This Week in the Copier Industry Five Years Ago
Second Week of December 2017
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In addition the when asked "are there any issues or problems we need the address with the new IT Director the answer was "everything great". More to come on this in my next blog.....
Part 2
Over the next 3 or 4 weeks this client when dark and all of my attempts to get connect via call, email and stop in lead to zero responses. It was a few days ago when I hear from my AR person about the dialog they had with the client. That dialog was in reference to a past due invoice for the maintenance agreement for the two copiers that they asked for a quote for replacement.
The invoice for the MA was past due and that prompted the call or resulted in an email exchange, That email exchange was asking for us if we could allow the client to go on a month to month to billing for the annual maintenance agreement or the copiers that they wanted to replace. Thus, it was time to send another email to the client and the response was "we are still evaluating our option". More to come on this in my next blog
Enjoy These great Copier Threads from Five Years Ago This Week!
Ricoh Joins Printer Vendors Offering Pro Services
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program; it gives priority for job fulfillment to partners who have completed training and attained certification. So far, 14 partners have entered ChaMPS, and Ricoh hopes to add dozens more in 2013. “We feel very good about our approach because it comes with our expertise; this is what we do every day,” Coriddi told Channelnomics. Ricoh is a relative newcomer to the ranks of printer vendors pushing professional services through the channel. Xerox, Konica Minolta and Hewlett-Packard have been
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Konica Minolta to Acquire Raber+Märcker GmbH, a Leading Software And System Company f
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, besides the print environment setup, have increased from Small and Medium Business (SMB) markets. In order to respond to such requests in a comprehensive manner, the establishment of a business structure has been an important task in KMBD. Through this acquisition, Konica Minolta primarily aims to strengthen the capability of KMBD by utilizing Raber+Märcker’s specialized expertise in Business Process Consultancy (BPC) to contribute to customers’ business process improvement and more diverse IT
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CSR Announces Newest Universal Print Interpreter Software – IPS™ Adds Support for Lat
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major wireless device and device operating systems, including Apple and Google. By incorporating all major print languages into a single architecture, the IPS Universal Print Interpreter is designed to provide OEMs with a highly efficient solution that has superior performance, reduced memory footprint and the lowest integration cost. CSR’s IPS software is used by the top printer manufacturers around the world, including Canon, Epson, Fuji Xerox, HP, Oki, Ricoh, Sharp and Xerox. For Apple
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Ricoh Print Copy Tool
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Has anyone seem this, I found it on Ricoh's web site tonight, is this an option, if so does anyone have pricing for this? http://www.ricoh-usa.com/produ...PrintCopy%20Tool.pdf
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Walters & Shutwell Inc. Brings Enlightening Professional Selling Seminars to Managed
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Walters & Shutwell Inc. Brings Enlightening Professional Selling Seminars to Managed Print Services and Managed Services Industry Summary Walters & Shutwell Inc.’s new seminar is focused on teaching business developers and sales professionals in the technology industry how to transform from selling independent technology products to creating long-term relationships and partnerships with “solutions” and services. Original equipment manufacturers (OEM), channel providers and value added
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Sharp Selects Wisconsin Imaging Solutions As Authorized Dealer And Expands National I
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MAHWAH, N.J., Dec. 11, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America, a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, announced that Wisconsin Imaging Solutions has joined its extensive nationwide network of authorized dealers. As part of the agreement, Wisconsin Imaging Solutions will now offer a range of integrated technology solutions, including Sharp's comprehensive portfolio of copiers and multifunction printers (MFPs). Sharp Authorized Dealers receive a wide array
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Fuji Xerox introduces DocuWide 3035
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during a continuous printing job. The device also features a multiple transmission function which enables users to save scanned documents in shared PC folders, and to print them out from the device, or other multifunction devices and printers on the network, using the device’s control panel. In addition, with a single scanning, the scanned document can be transmitted simultaneously to up to two PCs and five multifunction devices/printers on the network, for efficient data saving and printing
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Ricoh Announces New Ricoh Web FontCollection; Empowers Businesses to Reinforce their
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BOULDER, Colo. – December 11, 2012 – Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC(Ricoh), a leading provider of digital output solutions, today announced the latestInfoPrint Font Collection. InfoPrint Font Collection enables users to increase the appeal of their business communications by controlling document appearance to reinforce their brand, customize Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) documents with popular documents and globalize AFP documents quickly and easily. Ricoh’s InfoPrint Font
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Pantone Support for the Ricoh C831DN
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are custom mixtures that are created from the process colors (CMYK). There are more than 3,000 PANTONE colors, and while it is impossible for a CMYK printer to reproduce them all, the Ricoh SP C830DN and SP C831DN can reproduce a subset of 1,089 PANTONE-defined colors in this mode. It is this support that helps Ricoh position these printers as graphics-quality devices. Please note this function is not available through the printer drivers. PANTONE has created a special release package for Ricoh
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Fuchs Business Solutions acquired by Xerox subsidiary
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Xerox Corp. subsidiary Global Imaging Systems said Monday it has purchased Fuchs Business Solutions via its subsidiary Modern Business Machines. Milwaukee-based Fuchs Business Solutions employs 17 and provides business and office technology products and services. The business will immediately add Xerox’s printers and multifunction devices and services to its portfolio. Fuchs president and owner Jim Fuchs will retire post-acquisition, according to a press release. Terms were not disclosed. “Each
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Cloud-based managed print services
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Xerox has chosen data center solutions from Cisco to enable its global delivery centers to meet an escalating demand for cloud-based managed print services (MPS). Xerox MPS customers will benefit from faster access to information about their global print operations delivered by the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and data center infrastructure, which is said to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per second on behalf of Xerox. Andrew Morrison, senior VP of Xerox MPS business
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Sharp, Panasonic Lead Gains in Japan’s Electronics Makers on Yen
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Sharp Corp. (6753) and Panasonic Corp. (6752) led gains among Japanese electronics makers in Tokyo trading as the yen weakened against the euro and dollar, boosting investor optimism that the companies’ projected losses may narrow. Sharp rose 6.4 percent to 250 yen at the close on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the highest since Aug. 2, and bringing its gain in the past 30 days to 64 percent. Panasonic added 7.9 percent, the most since July 2009, to 481 yen, extending its advance since Nov. 13 to 25
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Ricoh Digital Mail Services Bring New Efficiency And Accuracy To Traditional Manual,
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Facility In Virginia Ricoh Digital Mail Services is part of Ricoh's new Business Information Solutions approach, which directly addresses customers' most urgent business challenges. From paper to valuable dataTo transform a customer's mail service, Ricoh's on-site document management experts sort, scan and automatically extract key data from transactional mail, funneling the digitized information directly into the organization's workflow. No matter where transactional mail is initially received – at
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Minnesota company buys Waterloo Business Systems’ parent
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Mason City oversees the Iowa operations, as he did with Mason City Business Systems. The buyout will bring no changes in personnel, said Jennifer Mrozek, Marco’s chief financial officer. “We’d expect over time that we’d actually grow the number of employees we have, since they’re made up of sales and service personnel, and that’s exactly where we intend to grow,” she said. Mason City Business Systems has marketed itself as a “copier and printer solutions company.” Allen Behning established the
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Xerox Puts Lateral Data Viewpoint in the Cloud
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cloud is also a good choice for customers who could see themselves later upgrading to Xerox's managed service, OmniX, which is fully managed by Xerox Litigation Services. With that, "We take all data-related e-discovery tasks and processes off their hands, from data loading through to application administration, production, and project management," Matthews said. As such, "If a customer chooses to use hosted Viewpoint and later migrates to OmniX, it certainly makes it easier having the data in the
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Fujifilm Expands its Acuity Advance Select Series of Wide Format UV Inkjet Printers
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cyan along with new print modes to further boost productivity and versatility. The six channel and eight channel Acuity Advance Select printers can configure clear ink and white ink in one of two ways depending on customer needs: Clear + White The clear and white ink channels allow print service providers to print on a range of non-white substrates and add a spot or flood coat ‘varnish’ effect in a single operation all on one printer. This extends the application versatility of the Acuity
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Leading U.S. Insurer Improves Customer Service with Kofax
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just one of the many reasons seven out of the top 10 largest insurers in the world use Kofax.” The customer will use Kofax Communication ServerTM to automate the exchange of tens of millions of claims related documents, such as accident reports, repair invoices and proof-of-identity documents, it receives annually. Kofax Communication Server ingests email, fax, SMS, MMS, voicemail and telex communications, and replaces the manual processing of these communications by connecting inbound and
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Re: Pro C550EX
It is still listed as current on the Ricoh USA and Ricoh Canada websites. Are they just trying to quietly clear them out? When you add a Fiery controller, regardless of brand, there is no auto colour. I was very surprised to learn about this Fiery weakness. The question is can the Ricoh general line print in auto colour? I know they can copy in colour.
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Re: Ricoh & Epson Plotters
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The system on the web ex was the new Ricoh CW2200SP Color wide format MFP, this is Ricoh's wide format version of the gelsprinter. A point was made that the inks have been reformulated to prevent clogging of the print heads. I think it will be hard for any of us to forget the original gelsprinters that were horrific! The only available option is an additional roll feeder and at $14k list, I think it's over priced. I have yet to see one in action, I'd like to see one in action, but it is truly
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
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Sharp has mortgaged nearly all its properties to secure a $4.6 billion bailout from Japanese banks and so has few assets to offer in a grand garage sale. Instead, it's selling part of the garage. Qualcomm has agreed to buy a 5 percent stake in Sharp, making it the largest shareholder. Hon Hai, which earlier this year agreed to invest in Sharp - before its stock slumped in the wake of record losses - has said it remains interested in taking a stake. "Whatever they can get to get through this
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Re: With a new year approaching....
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Ricoh Full Line Kyocera Full Line Oce' Wide Format Riso Full Line DocStar Solutions
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Re: With a new year approaching....
Ricoh full line minus duplicators, Lexmark BSD, HP, Ademero Content Central, Doculex, PaperCut, Print Audit, FollowMe Printing by Ringdale, MBM, Formax, Duplo, FP Mailing Solutions, Lenovo, Dell, N-Able.
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Re: Pro C550EX
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It is not a current product and can anyone help with to other question in reference to the Fiery RIP's ability to print auto color?
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Re: Does canon have an off the shelf...
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Vince: Do you have a document with the current lineup of canon systems? I've been to the web however I can distinguish whats current.
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Re: Pro C550EX
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yes, the general line will print with auto color, black will register as black and color as color. Dang I thought those Pro series were gone for a few years, they really stunk!
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Re: Ricoh & Epson Plotters
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Any word what Ricoh has planned for color wide format? I have an opportunity right now for a color wide format MFP. A shame they haven't gotten their act together on this.
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Re: Ricoh & Epson Plotters
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The only thing I have found on it is the user's manuals which are on the web. Has our regular color touch screen display that is on the rest of the Ricoh line.
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Re: Ricoh Clickable Paper™: A New Cross-Media Service
Another useless ricoh app that know one will use!!
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
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decades because most of our countries population does not bother to vote except in a Presidential Election. There needs to be a strong third party however neither the democrats nor the republicans will allow that to happen. Laws are made for the rich by the rich, because we don't hold them accountable. When was the last time an average joe made it to the whitehouse? That's my rant for the night!
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Re: Sandra Zoratti, VP Marketing, Ricoh - Leadership Insights
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Wow a very nice way of saying Ricoh is cutting back advertising? Seems that way to me.
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Re: Sandra Zoratti, VP Marketing, Ricoh - Leadership Insights
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Ricoh is now retweeting their old commercials on youtube.
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Re: With a new year approaching....
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fisher: I'm in a end of year battle to win a small 20K deal and oce is quoting a plotwave 350, do you know how low they may go (dual roll, scan, print). Thanx
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Re: Rumor has it.....
yeti ·
Looks like Ricoh has just gone through restructure #127388 for 2012. Details coming.
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Capital Alliance with Qualcomm, Inc. and Display Technology Development Agreement wit
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wireless technologies, as the allottee. MEMS display to be developed jointly by the two companies is a display using ultrafine process technology and existing display manufacturing infrastructure with features including high color reproducibility and low-power consumption. The development for commercialization of MEMS display will be achieved by integrating Sharp’s core display technology, IGZO*2 and MEMS display technology of Pixtronix. In addition, Sharp is planning to accept up to 9.9 billion
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With a new year approaching....
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I'd like to hear from as many members as possible in reference to what your company offers, this thread can prove to be a valuable tool when we are looking for help features, pricing, questions, etc.... The company I work for support these products: The full line of Ricoh Products (except C901 series) Fujitsu Scanners Samsung MFP's MBM products (although we don't service the products) Planet Press Microsoft 365 MS Sharepoint Context Wide format scanners Typehaus
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Ontario Environmental Fee for MFP Increases Tenfold Jan 1 2013
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Happy New Year floor model MFP buyers in Ontario Canada. You now get to spend ten times as much for the environmental fees (WEEE fees) for your new acquisition come Jan 1 2013. After a recent review of the fees charged for a range of electronic products under the Ontario Electronic Stewardship Program the new 2013 schedule has been published. While fees have gone up for most products the real surprise is the fee for floor model printers and MFP printers which increase from the current $32.50
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