This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago

Art Post (Guest) · 8/11/119:56 PM

C6000,” Minnie says. “It delivers the highest possible print quality while keeping system size and price as small and low as possible.” Konica Minolta South Africa Konica Minolta South Africa, wholly owned by the Bidvest Group, stands at the forefront of business solution providers as the principal importer and distributor of the innovative and award-winning Konica Minolta range of bizhub digital multifunctional colour and black-and-white devices, laser printers, fax machines and business

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/9/1110:08 PM

The Imaging of Greg By Greg Walters Blog archive Selling Managed Print Services: The VAR Vs. Us The oldest profession in the world isn’t prostitution, it’s professional selling. Selling one to one; one to many; many to many; retail; B2B; to that hottie in the corner; to your girlfriend, wife, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, sales manager, cop, judge, jury; to ourselves – we all sell, and we always have. Our industry is turning another corner – contracting and expanding at the same time

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/8/1110:38 PM

Ricoh Europe has secured the number one spot in colour production printers just three years after stating its intent to lead in the market. The recently published figures from Infosource for production devices/colour press cut sheet, for Western Europe, show that Ricoh’s share of the market in Q1 2011 leaped from 22.2% to 33.1%.[1] “Print service providers in the commercial and corporate sectors have confirmed Ricoh as their brand of choice,” says Stephen Palmer, Production Print Director

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/11/119:59 PM

10 August 2011 Scan Copy Print adds new Konica Minolta press EDMONTON—Scan Copy Print in Edmonton has added a new Konica Minolta C8000 press. The C8000, according to Konica Minolta's website, is capable of 80 colour pages per minute (4,800 pages per hour). Scan Copy Print has been in business since 1995, providing printing, photocopying, binding and graphic design. Jenianne Boyda, account manager for Konica Minolta, with Scan Copy Print owner Ashraf Jaffer.

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/9/118:21 PM

(muni), they had informed me a few weeks ago that they would seek competitive quotes so that when they presented thy had completed due dilegence. Here goes the beginning of the end. The call stated that a Kyocera dealer had quoted three systems (new), two 55's with print/scan/finisher and one 65 ppm configured the same way along with 44,000 pages per month included in the lease. The cost per month for 48 months was $609 and the overage cpp was .00450. Need I say more! Once I backed out the pages

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/11/1110:01 PM

capabilities demonstrated by Kyocera's TASKalfa 305 MFP, FS-C2126MFP+ and the FS-C5250DN color printer have proven top of their class, and well-deserving of the 2011 BLI Summer 'Pick' award." George Mikolay, BLI senior product editor for A3/Copier MFPs added, "The TASKalfa 5550ci earned high marks across the board, producing better output quality than most competitors, and proving to be one of the most productive models in its speed range. These qualities, along with a well-designed control panel

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/12/1110:26 PM

TAMPA, Fla., Aug 12, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Global Imaging Systems, A Xerox Company, has acquired Bennett's Business Systems, Inc., of Jacksonville, Fla. Bennett's, an independent distributor of Canon and HP copiers, printers and multifunction systems will immediately begin offering Xerox's full range of office printing products. The company, located in Jacksonville, Orlando and Tallahassee, will become part of Saxon Business Systems, Inc., a Global Imaging Systems company headquartered in

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/13/119:34 AM

. Additionally, Sharp's new UI gives dealers the ability to create customized screens. Energy Efficiency The new series feature an energy-efficient belt-fusing system that offers low power consumption, fast warm-up and enhanced print quality. They are also ENERGY STAR® qualified and have an innovative energy-saving mode that can automatically adjust to changing usage patterns. The Sharp MX-4110N, MX-4111N, MX-5110N and MX-5111N also help reduce waste with a virtual proofing feature. Users can see and

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/11/118:42 AM

The link was pulled, it's a never ending battle that the information posted here helps everyone sell more equipment, whether you're with ricoh, sharp, xerox, canon, toshiba. We're all one band of brothers trying to make a living with selling solutions and equipment. Product knowledge lets us get ou point across.

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/9/119:53 PM

EFI teams with Canon on mobile print solution FULL STORY EFI recently announced it is working with Canon U.S.A. to bring mobile printing to the enterprise print marketplace. As the first step, Canon's imageRunner Advance lineup of colour and black-and-white office systems utilising Fiery-based imagePass and ColorPass controllers now support EFI's direct mobile printing solution. Residing on the Fiery controller, EFI's direct mobile print technology enables printing directly from Apple iPad

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/9/1110:28 PM

Entered into a 60-month lease agreement with Office Equipment Source Inc., for the lease of a Xerox copier at W.L. Miller Elementary School at the rate of $834.62 per month. http://www.sungazette.com/page...o-wait.html?nav=5011

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/11/119:44 PM

team of IKON business analysts will spend time on campus evaluating Clemson’s print and document needs. The team will be interviewing users in offices across campus to better understand how documents are received, printed, stored and accessed. The team will also identify each printer, copier and fax machine on campus and will need to access serial numbers and ages of devices. Taking this inventory is important so that IKON can support these devices in the future with printer cartridges and other

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/11/119:39 PM

taken over, according to Bill Hishon, the company’s CEO. The company’s overall portfolio now includes copiers, printers, and other technology products as well as equipment maintenance services, managed print services and related consulting. In May, IDS was created (with the help of private equity investors) by acquiring five other printing services organizations- DCI Toner, EBQM, IDS Ricoh, La Vie au Bureau and VOB Consulting Services- to form the largest managed print services company in Eastern

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/8/1110:37 PM

Audit: County could save more August 08, 2011, 03:30 AM By Michelle Durand Daily Journal Staff San Mateo County could save up to $8 million through smarter spending on everything from office supplies to vehicle fleet contracts, according to a report recommending departments better coordinate and consolidate their purchases. The fact that hired firm Accenture didn’t uncover more potential savings could be because San Mateo County is already fairly efficient and getting pretty good deals in

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/8/1110:40 PM

SLR cameras and PIXMA inkjet printers, as well as highly attended "Click and Print" public-viewing parties for soccer fans in Colombia and Peru. Canon's activities also included on-site support for the photographers and media covering the tournament. Available at each tournament venue were Canon printers, multifunction products and PowerShot Digital cameras, while experts from Canon Professional Services were on hand to provide well-received service, inspection, cleaning and loan equipment to

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/11/119:23 PM

Worldwide Online store boosts production with Fuji Xerox Color 800 by Nolan Giles Aug 12, 2011 A Brisbane outlet of Worldwide Online Printing has upped its production pedigree and is sending less work to the hub by installing first Xerox Color 800/1000 press across the group. Wayne Mackay, owner of the Market Street store, said increased capacity and single-pass duplex motivated the decision to upgrade from a DocuColor 5000 to the new Color 800 model, which prints at 80 A4 pages per minute (ppm

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/11/119:45 PM

St. Albans Man Gets 15 Years for Fake Money A St. Albans man was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison on charges he used fake money. Kevin Erwin, 34, previously admitted that in Jan. 2010 he used a counterfeit $50 bill at McNally's Pub in Cross Lanes. Erwin also admitted to receiving about $45 worth of authentic bills in change. Police arrested Erwin Jan. 18 at a local motel where they found more fake currency. Police say they found a scanner, copier and printer in the hotel room that

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/13/119:32 AM

HP Can't Dismiss Latest Faulty Printer Lawsuit By NICK MCCANN (CN) - A federal judge refused to dismiss a class action that claims Hewlett-Packard knew that one of its multi-use printers "has a defect that causes the printer to randomly skip pages when copying, scanning and faxing." Lead plaintiff Chaim Kowalsky said HP's Office Jet Pro All-in-One printer of the 8500 series has a defect that causes the device to skip pages. As a result, the document feeder can only take "two to three sheets

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/11/1112:06 AM

What is document management in the cloud Cloud based document management customers have complete organizational control over all their business files, email, and documents. They can get to everything to do with any client, case, patient, project or personal files instantly. They waste 0 minutes searching and hunting through cabinets or files or standing at copier or faxes. They work, share, and publish at any time, from anywhere with a browser and a connection. They know the business of their

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/11/119:48 PM

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tkern · 8/8/118:25 AM

Mid-sized dealership in Midwest- We have recently added a section to our maintenance agreement where the customer has to check either a network services rider($195-295 per year depending on the customer) or check the box that says if you don't check the above box, you will be billed $xxx per hour for network services. This doesn't mean as a salesperson we can't either remote in or stop out and load a print driver, but the customer up-front knows that we now charge for IT services. A couple of

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fisher · 8/10/1110:20 AM

Assuming that this is a municipal account in the state of New Jersey.....this would be the Kyocera 48-month cost per copy program on state contract. You pretty much can't beat it on price unless you also have the state contract cost per page program. Your only hope is to sell yourself and the value of your company and also to get them to get a demonstration of the equipment before signing the contract. The Kyo equipment is not as nice as the Ricoh gear or as user friendly in my humble opinion

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/9/1110:07 PM

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/11/1112:03 AM

social environment is keeping you away from social marketing, you are leaving money on the table. The votes are in, and marketing on social networks is acceptable, necessary and profitable. 3. SOCIAL METRICS ARE WEAK - Well, they are in comparison to established media. Nevertheless, social is measurable in a number of ways. You can use promotional codes to track sales. And, obviously, the size of your network is an indication of your success. WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT - Measuring results is critical

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/14/118:04 PM

print management services throughout the district. A key goal for the district in this area is to increase efficiency by minimizing the use of color printers in favor of color copiers. Panel members favored having as few as one color printer per school, with the others replaced by less-expensive black-and-white printers. Where necessary, staff members would be encouraged to use color copiers versus color printers, which cost less. The panel forwarded the proposal to the full school board. http

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/9/119:45 PM

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JasonR · 8/8/119:27 AM

I know sales months are short, but 6 people already finished August?

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txeagle24 · 8/8/112:29 PM

With all of Ricoh's inventory issues, I'm trying to work a month ahead to keep from missing my number. There are some machines that are taking us close to 30 days to get, if not longer.

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JasonR · 8/12/118:21 AM

No fault of Art's but the article had a mistake. In one place it says "15 years" and in the next it says "15 months". Also, there is not a copier in this story. Here's the story as reported by the Charleston Daily Mail: Man gets 15 months for counterfeit money CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A St. Albans man who pleaded guilty to passing counterfeit cash will spend a little more than a year in federal prison. U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver sentenced Kevin T. Erwin, 34, to 15 months in prison

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VinceMcHugh · 8/12/118:36 PM

The first Copier that I was trained to repair (in Manhattan) was the 3M Alpha Secretary II. It came with a pair of wooden tongs, and you had to have an empty metal waste basket next to it so when the paper caught fire if it jamed under the toaster unit, you used the wooden tongs to transfer it to the solid metal waste basket where it could burn out "safely". Definitely a pre OSHA device, and these were sold into offices all over NYC.

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/13/119:41 AM

Vince: I remember seeing a few of these in the field and also remember burning my dam fingers! I learned on the Minolta 101's and had to repair some of these in the field what a job hey were, especially if you had to restring the guide wires (it was more like 25lb test fishing line).

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Art Post (Guest) · 8/11/119:36 PM

GreatAmerica Leasing Renews as Platinum Member of Managed Print Services Association Committed to moving industry forward by building connections and supporting education Columbus, OH – August 11, 2011 – GreatAmerica Leasing benefits from the unique networking opportunities offered by the Managed Print Services Association (MPSA), according to Jennie Fisher, a senior GreatAmerica executive. GreatAmerica, a Platinum MPSA Member, is a national commercial equipment finance company dedicated to

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jswinberlin · 8/12/111:46 PM

I was pretty happy with the fact that I got my MFP (Savin C9020) to scan to my customers Mac and I left with my fingers cross hoping it would continue to work. Recently they had an update/upgrade from OS X 10.6 to OS X 10.7 and when I talked to tech support they said that SMB scanning is not supported with this OS. Has anyone run into this? They have scan to email, but want to scan to folder. I even thought about FTP, but I've never set that up on a Mac either. Any help would be greatly