This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago
Second Week of March 2007
Just when you thought we were done with two years of dealing with COVID19, the world could be on the verge of World War III because of Russia. Gas and diesel prices are going through the roof and inflation is the highest it's been since the early 80's in the US.
It is hard to stay upbeat today and especially after the two years that we've had. I can tell you one thing I remember from the 80's. That one thing is that companies will need to reduce costs yet again. It's not a matter of need or want, they will need to lower costs. Your job is to figure out how to make that happen.
That job can happen in many different ways. Reducing lease costs, maintenance costs, IT costs, or migrating services to the cloud, or even removing print servers for cloud printing. The opportunities are there, they just need to be found.
Enjoy These Threads from 10 Years Ago This Week!
Five New Canon imageCLASS and FAXPHONE Models Offer Powerful and Reliable ...
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series copiers deliver quick copy and print speeds of up to 35 pages per minute (ppm), simplex and 17 ppm, duplex(1). All three models deliver a first print time of six seconds or less(3). Beyond the basic features of the D1300 series, the Canon D1370 supports PCL 5e/XL 3.0 and PostScript 3 Emulation languages in addition to Canon's host-based UFR II LT language to provide printing versatility. Furthermore, the D1370 adds Secure Print, which asks a user to simply enter a unique PIN code during
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Here's Why Xerox Is Nothing Like Kodak And Polaroid
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from selling toner and servicing copiers — a beautiful, high-margin, annuitylike business. Look around your desk, and you’ll still see plenty of paper; the death of printing and copying has been greatly exaggerated. It is very ungreen of us, but we still copy and print. Xerox’s story gets better. About half of its revenue comes from services. Xerox is a giant in the document-outsourcing business, which provides about one sixth of its revenue. Corporate customers, sick of paper cuts and spilled
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Ringdale Releases its FollowMe® Embedded Platform for Sharp OSA Enabled Multi-Functio
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annual sales of 3,021,973 million yen for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011. Sharp Digital Print Systems Sharp offers its customers and partners a comprehensive portfolio in the field of digital print systems. With a portfolio ranging from small, compact multifunction printers which deliver efficiency and productivity for small office/home office environments, to office MFPs offering printer, copier, scanner and fax facilities in a single unit, and on to large production systems, Sharp has many
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Toshiba Crowns Winner of Its Helping the Helpers $100,000 Technology Makeover Contest
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print smarter, work safer and conserve resources. For more information on Toshiba solutions and services available in the United States and Latin America, please visit www.business.toshiba.com . Follow Toshiba: Facebook www.facebook.com/ToshibaCopiers Twitter @ToshibaMPS Blog business.toshiba.com/blog Press Room: http://business.toshiba.com/usa/about/press
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Canon U.S.A. Launches New imageWARE Secure Audit Manager Express Enabling Document Se
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such as print, scan, fax, copy and send jobs. “Canon constantly strives to improve document security for organizations of all sizes. Information is only as valuable as a company’s ability to protect it” . Since imageWARE Secure Audit Manager Express exports audit data directly to a Windows folder as opposed to using a centralized database to store job information, it fits into IT infrastructures of practically all sizes. The software stores job attribute information from printed or scanned
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CANON INC. : Oce Boosts Productivity of Its Inkjet Oce ColorStream Twin Series
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of sales and marketing. "The press is ideal for high-quality jobs requiring many versions and/or changes between brands, graphics or messages." The new Oce ColorStream 3700 system further extends the reach of the Oce inkjet systems as solution for monochrome and full-color high volume print service provider environments, print centers with datacenter background and offset print providers seeking a flexible and efficient high-volume digital printing solution. The availability of a higher speed
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Contex HD Ultra Wide Format Scanner Receives
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Contex scanner due to its large document table and ability to advance load documents." Using a Gigabit Ethernet connection, the Contex scanner "outperformed the competition, achieving between 20-40% more scans per hour, aided by a faster pre-scan procedure." The Contex model also "excelled in its speed to copy" a single A1 landscape page to a Canon iPF8300S wide-format printer in all modes. BLI reported favorably on batch scan in both draft and high-quality copy modes, noting, "During batch copy
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Ricoh Launches “start.ricoh”
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early May 2012 Ricoh will launch a cloud-based printing service in Japan, the first "start.ricoh" service. The service will operate with digital multifunctional printers (MFPs) and printers to enable secure printing from smart phones and tablet devices and location-free printing independent of networks. This service will later be released in overseas markets. Ricoh began offering document management services in the United States in 2001, and has since utilized a range of cloud computing
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recommended to board members a new copier lease option
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audits were found out of compliance for this,” Parsons said. “It’s pretty straight forward. They won’t share information without permission. Employees will be required to sign it annually and it will be placed in their personnel file.” Parsons also recommended to board members a new copier lease option which would save money each month. “We’re four years into a five-year lease with Perry Corporation,” Parsons said. With a new agreement, she said they could expect savings to the tune of
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Laser-powered 'unprinter' wipes documents in a flash!
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pages by vaporising common toners using a laser-based technique that doesn't damage the underlying paper. Toshiba of Japan already sells a special laser printer/copier (video) that uses a blue toner which can be almost completely erased with heat treatment. David Leal-Ayala and his colleagues at Cambridge have taken the idea a step further, though, with a method that can recover the paper from any laser printed or photocopied document. After testing and ruling out toner removal processes that use
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Re: new C4502/5502
The attachment should answer both questions...key points and what has been launched.
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City of Elyria saves $94,000 on copier contract
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ELYRIA — The city has renegotiated the contracts with its copy machine vendor, MT Business Technologies Inc., and secured a lower rate than the one obtained by former Mayor Bill Grace, who signed the contracts without using the bid process. By using the state purchasing program, Law Director Scott Serazin said the city was able to secure a savings of more than $94,281 over the life of the five-year contract. City Council will hear details of the deal soon, and Serazin said he will recommend
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Ricoh and the Select Series of MFP's?
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make more profit selling the Select line or will they give them away like everything else? (feel free to answer) The core of the issue is the comp plan, having a revenue based plan was the only way that Direct can hit their revenue goals. On one end Ricoh wants to be the "Apple" of the industry and sell value, and on the other end they give the equipment away. What's bad about wanting to make a profit? Are we now managing a dying business model based on putting ink on paper? A recent blog I
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eGain Client Canon U.S.A. to Speak at Gartner Customer 360 Summit
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Multichannel Customer Experiences for Canon," the session will start with a presentation from Ashu Roy, eGain CEO, about how a multichannel platform with rich sales and service applications helps businesses offer the experiences that customers want. Next, Joseph Warren, Canon U.S.A. SVP and GM, will discuss how Canon delivers memorable experiences across customer touch points using eGain's innovative, knowledge-powered customer interaction suite. eGain is a Platinum sponsor of the event and will also
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Kodak Gallery Continues its Mobile Innovation by Enabling Android App Users to Pin th
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creative professionals unleash the power of pictures and printing to enrich their lives. To learn more, visit http://www.kodak.com and follow our blogs and more at http://www.kodak.com/go/followus . More than 75 million people come together to manage and share photos, and create photo products, gifts and more at Kodak Gallery -- join today at http://www.kodakgallery.com 2012 Kodak and Kodak Moments are trademarks of Kodak. For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases
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Sharp Replaces President After Predicting Record Loss
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percent to 24 billion yen for this fiscal year because of weak demand, stronger competition and price declines. The business contributes to 7.8 percent of its sales. Company shares declined 5.1 percent earlier today after an analyst with iSuppli said Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) will provide the screen for Apple Inc.’s new iPad after LG Display Co. (034220) and Sharp didn’t meet the U.S. company’s quality requirements. Sharp and LG Display may start shipping panels for the new iPad in April
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Re: Subject: Ricoh Introduction of the Ricoh Select Series
quote: MFPs with “like-new” technology I think Xerox said it better "Newly Re-manufactured" Or Birds Eye "Fresh Frozen" or was it "Frozen Fresh" Can you say Oxymoron? We also re-manufacture our own equipment, but we select equipment that we have been servicing, and ones that have lower miles on it. And we typically re-manufacture Canons which I have found have a very long serviceable life. That's an advantage for the Dealer over Ricoh who will be doing a re-man on whatever comes in (not as
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Re: Ricoh Launches “start.ricoh”
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Gesh, where do I start?? The future of documents is well on the way and it seems the way we do things like printing, copying, scanning and faxing will forever change. 1. Document Services: I'd like to say it's about time for the scanning and storage and we can only guess if this is ICE or something else. A few months ago I read that HP was toying with offering print licenses for printers. I never really read much into that. But now with "Document Services" including printing, well I'm trying to
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Re: Thoughts on Convergence 2011??
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of Ricoh’s commitment to your business success, designed to serve and support our highly valued independent dealers like never before. You’ll learn how Ricoh and dealers are setting the pace in our industry, with exciting new additions to the Ricoh, Savin and Lanier family of products and with more on the expanding approach to establish sustainable business growth through Services. This year, Convergence 2012 kicks off the evening of Sunday, June 10, with a welcome reception at the Wynn. On
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Manage Print Services
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, Southeast, Southwest & Western). The vendor interested in this requirement shall be able to provide Managed Print Services which involve managing hardcopy devices such as printers in a unified fashion. https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=op...ab=core&_cview=0
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Canon to cut 400 billion yen in costs:
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(Reuters) - Canon Inc aims to cut at least 400 billion yen ($4.84 billion) in costs over four years to soften the likely impact of a strong yen and an economic slowdown in Europe, the Nikkei reported. Canon estimates that the yen's firmness will depress its operating profit by a little more than 100 billion yen from a year earlier, the business daily said. read more here
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February 2012 Sales Quota Poll
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Please take the time to vote every month, I'll post a new poll for each month! We'll even do a quarterly!
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Ricoh/Ikon Poll
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Geesh, I'm wondering how long it will take us to forget the IKON names once April 1st 2012 comes around, anyway poll see the poll question.
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Canon to cut cost using robots
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Japanese electronics company Canon plans to cut at least 400 billion yen (US$4.84 billion) in cost in the next four years by increasing the use of industrial robots in its production line, says report. A Reuters report Wednesday, citing Japanese daily Nikkei, said Canon planned to increase the use of industrial robots to make toners as well as introduce them into the production of interchangeable lenses for single-lens-reflex cameras. The company's cost cutting measure is meant to cut down on
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HP Unveils 10 Digital Printing Systems
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productively and economically for increased profitability. The HP Indigo 10000 Digital Press is a 29-inch/75-cm sheet-fed press that prints at speeds of 3,450 sheets per hour in full color, and up to 4,600 sheets per hour in EPM. It combines HP Indigo offset-matching print quality with up to seven-color printing and duplex and substrate flexibility. The HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press is a continuous-feed press designed for flexible packaging, capable of gravure-quality printing on films as thin as 10
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Oce North America Offers GRAPHIC-AL Line of Aluminum Composite Materials
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TRUMBULL, Conn., March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Oce, a Canon Group company and an international leader in digital document management and printing for professionals, today announced it now offers the GRAPHIC-ALTM collection of aluminum composite materials. This line is ideal for use with the Oce Arizona® Series UV flatbed printers and other wide format digital printing systems to produce indoor and outdoor signage and display applications. These materials will be demonstrated using
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Will Ricoh Americas move the Ricoh Corporate office to IKON Campus in Malvern, PA?
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Fujitsu To Resell Kofax VirtualReScan (VRS) Elite Image Enhancement Software In North
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years, Kofax has provided award winning solutions that streamline the flow of information throughout an organization by managing the capture, transformation and exchange of business critical information arising in paper, fax and electronic formats in a more accurate, timely and cost effective manner. These solutions provide a rapid return on investment to thousands of customers in financial services, government, business process outsourcing, healthcare, supply chain and other markets. Kofax
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PriPort RP8500 Help
We have an RP8500 that is eating our lunch, largely because we are a pretty small market and ended up only selling this one unit so experience is very limited. Any chance I could get the name of a good PriPort Tech for my guy to call for some input and/or advice. This is at a major account of mine and Ricoh quit supporting the product so they won't participate. Any one out there that can help?
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I need PriPort RP 8500 Help
We have an RP8500 that is eating our lunch, largely because we are a pretty small market and ended up only selling this one unit so experience is very limited. Any chance I could get the name of a good PriPort Tech for my guy to call for some input and/or advice. This is at a major account of mine and Ricoh quit supporting the product so they won't participate. Any one out there that can help?
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Re: Canon shaking up the great white north
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I looked at population also and in the US would be equivulant to Ricoh giving up on the state of Delaware
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Re: Canon shaking up the great white north
yeti ·
you guys must remember the Ricoh office had maybe 4 or 5 people. WBM is significant enough in size that it will only benefit customers of Ricoh products. Ricoh Canada has always received top marks with dealer support. The Ikon merge was not as painful up here.
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Re: Introduction to Print Audit Premier
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Re: Ricoh/Ikon Poll
Jrlz ·
With the way things are going I would no be shocked if Ikon convinced Ricoh to change thier name to Ikon. LOL
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Re: Rumor has it.....
Ricoh914 ·
It makes sense that in the next few weeks there will be more changes. There is still two headquater buildings. All the sales division that has yet to change. Overlapping buildings (IKON/RBS) in certain areas. Best of luck to anyone let go.
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Re: Rumor has it.....
GMAN ·
Ricoh laid off roughly thirty (30) employees in their IT Department last week and they were legacy 'Ricoh' folks. Meaning, IKON IT personnel were protected and are still employed. I think I mentioned this before, but a friend of mine stated that Ricoh Inventory Control / Logistics / and Administration are moving to Malvern, PA. They were given 18 months to decide if they will relocate or take packages to leave. My money is on Malvern becoming Ricoh HQ during the FY2012 fiscal year. The focus at
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Re: Rumor has it.....
I spoke to someone at Ricoh yesterday who told me that they were being laid off on March 31st 2012. This seems to coincide with the April 1st final merge (with the Ikon name being retired). I am sure that they are not the only person getting laid off at the end of the month.
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What is everyone seeing in the market on pricing?
KM 1200 - cash price and clicks? Xerox Nuvera 144/200/288 - cash price and clicks? Oce - 200/250/320 - cash price and clicks? Thanks!
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MPSA 2012 Leadership Awards Will Be Presented May 25 at Transform 2012 Global Confere
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PRESS RELEASE MPSA 2012 Leadership Awards Will Be Presented May 25 at Transform 2012 Global Conference MPSA Joins Conference as Gold Sponsor Columbus, OH – March 14, 2012 –The Managed Print Services Association (MPSA) will present the winners of the 2012 MPSA Leadership Awards at a special ceremony on May 25 at the Transform 2012 Global MPS Conference in Orlando, FL. In addition, the MPSA has joined Transformation 2012 as a Gold Sponsor. The MPSA is sponsoring the special conference lunch
