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Canon To Spend $192M On High-End Copier Plant Kyoko Hasegawa, 03.31.04, 1:47 PM ET 5 Digital Imaging Acquisition Targets Satellite Imaging Seeks A Change In Scenery Best Photo Blogs Poll: How will you use mobile streaming video? Discuss this story Canon, a major manufacturer of PC printers, will invest about 20 billion yen to build a factory at its development base in Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, and begin production of high-end copiers there by around fall 2005, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun

For Immediate Release Contact: Art Post (732) 291-3146 FIRST INDEPENDENT WEBSITE DESIGNED FOR SALES AND TECHNICAL IMAGING PROFESSIONALS EXPANDS ITS MESSAGE BOARDS HIGHLANDS, NEW JERSEY, March 26, 2004¾ The Print4Pay Hotel: The Imaging Professional’s Resource Center, has announced that it is opening up five new message boards devoted to technicians of Ricoh family group products, making it the first independent Website in the history of the office equipment industry that enables both resellers

customer by demonstrating more ways to profit in the new business of printing to more than 70,000 visitors and customers expected at the company's stand. Some fast facts about Xerox's exhibit at drupa 2004 include: • The Xerox exhibit is located in Hall 13 on a 37,670 square-foot stand. Hall 13 is located on the main fairground at Messe Düsseldorf. • The Xerox stand will feature some 20 production printers and presses - including the DocuColor iGen3 and the new DocuTech 100/120 (Website) - and a

In my opinion, Ricoh really doesn't have a "printer" per se' that will accomplish this. I would place a Kyocera FS9520 system in there as a printer for that kind of volume. You might be able to screech by with an AP4510, but I wouldn't do it because I think that is just working it too hard. In HP, they are going to recommend an HP 9000 printer to do that volume. As far as Ricoh goes, I don't know that you can do anything but try to talk him in to a 1055 copier device to do that volume in Ricoh

Xerox bias lawsuit receives class-action status Thursday March 25, 5:52 pm ET NEW YORK, March 25 (Reuters) - A New York judge has agreed to certify a national class-action lawsuit alleging race discrimination against black employees of office equipment maker Xerox Corp. (NYSE:XRX - News), the plaintiffs' lawyers said on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT United States District Judge John Gleeson, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, has certified a class of black sales

I saw the Konica 1050 this past week in Orlando. I have to admit that it's pretty awesome. It will do 6 different on-line folds, duplex 140lb index from ANY drawer, and has a duty cycle of 1,500,000. In addition, they announced the new "bizhub" product line beginning with the Konica Minolta bizhub C350 color unit (35/22 ppm device w/ booklet finisher retails for under $12K and has a cpc on color of under 10 cents) Anybody have questions, please let me know.

Lyra Research Projects Worldwide Color Laser Printer Shipments Will Reach 2.1 Million Units in 2005 Report finds shipment growth will boost revenue to $3.6 billion NEWTONVILLE, MA (March 22, 2004)—The color laser printer market is one of the fastest-growing market segments in the hard copy industry, according to a new report from Lyra Research. The report, A Colorful Future for Office Printers, projects that worldwide color laser printer shipments will grow from 1.2 million units in 2003 to 2.1

I have a client with three AF1224's. They all run on terminal servers and the drivers are loaded centrally. My problem is that when they print from the AF1224 RPCS driver, their prints all come out in color. We have changed the defaults in the properties (in the general & advanced tabs)to b&w. I then discovered that the standard icon in the driver are all defaulted to print in color. I copied and renamed these icons (defaulted to b&w and then found I can't delete the origional icons. Can anyone

A few questions, if anyone can help.Can anyone put in perspective the ROI for the new FW240?I understand moving all plots to the 240 is one, how bout the others.Art

Anyone else having this problem....service is kind of stumped I think they might be overfilling the tray. I have placed 8 1224/1232's and one this one has this problem.Thanks

The launch notice says, "The Bate Stamp Feature for the Aficio 2090/2105 Systems is available for immediate download from the Ricoh Technical Website." If I was successful. the bulletin is attached to this reply.

cost is higher, but I can not prove it, so I believe I am being conservative at the .07 cents per square foot. We then have the cost for paper. please remember that the best reproduction on an ink jet plotter with ink jet paper, the same as most ink jet printers. Most companies buy a better grade of paper for thier "black line drawings" (blueprints) and then will buy something cheaper for thier "check plots" (check prints). The better the paper the higher the cost. I use the cost of .055 per

Thanks Art - that's right along with my thoughts. I'm putting a refurbed 550 in (they need copier and printer) as a loaner at their normal click rate and I'll see how that eases the stress of repairs from the fuser portion of the 6513. Thanks

We're having an isssue with 24 x 36. We have a customer whose prints are cutting off when printing from Adobe Reader 6.0. We could print the same file fine with Reader 5.0 on our demo machine just fine. Updated to 6.0 on the demo floor and voila! it cut off printing. Now we have to downgrade back to 5.0...... Not sure why, but our issue seems to be with Adobe Reader.

We got a call from our Ricoh rep today informing us Ricoh is closing out the Aficio 1013/1013F. Don't know about everyone else but these have been the best little systems ever to carry the Ricoh name. And of course Ricoh is now ridding them from our line-up. Surely to be replaced by something far less reliable (sorry...I have good reason to be synical of copier manufacturers). Has anyone heard what Ricoh might use as the replacement system for the A1013/1013F?

I have a customer that is running 6-8K/mo b&w and 1K/mo color volumes on a 6513. They needed the 6513 at the time because of the quality prints (this was sold by a former sales rep). The problems we are having is that the system is eating up fuser & oil units and causing numerous other problems in the field. The customer is using Office Depot paper, which has very ragged edges and a porous surface, to run their b&w volume on. My service dept. is telling me that the paper is causing most of the

Has anyone seen anything in writing on this model (brochure, pricing, etc.)? I just spoke with Savin and I'm told it is being launched in two weeks, so I figure there has to be info available somewhere. I have a bid due today and would love to include this model (the client is preparing to purchase a plotter for a satellite office along with several MFP's). I am waiting on a reply from Savin, but I'm not holding my breath. I'll let you know what I find (if anything). Brian

I finally got a call back from Savin and they gave me less info than I got from Art's document that was posted here. Thanks, Art (how does it feel to be smarter than Savin?). b.

I'm taking the brochure thing seriously Art. I checked all of the Ricoh websites, Japan was the only one I could find that had what appeared to be the brochure.

Is there a possibility that the document page setup has color as the default? For example, they are using a process black (CMYK) to print their Black pages. If so the process black will count as a full color page. I ran into this with a MAC installation.

Color is default...it does one click for each color and one for black on a full color copy. You can go to the printer preferences under the printers through the control panel and set defaults to B&W hope this help...feel fre to call or email me -=Mike=- GO Sox!

Don't lose sight of those who don't currently have their own equipment and pay a service bureau for copies/prints.

Thats one of the biggest cost is for outsourcing the copies. Another is the cost to produce a drawing on a plotter compared to the cost on our system. John and I spoke the other day and we believe the savings is .45 - .65 cent savings per "D" size drawing. Any others?? Art

Inkjet plotting. Outsourcing is perceived as saving on labor costs, but you have to consider turnaround time, travel time if they have to deliver copies for reproduction. I would also consider the scanning aspect. It would be less expensive in most cases to scan your own drawings to archive or FTP site than pay someone who will charge a premium. Scan charges in our area are between $4.00 and $6.00 per page. It all depends on the account.

Vision Schedule: On May 4, we invite you to participate in Tuesday evening's Welcome Reception which will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, our venue for the VISION Meeting. On Wednesday, May 5, the day starts with the General Session where you will hear from Ricoh Executives and our guest speaker. After a private press/analyst luncheon we will conduct a press roundtable with Ricoh Executives. You can then tour the Technology Expo or take part in the Seminars. That

Art, Can you shed some light on how you came up with the savings per page vs. a plotter? I haven't delved into the world of connected wide format very often in the past, so this is all new to me (but the FW240 has me psyched on breaking into this market) Also, am I right in my assumption that plotters can only produce line drawings with no fill or gray scale? (again, this is all new to me so if I'm going to make waves in this market, I guess I had better start doing homework!) Thanks for any

For anyone who hasn't seen Ricoh's huge presence at the baseball's season opener in Japan, the Ricoh name is everywhere - bacstop, outfield, and the players uniforms. Just read Mike Mussina's comment abount the Ricoh patch on his sleeve: When players got to their lockers, they found white 3-inch patches on their shirt sleeves with the words "Ricoh" in red. Just like when the New York Mets met the Chicago Cubs four years ago in the first Japanese season opener, major league baseball sold

BULL! The 6513 is also a 50PPM black print speed and 11 ppm color, the problem is the system is hard to service and maintain. We have a few systems that are running a volume of 10K each. However not to do combat with service, why not put a trial in for the a few months and see what happens, if the black volume is printing just give them a laser printer for a few months. I must also say that we have lost 60% of our 6010 and 6513 installs due to our inability to keep them running well. Also when

an HG connected 600 x 600 dpi Duplicator. This will surely handle the volume day in and day out. The other is to present them with a "bank" of laser printers. The 4510's will do a great job here. I would propose four to five to handle the jobs and then combine them with the parrallel print feature of Smart Net (if thats what we are calling it today). Please let me know how this pans out. Art

application? NO! I would tread lightly with this application and get a four color user to try the system and then give his opinion Understanding the full-color quality limitations, does it hold up pretty well...is it still doing as well today as it was at install? Anything else to add? Jim: We do not have any systems placed in a four color environment. I am going to try and penetrate this market this summer. I have some printers that have JP8000's and JP5000's that will be ready to redo their leases

ACS (auto color select) is also on the 1224 and 1232. When you select ACS the system then looks at all of the originals being fed and if it is a b & w then it copies/prints in b & w. If it is in color then it copies/prints in color so you can have mixed originals of b & w and color and the system will then produce the set as is. unlike the 3800 where if you set the system for color ALL of the copies/prints would be color clicks.