This Week in the Copier Industry Twenty Years Ago

percent of revenues, was down 11 percent. Xerox said revenue declines in developing markets are moderating, and it expects "continued improvement" in the second half of the year. Xerox said gross margin slipped to 42.4 percent from 42.5 percent amid plans to sell low- to mid-level digital copiers and printers as it aims to win back market share from Japanese rivals Ricoh Co. Ltd. and Canon Inc. Looking ahead, Xerox projected a third-quarter profit of 8 cents to 12 cents a share, and reiterated its

UPDATE 2-Ricoh Q1 profit hits record, ups 03/04 forecasts 7/30/2003 4:50:59 AM By Edwina Gibbs TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - Ricoh Co Ltd (JP:7752) , Japan's second-largest office machine maker, on Wednesday posted a record quarterly net profit, spurred higher by cost cuts and strong sales of its copiers and printers. On track to notch up its 10th straight year of record results, the blue-chip imaging company also boosted its estimates for this business year. "The biggest contribution is from

Accounting Practices. Canon Inc. also released the following forecasts: GROUP Full Year Ending Dec 2003 Sales Y3.180 tln Pretax Profit 440.00 bln Net Profit 263.00 bln Per share Earnings 299.37 TOKYO -(Dow Jones)- Canon Inc. (CAJ or 7751) reported Thursday strong earnings for the first six months ended June 30 on brisk sales of printers and digital cameras, and also lifted its full-year earnings forecasts. The Japanese precision equipment maker had a group net profit of Y127.77 billion for the

CL7000; two black & white and colour MFD’s – the Aficio 1224C and 1232C; and the FAX 4410L – a colour scan-to-email fax machine. Ricoh Australia’s National Colour Products Manager, Jeremy Plint comments, “Our innovative colour solutions range is designed for corporate users demanding cost effective output with a high level of performance. Our success in securing recognition from BERTL for so many of our new products is an important Industry endorsement of Ricoh’s multifunctional network printing

Global Imaging Systems Makes 60th Acquisition July 28, 2003 09:59:00 AM ET TAMPA, Fla., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Imaging Systems, Inc. GISX announced today that it has acquired the Dallas, TX, branch operation of Copy Products, Inc., bringing to 60 the number of businesses Global has acquired during the nine years since it was founded. The Dallas branch of Copy Products is a dealer in Konica copiers, Panasonic fax products and Kyocera printers. Global Imaging President and CEO Tom Johnson

as copiers from Canon and Ricoh fell 2.3 from one year ago. Looking ahead, Ikon said it sees fourth quarter earnings in the range of 15 cents to 17 cents per share, with revenue expected to decline by 4 percent to 5 percent. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call (News - Websites) had on average forecast a profit of 17 cents. Ikon shares edged up 12 cents, or about 1.6 percent, to $7.30 in moderate New York Stock exchange trade on Thursday.

We have two new installations of the Ricoh 470W, and are experiencing some problems with printing PDF files. I can open a file and print however, I cannot print larger than a 24 x 36 document. Unfortunately, my client saved the PDF as a 30 x 42. Any insight and help would be greatly appreciated!

see, thats what I thought, however in user codes, you can only turn on the copier and document server features. I thought that it could be a way that it had been set up, but I called RICOH and they told me that the 55 cannot track or restrict prints. Now, I don't know, I don know that alot of times the help line guys are never sure about things

the sales info guide and ran it. I was very impressed. The client was even impressed with the output. Also, I was connected with my laptop to run the job. Never had to try to run it from the system. The 80lb covers were pre-printed and were fed through the Cover Inserter on the SR90. Let me know if this is the same type of scenario. By the way, Art. This is also a reply to you from your feedback last week. The 80lb cover went into this job without a glitch.

I have a customer who needs a fax with user codes to track usage. There are about 80 different users. They need to be able to walk up, enter a code and have the fax machine keep track of how many pages are sent . This is a send only fax. I'm looking at a Gestetner F104, but want to keep the cost down because the actual usage is only a couple thousand a month. Thanks in advance for the help guys!! Tyler

Does anyone know if it is possible to set up user codes on the printer side of this unit? Thanks Brian

These are the specs from Ricoh TSC website CL3000 Avoid using the following, as they are not supported by this printer: · Paper meant for an ink-jet printer · Bent, folded, or creased paper · Curled or twisted paper · Torn paper · Wrinkled paper · Damp paper · Paper that is dry enough to emit static electricity · Paper that has already been printed onto, except a preprinted letterhead · Special paper, such as thermal paper, aluminum foil, carbon paper and conductive paper · Paper whose weight

As a rule of thumb, anything that is a printer needs a user account enhancement interface, I just ordered a CL3000 for a customer and needed the interface as well. The Ricoh Item number is...400570 Graham

Item #CM-0347 is what you are looking for. It's a two-color single-page flyer with a Banner Line that reads "Ricoh Group #1 in U.S. Copier Market for Segments 1-6 for the year 2002!" Under that is two pie-charts...one showing segments 1-6 with Ricoh at 23.1%and the other showing just segments 5&6 with Ricoh at 33.7%.

Ricoh's "Project May", To arouse the community's awareness to care for each other (7/25/03) To fulfill Ricoh Office Solutions's aim in caring for the people and the community, a "Project May" was launched to help those who were affected by SARS and are now in need of assistance. Since the outbreak of SARS, ROS has planned a series of activities to help the community such as fighting against SARS for customers and employees. At the same time, Ricoh has donated 50% of May's sales to the

The SR 90 is much improved from the SR 85 but here is one thing it can't do. Customer has a 50 page 8 1/2 by 11 job(page count doesn't matter) and they want to print it to the SR90 paginated and with a different color cover. Seems easy enough but the 2090/SR90 puts the cover on the inside of the booklet. Not the outside. Oddly enough if you print the job with the same settings but NOT through the SR90 it prints correctly. Ricoh is now aware of the issue and hopefully will have a fix. The only

Monte, I can't answer the question about hanging the cheap PC on the MAC network. However you can accomplish a workaround with the fax board, docuement mall, some type of efax service and a LAN Fax program for Mac (is there a WINFAX for MAC?). Have the efax service or equivulant deliver the mail as tiff or pdf to the mail address for an "incoming fax" folder in doc mall. From there the user can view and distrbute the faxes via email to the other Mac users. This will also enable them for Scan to

I believe it is made by Canon and is a proven unit. It is and operates from what I can see very similar to the Saddle Stitch finisher from the old 551 and 700. I also think that you lose the shift sort functionality with this finisher (PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG ON ANY OF THIS). There are a number of pros and cons to this finisher, if you need and do lots of saddle stitch it is fine, if you do little saddle stitch and are going to get this for the convenience of it, I would stick with a

In the printer driver go to the statistics tab and use smartnet monitor for admin to track for free -=Mike=-

I believe you have to set the codes in the System Settings of the 1055. And then turn on the user codes for printing. It is just like the 551.

Brian: I have not experienced this and Ray Bauer is in Great Britian this week. Try to call John Reilling @ Ricoh. Maybe he can put on the path of the solution. Which way is the imaging moving (holding the paper in the portrait position ie:reading a letter or the other way? Art

If it were not for the program Greg Crews loaded here, I would not have been abloe to access the cross reference that easily. At this time I do not have any answer for you, does anyone know if the 4410L (Ricoh) can do this? Graham, could we keep that program (the cross reference a resident feature off this site, and Greg can you upload the lastest versions as you get them? Art

Actually it was borrowed from the Austrailian Web Site of Ricoh. I thought it would be good to have Ricoh marketing info from all over the world. Those doc should be on the Aficio League. Did you all know that if you find a post interesting and find that it may be good stuff for a potential client you can email the story of the post right from our site! Select tool and then select email to a friend. I have done this may times and it has saved my butt and lots of time! Art

Order from Ricoh just like you do brochures.

Does anyone out there have any pie charts or other marketing materials you use to point out Ricoh's place in the market versus our competition, i.e. being # 1 ranked by Gartner for 2002 in Digital Black and White. THANKS

Attatched you will find a small application. This is a great tool for cross referencing the ricoh family models. One of my techs found it somewhere.

EFI Earns $8.3 Million in Q2, Plans to Close On Printcafe Deal in September FOSTER CITY, Calif.--July 22, 2003-- Electronics For Imaging (Stock Price Web Site Executives Related Articles Google), Inc., the world leader in imaging solutions for network printing, announced today that, for the quarter ended June 30, 2003, revenues were $88.7 million as compared to $83.9 million for the same quarter in 2002. For the six months ended June 30, 2003, revenues were $174.4 million as compared to $166.8