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

BERTL Honors Ricoh Corporation With Eleven 'Best Awards' Ricoh Corporation Receives Numerous Accolades for Continued Leadership in Imaging Technology and Innovation PHILADELPHIA, May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ricoh Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, announced today that it has received 11 BERTL's Best(R) 2006 Awards. To select the winners for this year's Best Awards, BERTL took into consideration every new multifunction product (MFP), printer and other office

It was a great show! The floor was pacjed for the two days that I was there and I'm sure I missed alot of stuff. Aside from Ricoh Products I am going to touch on two of the products that inspired me. 1. Kodak Scan Station 100: Finally, I have been asking for something like this for about a year. Kodak has developed a scanner with speeds upto 50 pages a minute in color, black & white or gray scale at speeds upto 50 images per minute! This system can also scan both sides simultaneously, while

On the Savin 4051 there is a Job List option where you can see jobs that are waiting in the queue when you walk up to the copier. You can delete them if necessary. Is there any way to access this from the computer or is there another way to remove jobs that have been spooled from the PC and have not printed yet?

unit could have been dropped coming from Ricoh several years ago, and whatever damage happened then are just now coming to light?

I have a customer that just purchased a 2090. They need to do sets with mutli-colored pages. No were in the manual does Ricoh tells how to set the paper trays to different color stock, than how to set up the machine to do this job. They do sets with up to 5 different color stock. The other need is, they have one orginal and want to make 5,000 copies. But after each 50 copies they want in insert a color color to seperate into sets. They make pads. This is a print shop. Thanks

I inquired as to the cost for these replacement units because you obviously have to purchase them and have them on the shelf in order for the customer to be able to replace them. This is the reply from Ricoh: "The TCRU program is under evaluation and pricing is not available at this time. The expected release of the TCRU program, if a viable option for service, will be announced later this year." "If a viable option???" IT IS IN THE @#%&*@$# BROCHURE!!! What are we supposed to tell the prospect?

Ricoh is pleased to introduce the Ricoh Aficio SP C410DN and SP C411DN Color Laser Printers. Built on the same platform as the highly successful CL4000DN, the SP C410DN and SP C411DN feature controller enhancements and a host of new capabilities. The SP C410DN and SP C411DN are a pair of workhorse printers with Color and Black and White print speeds of 26ppm for the SP C410DN and 31ppm for the SP C411DN, robust maximum duty cycles of 150,000 per month, and true 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution. These

Does anyone have any success at cold calling by email? I've seen some Kyocera dealers that send specials out to schools in a mass email. I'm contemplating sending out our state contract pricing to all the schools in our territory, since they will be looking for equipment in June & July.

I wish Ricoh would not rest on thier "laurels" with the 240W, they need to make a major MSRP move and also need to introduce a printer only product and or an upgrade within the next six months. Soon we will have technology that is 18 months old. It's all about the toner, well Ricoh had better make a move to stay ahead of the competition and keep caturing those pages. Art Post

Oh boy, that is not good news for Ricoh. I have had enough trouble with this KIP3000.

I was told that the upgrade is going to be a couple thousand dollars - kind of the same as Xerox and the others.

If you are associated with Ricoh, Ricoh University is partnered with _____ somebody, cant think of their name. Check with RU.

those up as the dealer and only have that one account. No idea how that would work out. On the other hand if you do that, your nefarious plan to get all their print devices is ruined since they can tell what you're looking at. One interesting thing... When you set up @Remote, the first thing it does is find every connected device, then you pick what you want to monitor and not. There's nothing to say that information isn't being relayed to Ricoh Japan though.....

quote: Originally posted by John Roof: Do you think that there is a chance that the unit could have been dropped coming from Ricoh several years ago, and whatever damage happened then are just now coming to light? I think the chance of that is less than 1%. I think the most likely thing that happenned was that the fan had a catastrophic failure and chewed its way thru those wires. Either way, you've got to eat this one.

my customer and he will probably not buy a Ricoh the next time around. 96% of my customers are happy with the 240W and the 480W, maybe we did too good of a job selling the unit? Art Post

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