This Week in the Copier Industry Twenty Years Ago

Art Post (Guest) · 4/12/035:43 PM

products, printers, scanners, digital duplicators and wide format engineering systems. In 2003, Ricoh Company Ltd. received the Gold Medal Award from the World Environmental Center for International Achievement in Sustainable Development. The Gold Medal was given to Ricoh for demonstrating preeminent leadership and contributing to worldwide environmental quality. Information about Ricoh's complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at www.ricoh-usa.com .

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Art Post (Guest) · 4/14/038:46 PM

of Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ - News), today introduces the Canon Print Server Appliance (PSA), a Windows-Powered Network Print Appliance based on Windows 2000 with the Server Appliance Kit, as the resident operating system. The Canon Print Server Appliance (PSA) is a 1U Rack Mount turnkey server appliance that offloads the printing function from a general purpose server, thereby increasing overall network performance and printer availability uptime. IT Managers can use the appliance for near-zero

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Art Post (Guest) · 4/11/035:21 PM

RIcoh Family Group. It takes place every year @ Ricoh Headquarters in New Jersey. Throughout the contest period reps can enter as many solution sales as they want. The only rule is that it has to have at least one digital dupliucator. Points are awarded for each type of additional product that was sold in the order. One particular sale was from Al Wales from SouthEast Office Products in Alpharetta, GA. He packaged a JP8000, TCII, type80 controller, Fax, 1075, wide format analog copier all in one

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Art Post (Guest) · 4/11/035:42 PM

Date: Friday, April 11, 2003 05:34 PM CL 7000 Product Manager (congrats on your new position!): Why or why can't we have a booklet saddle stitch finisher for the CL7000 or the CMF 7000. Canon has it, Minolta has it, Konica has it, and I'm not sure of the rest of the pack. A church, and association, a small corporation, a print for pay, a college, or school may want to make a booklet. Even if it only makes them at 3 books a minute! We can ot even step up to the plate. Personally, I have been

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Scott Holloway · 4/8/037:34 AM

It appears the distinction is that the Canon numbers include retail sales of personal copiers and Ricoh does not. Basicly meaning Ricoh Family does the most business with business.

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Art Post (Guest) · 4/11/037:22 PM

Exceptional Rating". CF3102 and CF2002 The Minolta's newest color copier-printer-scanners have the simplicity workgroups desire and the power and speed to handle workgroup productivity at an affordable price. In addition to 600 dpi x 1800 dpi equivalent resolution, the CF3102 and CF2002 utilize newly developed polymerized toner, which needs no oil for fusing, as well as the unique Minolta Advanced Color Conversion System (MACCS) for more precise reproduction of color tones. Finishing options include a

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Art Post (Guest) · 4/15/032:16 PM

What is the best price scenario to a end user in a church for a 28 ppm color printer w/duplexer? I need to know if the customer is telling the truth! Art

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Art Post (Guest) · 4/13/0311:50 AM

This system was shown at the AIIM/Print On Demand Show in NYC last week. I saw prints that we great, although I tend to believe most prints are great when there is nothing to compare them to. There was no banding of color, photos were ok and text was good. However, documents we saw were printed on high end stock. I would have liked to have seen what this system would do on regular bond. I asked and they claimed, they only had this type of stock for this system. 2:46 PM EST Mon., Apr. 07, 2003

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Art Post (Guest) · 4/11/037:28 PM

SHARP Electronics Introduces The FO-DC500 Super G3 Document Communication System Sharp Electronics Corporation has introduced the new FO-DC500 Super G3 Document Communication System, the newest model in Sharp’s line of advanced facsimile-based solutions. Powered by a 16 page-per-minute engine, the FO-DC500 is completely modular, which is ideal for any growing business. With network scanning, network printing, web-based management, and remote diagnostics, the FO-DC500 offers a broad range of

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Old Glory · 4/8/0311:52 AM

I'm just finding out that the Type 1027 Print DIMM was discontinued March 31st. Did anyone get notification of this? On a seperate but related note...Ricoh has introduced a Print/Scan Kit for the 1022/1027 and the 1035/1045 that includes NIC and 64MB Memory but no reduction in cost from the items purchased seperately. Purchasing the items seperately will eventually not be an option. I get the impression that this is Ricoh's way to force memory at Ricoh's $300 price and eliminate $25 3rd party

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bmiller (Guest) · 4/14/033:11 PM

Hey Art, I hope the weather is better up there this week than last thursday and friday. Anyone know if you add the fax option and an xtra g3 interface if you can have 2 seperate RTI's and TTI's or will the machine just go to an open line? Thanks for your help

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Graham · 4/14/036:35 PM

Is there any way to track prints by user code in an Aficio 700 using the peerless controller? I can't seem to make it work. Thanks Graham

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Graham · 4/10/031:44 PM

I have a customer with MAC OS 8 and 9 on their systems and a new 1055 with a PS option installed. Whenever they print to the 1055 and try to print mulitple copies of a document they get the first copy then they get a postscript error and it won't print the subsequent pages. Any insight on this?? Thanks Graham

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Art Post (Guest) · 4/8/038:29 PM

-site scanning and document capture applications. The integration of Xerox's and Kofax's services and solutions will enable organizations to scan unlimited numbers of documents either on-site or to Xerox's imaging and repository facility in Hot Springs, Ark. Xerox Global Services was named a Kofax National Certified Solutions Provider as part of the expanded partnership. Xerox will sell and support Kofax's data and document capture offerings. Kofax has been a Xerox Premier Business Partner since

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spressomon · 4/8/0310:15 AM

I have e-mailed Barbara Lindley asking for Ricoh GEM/GSA Promo pricing; without a reply. I checked yesterday on ROL and it is not listed. I don't know about you guys but if we treated our customers and ran our business they way Ricoh does it wouldn't be neccessary to be a member of this site any longer;-/ It was kind of interesting to have watched Xerox decimate their customer/dealer base and now Ricoh seems to be heading down the same path.

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Old Glory · 4/8/0312:36 PM

The Type 1022/1027 Printer/Scanner Kit #001498MIU just showed up on the last Pricing dated Feb 28th and didn't have any kind of explanation. I called Ricoh Customer Service (Lainee Rountree in case she handles your account also) and was given the rundown on the new "Kit" and the fact that the Print DIMMS had been discontinued March 31st without notice. She volunteered to send me documentation but I haven't seen it yet.

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Ted · 4/14/034:20 PM

The problem is when you add the copier feature to the print drivers, the print drivers and I believe the operation panel won't recognize the 4th drawer.

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Art Post (Guest) · 4/14/039:18 PM

disk.... and then their system halted. ( I thought, one of those days). I restarted the system and then inserted the Textbridge 11. It installed in a few minutes and then went into a self test mode. It found the Ricoh TWAIN driver and then tested the connection from the 1224/1232 to PC. It worked, we then scanned a 5 page doc, the textbridge software is awesome (I figured it out). It was three steps to OCR and then open in a rod doc for final editing! I then tried a test with a pre printed form

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Darren .... · 4/8/036:24 PM

I have a promo cost of $573 for this option. (Print Scan DIMM, Network Card, 64MB RAM). Even if they do raise it to the $855 - after offering it at $573, I would imagine promos would continue or there will be a riot - but at $855 for the package, it is less than the printer only option with the two additional pieces that are necessary anyway (unless you get your memory elsewhere, then it is a little more).

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Ted · 4/9/0310:03 AM

Well, they are still accepting orders using GEM Promo for qualified accounts. I just sent one in last week, and it went through. What I heard was that the Gov. people through a fit because Ricoh was allowing special pricing reserved for them to be used by "normal" customers. In order to meet the Gov's requirements, Ricoh can not offer the special Gov pricing to "normal" customers. Makes sense to me.

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Brad (Guest) · 4/11/039:46 AM

We have had success using 10 and 12pt. King James Cast coat paper from the bypass. I reccommend printing on the non gloss side first.

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Graham · 4/11/0311:27 PM

Nope, it's maxed! Looks like it was a print controller firmware issue

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JasonR · 4/13/038:04 PM

Postermode uses about 100% more toner than a normal print and is used for... guess what? Posters! Seriously, you use this if you have large areas of black fill, it will make the areas fill in much better. It does not affect the speed of the engine.

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bmiller (Guest) · 4/15/039:57 AM

thats what i thought, but I can not get the fax options to operate seperatley. I need to business's to share one device w/ two seperate fax options and two seperate phone lines... If anyone knows, please let me know how it is set up.....

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spressomon · 4/15/034:15 PM

This isn't much help but on the Fax 5510L with the two G-3 modems you can input two separate RTI info.

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Gregory (Guest) · 4/9/032:03 PM

No Kidding! Ricoh says 1200 per CYMK. One of my clients used the black within 520 pages. Color is still running. Definitely sell supplies with the order!

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Old Glory · 4/15/032:50 PM

Didn't I read last week that TR for the 1075 was launched by Ricoh.

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spressomon · 4/15/034:13 PM

I haven't seen anything about this. No news as of today on the Ricoh and Aficio League sites. It is really frustrating when you have customers that have been waiting months to see these...

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mug (Guest) · 4/14/032:51 PM

Application: The pre-printed forms are in red. The customer fills out the information in black text along with some handwriting. The customer only wants to capture the black text/handwriting data. They like to leave all the areas in red out. Is there a software that determines what to OCR?

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spressomon · 4/10/038:15 PM

Is anyone else having an issue with Ricoh RMAP ship-ins? We get ship-ins with 30-38% discounted service from Ricoh & RBS. Ricoh has threaten us stating if we do not accept these we will not be allowed to ship-out to other areas. And to add insult to injury Ricoh states, in writing, we can not deviate from the published RMAP service pricing...but they can! Although I just heard about an RBS location that refused a Ricoh Corp. ship-in on the basis the heavily discounted service rate was not

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Graham · 4/13/038:40 PM

Is there any reason that the RPCS print drivers will not recognize staple and punch units without the use of SmartNet Monitor for client? This is a major issue as there are not many network admins who what to install a separate utility on their server to handle this. We have been using PCL drivers for server based installs for this very reason since they DO find the staple and punch. Any input? Thanks Graham

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Darren .... · 4/11/039:53 AM

Up against the Oce TDS400. Some differences I have... Speed, Quality of Scan, Save Space, Print on page not raised, etc. I notice that the Oce has two print quality modes, normal and poster. Does anyone know the difference between these and if one slows the print speed down?

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Ted · 4/10/0312:46 PM

I noticed on the 1015/1018/1018D that one of the notes by the Postscript option states that the postscript is required for apple and UNIX printing. I knew it was required for apple, but not for UNIX. Here is my observation and question. None of the other machines have a note by the postscript regarding UNIX. Do we need the postscript option, say on a 1060 also, if they are going to print from a UNIX environment?

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Ted · 4/14/0310:46 AM

There has been some discussion and confusion as to what accounts exactly qualify for GEM Promo pricing. The answer is any account that qualifies as a GEM Acct.. Attached is a document from Ricoh's DMAP pricing which states what are and are not GEM accts. This chould clear up any confusion. In short, any school, religious institution, or ANY 501 (c)(3) tax exempt entity qualifies