This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago
First Week of December 2006
Usually I like to start these off with some type of message that will resonate with everyone. I'm into the last 14 selling days of the year and of course there is another chance to be where I want to finish. It seems that I'm always chasing something and I would have it no other way 
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Enjoy My Great Copier Threads from 2006
Konica Minolta Rolls Out New bizhub C252
Art Post (Guest) ·
Konica Minolta Rolls Out New bizhub C252 New bizhub C252, Successor to the Award-winning bizhub C250, Brings Integrated Finishing Options and Advanced Fax Functions To The MFP Market in One Compact Machine. RAMSEY, NJ, December 4, 2006 - KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A., INC. today announced the introduction of the new bizhubTM C252 color printer/copier/scanner/fax. An ideal replacement for Segment 2 monochrome and color multifunctional products (MFPs) with a letter-sized copy speed of
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PRINT4PAY HOTEL ANNOUNCES BERTL AS AN APPROVED RESOURCE PARTNER
Art Post (Guest) ·
, customer and manufacturer.” The Print4Pay Hotel (www.p4photel.com), which debuted in 2001, provides extensive imaging product information—both on the Ricoh Family Group products, KonicaMinolta, Canon & Kyocera products—and serves as a forum for imaging industry personnel to share knowledge. In addition to the message boards, the site provides its members with the latest press releases, industry links, competitive products, industry news, and classified ads as well as photos and articles related
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RICOH CORPORATION ALIGNS WITH CONTEX
Art Post (Guest) ·
the Ricoh Technology Alliance Program. As a result of the alliance, Ricoh and Contex can offer their customers a more extensive range of printing and scanning capabilities. Utilizing an organization’s Information Technology network, Contex’s G Series line of wide-format scanners seamlessly integrate with Ricoh’s wide-format printers: the Aficio® 240W, Aficio® 470W and Aficio® 480W. By connecting a Contex scanner and a Ricoh wide format printer, users are able to perform both printing and scanning
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Re: Fax Option for MP5500 etc.
It is here! The old MP 55/65/75 SP series can be ugreaded but it is a time intensive process and I am sure your svc mgr will charge you for it! thank god!
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Three Vendors Take BLI 'Pick' Awards For MFPs
Art Post (Guest) ·
"Pick of the Year" award in the small workgroup monochrome multifunction printer category, the HP LaserJet M3035xs provided an excellent performance in BLI's exhaustive lab tests. Tony Maceri, senior lab technician for BLI, said, "The LaserJet M3035xs is a great choice for small workgroups - in one space-saving device, users get the full functionality of printing, copying and faxing, as well as network scan-to-file and scan-to-e-mail, which are two features not offered on many devices in this speed
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Impact printer
John ·
Does anyone have a suggestion for a solution to move a client from using an Oki impact printer printing 2 part invoices (500 week)to plain paper. The plain paper device would be a Ricoh 1060sp or HP printer. DOT is too expensive to get into for one placement. This is not my cup of tea and any help would be very much appreciated. John
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11% Of Shops Whose Primary VDP Output Device
Art Post (Guest) ·
& Printers: Serious Competitors in the Digital Print Marketplace." Readers of that report--as well as readers of What They Think and On Demand Journal articles drawn from it--were skeptical that these purportedly "low end" boxes are really being used to produce anything but the most rudimentary variable-data printing (VDP) jobs. The mini report "Copiers & VDP: Partners in Crime," based on a new data cut from the extensive TWGA survey database, rebuts these claims and details the volume and level
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Security Solutiuon test on Ricoh Connectrix
Art Post (Guest) ·
Boy oh boy! Has anyone taken this certification yet? I htough it was something simple I could accomplish in 10-15 minutes.......45 minutes later with just random clicking I final finished the Security training! I passed and then selected the wrong...
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Re: 240 scanner counter
JasonR ·
First, I think your pricing plan is a good one. I've long suggested we put into every contract that we do not charge for scans unless the scans exceed the print volume. In that case, .02 a click should be fine. As you have said, there is certainly a cost being incurred here. I guess I'm just waiting for that one customer who get the basic maintenance with no copier included and then uses teh machine to scan 100% of the time, that seems to be the only way to get people to react. Secondly, your
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Re: Impact printer
Shaja ·
Our Konica DSSM recently suggested Prism DocForm for a similiar placement for one of our clients - impact printers, pre-printed forms. The client is still studying the matter so I can't tell you anything more than that. Our DSSM proposed DocForm as a less expensive solution than PlanetPress, which is another option for you. See http://www.prism-software.com/docform/index.php .
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Camera Direct Card
copiermandave (Guest) ·
Has anybody used the camera direct card on the new Ricoh color machines? It seems that it is a very affordable option, but it also seems to be dependant upon the level of software that is on the camera itself and the interface with the camera itself. Also, if the camera is able to pull up thumbnails of all of the pictures on it's own screen, will the copier also be able to do the same? I just need some general pointers and need to know if there are any tricks to making the whole system work.........
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Re: Impact printer
Take a look at Objectif Lune and there solution called Planet Press. 4 years ago we had a number of impact printers and were introduced to Planet Press and 40 minutes later we were printing invoices to a 45 ppm laser. contact Brad Newcomb (973) 780-0014 He is very knowledgeable and be a great resource
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Re: What's going on at Cannon?
JasonR ·
Being a dual line dealer, I can say there hasn't been any dramatic push from Canon to us to adjust pricing, or any price drop on their end that would precipitate a drop on our end. It's probably just a local lead-loss market share grab would be my guess.
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Re: Xerox Seeks Erasable Form of Paper for Copiers
JasonR ·
I think the wow factor of this idea is pretty high, but it's followed by alot of "hrmms" and then a couple of "well...'s". Neat idea, sounds good up front. But this means everytime I print I need to decide if I'm going to need that document tomorrow? I print out alot of Customer information pages, then I contact those customers. If we can't get anything working, I throw them away. If I can't reach the customer, I need the paper tomorrow. If I can get somethign working, I may need that paper a
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New bizhub C252, Successor to the Award-winning bizhub C250
Art Post (Guest) ·
, postcards, ten #10 envelopes, and label sheets. • Standard Duplexing - prints or copies both sides of the sheet in one pass.
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Need this part...will pay premium
Ted ·
We are trying to locate a development unit for a Ricoh 3224C. The part number is #B1540155. We are willing to pay premium to get this customer off our back. Let me know ASAP... Thanks, Ted
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Need this part...will pay premium!
Ted ·
We are trying to locate a development unit for a Ricoh 3224C. The part number is #B1540155. We are willing to pay premium to get this customer off our back. Let me know ASAP... Thanks, Ted
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