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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago 2nd Week of October 2005

Ten years ago this week, five autonomous robots completed the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, the winner (to be declared on Sunday) travelling the 132 mile course in less than 7.5 hours.

 

Just think of the future, will companies like Ricoh, Canon, and Konica Minolta make the shift to developing and manufacturing robots?  I think so, the business model would be similar to copy machines with planned obsolescence, consumables and would need a technical force to maintain.

          10/11/05 7:12 PM
 
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          from the digital camera division. President Fumio Iwai has narrowed Konica Minolta's product line as competition intensifies from Japanese office equipment makers Canon Inc. and Ricoh Co. Shares of Konica Minolta have dropped 25 percent this year, making it
 
          10/8/05 12:04 PM
 
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          12, 2005 - Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) today introduced the bizhub PRO(TM) 920, a 92 page-per-minute (ppm) printer/copier/scanner. This Segment 6 workhorse is ideally suited for users in production environments ranging from CRDs to
 
          10/8/05 12:01 PM
 
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          . Canada - October 4, 2005 - Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) and Creo Inc. (Creo) today announced the IC-301 Image Controller to drive the bizhub PRO C500 color production printing system. The IC-301 was co-developed by the two
 
          10/12/05 8:19 AM
 
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          Just got copies of the pricing of this unit. Price $ 41,579.00 This includes HDD, Auto Feed, Memory upgrade, and finisher. Service CPC .06 color includes 1 click for 11x17  .015 B/W This machine was sold by IKON. Also pricing on a Bizhub C450 Price
 
          10/11/05 9:49 PM
 
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          ). Plus the fact that Ricoh, Canon, Sharp, Kyo and Toshiba are all releasing their printers into the VAR channel. For those who don't know VAR's are solution sellers whether they combine software and pc's, or software, PC's and printers . Most of these VAR
 
          10/11/05 7:24 PM
 
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Xerox Phaser(R) 7400 is the fastest desktop color printer in its class. It equips small- and medium-sized businesses to turn out high-quality spreadsheets, brochures, presentations and other business-critical documents at 36 color or 40 black-and-white
 
          10/6/05 8:36 AM
 
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          additional units get you extra GP
 
          10/7/05 7:58 PM
 
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          TOKYO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Japan's Ricoh Co. (7752.T: Quote, Profile, Research) will likely post a first-half operating profit of 70 billion yen ($617.6 million), up 21 percent, on strong sales of copiers and other office machines, business daily Nihon
 
          10/8/05 3:54 PM
 
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          Equipment  NEW YORKSeptember 14, 2005Canon U.S.A. Inc., the nation's market share brand leader in black-and-white and digital color copier/printer solutions, today announced the introduction of the imageRUNNER 2016/2020 Series of multifunctional devices
 
          10/10/05 4:37 PM
 
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          list is an illustration of Ricohs unwavering commitment to innovation and developing new technologies that help businesses manage and share information, said Sean Magee, vice president of Information Technology for Ricoh Corporation. Using new and
 
          10/11/05 7:14 PM
 
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          items, consumables and associated accessories. Ricoh's line of advanced digital printers includes the new series of Aficio color laser printers, the CL7200 and CL7300, launched in July of this year. These devices offer users a low total cost of ownership
 
          10/10/05 4:46 PM
 
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          invoices are for instance, he said, likely to pay them faster. Business people can get a chance to "test drive" the latest machines from Ricoh, Okidata and Toshiba, as well as attend one of the five one-hour seminars at the daylong event, which is being put
 
          10/12/05 3:05 AM
 
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          As such this is not great news for us here in the UK, as there have already been rumblings that something similar will happen here. I have to agree, however, that the range is good (almost excellent), and if Ricoh can capture a much greater market share
 
          10/12/05 10:32 AM
 
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          When we were OKI dealers, we got burned by clients price-shopping us on the Internet. So, we learned the hard way from that experience. When Ricoh started making their printers available through the consumer-level channels (OKI all over again), we didn't
 
          10/12/05 7:16 PM
 
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          not bonding to 20 lb stock? If youre not a tech, you need one. This one is going to be too obvious. I see you got a new fuser unit. You're using Ricoh supplies? are the symptoms consistant? That is, happening all the time? If not it could be damp paper
 
          10/11/05 5:18 PM
 
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          accounts, and no key account list, just a territory that borders the Atlantic Ocean up to the Raritan River and down to the Trout laden Manasquan River in New Jersey (USA). I sell Ricoh products (the finest products in the world), the MFP's, fax, duplicators
 
          10/11/05 9:11 PM
 
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          customer buy a Ricoh printer online then a HP or a Dell. To me that becomes an opportunity to let them know just how good the Ricohs are. Our dealership is consistently ranked high in our region ( and nationwide) for Ricoh printers sold and I am dismayed at how
 
          10/11/05 9:24 PM
 
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          Well, it was nice for a few months anyway.  Its not holding up.  Customer bought for the thick stock capability and it worked great for a while, then the toner began rubbing off of the 110 lb index (within specs), customer tried a thinner stock.  Ricoh
 
          10/5/05 8:45 AM
 
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          to the customer to manually having to push buttons to print the envelope.  Is there an easier way?  I have not found anything in the ops manuals or from tech support at Ricoh.
 
          10/5/05 4:23 PM
 
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          I have a JP 5500 that keeps asking for ink. Ricoh told me to clear the memory.  That worked for a little while.  After running copies it goes back to no ink. I have replace all parts inside of the drum.  Also I replace the ink detection board.  Thanks
 
          10/8/05 3:53 PM
 
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          Workgroup Equipment  NEW YORKSeptember 14, 2005Canon U.S.A. Inc., the nation's market share brand leader in black-and-white and digital color copier/printer solutions, today announced the introduction of the imageRUNNER 2016/2020 Series of multifunctional devices
 
          10/12/05 5:08 PM
 
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          Hey Ricoh Peeps, I am trying to set up scan to email on 1515. I asked the it guy for mail server name, he said their is no name, but ip address is 192....... So I tried putting an ip address in instead of a name, but no luck. He says they don't have smtp
 
          10/6/05 11:12 AM
 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ricoh Web Site: http://www.ricoh-usa.com CONTACT: Russell Marchetta Laura Bower  Ricoh Corporation Peppercom  (973) 882-2075 (212) 931-6127  russell.marchetta@ricoh-usa.com ljensen@peppercom.com RICOHS AFICIO G500/G700 COLOR PRINTER
 
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