This Week in the Copier Industry Twenty Years Ago

more than 1 trillion yen after sales totaled 559 billion yen at Konica and 528.1 billion yen at Minolta on a group basis. However, industry analysts said the performances of the two companies' photo copier and digital camera businesses lag far behind the leaders and the merged company is expected to remain in a tough environment. In the initial phase of the integration, the new company plans to push for sales promotion of Minolta's office-use color printers and Konica's optical equipment parts

not expected to have any immediate affect on the company's funding of the plan, the company said. The ruling comes as Xerox looks to grow sales of its equipment after enduring years of troubling issues, including a federal probe into its accounting practices. Earlier this week, the company posted slightly lower second-quarter earnings, as weak demand for supplies and services overshadowed improving sales of new copiers and printers. Shares of Xerox closed on Friday at $10.65, off 15 cents.

Do you know if the Canon IR5020 w/ImagePass-M2 comes with Universal Send or if it is an option. If an option, do you have an idea how much? The brochure indicates it is "supported" but is not listed under the "standard" functions.

Has anyone else had this problem? All three of the 2035/2045S/P machines we have gotten in have had only the Scanner/Document Solutions CD, NO Print Driver CD. It is getting real old having to download the drivers at the customers locations when I install. Let us know.

Here's a case study for all of you who find yourselves up against this system (The HP9000MFP Copier/Print/Scan/Fax at 50PPM) Since we are in HP country here in Boise (The home of the HP Printer Division) my church about a year ago was given for free an HP9000MFP on the HP Delta program. When this machine goes down (About bi-monthly it is a secondary device and only has 95000 copies on it) it is down for a week before we can get any kind of resolve. This latest problem was a hard drive failure

I was wondering if it would be possible to offer a printer friendly option on the message boards. I often like to print messages or press releases from the boards, but part of the message gets cut off. Great site! Keep up the good work. Tyler

This document has been archived, please send me and email if you wouldlike to purchase this document. art @p4photel.com Kyocera Tops with Technicians (August 2004)

thing, since there are only so many dots in the image on the duplicator, and means your files will print faster. When printing to a color copier however, this is a bad thing, since they don't use dots, a low LPI setting will result in "jaggy" images due to the low resolution. Last, i've noticed the LPI setting greatly affects the smothness of Color Blends in Quark. THis only applies to actual blends you create in Quark. Make a box 10 inches long, half an inch wide and tell quark to fill it with a

Both of these Canon systems can not print onto pre-punched three hole paper in the portrait mode! (the system wll go into misfeed). My customer has to run the stock in the 8 1/2 x 11 R (landscape). The system then slows. He then bought a 2105 and 2090 from us! Our 90 and 105 run prepunched throught the RT at full engine speed! Art [This message was edited by Docusultant on Wed August 06 2003 at 05:50 AM.]

For those of you who do know and those of you that don't!! The 1060/1075 can run up to 23.5" paper through the bypass. It is really cool. I have a print shop that it going to use it for banner printing!! Happy Selling Melissa

We must not forget the Riso V8000 2-color single-pass system. I also can't speak for registration variance Riso vs Ricoh nor TC-II vs. 2 passes. I'm mearly suggesting that it makes for a compelling argument...whether it actually holds water, I don't know. Riso quotes a +or- one millimeter as an "acceptible variance on their current product line not counting the V8000. I don't sell the Ricoh nor do I compete against it so I can't speak to the registration or lack thereof.

I thought that 1 mm would be acceptable as well. I think that it is hard to compete trying to sell a dup and a tc11 when there is competitive 1 pass system that will lay two colors well and consistently. I wonder if, in the long term, the RICOH will stay consistent with a certain margin on movment, and the riso will start going all over the place. That I do not know, but that is the argument my higher ups are sticking to. I appreciate everyones input. Thanks again, Brian

Try printing landscape and that should help keeping the messages from getting cut off along the right hand side of the page. Graham

i have always thought about this. I have some friends who own tatoo parlors and I was trying to figure a way to do this. Out of curiosity, what type of paper are they using. I always thought vellum would be great for this, like screen printers do it.

Ricoh University is offering the course study material for $ 325.00 I am looking into the course also.

I have several tatoo parlors in my territory using older color copiers to do enlargements and color changes to their existing library of what they can tatoo onto someone, this even allows the customer to bring in their own, I'll have to stop in and see what media they are using. By the way, I don't have any either.

I'm not sure, maybe the Canon's don't have three hole punch option on their booklet maker finsiher. He buys pre-pucned paper and was running it throught the Canons Art

You must print out the config page and get the accurate page volume. From there you have to find out when the unit was purchased and the 'assume' the monthly volume. I do not know of any other way to get the iformation, unless there might be a way through HP jet admin. Art

VOLUME 360k Between Scheduled PM 125k month is the EXPECTED VOLUME And now for the IMPORTANT number... The MCBF (Mean Copies/Prints Between Service Calls) is 98,000. This is the number that we really need to know. Hope this helps out, these are reality figures that I just got in our Lanier High Volume training. Thanks Graham

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