This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago
First Week of October 2012
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The Greatest Threads in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago This Week!
Konica Minolta to Showcase New Production Print Solutions at GRAPH EXPO 2012
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booth #421, Konica Minolta will demonstrate ground breaking solutions focused on order automation and multi-channel marketing that will improve processes and increase profitability for commercial printers. “Digital print provides the entry point for a printer to expand their value proposition to their customers,” said Kevin Kern, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. “In today’s highly mobile, constantly connected society, there is a great opportunity
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Konica Minolta Launches EnvisionIT Production at GRAPH EXPO 2012
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Konica Minolta Launches EnvisionIT Production at GRAPH EXPO 2012 Specialized Order Automation and Multi-Channel Marketing Solutions To Help Improve Shop Workflow and Increase Efficiency for Commercial Print Customers Experience Konica Minolta’s Award-Winning Technologies in Chicago October 7-10, McCormick Place South, Konica Minolta Booth #421 Ramsey, N.J. – October 7, 2012 – Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) today announced the launch of EnvisionIT Production
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EFI's Transformative Products Front and Center at GRAPH EXPO 2012 With Five MUST SEE
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applications that print providers can produce. EFI in Partner Booths EFI will also have a strong presence in numerous partner booths at Graph Expo 2012. These include Canon, Color Management Group, Epson, Fuji Xerox, Heidelberg, KIP, Kodak, Konica Minolta, MGI, Oki, Ricoh, Xerox and xpedx. This strong partner presence reinforces the value of EFI's market-leading product portfolio and offers Graph Expo visitors an additional view of how these offerings are integrated into real-world multivendor
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Kodak Unveils Innovative Products and Solutions at Graph Expo 2012
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will be shown in various partner booths, including Konica Minolta (#421), Ricoh (#2600), MCS (#3619), xpedx (#1646), and EFI (#2000). At Kodak’s booth, attendees can also learn more about Kodak’s partnerships with Online Print Solutions, Tech Lighting, Adphos, Axode, GSS, and Baum. Kodak’s partnerships offer customers more solutions, expertise, and innovation to deliver differentiated applications that help their clients grow their businesses. Along with being featured in partner booths, Kodak’s
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Naeran Rubio Joins Konica Minolta as Corporate Communications Manager
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MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys. BLI has named Konica Minolta 2012 “Document Imaging Solutions Line of the Year” and “A3 MFP Line of the Year” award winner for the company’s solution portfolio and award-winning line of bizhub Multifunctional Products. For more information, please visit http://www.CountOnKonicaMinolta.com and follow Konica Minolta on Facebook (@Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A), YouTube (@KonicaMinoltaUS), and Twitter (@KonicaMinoltaUS). Konica Minolta Contact
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Konica Minolta Partners with Nautilus Solar to Install Solar Panels at Ramsey, NJ Hea
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scholarship program supporting inspirational students from KIPP: McDonogh 15 School for the Creative Arts in New Orleans, Louisiana. Click here to learn more about Konica Minolta’s Project Sunway. About Konica Minolta Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is a leader in advanced document management technologies and Managed IT Services for the desktop to the print shop. For the fifth consecutive year, Konica Minolta was recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier
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Tameran Graphic Systems Introduces New Stackers for Wide Format Printers and Scanners
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Mark Wise, President of Tameran Graphic Systems, Inc. “A Tameran PrintStack is the missing print offloader for most wide format engineering printers. Busy professionals will no longer have to weed through a mess of prints on the floor to find what they printed.” PrintStack Professional is an accessory for Canon, HP, Océ, Ricoh, Seiko, KIP and Xerox 36” to 44” wide format ink jet and xerographic printers and wide format scanners. It collects up to 600 prints or scanned originals. PrintStack
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Managing Depart IDs (Pin Codes) on a fleet of MFDs \ Copiers
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Managing Depart IDs (Pin Codes) on a fleet of MFDs \ Copiers October 6, 2012 Canon calls them Department IDs, you may hear them called Pin Codes. But a rose by any other name… Depart IDs have been used to control and track copy usage long before the copier became the MFD, when we connected them to the network. They were the most basic way to track what users copied. Department IDs also evolved so you could also use them to track printing as well. When Color MFDs came into the Office the
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Konica Minolta Publishes CSR Report 2012
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businesses in contribution to environmentally friendly initiatives and other efforts for sustainable development of society, while pursuing strong growth. As the first year of Konica Minolta’s Medium Term Business Plan, “G PLAN 2013,” fiscal 2011 included CSR endeavors closely knitted in the Group’s business development toward enhancement of growth and expansion of business scale. Facing dynamic changes in society and economy, the Konica Minolta Group aims to be a corporation globally supported and
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MSPs Should 'Print' More Money
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and performance of a product, but also price and suggest replacement models. These services, he points out, enable SMB clients to save in three key ways: •Printing Analysis—“SMBs can learn who is printing,” DiReda says. Knowing the file types and quantities being printed will lead to equipment and usage efficiencies. •Printer Maintenance—With real-time monitoring of printers, employee hours troubleshooting equipment failures will be saved, as will routines for measuring and replacing toner
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Epson Expands Line of High Performance Business Printing Solutions with New WorkForce
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printing costs up to 40 percent lower than color laser printers1. The two models also offer savings up to 50 percent on paper with automatic two-sided printing, scanning, copying and faxing, making them ideal for eco-conscious, high-volume small or home office use. The WorkForce WF-3540 and WF-3520 offer increased productivity features including high page capacity (500 sheets for the WF-3540; 250 for the WF-3520) and extra high capacity ink cartridges5 for minimal user intervention. Plus, the 30
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Canon U.S.A. to Showcase Range of Solutions for Print Service Providers and Graphic A
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imagePROGRAF iPF6450/iPF6400, two 12-color, 24-inch large format printers designed for photographers, artisans, and proofers. The imagePROGRAF iPF6450 printer will be shown with an optional SU-21 spectrophotometer that provides advanced color management, including the ability to obtain color consistency across multiple iPFX400 series printers. •Canon imagePROGRAF iPF9400S, a 60-inch large format printer utilizing Canon's 8-color LUCIA EX pigment ink set, features borderless printing up to 60 inches
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Re: BTA East 2012 District Event
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the turn out was fantastic! There were more than 30 vendors and no vendors that were addressing managing the print stream. I had the chance to sit next to Jim D from Muratec while we listened to Nori from Kyocera. At the end od the keynote speech, we were asked if we had any questions. Jim D from Muratec asked itf Kyocera was buying Sharp! It brought a great roar from the crowd and Nori only stated "that's the rumor" and he chuckled and said nothing more. The BTA events should be attended by
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Toshiba America Business Solutions Launches a Dedicated Services Organization
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will be primarily engaged in enterprise sales with a national focus on key vertical market opportunities in education, financial services, manufacturing, retail and healthcare. Services offered by Toshiba Managed Business Services are largely related to Toshiba's current MDS/MPS offerings that include the award-winning Encompass™ program, industry-leading e-STUDIO™ MFP lines, Toshiba barcode printing and retail kiosk systems, document security, workflow/capture products and digital signage
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New Xerox Black-and-White System Increases Productivity; Opens New Revenue Streams fo
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through 2016 according to InfoTrends. 1 For print providers, this means producing documents quickly, with sharp image quality and on a variety of paper sizes and types – and the new Xerox (NYSE: XRX) Nuvera ® 157EA Production System and Nuvera 314EA Perfecting Production System deliver. Fast, flexible black-and-white production The Nuvera systems are the most productive cut-sheet production black-and-white devices on the market, with speeds of 157 images per minute and 314 images per minute
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Rochester Software Associates to Show New WebCRD Web to Print Software for In-Plants
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." See a video about the new release of WebCRD and register for a demonstration during the show at: rocsoft.com/GraphExpo . The software will be shown in RSA's booth 237, in Xerox booth number 1200 and in the Ricoh booth, 2600. RSA's workflow solutions are available through RSA's partners and directly from RSA. For more information, visit RSA at www.rocsoft.com. About RSA Rochester Software Associates (RSA) is the only company in the industry to provide transform , output management , and web-to
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Re: Ricoh acquisition ‘bolsters’ IT services strategy
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From what I learned at the BTA East Grand Slam event in Rye Brook, NY on 10/3/12, Ricoh will not adopt this strategy in the U.S. However, they are preparing the RBS locations to pursue Managed IT Services in certain markets. They have no intent to offer any type of offer to Ricoh Dealers, like XEROX has with ACS and Konica Minolta has with All Covered.
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HP Details Turnaround Strategy, Provides 2013 Outlook
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analytics. HP Printing and Personal Systems Todd Bradley, executive vice president of Printing and Personal Systems (PPS) at HP, will detail how PPS has retooled itself to better understand and anticipate customer needs and deliver better products and solutions that leverage the entire HP portfolio. To create efficiencies from the combination of the printing and PC units, HP PPS has been focused on consolidating supply chain functions and shrinking from six sales teams to three, while reducing
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Sharp Introduces Three New Models
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professional folding and booklet making. To manage all these features, these new models utilize Sharp's 10.1-inch high-resolution touch-screen user interface that offers scan preview, real-time editing and customization. "The MX-M904, MX-M1054 and MX-M1204 illustrate Sharp's ongoing commitment to bringing professional-level printing capabilities in-house," said Doug Albregts, president, SIICA. "The rich features of this new series push the boundaries of innovation and help bring efficiency to our
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EFI PrintMe Mobile L100 Enables Secure Wi-Fi Printing Across Subnets From Mobile Devi
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Mobile software, the L100 appliance broadcasts the available printers so mobile devices on that subnet can print to any printer on the network. IT departments can centrally manage this functionality from the PrintMe Mobile administrative console making it convenient to control tens to hundreds of subnets from one location. "The increase in mobile devices, like tablets, in the enterprise has expanded the definition of the 'office' and has challenged enterprises to enable basic desktop functionality
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7 deadly sins of selling
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(MoneyWatch) Everyone has heard of the traditional seven deadly sins (lust, greed, etc.). Did you know that there are also seven sins of selling? And they're deadly sins, because if you indulge in them, you'll find your sales efforts dead in the water. Here they are: Not being personally accountable Don't pass the buck to somebody else in your firm; your customers want your personal skin in the game. Failing to understand the customer's business Don't expect customers to answer dozens of
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Océ Demonstrates Newest Media Capabilities at Graph Expo
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two, it is a significant savings,” said Gergely. “Add in shipping costs and the savings are phenomenal.” “With new, lightweight media, Océ is enabling new applications and creating new revenue streams for Océ customers,” said Francis McMahon, Vice President, Marketing, Production Printing Systems division of Océ North America, a Canon Group company. “Through partnerships with paper manufacturers & distributors, we are helping print providers make the cost-saving shift from offset to digital
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More layoffs at Ricoh
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I saw this on Friday, seems almost 400 people were layed off from Ricoh USA. IA reports that more than 100 West Caldwell, NJ and they also indicated that Mike Dane is leaving. It also seems that they might have been tryin to rid the IKON vs Ricoh mentality. Personally I have not heard from anyone that I know that was layed off. It's never good to hear this, but our industry is still contracting. Just wait until Canon merges OCE here in the states, it's not a question of will it happen, the only
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Production Systems Professional
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Production Systems Professional / 4185 Position Description: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is currently seeking a Production Imaging Print Specialist - Production Systems Professional. Professionally represents Konica Minolta as a responsive, reliable customer-oriented company through technically proficient, cost effective and timely service consistent with calls / units per day, utilization, and efficiency goals on the Konica Minolta High Volume Production Line. Provides
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Re: Ricoh acquisition ‘bolsters’ IT services strategy
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and Amalgamated Holdings. Les Richardson, Managing Director, Ricoh Australia, said the business acquisition of such a well-respected company adds managed IT services to Ricoh’s existing capability of Managed Document Services (MDS). “We can now offer an extended range of quality professional services which includes IT and network services across Australia. “The expertise and capability of IMC Communications combined with Ricoh’s customer-centric culture means we are in a very strong position
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PrintFleet Remote Tech Simplifies the Management of Multi-Vendor Fleets
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and configuration of device settings. Installing Remote Tech will enable a Service Provider to take immediate and appropriate action, reduce overall service delivery costs and minimize downtime for the end-user. About PrintFleet PrintFleet’s family of print management software solutions range from simple rapid assessment to advanced, independently hosted print management, offering unparalleled agnostic data collection, data integrity and back end support. Available in multiple languages
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3D Printing and the Second Amendment
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design and manufacture pretty much anything we want in our workshops, sheds, and garages. The most important thing you need is called a 3D printer. Once you have one, you can find designs on the Internet and print out almost anything you'd like. Cody Wilson leased one. He planned to print out a pistol and share with others the know-how to do so. You know, because the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and is necessary to the security of a free state. But free no
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Canon expands imageRUNNER lineup
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THE ASAHI SHIMBUN Canon Inc. on Oct. 1 announced the introduction in Japan of 13 new imageRUNNER ADVANCE multifunction office systems from the C2200, C7200 and C9200 PRO series of color devices, and the 6200 and 8200 PRO series of monochrome systems. The new lineup incorporates a Remote Shutdown function that allows all office systems equipped with the function and connected to the same network to be shut down at the same time. In addition, the systems are equipped with various security
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Ricoh launches biggest marketing push to explain brand story
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Ricoh is launching its biggest ever marketing campaign in the UK today (1 October) as it attempts to explain its story to the wider public by harnessing social media. Ricoh: launches marketing offensive The tech firm, which provides IT services and sells a range of cameras, is launching the 'Documents are Ideas' campaign to drive home the value provided by Ricoh. Chas Moloney, Ricoh UK's marketing director, said the campaign comes after research carried out six months ago revealed "people know
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Toshiba Expands Its TransferJet™ Offering With New Products That Simplify Implementat
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by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturer and the world's third largest semiconductor manufacturer (Gartner, 2011 Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue, and March, 2012). Toshiba Corporation was founded in 1875 and today has over 554 subsidiaries and affiliates, with 210,000 employees worldwide. Visit Toshiba's web site at http://www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm . Information in this press release, including product pricing and specifications
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Datacentrix reports 30% loss in profits which includes Managed Print Services
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, the company noted that revenue coming from current investments in the division currently lag on the money invested. Datacentrix’ managed services division – which includes Managed Print Services (MPS), Outsourcing, Resourcing and Projects business units – achieved a 19% revenue growth for the six months, and contributed 40% to group earnings. The business solutions division – which comprises the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Content Management
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Ricoh acquisition ‘bolsters’ IT services strategy
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Ricoh Australia has acquired the IT services business of IMC Communications saying the acquisition bolsters Ricoh’s strategy to be a “complete technology services-based” organisation. Ricoh Australian Managing Director, Les Richardson, said the acquisition of such a well-respected company as IMC added managed IT services to Ricoh’s existing capability of Managed Document Services (MDS). “We can now offer an extended range of quality professional services which includes IT and network services
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Océ Sponsors Presidential Debate at Lynn University
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President, Marketing, Production Printing Systems division of Océ North America, a Canon Group company. “And it’s a local organization, which ties in to our commitment to support the community around us.” Important Event, Quality Materials A Silver Sponsor of the debate, Océ has donated approximately $50,000 worth of printing services for materials directly related to the event. These materials include car decals and window cling signs printed on an Océ Arizona® large format UV flatbed printer
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Re: Managed Network Services discussion
Art, We looked at All Care through Konica Minolta but the contract T's & C's were so one sided we thought it was written by the Mafia. The bottom line was they got paid (by the Dealership) whether or not the customer paid you or not. I was speaking to a VP of a large independent dealer on the east coast who had a discussion with the principal of his company. What it would take for his company to do Managed Network Service. His answer was we can: 1) Hire people 2) Partner with a company 3
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Re: Managed Network Services discussion
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company start a true copier division is the day I will concede the two really have synergy. HP is the only company that tried morphing from a hardware company (i.e. Printers) into network services and they are failing miserably their printers and cartridges are all that are keeping them afloat!
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Re: Managed Network Services discussion
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. Rephrased if you don't sell MNS you make less on your copier sales.
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
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Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has asked Sharp Corp., currently under rehabilitation, to spin off its small and midsize liquid crystal display business into a joint venture between them, it has been learned. In addition to establishing a joint company to produce and market LCD panels--a sector seen as Sharp's main source of revenue--the Taiwan firm is also demanding the Japanese company accept board members from Hon Hai, sources said. Sharp is in talks with Hon Hai over the former's proposal
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C8000 Time!
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Konica Minolta PRESS C8000 time lapse, that is: htmliframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Sx70FNyUdaQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen/iframe/html That's cool!
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Futura Mobility, LLC Announces an Alliance with OKI Data Americas
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level of service on-site to support their entire print solution. Through this alliance, Futura customers will receive a complete mobile managed services approach to their enterprise solutions, simplifying the print solution supply chain. Organizations will no longer need to worry about supply levels, engaging multiple repair organizations, or waiting for their IT department to install their printers. In addition, Futura Mobility offers an online ordering portal to facilitate an efficient supply
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Preton Awarded Patent for Pixel Optimizer Technology
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is capable of reducing toner consumption and printing costs by approximately 30% without visibly impacting output quality. Preton developed the Pixel Optimizer technology during its research into the mechanics of the printing process. Preton's RD team found that there is a significant discrepancy between the display of a pixel on a computer screen and the printing of a pixel by a printer. This discrepancy in the representation pixels results in the significant over usage of toner due to the
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Qorus Software and FOXit Join Forces to Increase SharePoint ROI with Document Automat
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Director of Qorus Software. “As SharePoint takes on a higher profile within the enterprise and a larger percentage of the overall IT budget gets allocated towards SharePoint applications, business leaders are demanding that SharePoint deliver the promised productivity gains that result in significant cost savings. Solutions like Qorus DocGeneration are able to deliver these productivity gains by extending SharePoint functionality from content storage and content management to content creation
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What Would You Do?
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This was emailed to me: About 3 years ago a Ricoh MPC2050SP was installed with no minimum for color, and color was to be billed at 10 cents per page with an elevator increase every year. It is now the third year and the customer is over .12 cents per page. Problem is the company has been billing them at .12 cents per develop and not .12 cents per page. Calculations have them being over billed for 12K and thus was verified by that dealers accounting department. The problem was that one meter was
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Re: Toshiba America Business Solutions Launches a Dedicated Services Organization
The timing is right. 1st day of a new half. At the same time, a lot of effort, energy and resources are being made to accomodate the new IBM/ Toshiba TEC Point of Sale acquisition.
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Re: BTA East 2012 District Event
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There were 36 vendors at this event. I'll be posting a blog titled" my top 5 solutions/products of the event in the next day or so. Kyocera: Besides Nori have a heavy japanese accent, he was at times very hard to understand what he was saying, thank goodness for the power point slides. However, it seems that all of the manufacturers are now sharing the same slides! Business Process Optimization, find the pain, be a consultant to solve workflow and business problems with the use of software
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Re: Commissioner calls for copy paper investigation
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sheet was used for printing, could we dare put an average cost per page of .03? Just figuring there are many more smaller MFP's and printers tha have a much higher cost. If we assume .03 cents per page, then the cost for Philly would be something like $1.3 million dollars for the cost per page!!!!
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Re: Managed Network Services discussion
Yoda ·
This is an interesting topic. I'm confused as why copier dealers/mfg think we can manage networks? Why don't we just get a lift and do car repair too? Or while we are at it repair game consoles, watches and diswashers they all have some kind of computer in them. This is a totally different Industry and there is little to no cross synergy. ASK HP!
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