This Week in the Copier Industry Fifteen Years Ago
Second Week of August 2007
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There are those in our industry that continue to blast our because he believes our industry is dying and will self destruct. This coming from a person who is not involved in the day to day business in our industry. That person is a self proclaimed analyst.
However, when one keeps badgering the industry with cries of wolf, then sooner or later those that listen will turn a deaf ear.
I don't mind someone who can point out the faults, but in turn those pointing the finger need to offer up solutions on how change.
Enjoy The Great Copier Threads from Ten years Ago This Week
Re: Weekend Notes from the copier industry!
Art Post (Guest) ·
some laser printers generate toner that is hazardous to your health. It claims that 17 of the 62 it tested are “high particle emitters”, and that breathing in the toner might be as bad as inhaling cigarette smoke. Models named as polluters including some Hewlett Packard models. (no Konica Minolta products apparently named, but one wonders if this study was funded in any way by inkjet printer manufacturers) Models mentioned as “high emitters” are: o HP Color LaserJet 4650dn (made by Canon) o HP
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RICOH MULTIFUNCTION PRODUCT LINE ATTAINS
Art Post (Guest) ·
network of authorized independent dealers markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America. For fiscal year 2006, Ricoh Americas Corporation sales exceeded $3.3 billion, an increase of 7.4 percent over the previous year. Information about Ricoh’s complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at www.ricoh-usa.com . ###
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Re: B2C defined
Shaja ·
Two things going on there. B2C is about how the b&w and color clicks are handled. Basically, a b&w machine that also has color. Some color copiers can't separate out the solely b&w clicks and charge the color cpc for every click. B2C can make the distinction and charge accordingly. "Creative color" is marketing spin to cover the fact that Ricoh B2C color isn't as good as some other manufacturers, such as Konica Minolta's. Our Ricoh trainer guy also used to say "pleasing color" or "office color
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Aficio 2232 Fax forwarding subject line ?
dvb (Guest) ·
When setting up the aficio 2232 or any Ricoh product is there a way to set a default subject line for scan to email or fax forwarding to email. Customer had a Toshiba machine and liked that the Toshiba could be programmed to include the fax number of a fax that came in on before forwarding to an email account. The message included the fax number of the incoming fax in the body of text of the email. Also for scanning to email can the subject line be defaulted to a certain message ?
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Received faxes are oriented wrong.
Jomama (Guest) ·
On a Gestetner DSc525 with the Fax option, this customer called me a month ago with the complaint that faxes being received from (mostly) a particular customer of theirs were being received oriented 90 degrees off and reduced. In other words they were printed Letter direction on Letter-R paper. Or visa-versa, hard to tell. So I went to UTSyst Set Paper tray PriorityFax Tray 2. Tray 2 is Letter-R direction.(Tray 1 is letter only on this model.) Feeling confident I left. 2 weeks ago, she called
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Re: Aficio 2232 Fax forwarding subject line ?
I am not sure about the forwarded fax message including the sending fax machine number. I know the default subject for the MP series color machines can be changed to whatever the end user needs. The sending fax machine should transmit the fax information along with the fax so any image printed/viewed should display the fax number anyway. Either way, the current B2C Ricohs are tough to beat in a lot of areas.
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Printing HPGL2 files out of Unix
We are trying to install a 480W with PB 3.6 and are having problems with HPGL2 files. When these files are printed out of Unix, they are being converted to .tmp files and will not print. Does anyone know what we can share with the customer to help them create a Unix print queue that will not convert the files? Also, when we take the .tmp files and rename them as HPGL2 files, we are not able to print them on PB 3.6 but we can do so with PB 3.5 in our demo room. Does anyone know if there is a
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Re: B2C defined
Neal ·
well said Shaja, bit depth is far more important to quality color than resolution. if you have 8 bit 600X600 your quality will be much better than a 2 or 4 bit with a resolution of 2400X1800. Like a Konica minolta guy told me on resolution you can only put so many dot in an inch until they start to just pile up whereas the bit depth has to do with the color variation per pixel.
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Re: C2500 Media Types
dmurrah ·
Art, It will do some but not on a regular basis. We had to replace a c4500 that was doing lots of thicker coated stocks with a Canon. I just sold a C811DN and I am certain the brochure on that product says "glossy". I also have the recomnended paper chart from Ricoh and will try to send tomorrow if I can find it.
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Re: C2500 Media Types
JasonR ·
Never thought I'd see the day we'd replace a Ricoh color machine with a Canon to get better media handling .
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Re: C2500 Media Types
A good rule of thumb is to run no more than about 25% of the machine's recommended monthly volume on "special" paper (e.g. heavy-weight or coated). N.B.-The paper recommendations in this file for the MP C3500/C4500 apply for the C811DN as well...
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Re: MP4500 Serverless fax dilema!
JasonR ·
If you have multiple fax lines, you can have different destinations for each. I have a machine with 3 fax lines. Line one sends to one email group (which is 5 people). Line two sends to a singe executive assistant and line three prints out on the machine.
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Re: Stewart Letter to Customers in North East!
Ricoh Suave (Guest) ·
I am sorry but I see nothing wrong with the letter. What do you guys see that is wrong? I think they are tyring to protecting their interests...ahould of thought about that before they signed on with Xerox. We have that letter from Ricoh/Tom that I carry around and that seems to work just fine. I never bad mouth the competition....I just provide the facts and let the customer decide. People like Ricoh and will go to where Ricoh is not where they were. But lets get real... there is a lot of mud
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Re: SP4110N Envelope Crinkling
I have never seen a Ricoh printer (or any other laser printer) consistently produce printed envelopes without creasing the paper. 3 "flaps" of paper going thru pressure and heat - like ironing shirt collar. Humidity seems to affect this more than anything else. GelSprinters won't wrinkle your envelopes. It doesn't appear you can select number 10 size envelopes. I think you will have to input the length and width as a custom size.
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B2C defined
Jomama (Guest) ·
With regard to Ricoh copiers, what does that designation mean? How do they differ from other color copiers?
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Re: Received faxes are oriented wrong.
Art Post (Guest) ·
Where are the faxes coming from? Overseas? If so this may be the problem? Heck I'm just guessing but it may be worth a shot. Have the sended test to one of your units at your place.
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Re: Received faxes are oriented wrong.
Jomama (Guest) ·
Not overseas, local. She had her customer send an 8 page fax to me at the office and it was fine. But the problem doesn't occur on every send to her and they say that no one else they send to is having the problem.
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Med Assets Announcements
Art Post (Guest) ·
Ricoh U.S. Major Accounts is pleased to announce that effective immediately Dealers are eligible to sell to MedAssets Members through the DMAP Program! Please see the attached Bulletin, Customer Pricing, Dealer Pricing and Membership Listing for further details.
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Amerinet Announcement
Art Post (Guest) ·
Ricoh U.S. Major Accounts is pleased to announce that effective immediately Dealers are eligible to sell to Amerinet Members through the DMAP Program! Please see the attached Bulletin, Membership Listing and Pricing which includes Dealer Margin for further details.
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DMAP Program Announcement** - Real Estate
Art Post (Guest) ·
Ricoh U.S. Major Accounts is pleased to announce that effective immediately Dealers are eligible to sell to RE/MAX, Prudential, GMAC, Keller Williams and the member companies of The Realty Alliance through the DMAP Program. Please see the attached Bulletin and customer pricing which includes Dealer Margin for further details.
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C2500 Media Types
Art Post (Guest) ·
Is there a spec sheet from Ricoh stating what types of paper can run through this device, the brochure just states plain paper!! can anyone post something here that will help, I could have sworn I remembered seeing gloss and coated stocks somewhere. Thanx
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MP 7500 bypass registration and user code list
supertech6482 (Guest) ·
Brand new MP 7500 bypass registration is off, top to bottom(1 inch) and lead to trail(5 mm). Check default setting and paper guides, appears OK. Possible firmware? Also same machine when you print user code list, it shows user name and code. Same account MP6500, when user code list is printed only shows user codes with no name. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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