This Week in the Copier Industry Fifteen Years Ago

Art Post (Guest) · 12/4/073:52 PM

Six New Digital Printers In Konica Minolta Line Konica Minolta Enhances Printer/AIO Line with Six New Products. Expanded Printer Product Family Provides Cost-Effective, High-Quality Output for a Wide Variety of Work Settings. RAMSEY, NJ, December 3, 2007 – Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies from the desktop to the print shop, today unveiled several new network-ready color and monochrome printers

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Art Post (Guest) · 12/2/072:27 PM

TOSHIBA AMERICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. PARTNERS WITH KIP AMERICA TO ENABLE WIDE-FORMAT MULTIFUNCTION PRODUCT OFFERINGS Note from Art: That makes Kyocera, KonicaMinolta, KIP and Toshiba selling the same box, is KIP related to Ricoh??? LOL Authorized Toshiba Dealers Provided with Best-in-Class Wide-Format Solutions to Meet Demands of Architectural, Engineering and Construction Clients IRVINE , California ( Sep 25, 2007 ) : Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) is proud to announce a

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Art Post (Guest) · 12/3/073:25 PM

document solutions. Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and software products help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents. Ricoh’s line of document management devices include, color and black & white digital imaging systems, facsimile products, printers, scanners, digital duplicators, production printing products and wide format engineering systems. Additionally, Ricoh offers a wide variety of document and

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Art Post (Guest) · 12/4/076:05 PM

, go to: www.pod-wf.com/ikon . About IKON IKON Office Solutions, Inc. (www.ikon.com) is the world's largest independent channel for document management systems and services, enabling customers worldwide to improve document workflow and increase efficiency. IKON integrates best-in-class copiers, printers and MFP technologies from leading manufacturers, such as Canon, Ricoh, Konica Minolta, Kyocera Mita and HP, and document management software and systems from companies like Captaris, Kofax, EFI

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Shaja · 12/5/079:39 AM

There are a couple of things I don't like about how Konica Minolta does things, but that's more a personal preference than a "Makes-No-Sense-Whatsoever" or "Mess-Over-The-Dealer" problem. Konica makes us switch regions every year, which means we have to get used to an entire new set of sales managers and administrative people. But, once we know who they are, things are fine. There's a West Coast-based dealer on this board who has issues with Konica's service support, but I've never heard of any

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John · 12/3/0712:00 PM

Is there a way to make the 7030D work with Vista?John

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Art Post (Guest) · 12/4/073:51 PM

released on $15,000 bail and is due in court Dec. 11. He faces a maximum of seven years in state prison. The District Attorney's Office said Rose accepted a bribe of $3,500 from a sales representative of Ricoh Americas Corporation between June 21, 2005, and July 13, 2005. In exchange, the complaint alleges, the copier company was to receive a five-year contract from the district worth in excess of $1 million for 73 copiers, support products and related services. In August of that year, the

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Boston Mike · 12/4/074:36 PM

released on $15,000 bail and is due in court Dec. 11. He faces a maximum of seven years in state prison. The District Attorney's Office said Rose accepted a bribe of $3,500 from a sales representative of Ricoh Americas Corporation between June 21, 2005, and July 13, 2005. In exchange, the complaint alleges, the copier company was to receive a five-year contract from the district worth in excess of $1 million for 73 copiers, support products and related services. In August of that year, the

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Art Post (Guest) · 12/5/078:38 AM

By Kurt Erickson kurt.erickson@lee.net SPRINGFIELD -- State officials are considering legal action after discovering something fishy about 315 “new” copy machines purchased from a New York company last spring. According to records, it appears as if the state believes the copiers actually were refurbished, rather than new. The hit on taxpayers after the transaction with Brooklyn, New York-based M&M Computers is pegged at an estimated $165,217. The copiers, which had been targeted for use at the

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Art Post (Guest) · 12/5/075:11 PM

Continuing its evolution to meet customer’s growing needs, Ricoh is pleased to announce the latest version of the award-winning industry leading GlobalScan server software. Ricoh’s new GlobalScan server software offers an improved user interface, enhanced security features, and greater configurability, being able to fit into the most demanding enterprise environments. The NEW GlobalScan 3.0 works with your networked MFPs to enable document scanning and rapid distribution of digital information

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racerx · 12/5/075:34 PM

Hi All, I get this message when opening plotclient 3.6. Also the windows printer gives me a snmp connection error when I try to open the printing preference dialog box. I've tried using the ip address and the hostname in the spool path but neither works. Any suggestion?

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Art Post (Guest) · 12/7/079:27 AM

Is there anyway to defaut the RPCS print driver to print Black only? This question is from one of my customers, I have tried however everytime I change the setting and re open it always goes to color. Thanx

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Shaja · 12/4/079:34 AM

service on this unit. It took a month of me begging and pleading with I-don't-know-how-many different Ricoh staff members to get an answer. If a dealer hired sales and admin staff who didn't know their own contracts, those people would be out the door immediately. At the same time, I've got three different other Ricoh admin staff people calling me for the install date and meter read. Why does Ricoh need to spend so much money on redundant salaries - nobody is talking to each other and all three

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Art Post (Guest) · 12/4/078:15 PM

Shaja: Since you are a Dual Line Dealer, do you have the same problems with KonicaMinolta as Ricoh? Also thanx for the heads up with all of the background info!

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Art Post (Guest) · 12/2/072:40 PM

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Chuck · 12/1/0712:55 AM

GSA Compensation Equipment Purchase Commission = GSA Selling price – 20% off LDP LTOP Commission = GSA Selling price – 15% off LDP Supplies Commission = 25% of GSA Selling Price Maintenance 94% of GSA Selling Price Any discounts offered by dealer will be deducted from dealer commission.

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Wideformatguy · 12/5/0710:05 PM

SNMP connection between the Client PC and Server PC is blocked. Just turn off the firewall on the server PC, or have the IT guy allow an exception for port 161. You can still print from the Client PC, even if you get the SNMP message, just can't be certain whether the plotter is on line and ready.

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racerx · 12/6/0711:50 AM

I've already opened all the ports in the windows firewall that ricoh uses and have even turned the firewall off. Still No good.I've had this on a couple of installs and using the ip address instead of the hostname worked but not this time. I wonder if reloading the plotbase is in order?

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Solutions Guru (Guest) · 12/3/075:04 PM

They merged Lanier into the financials and Lanier has been loosing money for years now. Now they are just losing money under the Ricoh name.

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Shaja · 12/3/075:56 PM

My favorite way around this: Print the web page as a pdf. Open the new pdf file in Acrobat or Reader and copy the image. Open Paint or your favorite image editor, and paste into a new image file. (Or paste directly into Word if you prefer.) (You might lose a little bit in image quality depending on your Distiller settings, but it's a quick way to git 'er done.) But, Art, I will hang on to your tip because it's always handy to have more than one way to skin the proverbial web designer ... Thanks!

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Art Post (Guest) · 12/4/078:10 PM

Wonder what happened to the reps and managers at RBS or RAC (Ricoh Americas Corp)? Whew! Glad I'm not involved in this!

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Art Post (Guest) · 12/2/072:08 PM

four sales and countless warm prospects, they more you get to know them, the more they look to you as their solutions provider.