compensation. I’m curious since dealers are pushing services more and more how that has effected that model since services transactions may not result in hardware sales. If you know how much you made in 2013 and how much hardware you sold, what % of hardware

Does this system come with an embedded fiery or is it an option?

I won a deal this week competing against 2x Ricoh 65 cpm at a law firm with Equitrac embedded into the control panel with two Toshiba's with external keypads. Equitrac will install their part of the deal via "remoting in".

I finally one this deal at a law firm replacing 2x Ricoh with GBC StreamPunch in line with 2x Toshiba and 1x off line GBC MagnaPunch Pro and an electric cerlox binding machine My proposed solution was $61k less expensive over five years. The Managing Partner at the law firm asked all 12 staff to vote for their preference. All 12 voted Ricoh. Needless to say, the staff does not pay the bills.

performed? The system sends alerts out automatically. - No customized reminders when it comes to folders, so that leaves you with manual tracking in a spreadsheet... and yes, that involves yet another folder. Let's say you need to comply with a records retention policy. - A strong document management system integrates records management so you're able to seamlessly comply with records retention guidelines. - Mention "records management and auditing" to the folders fans and you get silence and

with the best-in-class capabilities of our high end EFI VUTEk HS100 Pro inkjet press ,” said Frank Mallozzi, senior vice president, worldwide sales and marketing, EFI. “ With this press, The Garvey Group can offer a higher level of speed and quality to businesses in the retail and entertainment industries .” At GlobalShop 2014, in booth 4131, EFI is showcasing print samples from its VUTEk superwide-format printer portfolio. Samples in EFI’s booth include 3D, thermoformed displays printed using EFI

Haworth College of Business, Slider notes, often working with interns or graduates of the college's sales and business marketing program. In addition, he says, there is potential for WMU students and graduates in software engineering and other IT fields to work directly with MOS. In other cases, MOS may serve as a link to other companies in the Xerox family. "We were attracted by the fact that Western Michigan University produces some of the best and brightest students around," Slider says. "They

straight tri-fecta, wonder if I can win three in a row! 3. Evolving Beyond the Box Seminar 4. Confessions of a Paper Addict: 10-Step Recovery Program Seminar 5. Own the Advantage Seminar from one of my favs in the industry Mike Stramaglio of MWA 6. Sunday Night Baseball Game Louisville Bats vs Columbus Clippers! 7. Comparing MPS Solution Sets Seminar 8. The Post-PC Era: The Times They Are A-Changin’ Seminar 9. Hot Spots for Imaging Vendors in 3D Printing Seminar 10. Defining Your Role in

As an independent dealer we are definitely giving away too much Pro Services in the SMB space. We kind of us it as a sales pitch against the National vendors who almost always charge Pro Services. Right now we are starting to give the customers invoice for many Pro Services that we deliver but offset it with a credit, so that they can see it's value. This will set up a future invoice where there will be no credit. We leave it up to the sales rep how he sells the workflow and how much commission

Gents, has anyone here seen this device working live in any customer enviornment? We have feedback through 3rd parties that limitations such as: a) can only be used on certain types of 60-80gsm stock b) their is a limitation on "what" can be erased c) heat can erase the toner without going through the eraser d) longevity of prints (looking for approximate) would be thankful for any feedback at all. regaards, AC1968

practice management, infrastructure and operations services for its advisors and needs reliable, auditable workflow and document management from end-client to advisor through to its central office and on to the asset custodians. "At any given time, firms like Global Financial are processing hundreds of transactions and generating thousands of documents - often in emails that can't be reliably tracked, stored or audited. This can significantly slow down a company," said Brownell. "Like financial

partnering elements in their channel programs. To determine the 2014 5-Star recipients, The Channel Company's Research team assessed each vendor's application based on investments in program offerings, partner profitability, partner training, education and support, marketing programs and resources, sales support and communication. The docSTAR Global Partner Program is designed to provide marketing and sales support, and the product training and tools partners need to profitably sell and support

via mobile, web and PC/Mac. We see a number of benefits and functions for users of Real Estate systems such as YARDI, MRI Software and other Real Estate Systems. Unlike other collaboration systems, Jukedocs is very straight forward to set-up and can be implemented in days, not weeks or months. Furthermore, the system's tight security, role-based access and full audit trail serve to support ISO, IFRS and SOx compliance for organizations implementing best practices around collaboration and document

Start with the drivers and the color settings within the driver. If they are used to the quality they were getting with a Fiery you may never make them happy without putting a Fiery in there. With the Fiery, Spot On and the spectrophotometer you can create a color profile to match what they were accustomed to with that Canon.

Toshiba manufactures the Tecra W50 laptop that is AutoCAD certified. $2,600.00 MSRP. It is highly regarded by engineers and others who need to render 3D objects on a 2D screen. I include it as a value added option and talking point on all my copiers quotes to any business that uses AutoCAD. I can bundle it into the lease or acquire for approx $2,100.00.

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