This Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago
First Week of February 2013
Yesterday, I attended our Annual kickoff sales event for Stratix. On the three hour ride home I had some time to think about may things related to our meeting. A few that will resonate for many days was the amount of sales and sales support peeps that were in attendance. My count had us at 65 people, ah, I can remember ten years ago when there was maybe twenty of us. I also pondered whether this may be one of my last annual sales meetings that I would attend. I guess these are things that one thinks about when one gets to a certain age. Most of the all I enjoyed the growth that I've witnessed over the years and the growth that will come in the future as well.
Enjoy these awesome copier threads from 10 years ago
North Kansas City Schools Streamline Printing and Save $150,000 with Konica Minolta E
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Follow-You printing, we have reduced waste and saved $30,000 or 40,000 pounds of paper. These cost savings along with the program’s success allowed us to extend printing capabilities to all 6,000 high school students from their school-issued Apple MacBook Airs.” To meet increased demand for its in-plant print shop, North Kansas City Schools leverages four Konica Minolta Production Print Systems, including the bizhub PRO 1051 Monochrome Print System, and the KIP C7800 Wide Format Printer from Konica
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Toshiba Wins 2013 Gold Stevie® Award for Best Sales Meeting of the Year
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managed document services (MDS) provider with experts that help organizations take control of document security, workflow and print environments. With the award-winning Encompass™ managed print services (MPS) program, e-STUDIO™ line of multifunction printers (MFPs), toner products and retail information/thermal printing systems, TABS is leading the way for businesses to print smarter, work safer and conserve resources. For more information on Toshiba solutions and services available in the United
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Ricoh unveils MFPs and printers engineered for healthcare
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wristbands, which today carry an increasing wealth of clinical information, including barcodes, color-coded alerts, patient photos and more. The new Ricoh MFPs and printers further reduce cost of wristband production by deftly handling media as narrow as 3.25 inches, reducing consumption of expensive wristband stock. Ricoh will be offering demonstrations of wristband printing at its HIMSS booth #1361. Other new features Ricoh's Tray Locks Solution makes it easy to secure sensitive and expensive
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Konica Minolta Corporate Announcements App Simplifies Internal Communications
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presses, multifunctional products (MFPs), managed print services, vertical application solutions and related services and supplies. Konica Minolta has won numerous awards and recognition including being recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys for six years in a row. For the third consecutive year, Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) has named Konica Minolta as the winner of its “A3 MFP Line of the Year” award. In 2012, Konica Minolta also received
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Photizo Group Article Reveals How Print Audit Premier is Changing the Software Sales
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customers recapture over $200 million in printing and photocopying expenses while saving an estimated 190,000 trees a year. Print Audit is the most comprehensive provider of managed print services (MPS) and print management solutions. The company enables organizations to monitor and control their printing costs via a broad range of capabilities that include secure print release, follow-me printing, rules-based printing, cost recovery, in-depth print assessment and remote meter reading. Print Audit
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Oki Data Americas is First to Deliver High-Performance A3 Copier-Based Color Multifun
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MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., March 6, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OKI Data Americas announces the availability of the versatile new CX3535 and CX4545 A3 copier-based color multifunction devices (MFPs) for open channel distribution. These products provide exceptional color output, plus high-speed print, scan, copy and optional fax functionality for demanding medium- to large-sized workgroups. Moreover, these products offer resellers with an industry-first copier-based product to augment OKI Data's existing
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NEC Corporation of America Announces Closure of Document Solutions Division (DSD)
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Konica Minolta C360 Konica Minolta C280 8 months from date of purchase. 5 years from date of purchase. NEC ViVid 2020 (U18N) 8 months from date of purchase. 5 years from date of purchase. NEC IT8000 (U47N) NEC IT6500 (U48N) Kyocera i8000 Kyocera i6500 Main unit 36 mo or 4.8 million prints, whichever comes first. 5 years from date of purchase. NEC IT5500 (U49N) NEC IT4500 (U50N) NEC IT3550 (F45N) Kyocera i5500 Kyocera i4500 Kyocerai3500 Main unit 36 mo or 1.8 Million prints, whichever comes first
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Managed Print Services Account Executive
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reduce their office printing expenses. Our team of Managed Print Services experts can help you measure the current cost of printing in your organization and implement strategies to reduce costs. We offer a full portfolio of print management solutions including assessment tools, printers and multifunctional systems that print, copy, fax and scan. All of our systems are backed with responsive client service. To learn more about how your organization can benefit contact us today. Phone: 866-851-2200
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Ricoh Senior VP of Marketing Dominic Pontrelli to present at Argyle's Chief Marketing
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Forum is an invitation only event held in Washington, D.C. Click here for more information. WHEN: March 7th from 3:15 – 3:50 p.m. ET For details on Ricoh's full line of products, services and solutions, please visit http://www.ricoh-usa.com . | About Ricoh | Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in more than 200 countries and regions. In
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Managed Print: An Aggregated Approach That Drives Channel Revenue
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manage print related assets," said Sam Errigo, senior vice president of Business Intelligence Services for San Francisco-based Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc. "It's more than providing printers and toner. It's about collecting data from every printer on the network in order to capture volume information [and] cost information and track consumables. We can use the data to drive very intelligent business decisions and processes, as opposed to guessing about what is going to work well
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Canon U.S.A. Showcases Document Technology and Clinical Solutions at HIMSS13 Full Sui
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Conference (HIMSS), at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, from March 3-7, 2013. With an ability to provide solutions for both general information processing and clinical patient care, Canon’s comprehensive technology portfolio can help healthcare customers streamline their business operations while enhancing information management. Canon’s booth will feature the demonstration of technology in real-world environments including: Admissions, Records Retention and Nurses’ Station
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Ricoh unifies business-to-business camera and lens product lines for superior custome
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Imaging Americas Corporation, Security Systems Division and Ricoh Americas Corporation, Digital Camera Division. Ricoh and Pentax products will remain under their current brands and all consumer products will continue under the management of Pentax Ricoh Imaging Americas Corporation. For details on Ricoh's full line of products, services and solutions, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com . About Ricoh Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions
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KonicaMinolta's New App Display for MFPs!
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Not sure if everyone picked up this press release about KonicaMinolta's new app that would enable corporate wide announcements, updates, or messages to be displayed on new bizhub MFP's since they are the "water cooler" of the office. The link is here . I would like just like to hear from others how this "new" app could be used as a selling advantage, do you think it will help sales, what ideas could you come up with for the display? One question I have is, will it display a video? Or how about
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Re: Worst Experience with Nuance
When Ed Schmid was running eCopy they had the best pre & post sales support in the industry. You could call an 800 # while onsite and get someone to answer the phone who actually knew the product better than you did. Those were the days when eCopy was a Canon only product. But Canon did not buy a controlling interest in eCopy so when their contract ran out, eCopy opened up to all copier manufacturers, and their support became poor, the rapid expansion overwhelmed them. I thought that the
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Samsung in final talks to take 3 percent stake in Sharp: sources
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unlikely to include capital infusion from the Taiwanese giant. In December, chip maker Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) agreed to invest as much as $120 million in Sharp. As part of that agreement, Qualcomm said it would work with Sharp to develop new, power-saving screens based on Sharp's IGZO technology. ($1 = 93.3500 Japanese yen) (Reporting by Reiji Murai; writing by Dominic Lau; editing by James Jukwey)
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Web Print Tool for batch plotting
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I actually had some great success with using the web print tool for batch plotting to the Ricoh wide formats. It did everything the customer wanted, and you were also able to send a reduced set to print.
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Re: NEC Corporation of America Announces Closure of Document Solutions Division (DSD)
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quote: Not having the pressure of the high quotas also allowed you to build the business slowly and remain profitable. Now that NECS is gone, what are the choices? Copystar??? Sharp seems like the Mfr that is going after the smaller dealers these days. After their financial situation & not selling thru the Global/Xerox channel, they are signing up more new dealers than anyone else lately.
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Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
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billion) in cash. But it will give Samsung a broader supplier base, access to Sharp's low-cost thin-screen technology, and a foot in the door at one of Apple Inc's key Asian display suppliers. The need for this sort of tie-up marks an unusual departure for the ascendant technology company, heralded for aggressive management that allowed it to leapfrog past Japanese giants such as Sony Corp and Toshiba Corp in markets from consumer electronics to semiconductors. Samsung's $230 billion market
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Oce and Canon
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Over the years the press releases from OCE have been very frequent at least a few times a month or in some cases once a week. The last OCE press release I picked up was December 16th, there may have been a few I missed, but this tells me the transfer here in the US is underway. Does anyone else have an internal news on Oce and Canon?
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European Business Leaders More Concerned about Losing Competitive Edge Compared to th
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a series of 20 in-depth interviews conducted with prominent business and technology thinkers as well senior corporate executives across different sectors. | About Ricoh | Ricoh is a global technology company specialising in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group, operates in more than 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2012, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,903 billion
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Enterprise Print Management Blog
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In the context of office printing, when you think about Print Management, what comes to mind? For most people, it is management of the actual print output ("what comes out of which device"). But this is a very narrow view on the subject; we can call it Output Management, a very small playground in the world of Print Management. Such a narrow view can be dangerous and you should set your requirements based on a more holistic view (more about this further down). Output Management includes niche
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Re: CW2200SP
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Just browse through the brochure and documentation for the Canon. The user interface on the MFP is weak. Its a plotter with a scanner (probably a Contex) added. The Ricoh MFP has our standard user interface. Anybody who has a Ricoh MFP of any kind can walk up to this new machine and know exactly how to use it. Would be interesting to see a Monster Garage featuring the two products.
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Re: Oce and Canon
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Last press release I had was about Canon selling the Oce branches to a Canon dealer. http://www.reddeeradvocate.com...tward_190129101.html
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Kofax Acquires Altosoft, a Leading Developer of Business Intelligence and Analytics S
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Research Report, The Forrester Wave™: Business Intelligence Service Providers, Q4 2012, “Business intelligence now has a much more important role. All products and services continue to become more commoditized in our global economy. … But if there are two businesses that are marketing and selling identical products or services and one has more insight into its customers' behavior — or even if two share the same insights but one gets that information a day sooner — that business has a much higher chance
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MPSA Announces first White Paper of 2013
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Charlotte, NC – March 5, 2013 – The Managed Print Services Association (MPSA) today announced the completion of its Standards & Best Practices Committee’s first white paper of 2013, “MPS Business Models & Components.” This white paper identifies four managed print business models MPS providers can use to go to market, details the pros and cons associated with each and provides charts outlining additional components related to the delivery of managed print services. “Ron, his committee members
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Re: CW2200SP
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fisher: Can you elaborate more on the scanning capabilities of the Canon MPF40's? Whya re we so much better with scanning?
Re: Konica Minolta Corporate Announcements App Simplifies Internal Communications
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awesome, means I can a commercial on the copier! Can't wait until this gets hacked and someone puts something they shouldn't. How about the next thing we do is to put cameras in the copiers. hahaha
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Re: Ricoh launches versatile, solutions-ready customisable workgroup MFPs - MP 2001SP / M
Seriously...has anyone really been calling for a new A3 20/25ppm MFP? I can't tell you when the last time was I sold a monochrome A3 system below 40ppm. Meanwhile, Ricoh's A4 devices are slow for the price, & the tired old C6501/C7501 and 907/1107/1357 series' still have no replacement on the horizon. Ricoh will never cease to amaze me.
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Re: Rumor has it.....
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Not sure if this is right, but check it out if you can. The Pro Ricoh 5100 and the Pro 5110…65 and 80 ppm (pro color)
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