This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The Third Week of March 2006

From which companies you buy the Ricoh aficio 240w/480w toner and how does it cost?

It's not a dumb feature. Try feeding an OHP or heavy cover stock through the Toshiba or Konica - see what happens. (Of course if you tell the machine what the stock is it won't - but hwo does that???) Positive selling point - stops the customer from screwing the fuser and being charged loads of mooney for repair.

http://www.ricoh-usa.com/products/product_features.asp?...Aficio%20SP%20C210SF Ricoh is pleased to introduce the Ricoh Aficio SP C210SF – a true Desktop Color Laser MFP. The SP C210SF is the first Desktop Color Laser MFP in the Ricoh product line. The SP C210SF is built to handle all of your customers’ printing, color scanning, faxing, and copying needs in `a single, compact, and affordable MFP solution. And with a Suggested Retail Price of $999, the SP C210SF appeals to price-sensitive

Several years ago, I lost a deal because of the white gaps where lines intersect - this was a 470W deal. They provided sample prints printed on an OCE printer and there were no gaps. I was given the same .PLT files and when printed on the 470W there were gaps! The files were sent to Ricoh and I think they were forwarded to Ratio and the verdict was the same. It was a 470W issue. In this case, the thumbnail in the viewer did not show gaps but our prints did. I was told that what we were

Checked out the new Xerox at a customer's site and this is what I found: Meter reading displays separate meter read for each roll. Need to slide doc feed forward and actually lift off the machine to clear jam in doc feed area. Originals are right justified to scan or copy versus centering like the 240W. To make copy, you need to use touch screen panel to select "Synchro". If you don't select, you will get a copy that is a standard size with lots of blank paper around the image. Scan to mailbox

You cannot do auto duplexing with this model. I dont think Toshiba will do it either. Either will do manual duplexing of course.

The Canon Imageclass 1870 c aint no light weight either!!!

It can do it but not the way you think and it can only do 2 at time. If you use front and back cover mode and set the machine to duplex on mode selected it will duplex from the bypass. My competitor told a customer that Ricoh had inferior feed mechanism and was not physical capable of doing it. All I did was set it up in a program for them and called in duplex-Bypass. Needless to say I won the deal. Still it is stupid for Ricoh not to open this up in the firmware. Good Luck. JG

A couple of quick questions: A.) There are some year-old posts that suggest reliability issues that may or may not have been addressed. Does anyone have an install that is newer than a year old? If so, how has it gone? B.) Is there any reason to believe that you can't run things through the Interposer and the GBC? C.) The footnotes says that the Type 1075 3-hole punch is not recommended when using the GBC Punch. Anyone understand why or how serious the threat? D.) I've read that Ricoh is no

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ricoh Web Site: www.ricoh-usa.com Contact: Russell Marchetta Ricoh Corporation (973) 882-2075 russell.marchetta@ricoh-usa.com Ricoh Executive Appointed Corporate Officer --Tom Salierno to Serve as an Officer to Enhance Global Operations -- WEST CALDWELL, N.J., March 15, 2006 – Ricoh Company Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan has announced that Thomas Salierno Jr., President of the Ricoh U.S. Division of Ricoh Corporation has been appointed a Group Corporate Vice President of Ricoh

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... equipment and systems for operational requirements services to support increased business development activities The company is working to expand its Enterprise Network Services division, which serves the regional banking market. PARTNERS none stated PEOPLE R.Greg Smith Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, and Principal Accounting Officer John Adrian Burns Chief Executive Officer of ERF Enterprise Network Services Inc. John Nagel Vice President of Project Management

Canon now has the GBC units

Do you happen to know if the GBC will go on any of Canon's high-end color models?

Here you go: Northbrook, IL, February, 2006 - GBC, an ACCO Brands company (NYC: ABD) and market leader in the manufacturing and distribution of laminating and binding products, and Canon U.S.A., Inc., the nation's market share brand leader in black-and-white and color copier solutions*, have announced the launch of Canon’s Professional Puncher-A1, a new in-line punching solution that is compatible with Canon’s new imageRUNNER® 7105, 7095, 7095 Printer, and 7086 Digital Imaging Systems

Desktop Color Laser MFP Offers High-Quality Output at an Affordable Price WEST CALDWELL, N.J., March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, today introduced the Aficio SP C210SF, a desktop color laser multi-function product (MFP) designed to deliver optimum printing solutions for small offices and workgroups. Network ready and simple to operate, the Aficio SP C210SF offers full-color and monochrome printing, scanning, copying, and faxing

Low and behold, Ricoh has just released a PANTONE Color Palette for the Aficio 3228C/3235C/3245C and Aficio 3260/5560(with Ricoh Controller) systems. Included are color look up tables for the following applicaitons: Adobe Illustrator 9,10, CS & CS2; Adobe Photoshop 6,7, CS & CS2; Adobe InDesign 2.02, CS & CS2; Macromedia FreeHand 10 & MX; CorelDRAW 10, 11 & 12 & Corel DESIGNER 10 & 12; QuarkXPress Version 4.11, 5 & 6. Basically PANTONE has devised a color library to support our output devices

transactional vs. commercial jobs produced by VDP printers, as well as whether graphic arts firms are selling directly to marketers or through traditional creative agencies. Key conclusions from the report… Variable data print is finally on a solid growth track, and we are seeing sharp growth in very key market segments. VDP may not be in the marketing budget of every client, but it’s in the marketing budgets of a lot of them. It’s an important and growing portion of printers’ revenue streams

This may be a dumb question, as I know it wasn't possible in the past, but can the 2051 duplex copy from the bypass? I have a customer with a Toshiba that can, and I was wondering if anyone had a quick answer. Thanks.