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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Last Week of February 2010)

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Recently we had a contest for all of the salespeople at Stratix.  It was not a demo contest but more about telling the awesome Stratix story to our clients.  There were judges and then group winners for each branch. The group winners would then have the face off.  Years ago we had this contest and I failed miserably, I was so bad that I wanted to be shot. 

I have a hard time memorizing anything that has to be word for word, not sure what my issue is but I have an issue.  This will make a good blog will write more on this later this week.

Enjoy These Awesome Threads from Ten Years Ago This Week!

Ricoh and Kodak Expand Relationship Through Extension of Reseller Agreement

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/government in-plants, data centers, commercial print providers and other production environments as part of a comprehensive production portfolio. In addition to the KODAK NEXPRESS and DIGIMASTER Systems, both Ricoh and IKON may also sell KODAK Document Imaging Solutions and KODAK Unified Workflow Solutions, including CREO Color Servers such as the CREO C-80 Server that interfaces with the RICOH Pro C900 Color Production System. "This agreement underscores our commitment to expand our reach and
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IBM and Ricoh Deliver Intelligent Print Monitoring and Management System

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. Underscoring the need for better print-related cost controls is recent Gartner research data which indicates that organizations that manage their printer, copier and fax fleets can save between 10-30 percent of their print costs. "This new, enterprise-class system will give our global customers complete visibility across their fleet of printers and MFP devices, helping them to better manage and optimize printing as an office function," said Hede Nonaka, executive vice president, Marketing & Document
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Print Mgmt/Copier Sales Representative - AZ, CA, CO

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Seeking experienced Copier/Print Management Sales Professionals for well-established company. We have 4 locations to select from: Irvine, CA San Diego, CA Phoenix, AZ Denver, CO Competitive Salary, Commission, Expense Allowance and Full Benefits. For Confidential Consideration and Details Email Resume to Jobs@CopierCompass.com
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Konica Minolta Receives Multiple ‘Pick’ Awards from BLI

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Ramsey, NJ ( Vocus / PRWEB ) February 22, 2010 -- Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. ( Konica Minolta ), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced that Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) has awarded Konica Minolta three 2009 Fall “Pick” Awards for the bizhub® C360/C280/C220 Series of Color MFPs in the A3/Ledger Color MFP segments, as well as awarded an "Outstanding Achievement Award" for Konica Minolta's bizhub C
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MJ Flood wins exclusive Konica Minolta distributorship

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MJ Flood has distributed since 2003. The appointment follows the recent acquisition by Xerox of Irish Business Systems, which had previously distributed the Konica Minolta brand in Ireland. MJ Flood will distribute the entire range of Konica Minolta products, including the latest print management services such as the Optimized Print Services (OPS) that manage printing infrastructures and services to fit individual business needs. MJ Flood director Michael Power notes: "We have had a long
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Konica Minolta and Nuance eCopy Receive BERTL’s Best Award for Integrated Scanning So

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Ramsey, N.J. – February 25, 2010 – Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced BERTL® Inc (BERTL) has awarded the 2009 BERTL's Best Award for Best Integrated Scanning Solution to Konica Minolta and Nuance for the eCopy ShareScan® solution designed for integrated Konica Minolta multifunctional printers (MFPs – print, copy, fax, scan all-in-one system
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Ricoh America's Corporation,

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multi-functional devices (MFD), commonly referred to as copiers, are technically unacceptable and were not on the firm's General Services Administration (GSA) schedule contract is denied, where the record confirms that the awardee's MFDs met all of the requirements of the solicitation and are, in fact, on the firm's GSA schedule contract. DECISION Ricoh America's Corporation of West Caldwell, New Jersey, protests the award of a contract to Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc., issued by the
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Canon U.S.A. Introduces Three New imagePROGRAF Large Format Printers

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Modes, these new imagePROGRAF models provide an extremely high level of photographic and proofing quality prints. The new imagePROGRAF iPF8300, iPF6350 and iPF6300 are compliant with U.S. ENERGY STAR energy-saving standards and RoHS compliance standards. The new Canon imagePROGRAF iPF8300, iPF6350 and iPF6300 large format printers will be on display at WPPI booth 401 in Las Vegas, NV from March 8-10, 2010. The imagePROGRAF iPF8300/6350/6300 will start shipping in March for a manufacturers suggested
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TOSHIBA LAUNCHES ENTERPRISE DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

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Solutions Inc. Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) manages product planning, marketing, sales, service support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has five divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products Division; the Document Solutions Engineering Division; the International
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SOUTH FLORIDA - Seeking Copier Sales Professionals

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Seeking Copier Sales Executives for Tier 1 Direct Manufacturer. Major Account Executive - Miami, FL Sales Manager - Miami, FL Account Executive - Ft. Lauderdale, FL Senior Account Executive - West Palm Beach, FL For Confidential Consideration and Details Email Resume to Jobs@CopierCompass.com
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COPIER AGREEMENT – Kyocera Taskalpha 300ci

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COPIER AGREEMENT – Kyocera Taskalpha 300ci Trustee McGrew made a motion, seconded by Trustee Abdo-Rott to approve the Lease Agreement with Upstate Office Equipment for $207.00 for 48 months for a Taskalpha 300ci Multi-Functional copier unit. Motion carried; 6-0. http://manliusvillage.org/Util...=92&type=minutes
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Copier contract to save district $250,000 over next five years

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W. HOLMES DISTRICT -- A new copier contract is projected to save the district $250,000 over five years. Treasurer Jamie Zeigler informed the board Wednesday a contract with Graphic Enterprises, Canton, has come in at $51,300 less than the previous contract with Xerox. The contract was arrived at after taking quotes from several providers, Zeigler said, and based on input from office personnel. The contract, for $48,700 a year, is lease to own and includes a maintenance agreement. The contract
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EFI Launches EFI XF 4.1 Color Management System for Commercial, Sign & Display, Packa

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. It lets users scale, rotate and crop jobs. The Cut Server option can drive up to eight cutting engines at a time. In addition to the new EFI Cut Server Option, a new "Print & Cut" option increases productivity by enabling one-step printing and cutting, alternatively cutting-only, on "Print & Cut" supported printers. Enhanced Linearization EFI XF 4.1 includes a new wizard for the creation of advanced linearizations for any VUTEk printer/ink/media combination. In addition to improved ease-of-use
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Canon is preparing to launch 5 new b/w A3 MFPs

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- Canon is preparing to launch 5 new b/w A3 MFPs, the imageRUNNER 2500 series. Details: - will range from 20 to 45ppm - will not utilize the new ADVANCE print controller technology - will based on current imageRUNNER IR-3220 platform
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Xerox chooses president of customer operations

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Xerox Corp. said Friday that Armando Zagalo de Lima, who leads its European business, will become will its become president of global customer operations. In his new role, Zagalo de Lima, 51, will be responsible for Xerox's sales, service and customer administration business in North America and developing markets along with Europe. He will assume the new role on March 1. The company also said Russell Pea****, 51, will become president of Xerox North America. He had been the head of Xerox's
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BB&T awards exclusive five-year managed print services contract to Lexmark

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from 30,000 competitive devices to approximately 10,000 new Lexmark laser printers and multifunction products (MFPs) in support of the company's cost savings and business initiatives. "Lexmark's extensive managed print services capabilities and experience became clear to BB&T during this print optimization project," said Ken Hernandez of Enterprise Spend Management at BB&T. "We selected Lexmark because of the company's thought leadership and the clear experience they have to drive this type of
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Re: competing against xerox docucolor 252

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It is a very good box but like anything it has its pluses and minuses. Beauty is in the customer. You need to really dig deeep and find out what apps they are running and combat it from there. The only competition I see is the Minolta and Canon but the are distant. Also becareful of the Xerox 700 Digital Press (which is nice fit between the 242-252-262 and 5000) it is a very good box and addresses most of the issues in the previous post.
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Canon ir ADVANCE models in field

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Has anyone had any placements of these yet? If so, what has your customers experience been so far?
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Color Printer Lead for Manhattan

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Color Printer Lead for a large company in Manhattan, email me for the lead. You'll need to be a Premium Member for six or 12 months!
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Cape school board ready to take copier company to court

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Cape school board ready to take copier company to court Tuesday, February 23, 2010 By Alaina Busch ~ Southeast Missourian Cape Girardeau School Board members were poised to seek legal action Monday night after learning about problems with a contract with a local copier supplier. "I would like to have the administration explore legal recourse," said board member Dr. Steve Trautwein, after the board voted to accept a bid with a new company. The district is at the end of a three-year lease
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MP 6001 print driver issues

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I just installed several of these & some MP 5000s & 4000s at a healthcare client of mine that uses an ERP called Centricity. We rolled out the PCL 6 drivers from the server, but the client had the following complaints when printing: [LIST] Inability to use Locked Print function (setup properly in driver but prints out immediately) Inability to print Landscape documents in landscape. They print in portrait. Yes, there was paper in the machine landscape. Top of some pages is cut off Finisher does
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Orbis won't tender 10% of Oce to Canon offer

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TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Orbis Portfolio Management Europe affirmed Tuesday that it would not tender its 10% holding in Oce NV /quotes/comstock/24s!e ce (NLCE 8.59, +0.00, +0.03%) to Canon Inc.'s /quotes/comstock/13*!caj/quotes/nls/caj (CAJ 41.38, -0.05, -0.11%) /quotes/comstock/!7751 (JP:7751 3,720, -105.00, -2.75%) offer for the Venlo, Netherlands, imaging-technology producer, calling the proposed deal price inadequate. The statement follows reports that two other Oce holders asked a Dutch
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Lexmark Launches Evernote App for SmartSolution Printers

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Feb 23, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Evernote, a Web service designed to allow users to easily capture and store information, memories, and content in any environment, today announced the availability of the Evernote SmartSolution for three inkjet all-in-one (AIO) printers -- Interact, Prestige and Platinum -- from Lexmark International, Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!lxk/quotes/nls/lxk (LXK 33.16, +0.13, +0.39%) . The Evernote SmartSolution application allows users to send
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RISO Signs Vendor Agreement with Sir Speedy, PIP Printing, and Signal Graphics

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available from other print service providers.” Printing up to 150 pages per minute, ComColor inkjet printers are the fastest cut-sheet printing systems on the market. Easily handling volumes of up to 500,000 pages per month, ComColor’s no-heat imaging system offers increased reliability, reliability, and low operating costs. “The high speed and VDP versatility of RISO’s ComColor inkjet printers will help expand our offerings to our customers,” said John McNew, manager of vendor relations for Franchise
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For all you KonicaMInolta Fans!!

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Check it out http://futureishere.biz/technology/en
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competing against xerox docucolor 252

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has anyone had any success beating out these docucolors? or are they the best color out there production...
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New!! Copier Manufacturers Quiz!

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Make your own Quiz!
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Re: Green Initiatives

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another piece would be to discuss energy efficiency. Your system might use less $/yr in energy costs, sure the dollars aren't huge but in a deal where there are 5 serious bidders everything counts. If you're selling Ricoh they have that TCO/proposal builder that can show an accurate comparison to competitive equipment.
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Re: Rumor has it.....

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quote: Originally posted by vwrome: What will be in store at IKON/RBS the next five weeks? It seems that very little is known by anyone. Heard today, that everyone at Ricoh besides sales has to take a one week furloug "not paid" before April 1st, 2010
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Re: competing against xerox docucolor 252

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5500/C6501, or you WILL lose. The best thing you CAN do, if your customer has a 50,000 + volume monthly, is pit Xerox against Xerox, by telling your customer only the Xerox 5000 can realistically do that volume (that will pit 2 different Xerox salespeople against each other - since the ones who sell the 204-262 are not the same who sell the 5000....) Hope this helps.
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ComColor FAQ's

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spectrum of applications. The best way to know if a ComColor printer is right for you is to speak with a sales specialist and schedule a product demonstration. Does your printer slow down when running color? No! The ComColor printers will run at rated speed regardless of if they are printing color or pure black and white. The variables that affect printing speed on the ComColor printers are paper length, and quality setting selected (maximum speed is based off of 8.5” x 11” fed with the 11” lead
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Northeastern Illinois University RFP #MFD2010 Request for Proposal:

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Northeastern Illinois University RFP #MFD2010 Request for Proposal: Multi-Function Copiers and Cost Recovery Systems First published Friday, February 19, 2010 Sealed proposals will be accepted at the address below until 3:00 PM, Friday April 9, 2010: Purchasing Department Building C, 4th Floor 5500 North St. Louis Avenue Chicago, IL 60625-4699 The Board of Trustees of Northeastern Illinois University is seeking Proposals from qualified firms to provide and maintain a fleet of multi-function
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ITEX Rotates to East Coast for 2011 - Bigger, Better, Enhanced

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provide added value, especially for the Hybrid Dealer attendees. Now they will have a chance to see more suppliers as well as the unique ability to network with thousands of the largest buyers of office technology.” ITEX, supported by the company’s publication, imageSource magazine, acknowledged early on that technology has changed and there is a need to understand the ensuing mind set of the customer/buyer more than ever before. As standalone copier/printer devices have evolved into integrated
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PRESS-SENSE ANNOUNCES MANAGEMENT CHANGES

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relationships through alignment, transparency and execution. I have already begun making changes inside Press-sense to reflect this new direction.” Customer Quote Consolidated Graphics (CGX), headquartered in Houston, Texas, is the largest digital printer in the world and one of North America’s leading commercial printing companies, (No. 10 in the Printing Impressions Top 400). Ric Davis, EVP of Operations at Consolidated Graphics Inc. (CGX) says, “We welcome the new focus at Press-sense and in
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EFI XF 4.1 Drives Epson Stylus Pro WT7900 to Provide High-Quality Proofing for the Mo

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reverse print); selectable white ink printing modes (bounding box, image areas only or white spot color channel only); opacity simulation for transparent media; support of multiple white channels and support for up to two control strips printable with and without white. EFI XF 4.1 for the Epson Stylus Pro WT7900 comes pre-installed with output profiles for all Epson proofing media including ClearProof and CrystalClear Film. It supports the latest Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.6 operating systems. “The
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Raster to Vector Auntie advises on CAD and CNC conversion agonies

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flexible professional options. In addition, the Raster to Vector Auntie blog contains articles about associated subjects, like the availability and price of A1 / D-size and A2 / C-size scanners. Among Raster to Vector Auntie's most recent postings are: Taking photographs for raster to vector conversion Do affordable A2 / C-size scanners exist for CAD and CNC work? What is resolution and why is it important for raster to vector conversion? Why are web images usually unsuitable for raster to
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Re: Questions

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I would like to hear from anyone that has some insight on the new Bizhub color production 80 PPM system. I heard from a customer that they were shown this unit in a "behind the scenes" preview at Print 09 and that KM would be launching it this spring. From what I gathered, they beefed up the g/m² , changed the feeding mechanism, tighter registration and would share the accessories as the b/w 1200 unit. Very curious to see where it is positioned relative to Ricoh's production products.
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Re: CALIFORNIA DEALERSHIP LOOKING FOR COPIER TECHNICIAN

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Hi - we're a staffing firm exclusively for the copier industry, headquartered in Northern, NJ. We have a large candidate pool of Ricoh Certified technicians. If you need assistance, feel free to contact me Ariana 888-611-2679 ext. 706 jobs@CopierCompass.com
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Re: Rumor has it.....

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quote: Originally posted by M138: I wonder if that will work with reynolds and reynolds. Those bastards changed their print stream to only work with lexmark. Reply from my Lexmark DSM regaring whether the BSD models are compatible with Reynolds & Reynolds and whether or not there would be embedded connectors available for RR: "- There should be no compatibility issues with any of the BSD models connecting to the R&R system. Their print streams are standard PCL. - We have never done any work
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Re: Rumor has it.....

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there is something not standard about that stream.I've tried it before w/ RPCS, PCL/Universal Print Driver, PostScript and all were complete failures. I put in another box w/ emulated postscript and had some better results but still the output wasn't right and the trays wouldn't switch.. had an SE d/l print streams and send them up the line, on and on.. The thing that is really frustrating about it is to put yourself in the customer's shoes.. they are being pushed around pretty hard right now
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Re: Rumor has it.....

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In Ricoh, I meant RBS, & IKON!
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Re: Green Initiatives

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I totally agree. The difficult thing is that all of the dealers & direct ops are trained on the same selling features, so even if we are all showing the same data, RBS/IKON will always give the equipment away for nothing, so while the data is good, the value of a local dealer can only overcome so much when their price is 20% lower.
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Re: Not AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

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come on guys....you know the sales manager is going to say that you need to close your business befor the end of month...gotta quit training your customers to buy that way..lol
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Re: mps assesments

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Are you looking for something start to finish? If you are a Ricoh dealer they have great templates through Ricohproposes.com
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Re: competing against xerox docucolor 252

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I agree with Boston Mike's comments on finding out what the prospect is looking for. I have sold the C6501 and C5501 against the Xerox and I have won for certain reasons and lost for other reasons. Xerox has good image quality, but has demonstrated poor paper handling. I disagree that the Xerox 700 has addressed a lot of issues. If you look closely, the 700 engine has not been updated, they are using the same technology as the DC242,252,260 models. The only thing that has been added is a
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45 MFP RFQ in India

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http://cwprs.gov.in/tender/copier%20doc.pdf
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Paradigm Releases imagePRO Ci24HD Scanner

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PARADIGM IMAGING GROUP 1590 METRO DRIVE #116 COSTA MESA, CA 92626 714-432-7226 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jane Napolitano Email: jane@paradigmimaging.com Web site: http://www.SCANtopia.com Paradigm Releases imagePRO Ci24HD Scanner Costa Mesa, CA – February 22, 2010 – Paradigm Imaging Group, a leading distributor of large-format scanning and printing solutions, announces the release of the imagePRO Ci24HD 24” Color Scanner. The imagePRO Ci24HD is a compact yet powerful scanner designed for
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A2iA Named Among the KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management for th

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A2iA Named Among the KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management for the Third Consecutive Year A2iA honored for its development of innovative solutions that solve complex business issues. NEW YORK, February 23, 2010 – A2iA, the worldwide leading developer of handwritten and machine printed text recognition, information extraction and intelligent classification of paper documents, announced today that KMWorld named A2iA among the 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management
 
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of February 2010)

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Still chatting about today. It was an awesome day for me. For something that I didn't think I would perform well in, let's just say I nailed it.  Yes, there's still plenty of fight in this old dog when it comes to selling!

Enjoy these threads from Ten Years Ago This Week!

Océ and Konica Minolta revise production print alliance

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marketing manager for production printing at Konica Minolta Australia, told ProPrint the two companies will continue to sell OEM products under a revised agreement. "As far as our OEM relationship goes, we will continue to sell each other's products," he said. Both companies will also continue to supply consumables and parts, and offer after-sales service for products already in the market. The termination of the R&D alliance was widely expected after Canon pounced on Océ. If the deal completes
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Konica Minolta Partners with Avanquest Solutions

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Konica Minolta has formalised its relationship with Avanquest Solutions with a partnership agreement, which adds desktop network fax capability to Konica Minolta’s Multi Function Printers (MFPs). Gartner - Predicts 2009: Print Technologies Enable Cost Savings and Revenue Growth, stated that by 2012, 80% of organisations will have an enterprise fax solution. The partnership offers new business opportunities for both organisations to leverage the power and flexibility of network fax - to automate
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Print Mgmt/Copier Sales Representative - AZ, CA, CO

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Seeking experienced Copier/Print Management Sales Professionals for well-established company. We have 4 locations to select from: Irvine, CA San Diego, CA Phoenix, AZ Denver, CO Competitive Salary, Commission, Expense Allowance and Full Benefits. For Confidential Consideration and Details Email Resume to Jobs@CopierCompass.com
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KYOCERA Develops World's Fastest Thermal Printhead for Card Printers

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10,000 units/month after one year *1 The KLE Series is the industry's fastest thermal printhead for desktop card printers (based on Kyocera's research as of February 9, 2010). *2 Real edge printheads place the heating element on the edge of the substrate to enable printing without bending the media. Real edge printheads are mainly used for rigid materials such as plastic cards. For more details about the Kyocera KLE Series Thermal Printhead: http://global.kyocera.com/news/2010/0203_kvpn.html About
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Konica Minolta Receives Multiple ‘Pick’ Awards from BLI

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Ramsey, NJ ( Vocus / PRWEB ) February 22, 2010 -- Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. ( Konica Minolta ), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced that Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) has awarded Konica Minolta three 2009 Fall “Pick” Awards for the bizhub® C360/C280/C220 Series of Color MFPs in the A3/Ledger Color MFP segments, as well as awarded an "Outstanding Achievement Award" for Konica Minolta's bizhub C
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New Photizo Managed Print Services Study Reveals Significant Changes in Customer Bran

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February 16, 2010 – Versailles, Ky – According to the Western European MPS Tracking Study recently released by Photizo Group, HP, Canon and Xerox, held on to their managed print services (MPS)leadership positions in Western Europe during 2009, with Ricoh as the next strongest brand, challenging to enter the leadership group. HP maintained its leading position in brand strength, and Canon remained the leader in brand experience. Xerox increased in both brand strength and brand experience from
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Ricoh Production Printing

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I received an RFP this morning for an In-Plant CRD that runs between 1.5 million impressions & 4.5 million impressions per month shared between (2) DocuTech 6180's that occassionally Tape Bind. I'm pretty sure that none of the Ricoh Pro Series can handle this type of volume (based on specs, not experience), but does anyone have any production systems in the field running this type of volume? What competitive options existing outside of Xerox?
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Canon U.S.A. Introduces Three New imagePROGRAF Large Format Printers

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Modes, these new imagePROGRAF models provide an extremely high level of photographic and proofing quality prints. The new imagePROGRAF iPF8300, iPF6350 and iPF6300 are compliant with U.S. ENERGY STAR energy-saving standards and RoHS compliance standards. The new Canon imagePROGRAF iPF8300, iPF6350 and iPF6300 large format printers will be on display at WPPI booth 401 in Las Vegas, NV from March 8-10, 2010. The imagePROGRAF iPF8300/6350/6300 will start shipping in March for a manufacturers suggested
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Canon and Fujitsu Join Forces on Managed Services

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Use of cloud-based services enables integrated operations and management of printing and IT equipment - Tokyo, February 16, 2010 - Canon Inc. and Fujitsu Limited today announced their plans to collaborate in offering cloud computing-based managed services for printing and other IT equipment. The services will combine Canon's print management and operations technologies with Fujitsu's cloud-based IT management services to deliver an integrated package of solutions. Until now, Canon and Fujitsu
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TOSHIBA LAUNCHES ENTERPRISE DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

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Solutions Inc. Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) manages product planning, marketing, sales, service support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has five divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products Division; the Document Solutions Engineering Division; the International
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TOSHIBA AMERICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. INTRODUCES E-BRIDGE DOCUMENT LIBRARY

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Solutions Inc. Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) manages product planning, marketing, sales, service support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has five divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products Division; the Document Solutions Engineering Division; the International
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Managed Print Services Expert David Cameron to Speak at IKON Event in San Antonio

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February 16, 2010—San Antonio—David Cameron, PhD, senior consultant and partner at Photizo Group, will speak at the IKON Office Solutions’ Digital Discovery event in San Antonio, Feb. 18, 2010 about the emergence of managed print services as an untapped source of potential IT cost savings. “MPS is an emerging approach to outsource the office printer/copier fleet management to a competent 3rd party and in the process attain significant gains in cost reduction, productivity and energy
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COPIER AGREEMENT – Kyocera Taskalpha 300ci

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COPIER AGREEMENT – Kyocera Taskalpha 300ci Trustee McGrew made a motion, seconded by Trustee Abdo-Rott to approve the Lease Agreement with Upstate Office Equipment for $207.00 for 48 months for a Taskalpha 300ci Multi-Functional copier unit. Motion carried; 6-0. http://manliusvillage.org/Util...=92&type=minutes
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"Staples Enters Managed Services With New Division......Includes Printer Management"

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server and desktop support Printer fleet management Data center assessments and supplies Procurement software that leverages Staples e-commerce Competitive Takeaway: While details are still vague, Staple describes its "Print Management Service Offerings" to include bundled services and flexible payment options. Additional research is underway to determine the extent of its MPS capabilities, targeted customers, third party providers, etc.... A potential threat to Ricoh dealers Staples claims there is
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Sales Software Discussion

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How many of you are using software to manage your sales and if so, do you feel like you spend more time entering data and less time selling? For the life of me, I feel that I'm a hamster on a treadmill and can't get off!
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Print Audit® To Exhibit At ITEX Hybrid Dealer Event In Las Vegas

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the United States. For more information on Print Audit, please contact: Angela Onstine 1.877.412.8348 pr@printaudit.com http://www.printaudit.com Facebook: http://www.printaudit.com/facebook Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/PrintAudit Outside of North America, please contact: Print Audit - Europe +44(0)1483 726206 http://www.printauditeurope.com info@printauditeurope.com Print Audit - Australasia +612 9922-3756 http://www.printauditaustralasia.com Print Audit - South Africa
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Canon launches ‘Business Leap’ competition

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the professional print industry, Canon UK, world leader in digital imaging solutions, has today announced the launch of its pan-European ‘Business Leap’ Competition. A third Canon Insight report named ‘Redefinition of the digital printer’ highlights that many print service providers would not have survived the downturn without a digital printing capability. In response, Canon has launched a competition to both encourage printers to consider new ways to develop their businesses (or start new ones
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Kodak i1405 Scanner Helps Small-to-Medium Sized Businesses Focus on Increasing Organi

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, non-conventional print-outs. Users that need to share and manage their essential information across multiple locations can benefit from the one-click output destination and image-enhancing features of the i1405. Kodak’s Smart Touch Feature helps users easily scan to email, file, and other desktop locations. An intuitive interface with USB 2.0 connectivity also provides the simple transfer of images. Accuracy of data in scanned images, another important component of business process management, is
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Print Audit® To Exhibit At ITEX Hybrid Dealer Event In Las Vegas

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Facebook: http://www.printaudit.com/facebook Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/PrintAudit Outside of North America, please contact: Print Audit - Europe +44(0)1483 726206 www.printauditeurope.com info@printauditeurope.com Print Audit - Australasia +612 9922-3756 http://www.printauditaustralasia.com Print Audit - South Africa +086 110 5777 (Within South Africa) +27 11 531 1869 (Outside South Africa) www.printauditsa.com info@printauditsa.com Print Audit – America Latina +55(21)2220 0939 www
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WYNIT, Inc. Announces Distribution Partnership with EFI

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drop-ship services. WYNIT operates multiple warehouses to provide coast-to-coast coverage. For more information, call WYNIT at 1-800-GO-WYNIT or visit www.wynit.com . About EFI EFI (www.efi.com) is a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation. EFI's award-winning solutions, integrated from creation to print, deliver increased performance, cost savings and productivity. The company's robust product portfolio includes Fiery® digital print controllers and solutions; VUTEk
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InfoPrint Drives Growth with Boost to Channel Program

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Boulder, Colo., February 10, 2010- InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today unveiled a new 2010 incentive plan for its Solutions Partners in the US and Canada. This coincides with the addition of specialized territory managers and product segment leaders, so that all InfoPrint Solutions Partners have the tools, resources and training required to support their ongoing sales success. InfoPrint’s resellers are engaged across its extensive product line and can now
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Re: Here's the deal

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The imagepress is about $25,000 more retail and offers a lot more professional finishing features than the Ricoh. The Canon also has a better reputation in the production printing market. Usually when people look at gear this fast they really pay attention to reliability and quality of build. There is a lot of metal in the Canon, not as much in the KM and mostly plastic in the Ricoh.
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Sales Software

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What type of sales software are we all using???
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Ricoh GelSprinter Technology Secures 2010 Vancouver Olympics

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Ricoh GelSprinter Technology Secures 2010 Canadian Olympics Three years ago, when the Vancouver Organization Committee (VANOC) considered a secure, sustainable, cost effective method for producing Accreditation Badges for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Ricoh Canada Inc. was there with the solution. For the 2010 Winter Olympics, the Vancouver Organization Committee (VANOC) had to issue approximately 90,000 badges to the entire Olympic Family including athletes, sponsors, officials, workers
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Avanti donates $185,000 in Print MIS software to NorQuest College

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the Western Canadian printing industry. “Avanti is an innovative provider of MIS software solutions to the graphic communications industry and we are thrilled to be able to offer our students the ability to gain hands-on experience with a software tool developed in Canada,” said Norma Schneider, Dean of Business and Industry Careers at NorQuest College. “Having access to Avanti’s software training will also allow Western Canadian printers the opportunity to become more productive and
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Canon ir ADVANCE models in field

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Has anyone had any placements of these yet? If so, what has your customers experience been so far?
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Color Printer Lead for Manhattan

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Color Printer Lead for a large company in Manhattan, email me for the lead. You'll need to be a Premium Member for six or 12 months!
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Re: Green Initiatives

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Speaking of Green Initiatives, we all know that Ricoh has a recycling program for all of their cartridges and that the Compatible toner manufacturers will accept single-use OEM cartridges. The difficult thing we are trying to get our hands around is what to do with Compatible/recycled cartridges since the only option seems to be to selling them to a "Drill & Fill" operation.
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Re: Need some Help!

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I don't know about the MP 4001, because we are still liquidating our inventory of MP 4000s, but from a service perspective, the document feeder basically had to have the feeder rebuilt every 100k pages, so that can create some downtime in addition to a higher CPP. Also, there is no print from USB option, it has an ARDF instead of Single-pass Duplex feeder. If there is a Postscript requirement, Ricoh does not have a standard PS3 Emulation, hence requiring a fairly expensive add-on to the system.
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Need some Help!

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Need some help from P4P Toshiba members or others who may also carry Toshiba. Are there any shortcomings with the e-studio 455? If so, can you please post. Also , if you were up against a Ricoh MP 4001, How would you sell against it? Thanx
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February 21, 2010 Abilene, Kansas

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In other business, by a 3-0 vote, the board approved Homman’s recommendation to purchase of a Xerox copier from Image Quest of Wichita for $8,700.
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ComColor FAQ's

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spectrum of applications. The best way to know if a ComColor printer is right for you is to speak with a sales specialist and schedule a product demonstration. Does your printer slow down when running color? No! The ComColor printers will run at rated speed regardless of if they are printing color or pure black and white. The variables that affect printing speed on the ComColor printers are paper length, and quality setting selected (maximum speed is based off of 8.5” x 11” fed with the 11” lead
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Re: Here's the deal

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Base unit for the Pro907 is 737 pounds. What finishing features does the Canon offer that the Ricoh does not?
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Re: CALIFORNIA DEALERSHIP LOOKING FOR COPIER TECHNICIAN

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Hi - we're a staffing firm exclusively for the copier industry, headquartered in Northern, NJ. We have a large candidate pool of Ricoh Certified technicians. If you need assistance, feel free to contact me Ariana 888-611-2679 ext. 706 jobs@CopierCompass.com

Re: booklet finishers

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Selling into a Trailer Park?
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Re: Rumor has it.....

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I wonder if that will work with reynolds and reynolds. Those bastards changed their print stream to only work with lexmark.
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Re: Rumor has it.....

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M138.... get your SE involved, there are ways around that with R&R's print stream.
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Re: Sales Software Discussion

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I use ACT and also Card Scan for my business cards. Once I scan a card in, my system automatically sync's with ACT. This saves some time, however you still need to enter any sales or follow=up information into ACT which takes time. Salesforce.com has a nice online package I may consider for my reps. You can enter info right from your blackberry, after you leave the call. Mark
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Re: Sales Software Discussion

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I use Soaring as my database which ties into OMD to allow me to see service history and lease ends for all of my clients. You can email directly from it as well as prepare all sales documents and forecasting.
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Re: Sales Software Discussion

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We used SalesChain until recently. I liked the nightly syncs with OMD...real time access to service histories. We recently switched from OMD to eAutomate and changed our CRM to Compass and lost all the SalesChain records. What I hate is the use of these programs to gauge a salesreps activity level. I find that a lot of my activity is dealing with lease companies or screwed up invoices or service issues. How do you log that activity? If you log it into the account then your data is watered down
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Re: Rumor has it.....

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quote: Originally posted by M138: I wonder if that will work with reynolds and reynolds. Those bastards changed their print stream to only work with lexmark. I have the same question after meeting w/ a customer that uses R&R yesterday.
 
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of February 2010)

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Some additional tidbits from the show I was at for the last three days. I learned along time ago that in order to be successful at these types of events that you need to engage with people when they walk by your booth.  You need to greet everyone that walks by and then ask them a question.  The question I asked the  most is where they were from, after getting a response I would then ask if they have a plotter or ask if they've ever seen a white board before.  The questions sparked conversations and lead to many warm leads along with getting to know more about their business.  Plain and simple if you don;t ask you don't get!

Enjoy these Threads from Ten Years Ago this Week!

The US Photocopiers Market to Reach 1.5 Million Units by 2015

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simplest and quickest ways of saving money in business. In addition, replacement of all network printers and photocopiers is not required when switching from colored to black and white printing, as the new age color photocopiers come with a default setting to use black and white printing with an option of using color printing when required. Photocopiers: A US Market Report Key players dominating the US Photocopiers Market include Brother International Corporation, Canon U.S.A., Inc., Eastman Kodak
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Canon demonstrates full professional print portfolio with largest ever Ipex presence

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-function and production printers, all supported by a range of value added services. Canon invests heavily in R&D to deliver the richest and most innovative products and services to satisfy customers’ creative needs. From amateur photographers to professional print companies, Canon enables each customer to realise their own passion for image. Canon believes that considering the interests of society and the environment is an integral part of good business practice. This is embodied in its
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Konica Minolta Establishes a New Company in China

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product planning and design. Currently, almost all of its office equipment are being assembled in three Chinese manufacturing sites - one in Huadong area (Wuxi) and two in Huanan area (Shilong and Shenzhen). Being close to the production sites and components suppliers, it will be possible to effectively practice value engineering (VE)*1 to further strengthen cost competitiveness. In the office equipment and production printing fields, Konica Minolta will promote unique product development which
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Canon imageRUNNER 3245i Receives Five-Star Environmental Rating from Buyers Laborator

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printing, job review to ensure first prints are accurate, and proof mode when copying. Canon Inc. and its 103 subsidiaries, including North America, Europe, Asia and Australia -- totaling more than 700 sites worldwide -- are one of the world's largest ISO-14001 Certificate Holders under a consolidated certificate. To learn more about Canon's full line of ENERGY-STAR qualified and certified products and other environmental initiatives, please visit www.usa.canon.com . About Canon U.S.A., Inc. Canon
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New Toshiba 2020C A3 Color Coming to America!

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service all Canon and Toshiba photocopier and Colour Copier Printer systems to UK businesses. PCS are based in Aylesbury, Bucks and specialise in Print Audit cost reduction consultancy mainly to companies in London. Tags toshiba, 2020c, estudio, mfp, colour, a3, copiers, lease, buy, service Email Click to email author Phone 02089121480 City/Town Central London State/Province London Country United Kingdom
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New Toshiba e-STUDIO™ Multifunction Systems Deliver Sophisticated Yet Cost-Efficient

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.com . About Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) manages product planning, marketing, sales, service support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has five divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products Division; the Document Solutions
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New Toshiba e-STUDIO™ Multifunction Systems Deliver Sophisticated Yet Cost-Efficient

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.com . About Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) manages product planning, marketing, sales, service support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has five divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products Division; the Document Solutions
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Printer Vendors Don ‘Consultant’ Hat to Push MPS

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players and business consultancy firms. The approach is similar to a business consultant who undertakes a comprehensive assessment of the infrastructure and then proposes a planned roadmap to deliver cost savings and improve efficiency. “Many enterprises do not understand that there is an opportunity to save in the printing infrastructure, and that true TCO is not limited to printers and ink” —Nitin Hiranandani, Director – Enterprise Sales and Services, Imaging and Printing group, HP India This
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Re: I need everyones opinion on this!

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I used to work for a dealership that sold Sharp (when this came out). It is a very nice box, the ultrasonic feeding in awesome, and the pricing for parts and consumables is aggressive. The mistake that Sharp made was to not do a beta program with commercial printers and other high volume users. The irony of Larry's statement is that I would not consider Ricoh a player here. They are chasing Xerox, Canon etc in Seg. 6 and 7, and are seriously held back by their lack of a production color unit.
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Ricoh makes debut into light production printer market

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Ricoh makes debut into light production printer market Tim Sheahan , printweek.com , 09 February 2010 Ricoh has made its foray into the light production printing space with the launch of a pair of new colour printers, the Pro C720 and C720S. The manufacturer is pitching the presses at commercial printers making their debut into the digital arena, as well as in-house print plants and print-on-demand businesses. Both machines can print on coated and uncoated stock at speeds up to 72ppm and at a
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Searchable PDFs processed by the Copier

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Does anyone have any experience with how fast and how accurate a Searchable PDF created by a copier's internal processor is compared to externally loaded software? I know Canon can can do it with some $900.00 MSRP add on software. Xerox can do it with their Scan Performance kit.
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Ricoh Europe Launches Business Driver Programme

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services for Ricoh production printing customers in the commercial and corporate sectors. It includes an extranet which provides unique access to web-to-print services, white papers, e-learning, consulting services and Ricoh Professional Services. The content has been developed to provide practical insights and guidance that print service providers can harness as a key part of their business development strategy. It also provides opportunities to sign up to “try before you buy” initiatives and
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Re: Searchable PDFs processed by the Copier

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I know Konica Minolta can do it on a few models with their LK105 iOption expansion kit but it is kind of expensive. Any idea if Ricoh or Sharp can do this?
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Termination of the Strategic Business Alliance Agreement with Oce

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systems. Terms of Agreement (1) Research & Development Konica Minolta and Oce will terminate the joint development and commercialization activities of cut-sheet type monochrome and colour output systems for the production printing market undertaken by both companies under the joint development agreement. (2) Sales strategy For the time being, Konica Minolta will continue to supply its office printing systems to Oce on an OEM basis from its entire production line, and both Konica Minolta and Oce
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booklet finishers

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I am competing in a deal where the customer wants a booklet finisher that will allow their finished booklets to fall into a box so they can run the system unattended. I am proposing the Konica Minolta C552 which has this type of finisher. The customer has stated the Kyocera and Canon models have this finishing option (not sure on the model numbers from each manufacturer, waiting for customer to confirm). Anyone know for certain whether or not the Kyocera or Canon models that are comparable to
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Xerox to reveal inkjet strategy at Ipex 2010

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Xerox to reveal inkjet strategy at Ipex 2010 Barney Cox, printweek.com, 09 February 2010 Xerox has promised to reveal an inkjet continuous feed press at Ipex, which will join its 490/980 toner-based continuous feed colour machine. The company wouldn't be drawn on what inkjet technology it would use, nor whether it would be based on the gel ink that it demonstrated at Drupa 2008. "Xerox has never been a single technology company," said its global business group president Eric Armour. "Six years
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What is Ricoh's APP2ME & FAQ's

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Overview Q: What is a Widget? A: Portable code that performs discrete set of functions, distributed via the internet/network Q: Will you charge for it or will it be offered free? A: The App2Me Manager and the Applet for the MFP will be free. Some widgets will be free. Others will be chargeable. Q: Will App2Me be offered by Ricoh worldwide? A: App2Me will be offered globally. Q: Where can I learn about App2Me? A: On the “About App2Me” page in App2Me.com. Set-Up Q: What products does App2Me
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Re: Searchable PDFs processed by the Copier

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eCopy ShareScan would just not be price competitive in this tender. The Konica Minolta iOption is about $400.00 dealer cost but appears at this time only to be available on their Bizhub 361 series and higher or Colour copiers.
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Re: Dealer Incentives?

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Purchasing manager's perspective here. I think that B1116 is talking about two different things when he/she asks about "programs" and "incentives". I can't quite agree with Larry that special pricing contracts such as AEPA (Konica) or US Communities (Ricoh) are incentives; I'd consider them pricing programs. I can see you'd say they are an incentive to the client, who gets to choose between commercial and the discounted contract. But, on the admin side of things, these special contracts aren't
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Lead in Indy!

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Our current lease contract for the Savin printer/copiers will end this year, and we recently issued a request for proposals to potential vendor partners to provide these devices across campus. Over the next few weeks, these selected venders will be reviewing our current printer/copier equipment and locations, interviewing key departments and others in the campus community to understand our needs, and developing proposals for our consideration. The equipment upgrade will occur during the summer
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Diversified Business Solutions Launches New Website

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. The company’s portfolio now includes managed print services, multi-functional devices, printers, scanners, and business productivity systems. The new website is easy to navigate and features information about each of Diversified’s product offerings, with an emphasis on hardware, managed print services, and document solutions. Customers can even browse the product catalog to compare new solutions products (www.dbsconnected.com/product_catalog). An important goal of the website redesign was to
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Discussion for Ricoh's PPDM

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Has anyone sold this yet? One of my questions is when we can from the MFP, can we select a folder on the network and then when the document is scanned, can it also be turned into a searchable pdf?I know ecopy can do this is a single step, however how...
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Ricoh Canada Webinar: MFP + AutoStore = SMARTmfp

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Latest News for Ricoh Ricoh Canada Webinar: MFP + AutoStore = SMARTmfp Want to learn the key differentiator between baseline capabilities of an MFP and a smart MFP?Here’s a hint: There’s only one “smart” way to send to a folder. In this session you will learn how to demo, position andsuccessful sell a “smart MFP” by taking advantage of some key, baseline capabilities only found in AutoStore. This is the most basic way to beat competition out of accounts. Date: Wednesday, February
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Copier & MFP Lease Calculator

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I ran across this today while doing some updates. This link will tell you what the interest rate is on a copier or MFP lease. Use scenario #2 for figuring the interest rate. Remember to use 20% of the purchase price in the residual value area if you are fuguring a Fair Market Value lease. If you plan on returning the equipment at the end of the term, enter zero for the residual value slot. If you are Copier & MFP Lease Calculator
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Re: Searchable PDFs processed by the Copier

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any newer (08 I think) Ricoh can do it provided you install the Java VM card which is around $170 plus the software which could be NSI auto store express for around $1300 or X-Solution's Digidocflow for around $1,000. Funny you asked about sharp - I've never sold it before so I don't know if sharp desk is an add on or if its standard or if you can buy higher end versions of it but they've been doing it for a while.
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Re: Here's some of the BS

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I completely understand! I get complaints like this DAILY concerning the sales people at Canon Business Solutions. It's really sad. The people employed by the subsidiary give the manufacturer (Canon Inc and Canon USA)a bad reputation by pulling stunts like this. Unbelievable!
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Former Chicago State employee indicted

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culture of accountability and transparency." Revelations of the copier deal came at a time when university officials, including former president Elnora Daniel, were under fire for lax financial oversight. A former Chicago State spokeswoman said in 2007 that university officials did not know Warren owned the company when they inked the deal for the copiers and paper. Warren had been instructed to get pricing from several vendors, and he said he submitted four quotes. The university bought the copiers
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2,204 NEW PATENTS IN 2009

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in 2,204 patents in 2009, bringing the Company's total to nearly 20,000 patents in the last decade. These patents have contributed to the successful introduction of many innovative products and technologies currently in the marketplace today. The EOS 5D Mark II Digital SLR camera, introduced ground-breaking full High Definition video capability to the DSLR market, the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP and imagePRESS C1+ digital printing presses delivered extraordinary quality and productivity to the
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Re: Premium Membership "What's In It For Me"

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Just a note for everyone and thanx to all of our new preium members. I have forged an alliance with another web developer that will be funneling leads our way. Right now I'm picking up the slack to get these leads. Some come from my site and some from another, however they are quality and not someone looking to beat you up on price. Remember the P4Pcafe Value. "We connect the serious multifunctional copier buyer with best of breed multifunctional experts in your area. We have thousands of
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Re: Premium Membership "What's In It For Me"

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Congrats to SalesServiceGuy in Nova Scotia, emailed you your free copy of the "How2B Sucessful at Selling Digital Wide Format Systems!
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Re: Searchable PDFs processed by the Copier

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SharpDesk is a value-added technology that comes with the equipment. This is a very powerful application. One of the reasons why Sharp has been product line of the year 2 out of the last 3 years from BLI. It would be a rare event that someone would want a searchable pdf right on the unit.....that is much easier managed at the workstation.
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Re: Searchable PDFs processed by the Copier

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quote: Originally posted by SalesServiceGuy: Does a Searchable PDF require OCR software operating in the background? Just in case it's what you meant, none of these require software running on an external computer, they all handle it at the machine.
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Re: Discussion for Ricoh's PPDM

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nice info on PPDM available of Ricohconnects.com - go to resources tab and search
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Re: Searchable PDFs processed by the Copier

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In reference to a Ricoh 3035, can ecopy embedded be used with this unit?
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Re: Dealer Incentives?

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I've never seen this, however give the incentives to the customer! Too often most incentives do not funnel to the sales person to create buy now situations.
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Re: Dealer Incentives?

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If most dealers are like mine, most incentives do not get passed on to the customer and/or the sales force. The only ones that are passed on are passed on due to the fact that they are part of the manufacturer's rewards program.
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Re: Smart Accounting

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I have had success with this application in investment firms. Much like law firms, my brokerage clients have started billing their clients for just about everything, including the prints that are required to manage their account. Granted, this is in a large market, and the brokerages have VERY high profile clients that they work with, but I found it quite interesting.
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Re: Dealer Incentives?

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You need to be more specific when you say dealer incentives. What do you mean? From my standpoint some of the programs Ricoh offer are quite good. I am speaking about US Communities, NCPG, and the hospital pricing. These are forms of incentives via pricing discounts. Of course they have ordering specials and discounts that they sometimes pass along. It is usually up to the dealer principals how they choose to pass the incentives along.
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Re: Dealer Incentives?

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Thanks for your feedback and questions. It's great to see replies from different points-of-view. Pretty much what I was looking for, and I'm sorry if I seem so vague. Art, I agree that many manufacturer programs are not even know by the sales person (or oddly, get built into their comp plans whether know it or not). From purchasing - Shaja - you make me laugh! I agree with you definition of pricing programs. Bundles or quantity purchases are a good example, but are easy to administer (cost-of
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Re: Recommended paper brands and types for color units

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quote: Originally posted by John: Does anyone have the document that shows the recommended/supported paper brands and types for the Aficio Color systems? My Ricoh product manager says he does not have them and I should be able to find them on Aficio League but I am not having any luck. Thanks, John What model number?
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Re: Rumor has it.....

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Was told last week by a Ricoh employee that Ricoh will be offering the InfoPrint (Lexmark) A4 machines soon.
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Re: Rumor has it.....

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I believe Infoprint becomes a fully owned Ricoh business After March 31st 2010. I am curios of a RBS/IKON/Infoprint merge/consolidation. That may make a powerhouse. Time will tell.
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Re: Rumor has it.....

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quote: Originally posted by Art Post: Was told last week by a Ricoh employee that Ricoh will be offering the InfoPrint (Lexmark) A4 machines soon. I heard this rumor as well and confirmed it with my Lexmark DSM. He said, however, that the Ricoh-branded products will be somewhat stripped down and will not have some of the Lexmark solutions that are available.
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Re: booklet finishers

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I personally do not know but we have Canon in our line. There is nothing of such that I have seen.
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of February 2010)

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I mentioned in the previous blog that we had our Kickoff Sales meeting for 2020 yesterday.  Rather than drive the three hours home I opted to stay over night and leave first thing in the AM.  2019 was a very good year, I was back in President's Club for the 7th time, got me a $50 gift card for winning a contest at our branch.  Maybe an old timer like me can win the Grand Prize next week, we'll see we have some talented peeps and all will be out for the glory.  It's time to bring out the old dog and pony demo show one more time!

Excellent threads from ten years ago!



Weekend Indsutry Notes from 2/1/10

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largest maker of laser print engines - In Asia, the company relabels the Toshiba MFP product line ************************************************************************************* Canon reported info on its last quarter’s financials:- Net profit of 61.6 billion yen (compared with 217.1 billion yen last year) - Sales of 954.1 billion yen down 4.1% - Digital camera sales were up, but copier/printer sales were down - Predicts that net income will rise 52% to 200 billion yen ($2.24 billion) in
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TOSHIBA PRINTER PARTS OPTIMIZATION PROGRAM PROVIDES DEALERS WITH ONE-STOP SHOPPING AN

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IRVINE, Calif., (Jan. 11, 2010) – Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS) announces its Printer Parts Optimization Program, which provides dealers with one-stop shopping for printer parts at a significant cost savings with its TABS Advance Exchange Program. The program offers a full range of alternative printer parts including OEM, refurbished and aftermarket. Dealers can now order all printer parts, including Managed Print Services parts and Toshiba-branded printer parts, directly through
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1st A3 Mono Desktop Printer From Ricoh In Five Years

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monochrome laser printers. The printer can support any combination of media types and sizes to meet every printing need with its standard 500-Sheet Paper Tray and 100-Sheet Bypass Tray. Additionally, the SP 6330N speeds up job turnaround times by eliminating the need to hire a vendor to print onto thick media as the printer can print on media up to 57 lb. Bond/120lb. Index; as well as transparencies, labels, card stocks and recycled papers to help keep every job in-house. The device also maximizes
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Sharp Takes Printing to New Frontiers: Introducing the Sharp MX Series Color and Mono

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Mahwah, N.J., January 21, 2010 – Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA) today introduced the new MX-C400P and MX-B400P color and monochrome laser printers. Augmenting Sharp’s Frontier Series, these new workgroup printers provide dealers and end-users with an easy-to-use printer that provides a low total cost of ownership and a robust feature set. Based on the award-winning engine of its MFP counterparts, the MX-C400P and MX-B400P deliver speed and functionality in a single
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Ricoh Introduces the Aficio(R) MP 4001/MP 5001 Digital Imaging System

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Ricoh Introduces the Aficio(R) MP 4001/MP 5001 Digital Imaging System Designed To Streamline Workflow and Minimize Operating Costs WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced its new Aficio® MP 4001/MP 5001 Series, the latest monochrome addition to its award-winning Aficio® Series of multifunction products (MFPs). The MP 4001 and MP 5001 will produce documents at 40ppm and 50ppm respectively, while
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Fuji Xerox aims at gap in the digital market with updated DocuColors

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, and advanced colour profiling, much like the iGen4. Henryk Kraszewski, Fuji Xerox Australia's production colour marketing manager, told ProPrint that the new presses are targeted at users who may have "outgrown" their Xerox 700 digital press, but don't need the multimillion-page production capacity of an iGen. Kraszewski said the DocuColor competed with Canon's ImagePress series, adding that few vendors offered a press aimed at the middle tier of the digital market. "The offset-like look and feel
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Oce Shareholder Hermes Raises Governance Issues In Canon Bid

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AMSTERDAM (Dow Jones)--Oce NV (OCE.AE) shareholder Hermes Focus Asset Management Wednesday in an open letter to management of the Dutch printer maker expressed its concern about governance issues surrounding Canon Inc.'s (CAJ) EUR730 million bid for Oce. "We welcome Canon's continued intention to pursue a merger, but recent filings confirm our concerns about the value offered to Oce shareholders and the takeover plans give rise to governance concerns," Hermes said in the letter. Hermes, which
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Managed print services offer South African companies low-risk way to save costs, boos

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managed service provider for all their needs. Another way that managed service providers can help their clients reduce printing costs is by looking at their existing print fleets and replacing ageing equipment where appropriate. In some cases, it will make sense to centralise printers and share them among a number of users, or to replace standalone printers, scanners, copiers and fax machines with multifunction products (MFPs). Older copiers and printers that run up high energy and maintenance costs
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Fiery VUE Paves the Way for Professional Office Printing

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, and before Fiery VUE, it was a trial-and-error process involving printing a draft, making changes, and printing again. Now, we can quickly and easily import documents from various files, format our booklets, use the preview feature to confirm everything, and print once. This all adds up to huge savings in time and paper.” “Fiery VUE is a game-changing application from EFI. We believe it will eliminate office workers’ ongoing frustration associated with searching for available printers
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PRINT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST - Sell Managed Print Services

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PRINT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST - Sell Managed Print Services Company: N/A Location: Owings Mills, MD Pay: $30,000.00 - $45,000.00 /Year Contact Information Name: Lisa Holt Phone: 410.902.3300 Fax: n/a Apply Now Job Description ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A SALES CAREER WITH UNCAPPED EARNING POTENTIAL? ARE YOU READY TO RISE TO THE CHALLENGE OF A NEW AND EXCITING OUTSIDE SALES CAREER? Then team up with Centric, a managed print services leader, for a career where YOU control your destiny. WHY WORK FOR
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Re: Will anybody buy the A3 DP-C business from Panasonic?

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Yes, they are very dependable and reliable boxes. There were rated #1 by JD Powers and Associates in 2006 and 2008 for color. They brought features to the table that at the time back in 2008 were some hot commodities. We beat Ricoh, KM, Xerox, Canon machines everyday with these boxes. I have customers that swear by these boxes. The problem for many years is that Panasonic has been very slow to bring out anything new and slowed down on the R&D side. I could never figure out why they had
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IKON Introduces New Reseller Relationship with Control Systems Copitrak®

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, Control Systems has the ideal solution. For more information, visit http://www.copitrak.com . About IKON IKON Office Solutions, Inc. (http://www.ikon.com), a Ricoh company, is a leading provider of innovative document management systems and services, enabling customers to improve document workflow and increase efficiency. IKON integrates copiers, printers and MFP technologies, and document management software and systems, to deliver tailored, high-value solutions, implemented and supported by
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Re: Konica Minolta Group Consolidated Financial Results 3Q/March 2010 ...

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Also noteworthy is that Gartner's end 2009 Q3 results show that Konica Minolta is now #2 in Color (behind Ricoh) after surpassing Xerox.
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SupplyLogic and Flushing Financial Corporation Launch Print Management

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, Senior Vice President, Solutions and Marketing for SupplyLogic added, "We look forward to supporting Flushing Bank with personalized direct mail campaign services for both B-to-C and B-to-B projects as part of our rollout." In addition to the efficiency gains and cost savings from managed print services, SupplyLogic offers variable data printing, personalization and response URL services that help improve marketing impact. About SupplyLogic SupplyLogic is a leader in the growing field of
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A bigger NCAA Tournament field could strain office copiers:

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A bigger NCAA Tournament field could strain office copiers: editorial By The Plain Dealer Editorial Board February 04, 2010, 4:31AM The NCAA is considering expanding the field for its men's basketball tournament from 65 teams to 96. Ohio State coach Thad Motta likes the idea. Cleveland State coach Gary Waters doesn't. Count us among the skeptical. As the tournament now stands, a 64-team bracket fits nicely on a legal-size sheet of paper. Bump the field to 96, and the manager of the office pool
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Ademero Partners with Ricoh Canada for Exclusive Distribution of Content Central Docu

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January 19, 2010 -- Ademero, Inc., manufacturer of the Content Central™ document management system, today announced the company has finalized its exclusive partnership with Ricoh Canada Inc., market leaders of document and content management solutions. The agreement provides Ricoh Canada with exclusive rights to distribute Ademero document and content management software products and services throughout Canada using Ricoh’s comprehensive sales channels, including its independent dealers and
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Mutoh Expands: East Coast Branch and Regional Sales Manager

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Phoenix, AZ. (February, 2010) – Mutoh America Inc., globally recognized leader and manufacturer of wide-format commercial inkjet printers, expands business. Mutoh is proud to announce Ralph Terramagra as Eastern Regional Sales Manager. Ralph will work out of Mutoh’s New East Coast branch in Woburn, MA. The East Coast office is equipped with a ValueJet1614, ValueJet 1608 HA, ValueJet 1628 TD printer and a cutter to serve as a complete demonstration site and service the widespread interest for
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Predicting the future – assessing the past

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are becoming a first port-of-call over an IT overhaul for the majority of UK companies, but these often need to be funded from immediate and cashable savings. Managed print solutions are also becoming increasingly popular. Without proper management and monitoring, a company’s daily ‘print run’ and inefficient use of printers and copiers can have a big impact on budget, security and the environment. Managed print solutions help companies use their assets more intelligently and efficiently
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New Panasonic Scanner Offers Unrivaled Document Handling Flexibility

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with proprietary Auto Image Detection and Correction technology, the KV-S1045C continues Panasonic's "Scan-It-All" tradition by supporting mixed batch scanning of documents ranging in thickness from 11 to 55 pounds simultaneously with single hard cards, stacked hard cards and/or embossed hard cards. An optional seven-pound flatbed module, the KV-SS080, provides additional flexibility and cost-savings by allowing two-page spreads, bound volumes, multiple small objects and other odd or over-sized
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Re: I need everyones opinion on this!

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When I was at the Print on Demand Show in Boston, I saw the Sharp box and at first glance it looked like a Ricoh! Now, today I got to see it again. Is everything the same except for the engine, even the engine seems similiar, it it wasn't for Ricoh having the toner on the lower left. I'd swear this was a Ricoh box. Art
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Direct Mail Partners Reducing Costs by More Than $150,000 Annually Printing Healthcar

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Direct Mail Partners Reducing Costs by More Than $150,000 Annually Printing Healthcare Documentation with Océ VarioPrint Ultra Cutsheet Printers Océ VarioPrint 6000 Ultra family helps consolidate equipment footprint and shrink monthly operational expenses by $10,000 February 2, 2010 – Trumbull, CT – Océ, an international leader in digital document management and delivery, announced today that by deploying printers from the Océ VarioPrint® 6000 Ultra cutsheet print family, Direct Mail Partners
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RENTAL & MAINTENANCE OF COPIERS

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County of Rensselaer reserves the right to reject any and all bids received and to waive any informalities discovered herein. Bidders must be authorized/certified by the copier manufacturer to sell/rent copiers in Rensselaer County, NY. The bidder must service those copiers with manufacturer trained/certified technicians. Specification and bid proposal forms may be obtained at the office of the Director of Central Service, Fifth Floor, County Office Building, 1600 Seventh Avenue, Troy, New York
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Canon U.S.A. to Showcase Its Leading Image Capturing Solutions at LegalTech Trade Sho

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Canon U.S.A. to Showcase Its Leading Image Capturing Solutions at LegalTech Trade Show Company Will Display Latest imageFORMULA Scanners LegalTech New York 2010 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Demonstrating its ability to improve efficiency, control and security for law firms and the legal marketplace, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging technologies and advanced office solutions, will showcase the benefits and versatility of its digital document scanners at the LegalTech Trade Show
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Interesting talk track on MPS from IT Pro!

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table when it comes to print costs and that we can continue to reduce these costs by outsourcing overall management of our printers to an outside group. In the past, other things have gotten in the way of looking at this managed printing service, but this time, I decided to let the company give it a shot. In their pitch, the sales person promised to either meet or beat our current costs for both toner and printer repairs and indicated that we can keep our current printer fleet intact. Over time
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Rockland Business Owner Guilty Of Tax Evasion

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Rockland Business Owner Guilty Of Tax Evasion Posted on Thursday, 4 of February , 2010 at 8:55 pm ROCKLAND COUNTY— Charles Wurf, part-owner of D.E.C. Copiers, Inc., located at 6 North Route 9W, West Haverstraw was recently charged, along with the company, with filing fraudulent New York State sales tax returns and stealing over $286,000 in state sales tax for a five year period. Wurf, 53, who resides at 63 Branchville Rd., Valley Cottage, and D.E.C. Copiers, Inc. both pled guilty on January
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Panasonic Takes Aim at Fast-Growing A4 Class MFP Market

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Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC) and the hub of Panasonic's U.S. branding, marketing, sales, service and R&D operations. Panasonic is the global leader in corded PBX/IP PBX telephony systems and offers a complete suite of office productivity solutions and home communication and networking solutions, including cordless phones, network cameras, electronic whiteboards and photo and multi-function printers that provide

Re: I need everyones opinion on this!

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I used to sell sharp and they said the mainframe was Sharp, cleansheet design. the accessories were all Ricoh.
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Re: I need everyones opinion on this!

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Hi Art Last November I was testing the MX1100 in a Sharp showroom (France) and the guy told me the mechanical parts were all RICOH but processing board + engine were SHARP. Hope this helps. Regards Charles
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Re: Panasonic Canada discontinues A3 Copier Distribution March 2011

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." # # # About Panasonic System Networks Company of America Based in Secaucus, NJ, Panasonic System Networks Company of America is a unit of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC) and the hub of Panasonic's U.S. branding, marketing, sales, service and R&D operations. Panasonic is the global leader in corded PBX/IP PBX telephony systems and offers a complete suite of office productivity solutions and home communication and
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Re: I need everyones opinion on this!

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Just goes to show you the quality of Ricoh. Sharp will never be as player in this arena. Sure looks like a Ricoh to me.
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Re: Weekend Indsutry Notes from 2/1/10

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quote: Originally posted by Art Post: Canon, in a press release, stated that it was “looking into ... nontechnology ...” I thought they were in this business already
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Re: 1st A3 Mono Desktop Printer From Ricoh In Five Years

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Does anyone understand this move? A3 Laser printer, monochrome device.
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Re: 1st A3 Mono Desktop Printer From Ricoh In Five Years

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That Ricoh won't be the next to introduce an A4 device?
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Re: A bigger NCAA Tournament field could strain office copiers:

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quote: Speaking of which... do people really do brackets on Letter/Legal? Why would you do that when 90% of offices have a connected MFP which is sure to hold 11x17? Jason has stumbled across the perfect talk track when selling against the A4 movement! What self-respecting office manager wants to do thier tournament bracket on legal size?! Thanks Jason!
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Will anybody buy the A3 DP-C business from Panasonic?

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These units are proven reliable machines in the congested 20 - 30 ppm colour MFP space, so aren't they worth anything to anybody? Surely a smaller player or somebody currently not in the space could do well with a proven performer. This is like GM closing Pontiac and Saturn instead of selling them. Nuts.
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IKON Expands Managed Document Services Offering

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offering aligns with Ricoh’s Managed Document Services program, providing direct access to global capabilities. The solution leverages the best practices of Ricoh and IKON to deliver a comprehensive solution that includes a technology platform to manage a multi-vendor fleet, combined with years of experience in solution design and system integration. IKON also announced the appointment of Terrie Campbell as Vice President, Managed Document Services to lead IKON’s managed document services strategy. In
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RFQ for 13 MFP's in India

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Description SUPPLY, INSTALLATION, TESTING AND COMMISSIONING OF THREE NUMBERS DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY MULTIFUNCTIONAL PLAIN PAPER COPIERS AND TEN NUMBERS BASIC DIGITAL PLAIN PAPER COPIERS WITH COMPREHENSIVE AMC FOR FIVE YEARS UNDER TWO COVER SYSTEM Tender Category OTHER Bid Opening Date 18/2/2010 Active Tender Country / State INDIA / TAMIL NADU Estimated Cost RS. 17.46 LAKHS Document Cost RS. 520 Reference Number 10475100122-0 Click Cost Rs.1000/- See Complete Detail http://tendernews.com/nsearch
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Premium Membership winners for Janaury 10!

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Every month we are giving away two Premium Memberships for the Print4Pay Hotel. The Premium Memberships are possible through the sponsorship of Print Audit www.printaudit.com and Dealer Marketing Systems www.dealermarketingsystems.com! Our winners are: Wideformat Guy wins a 6 month Premium Membership for "Top 5 Posters" Print Audit Sponsor Wideformat Guy wins a 6 Month Premium Membership for "Top 5 Topic Starter" Dealer Marketing Systems Sponsor Congrats and thanx for making this a great place


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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Last Week of January 2010)

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Prospecting never ends, it's the daily grind that we have a love hate relationship with. Some days are good while most are not that good, however if you continue prospecting you'll never find your pipeline dry or be on the unemployment line.  Today I came up with an idea for crafting emails. Today I was prospecting very large clients via email. My idea worked!  I love it when a plan comes together.

If someone can tell me the location of the title picture, I'll give you a free premium membership comp for a month!

Enjoy these threads from 2010!

Konica Minolta partners with Wireless Logic to pioneer the use of remote diagnostics,

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businesses everywhere. The service can also diagnose any faults or issues immediately; sending an email to the customer organisation and mobilising Konica Minolta to call out an engineer As a result, Konica Minolta has seen a reduction in its billing queue of 50 per cent and is experiencing significant savings attributed to early diagnosis and rectification of faults. Each printing unit is fitted with a GPRS module, embedded with a Wireless Logic SIM card that is remotely activated when the
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We are the Copier Marketing arm of your company your sales reps always wanted!

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In an effort to keep adding value and solutions for our members. The Print4Pay Hotel is exciting to announce a NEW Webinar " We are the Marketing arm of your company your sales reps always wanted!" Here's some prelim info on the Webinar: Having been in the printer and copier sales business for years, many of the processes used by the industry do not leverage the technology available to make sales reps and copier companies as profitable as possible. Manufacturers push MPS because they want to
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Is there a different approach?

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economy the way it is, it's probably very unlikely you will see many posts or comments from those in the industry that are taged to a manufacturer, or role within the organization." Art explained: "Other than Ricoh members, there are almost 500 members that belong to Canon, Kyo, KonicaMInolta, Sharp, Toshiba, Sharp and Xerox. I'm not sure why they are not posting in the dedicated forums, most seem to be lurking (which is ok), I would like to see more activity in the other forums, however I can
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Re: Is there a different approach?

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Check this thread out: http://p4photel.com/eve/forums...76084491/m/162102322 What we need more of is open discussions for all. We're all in the same boat, whether we're selling Ricoh, Canon, Xerox, KonicaMinolta, Sharp...etc. Sharing our ideas how how to sell more, learn more about the competition, how certain third party software will enable a solution will all help us in the long run. Having a better group effort will help all of us, there are only a handful of us that will stay at one
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WEEKAHEAD - the view from Reuters Asia news editors

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to matter most this week: * CENTRAL BANKS: Asia shifting away from easy money * STOCKS BUCKLE: Slide shows signs of having more to run * EARNINGS: Samsung, Nintendo, LG, Canon, Toshiba, Hyundai * INTERNET SPAT: Google threat twist to U.S.-China tensions ASIA TIGHTENING Central bank week for Asia -- seen shifting from easy money -- with meetings in Japan, New Zealand, India and Philippines. Unlike the rest of Asia, Japan is still in an expansionary mood but will sit tight this week (Jan
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Konica Minolta tackles document costs

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printing with desktop drag-and-drop simplicity.” Vachiat notes: "From a variable data printing (VDP) point of view, Konica Minolta SA's offering can help businesses to eliminate costly expenses, reduce time and print wastage, and improve productivity.” According to Konica Minolta, VDP is still in its infancy in SA, but is beginning to gain momentum.
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Sharp Takes Printing to New Frontiers: Introducing the Sharp MX Series Color and Mono

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Mahwah, N.J., January 21, 2010 – Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA) today introduced the new MX-C400P and MX-B400P color and monochrome laser printers. Augmenting Sharp’s Frontier Series, these new workgroup printers provide dealers and end-users with an easy-to-use printer that provides a low total cost of ownership and a robust feature set. Based on the award-winning engine of its MFP counterparts, the MX-C400P and MX-B400P deliver speed and functionality in a single
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Ricoh launches high-volume digital colour press > Edit Post

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and digital printing operations, faster turnaround times and reduced labour costs. Urgent jobs, short runs, and proofs, for example, can be easily re-routed from offset, to a digital workflow. ‘The Color Controller C-80 is a powerful colour server to streamline and control workflows. This is becoming ever more important in production printing,’ says Hezy Rotman, general manager, Kodak’s Print On-Demand Solutions Group. ‘We’re very happy to collaborate with Ricoh on developing a Creo Color Server
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Analyst issues 'sell' recommendation for Sharp

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Securities Ltd. in Tokyo, in a report. ''The shares have risen 60 percent in the past year. We believe that the stock will underperform owing to a peak in LCD panel revenue growth, overexposure to the Japan market in LCD and cell phones, and growing risk for subsidy decreases in the solar business.'' Sharp is the largest supplier of large-size LCD panels in Japan. The firm also has numerous information equipment businesses, including digital copiers/printers, data projectors, faxes, and
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Ricoh and California Polytechnic State University Open Digital Printing Laboratory

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, the company has partnered with Cal Poly's Graphic Communication Department to benefit students and the industry alike. As the cornerstone of the laboratory, Ricoh donated a fully configured Pro C900S digital color production printing system to the university's Graphic Communication Department, with on-going service donated by IKON, a Ricoh company. The partnership was first announced at Print '09 in September of last year. The Ricoh Digital Printing Laboratory will provide benefits for
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Ricoh and Equitrac Release Java-Based Version Embedded Print and Copy Control (PCC) S

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Equitrac Corporation and Ricoh Europe Plc today announced the release of the fourth generation of Print and Copy Control™ (PCC) software, embedded for Ricoh's multifunction products (MFPs) and fully integrated with Equitrac's award winning Equitrac Office® and Equitrac Express® print management solutions. Print and Copy Control (PCC) improves information security, user mobility and accountability, while reducing waste and minimizing costs. PCC, which controls device access and tracks print
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COMPETITIVE ALERT..........."Xerox Reports 4Q and 2009 Earnings"

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COMPETITIVE ALERT..........."Xerox Reports 4Q and 2009 Earnings" 2009 Full-Year Results Xerox reported corporate revenues of $15.2 billion for 2009, down 14% from $17.6 billion in 2008. Equipment sales declined by 24% to $3.6 billion from $4.7 billion in 2008. Post-sale revenue declined by 10% to $11.6 billion from $12.9 billion last year. Net income for 2009 more than doubled from 2008, to $485 million from $230 million, largely due to cost and expense management. 4th Quarter Results Total
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New University Copier Contract

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during this process. It appears the time and effort invested will result in a contract that will bring substantial savings to the university – approximately $4 million over the fiveyear term. The selected vendor providing copier multifunctional devices under this new contract, pending final negotiations, is Xerox Corporation. Although Xerox is the current vendor for campus copier program, this new contract and its pricing are very different. This new contract affects every department on campus
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IKON MDS

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provide customers with continuous improvement over time.” About IKON IKON Office Solutions, Inc. (www.ikon.com), a Ricoh company, is a leading provider of innovative document management systems and services, enabling customers to improve document workflow and increase efficiency. IKON integrates copiers, printers and MFP technologies, and document management software and systems, to deliver tailored, high-value solutions, implemented and supported by its team of services professionals. IKON
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Re: The Next One

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Considering Samsung's penchant for allowing other manufacturer's to relabel there product (Xerox & Muratec already relabel their A4) I'm curious as to whether Ricoh's A4 will be made by Samsung or Ricoh, particularly since Ricoh already relabels some Samsung printers. The other relabel option could be Lexmark because of the relationship they have w/ the Ricoh InfoPrint division. I love the new Lexmark A4 products offered to their BSD partners, by the way.
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Océ Arizona 350 XT printer and Océ PlotWave 300 system receive 2009 BERTL’s Best awar

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capable of producing rigid prints as large as 98.4 inches wide by 120 inches long. The extra width enables the printer to be used in a continuous imaging mode for rigid media up to 4-foot by 8-foot. Two rigid boards of this size can be mounted on separate vacuum areas of the flatbed table. While one board is being printed, the other can be changed by the operator. Since the printer never has to stop printing for a media change, users can significantly increase their net print production on boards
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AUXILIO and Sodexo Partnership Earns Managed Print Services Contract with Palisades M

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looking forward to the operational efficiencies and related cost savings offered through the AUXILIO managed print services program at our hospital,” said David Berkowitz, Chief Operating Officer at Palisades Medical Center. “We expect that the AUXILIO program will allow us to more effectively deploy our print resources while addressing issues of environmental sustainability.” “We are proud and honored to have the opportunity to serve Palisades Medical Center with our unique health care
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KonicaMinolta loses NJ Dealer!

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Word on the street is that Allister Business Systems has been bought by Kyocera. Seems the owner will stay on with a 3 year contract and they will continue under the Allister Business Systems name.
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Ricoh Pro C900

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- Street pricing seen in the print for pay marketplace: - Ricoh PRO C900 w/Fiery/saddle stitch/LCT/stapling finisher for $60,300 with color clicks for $0.042 and b/w clicks for $0.0079, with 11”x17” billed as one click.
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Ricoh Launches New Aficio MFPs With App2Me Solution

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Ricoh Launches New Aficio MFPs With App2Me Solution January 27. 2010 - Ricoh Americas is launching the latest additions to its monochrome Aficio family, the Aficio MP 4001/MP 5001 Series, which it rates at 40 and 50 ppm respectively, and incorporate monochrome network print and copy and color scan. The two new MFPs are also among the first to support App2Me, a new tool for customizing documents and streamlining workflow. The App2Me solution on the Aficio MP 4001/MP 5001 Series enables users to
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HP releases direct printing customers to channel

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Nadia Cameron 27 January, 2010 11:48:00 Tags: Imaging and Printing Group (IMG), HP HP is pushing more direct Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) customers through its channel in an effort to encourage partners to sell managed print services into the mid-market. HP IPG vice-president for South Pacific, Richard Bailey, said it was looking for ways to assist partners gain a stronger presence in the mid-market managed print services (MPS) space. He defined mid-market as 50-500 seats. “Historically, we
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UPDATE 3-Canon forecasts growth; says won't sweeten Oce bid

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) proposal to buy Dutch printer maker Oce NV ( OCEN.AS Canon, which posted eight straight years of profit growth before the global downturn in 2008, cut $2.6 billion in costs, broadened its ties with Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ.N [b] Continued... [/b]
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Ricoh Introduction of App2Me

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Ricoh is pleased to announce the release of App2Me. This widget solution revolutionizes the way customers use their documents, enabling them to create customized workflows and execute them anywhere they go. Key Features Download widgets to any client desktop PC, laptop or Smartphone and use them on any Savin MFP enabled with App2Me. No matter where you go, your experience at each App2Me-enabled MFP remains completely personalized for maximum convenience. Widgets can be created to simplify
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batch print web tool now includes PDF

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Ricoh is pleased to announce the availability of the new Wide Format WebPrint Tool. This batch print medium offers you the ability to direct-print HP-GL, HP-GL2 (HP-RTL), TIFF (CALS) and best of all, now includes PDF file formats through any web browser that can access the device’s IP address. Users can now change file parameters, create multiple file batch print jobs including PDFs, and print files from any PC that can access the IP address of the printing device, all without having the
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Ricoh Supports U.S. Department of Defense Standards with Notable Solutions, Inc.'s Au

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solution partners and Ricoh's direct and dealer channels, focuses on two key areas: expansion of channel marketing opportunities for RiSVP members and simplifying solution access for Ricoh sales channels. By providing third-party products through Ricoh's RiSVP program, the direct and dealer channels have more opportunities for new revenue growth and a simplified sales process. For more information on RiSVP, please visit http://www.ricohalliances.com . About Notable Solutions, Inc. NSi is a leading
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Canon EXPO 2010 New York

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IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY TO PREPARE FOR TOMORROW. SAVE THE DATE NOW FOR THE Canon EXPO 2010 New York SEPTEMBER 1- 3, 2010 JACOB K. JAVITS CONVENTION CENTER, NEW YORK CITY In 2010, Canon will provide an exclusive, by invitation only, look into the future of imaging. Canon EXPO 2010 New York offers a unique opportunity to experience Canon technology – from innovative ways to create, share and manage images, to advanced business solutions that bring emerging and familiar technologies together, to an
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Xerox DocuColor 242

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- Xerox DocuColor 242 w/embedded Fiery for $22,000 with color clicks at $0.049 and b/w clicks at $0.0129 with 11”x17” billed as one click. .
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Canon imagePRESS 1110S

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- Canon imagePRESS 1110S w/Fiery/LCT/saddle stitch/cover inserter for $51,500 with b/w clicks at $0.0035 with 11”x17” billed as one click.
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Ricoh Pro 907EX

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- Ricoh PRO 907EX w/controller/postscript/booklet maker/LCT/hole punch for $27,000 with b/w clicks at $0.0042 with 11”x17” billed as one click
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Canon IR Advance C9065

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Has anyone seen retail pricing on this unit or even street pricing?
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EFI debuts Fiery VUE, says goodbye to printer drivers

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EFI debuts Fiery VUE, says goodbye to printer drivers Jan 26, 2010 10:53 AM EFI (Foster City, CA) CEO Guy Gecht and Toby Weiss, GM/SVP of the Fiery division, waved goodbye to the print driver, this morning, as they launched Fiery VUE, "an innovative print application that makes publishing of professional-looking finished documents fast and simple for all office workers." Before printing to a Fiery-driven printer/MFP, the user can modify and preview the document on-screen in 3D. According to the
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Lead in Hawaii for Color Printer

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We've go t a lead for a color printer in Hawaii, please email if you'd like the lead, you'll need to be a premium p4p member for 6 or 12 months!1
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Lead for Midland-Lubbock, Texas 100 Plus Printers!

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Midland-Lubbock, Texas looking to replace the entire fleet and Managed Print. You'll need to be a P4P Premium Member (12 months)brbr This Lead is HOT!!! Please email me @ art@p4photel
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Panasonic Canada discontinues A3 Copier Distribution March 2011

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Panasonic Canada put out a letter to all of their dealers this week that effective March 2011, A3 copier distribution will cease. No new A3 copiers will be introduced between now and March 2011. Parts, supplies and Technical support will be available until March 2018. Panasonic will focus on A4 MFPs, Fax machines, Scanners and Panaboard presentation products.
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Supply & Maintenance of Digital Multifunction Copiers

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RFP2010-1, Supply & Maintenance of Digital Multifunction Copiers Closing Date: Feb 11, 2010 4:00:00 PM (local time) Municipality of Clarington Reference: RFP2010-1 Prequalification required: No PROPOSALS, clearly marked as to contents, for the requirements noted below, are invited to be submitted to the Corporation of the Municipality of Clarington, Purchasing Division, 40 Temperance Street, Bowmanville, Ontario, L1C 3A6. Proposals will be received until the specified closing time and date, on
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Color Printer Lead in Manhattan

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Mid volume color printer lead in Manhattan, send me an email and sign up for Premium Membership here http://p4photel.com/eve/premium
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Re: New sales chief starts at Great Copier Service Co.

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then to what I do now in the copier industry. Of course the technology is completely obsolete, but my experience buys me some serious credibility with our Print4Pay clients.
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Re: Bizhubs and Alchemy

GMAN ·
Konica Minolta does not have a "built-in" ability with our MFPs to tie directly into Alchemy. If they truly want that enhanced functionality, you would have to add on an external eCopy ScanStation, which does have an optional module to communicate directly with the Alchemy software. If they could get away with just basic scanning, all Konica Minolta MFPs can "talk" to Alchemy (or any other software requiring scanning) via the twain driver. This allows them to initiate the scan right from
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Re: Ricoh Introduction of App2Me

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The Ricoh Family Group is pleased to announce the upcoming release of App2Me. App2Me is an integrated workflow solution to simplify print and scan workflows and make them personalized and portable, allowing users to customize the MFP operation panel to their needs, and have that customized view travel with them from one MFP to another. App2Me will be released with new model MFPs starting in January, and can be installed on some existing MFP models. Please see the App2Me website at http://www
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of January 2010)

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Whew!  What an end of year!  My year ended on the 23rd of December and the next day I came down with the flu.  Been struggling for the last three weeks, and finally feeling better.  Thus, I'll be behind the eight ball again for the start of a new decade.

I was able to pump in a dozen orders, something like 18 MFP's and captured net new business revenue for the month of December.  All that at the ripe age of 62!

Enjoy these awesome threads from ten years ago this week!

UPDATE 2-Hermes joins opposition to Canon's offer for Oce

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support the transaction with Canon," the company, which competes with Xerox ( XRX.N ) and Konica Minolta ( 4902.T ), said in the statement. Canon in November offered 8.60 euros per share for the Dutch company, a 70 percent premium to the share price just before the bid. Canon said it would declare the offer for Oce unconditional if 85 percent of shares were tendered. Since the end of November, Oce shares have been hovering just below the bid price, indicating shareholders expect the offer to
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Xerox and On Demand Books Collaborate on Espresso Book Machine

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Xerox and On Demand Books, maker of the Espresso Book Machine, have teamed up to jointly market and sell the EBM with the Xerox 4112™ Copier/Printer worldwide. Under the new agreement, the 21 stores and libraries that already use the EBM will not be required to switch to the 4112, although as On Demand CEO Dane Neller points out, it is faster than the Quasar printer. The 4112 prints 110 pages per minute and can produce a 300-page book in less than four minutes. By partnering with Xerox, On
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Bay Copy named Phil O'Brien as Managed Print Services Specialist

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Park, Rockland, MA and has more than 37 years experience serving the document imaging needs of businesses throughout Massachusetts. In addition to a full line of Konica Minolta, Muratec and Lexmark equipment, Bay Copy provides comprehensive managed print services programs for customers looking to reduce both their per-print price of generating information and their labor costs. Bay Copy provides consultation services and offers their clients detailed print assessment and analysis reports. Bay
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Canon hits Océ roadblock as shareholder objects to 'meagre' bid

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Another potential hurdle has arisen in Canon's proposed acquisition of Océ, after Océ shareholder Hermes Focus Funds voiced its opposition to Canon's "meagre" bid. The news came as the Dutch digital press vendor posted a €23m (AU$36m) fourth-quarter loss, with company chairman Rokus van Iperen (pictured) forecasting that the digital printer sales market would " remain challenging" in 2010. In an open letter to the Canon and Océ boards, Hermes said it would not sell its 3.3% stake in Océ to
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February 10th---- NEW Print Audit "MIF" Review Webinar!

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. Every day Print Audit dealers increase their hardware sales “click” volumes by introducing their customers to print management. Print Audit dealer’s customers save millions of dollars while at the same time saving hundreds of thousands of trees, and all of the other environmental impacts created by making paper.” Art Post
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Ricoh Launches Pro C720/C720s Color Production System

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an open, flexible solution addressing the demanding requirements of Commercial Printers, In-Plant Print Shops, and Central Reproduction Departments (CRDs). The Fiery controller is a standard component of the Pro C720/C720s and includes a number of value-added workflow and job automation utilities such as Fiery Graphic Arts Package, Standard Edition, EFI Hot Folders, Fiery WebTools, and more. Additionally, the RICOH Pro C720/C720s offers a wide range of advanced in-line finishing options that can
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Canon Virginia Inc. names new president and CEO

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Virginia to the next level of manufacturing excellence,” Azuma said in a statement. Azuma takes over following a major expansion. Canon recently opened a $600 million, 700,000-square-feet production facility in Newport News that will produce toner cartridges for laser printers in the North American market. Azuma began his career with Canon in 1983. In Newport News, he served as project leader for the development of IRT. In 2008, Azuma was named senior vice president and plant manager of Canon
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Ricoh Pro C720

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Has anyone heard about this? Here is what someone wrote about it in another forum........"Here is some accurate info on the Ricoh C720 & C720S This is based on the C900 platform and is a slowed down version. There is no modification to turn this into the C900. The C720 will print at 72PPM and has the same Fiery that the C900 has. The finishing options are limited to Saddle Stitch booklet maker and standard finisher. The in-line perfect bind and ring bind will not work on the C720. This was done
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Xerox Caps 2009 with Outstanding Achievement Award for IT Friendliness

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multifunction printer (MFP) was given a Global Outstanding Achievement Award from BLI, in recognition of the product's innovation. Xerox's iGen4™ 220 Perfecting Press earned a Future of Print Product Must See 'em Award at Print 09, the year's largest graphic communications event. Reliable Performance PCMag.com awarded the Phaser 7500/DN with a Best Printer Award for 2009. Xerox is the only vendor to have two printers included in the PCMag.com Best Products of 2009 Roundup - the Phaser 7500 and Phaser
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New Ricoh Color Plotter

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refine the overall printing experience. Whether producing high-resolution architectural plans, highly-precise engineering drawings, extremely photographic GIS mapping output, or brilliant display signage, never before have Engineering Scientific and Creative Professionals had such powerful tools, allowing them to print their vision without compromise. * Price is MSRP before any applicable rebate. Dealer prices may vary. All prices are in U.S. Dollars. BTW this is exclusive to Ricoh and Epson is
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Need to speak with Print 09 Attendee~~~

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I heard at several of the digital copier manufactuers booths for production systems, they were also showing desktop uv coating machines. Did anyone see any of these and if so, can someone give me a specific make and model number. I've done a few searchs on the web and they went so, so. Art
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Former general counsel of Xerox Corp, charged with attempted murder

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Former Bush administration lawyer charged with attempted murder By Al Kamen John Michael Farren, former general counsel of Xerox Corp. and more recently deputy White House counsel in the George W. Bush administration, has been charged with attempting to kill his wife Wednesday night at their home in New Canaan, Conn. Farren, 57, go here for article
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Sales Management

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I noticed a post regarding policing of sales people, diaries, not enough calls, blaming the manager, etc. Can't find it again. Sales is all about ATTITUDE and DISSIPLINE? You can use the stick which i agree is also not working, you can threaten, you can do councelling, disciplinary, etc but the work rate remains the same. Most probably the job is not for the individual. All incentives, salaries, good commission package, etc is in place, it is actually to lucrative. My question is...How do you
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Re: First big annocment

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Canon buys Ricoh.
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Re: P4P member and long time friend says Adios to the Industry!

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MONTECORE! Excellent post! I feel your pain and agree with all of your points! There are selling managers and truth be told, don't expect any decent leads when you company has selling managers. You'll prety much get the small stuff or the off product stuff that they know little or nothing about. Which leads me to: How can you do two things at once. How can you be an effective sales manager and sell? Personally, I don't think you can. There's not enough hours in the day! Get this, there are
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TOWN OF NEW CANAAN

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New Copiers – Mr. Malley presented a request to enter into a contract to lease nine new Toshiba e-Studio multifunctional copiers from Prism Office Solutions for $1,176 per month for 48 months plus a flat rate of .0042 per black and white copy. Prism was the low bidder who met all of the specifications in the request for proposals and Mr. Malley will be checking the references provided by Prism. Mr. Mallozzi made the motion, seconded by Mr. Walker, to approve this request as presented. The
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ACE Copy Systems, Inc. launches ACE IT Solutions

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infrastructure and utilizing technology to support their clients’ success. “Our new business features a complete portfolio of IT services that enable our clients to have a single company as a point-of-contact for their copier, printing, scanning and IT services. The creation of ACE IT Solutions, with its technology services platform, is a clear illustration of our commitment to delivering a full suite of products to our clients,” says Erman. As part of their commitment to delivering value to their
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Re: P4P member and long time friend says Adios to the Industry!

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I believe I know who you are talking about. They lost a good rep. It is alwasy unfortunate when management runs a talented and valued sales person out the door because of the companies inflexability.
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Re: P4P member and long time friend says Adios to the Industry!

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own job. Guess what they make the big commission and you waste your time doing their work and make nothing. Wait isn't that a conflict of interest? You betcha it is! They take major accounts that another rep brought to the table for the company when it should have been the reps. They take pretty much every current customer even when there are territories. They allow house accounts even though the sales force has territories. Isn't that crazy! The list goes on. They may be a good closer
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Re: P4P member and long time friend says Adios to the Industry!

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Thanks to all for the kind words. I will have always have copiers in my blood and who knows maybe you will see me at another dealership. I will still be involved here and might even make it down to On Demand with Art. Stay true to yourself and your family. If you are at a company that clips your wings, go find a company that will let you do your thing. I will leave you with this from the Song "Chicken Fried" from the Zac Brown Band: "And its funny how it`s the simple things in life that mean
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Re: Used or dead RW-470 search

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Wideformatguy: I know we can buy 240W scan and print licenses from you, however do you or does anyone know where I can get a hard drive kit and an interface card? Art
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Re: Used or dead RW-470 search

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So with the hd and the if kit, plus the scan and print license we would be set to go as long as we had a 240W right (just asking since it's been awhile for these units). I would just have to add the server right? If so please email me the pricing for those items asap: HD, IF card, print license and scan license. art@p4photel.com
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Re: AutoCAD 2010, win7, plotbase 3.7.1

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I am not aware that the HDI driver for 2010 is even avaliable. I have been in direct contct with Ricoh and they say it could be atleast another month before this is avaliable.
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Hey Art Happy New Yr and fyi I have 2 x Ricoh 240w's with the CPU and "K" cards included, both have scan to file. Call me if you need one 949.290.1549
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Eric the "Office Worker" Gets a Supra Wide Format!

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Eric the "Office Worker" recently changed jobs due to the economic slowdown and is now working for BetaAlpha which is a large custom power supply manufacturer located in Patterson, NJ. Eric's job description? Well he pretty much does it all around the office, he's to the "go to guy" for making copies of wide format prints, scanning and archiving of existing wide format drawings. For the last few months Eric had been charged with ...... more here
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Windows vista & 7 File Sharing

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Sometimes I can access the share folders and sometimes I can not. I am running 7 pro and can not access any share folders on my pc from any Ricoh device. When browsing to find my pc I can see it on the network, authenticate it but then it says it does not can not find path. Any Ideas!!!
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Re: Scan on MP171spf and Print on SPC420DN

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quote: Originally posted by Art Post: You can have it scan to a folder and then have a program or script monitor that folder and tell it to print to the printer. I don't think it can be done via email unless you are using the C420DN-KP. There has been alot of discussions about this on the forums as of late. Can anyone provide the exact solution that monitors the scan folder and then sends the document to the printer? DigiDocFlow will allow you to do this.
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Re: Questions

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Speaking for myself, I'm more interested in software, sales skills and techniques, marketing, processes and general industry knowledge.
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Re: Need to speak with Print 09 Attendee~~~

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i saw these guys at the Ricoh booth: Amalgamated International - the UV unit was not desktop though. www.amalgamatedcoatings.com
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Re: Scan on MP171spf and Print on SPC420DN

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I am trying to get this going in the office and I am having an issue with the setup. What needs to be in the server/user name/password/path fields? Please let me know what you have used to successfully "scan-to-print" via FTP.
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Re: Sales Management

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I think it is obvious what you do with people who don't want to work. It is just as obvious what to do with people who DO want to work! Incentives can be a great way to move a product or idea, but dis-incentives are more personal and can be very disruptive for that individual (ie: income tax, sales activity micromanagement). I am a firm believer that good salespeople like to behave as if they run their own business. When governing bodies try to enforce restrictions, penalties, and/or lessen the
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Re: Another Good One Resigns from Ricoh!

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Yes, she was the heart & soul of wide format for Ricoh & will be missed.
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Third Week of December 2004)

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We've all been there, but it really sucks when it happens. 

On Wednesday I had an appointment that was a 2 hour drive.  Yup, it was a lead and a wide format lead at that.  The client had interest to buy or lease now and wanted to meet.  I left an hour early for that appointment because it's not often that I'm in that area of New Jersey and wanted to make sure I was on time. In addition I could make a pit stop, scout the area for some knocking on doors.  I was 45 minutes out when the client emailed me and stated he had to leave the office and was not feeling well.  Yup that's a bummer, however the client wanted to meet on Thursday of Friday of this week.

On Wednesday we emailed back and forth and scheduled for today at 11AM.  This time I was okay with arriving 10 minutes early. I arrived 15 minutes early, sat in the car and went though some emails.  Couple minutes later and I was out of the car and at the front door.  Frak, the door was locked, thus I knocked. No answer,  I stood there for another 5 minutes and knocked again. Nothing.....I then got out my cell phone and called the office, the call went to voice mail (I did leave a message). Went back to my car and pulled my car right in front of the office so I could see if anyone walked in. Fifteen minutes later I sent and email and then sent a text. No response for anything!

I had a little bit of time and decided to wait another 20 minutes just in case he would show. After waiting almost and hour, I called it quits and drove to my 2PM appointment.  WTF!  5 hours wasted in one day and I only had two selling days left.  Can't wait to see if I get an email or a call on Monday.

Enjoy these super threads from ten years ago this week!

Cannata Report for 2004

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And the winners are: MFP Monochrome Product of the Year–Ricoh Aficio 2090 MFP Color Product of the Year–Konica Minolta 8050 MFP Color/Mono Manufacturer of the Year–Canon USA, Inc. MFP Facsimile Manufacturer of the Year–Sharp Electronics Corp. Printer Manufacturer of the Year–Ricoh U.S. Dealers Choice Manufacturer of the Year–Toshiba
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Solutions selling is more than

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Solutions selling is more than just a life preserver If a customer is like a drowning man, any island will do. But a solution for this man is an island where he can go ashore and find clothing resources, coconuts and fresh water, too. The savvy salesman in any market sees that sales and service intertwine. For example, when a hunter shops for a shotgun, he'll need shells, but might need a vest, boots and socks and maybe a hand-warmer, too. Customers for copier-printers can get the basic box
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Fuji Xerox Develops System Chip to Speed Color

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Fuji Xerox Develops System Chip to Speed Color Printing , 12.15.04, 12:24 PM ET Asia Pulse Pte Ltd TOKYO, Dec 15 Asia Pulse - Fuji Xerox Co. has worked with Renesas Technology Corp. to create a system chip that significantly speeds up the printing capabilities of multifunction copy machines. By designing dedicated hardware to perform the image-processing tasks normally done by software, the copier can print out as many as 60 color pages a minute. With software, the top output is limited to
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Savin Trade In Program

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Does anyone have a copy of the Savin trade-in program? I am at a dual line dealer that loves Canon. It is like pulling teeth to get the info I need. It drives them nuts to have a Ricoh lover in the dealership. lol
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Maybe "Santa rally" in economy will bring copier customers

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Maybe "Santa rally" in economy will bring copier customers The U.S. economy is moving into the holidays with 15 months of job growth, rising stock prices and oil prices dropping. Maybe the "Santa rally" Wall Street investors want could result in end-of-year copier-printer sales boost, but only time will tell. The U.S. economy added 2.2 million jobs since August 2003. The unemployment rate of 5.4 percent didn't increase from October to November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
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Re: Solutions selling is more than

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Right On Art & Neal! Required reading must include... Selling to VITO : the very important top officer, Parinello, Anthony. He has a second book out now as well. Powerful!! This suggestion is worth big money! I would be interested, as would others, in hearing success stories from members who have used the Selling to VITO method. My first VITO inspired sale was when I was selling copiers four or five years ago and brand new to selling a software solution. All I really knew about software at that
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Canon Dealers Meet in Las Vegas

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The busy fall dealer meeting season came to a rousing end in October with Canon?s annual Digital Solutions Forum at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Oct. 27 and 28. The two-day event featured the obligatory social and networking functions as well as a technology showcase and seminars focusing on such areas as variable data printing, color publishing, emerging host print solutions, document management, and document distribution. Rest of Story
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Re: "What is your biggest competitive challenge?"

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Pricing does become the focus all too often! Unfortunately, the article simply regurgitates a problem we can all relate to, but does not offer any solutions. Try this. Read our selling guide "Using Virtual Copier to Sell Digital Copiers". Weighted toward VC, of course, the information is valid regardless of the solution you are selling. For more solution sales information visit our web site or contact me directly. Our resellers have access to a treasure-trove of solution sales and marketing
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Xerox Digital Service & Supply Pricing

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anyone have anything on the street pricing for any of the Xerox Wide Format Digital Systems? Service? Service and Supply?
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Re: Sending jobs to Plotbase

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Owners of jobs are listed as guests becuase that is how the network administrator set them up in user groups. Can be changed by administrator by "start-settings-control panel - users and passwords. When sending jobs to plotbase, there is no way to save them from the print Q. That would be like trying to catch a job as it spools to the Ricoh CL 3000 and save it. They can save the job as a PLT or a DWG directly from the native application, or they can save job sets at their local workstation by
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Re: Macs/1055/Secure Printing

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Just got an update on this and I have good news and bad news. The good news I just got a customized PPD installer from Ricoh to allow printing from Mac OS X to the Document Server/locked print/secure print but it has some limitations and, according to the documentation, its only for the Aficio 1022/1027, Aficio 1035/1045, Aficio 2035/2045, Aficio 1224C/1232C, Aficio 1060/1075, Aficio 2090/2105. The bad news is the 1055 is not mentioned. I will email it to you for you to try.
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Re: Can HP Protect Its Printer Kingdom?

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one thing that I am waiting to see is how the HP printer dealers are going to handle the real world of "copier" repair. you know longer are replacing the guts of the system when you change the toner cartridge and having your main copy system down for any length of time is unacceptable and their isn't a spare in the IT room. all i can say is welcome to our world HP. I'd rather be in our place having the experience of my service staff learning perhaps printer repair than having a printer tech
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Re: New Sales Rep Compensation plan

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could sure reduce some big time costs for dealers. And perhaps, it just might generate even more sales and higher margins. Having been in the copier biz and now the software development biz, I thought I'd throw in my unsolicited two-cents worth!
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Re: Fuji Xerox Develops System Chip to Speed Color

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What will our responce to this technology because Xerox will place this play up and down their copier line?
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Re: Install Roll Feeder Settings

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Problem SC508 code (cutter error) Ricoh bullentin #B125-008 The cutter has malfunction, even though all I did was replace the waste toner container. You can turn the roll feeder back on by following these steps after the SC508 error has occured. [LIST] User Tools System Settings Key Op Tools Next key Select "Do Not Use By-Pass" Select "OK" Exit Out Turn On & Off Hope this helps, there is suppose to be a software fix in the near future.
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CL7100

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Can anyone help me out with a more detailed Spec Sheet for this machine, perhaps a sales guide or something of that sort? Thanx Warrenm
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JP4500 HELP

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My customer threw away the master spindels and Ricoh is on back order till end of Jan 05. Can anyone help us!
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Leads in Ohio

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… - products and services to support a field sales force - products and services to support increased marketing activities; services may include PR activities, collateral material development, advertising, and direct marketing services - tools and services for software and application development PARTNERS none stated PEOPLE Greg Moore President and Chief Executive Officer Rob Doone Chief Financial Officer Bill Emerick Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Engineering Dennis Brouwer Senior
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Service Contracts

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It seems that street contracts continue to change. What is the latest to protect the service department from a color copier that eats to much color toner (high coverage jobs)?
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WF Paper RFG

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Here is the contact: DAVID READ Director Paper Group Tel. 203-967-5092 Fax. 203-967-5016 david.read@ricoh-usa.com
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1515mfp

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Anybody else having problems with the CD that comes this this MFP model. I installed 4 this week and the Gestetner CD would not autorun/ I mean I could install print and lan-fax using the add-printer wizard so it wasnt a disaster. At first I thought the customer had a bad CDRom, but after the 3 ws, I couldnt use that one anymore. Next day, same thing. So Now I just automatically use the wizard. Sweet little machine tho.
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Aficio 200

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Does anyone know what type of memory was used for the printer upgrade on this model?
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Re: Viewing PDF Thumbnails in Plotclient Win

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Sitting at a remote desktop, you may want to view the files before sending to print. If you adding files from a disk given to you, you would not know what the files looked like unless you could see the thumbnails or individually launch each one. This would be time consuming. The whole idea behind using Plotclient WIN to print the PDF's is so that you do not have to launch and print each one individually. With respect to adding the files to the queue at the server, I am not sure what you mean
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Re: Leads in Quebec

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BioEnvelop Technologies Corporation http://www.bioenvelop.com WHAT IT DOES It designs, manufactures, develops and markets biodegradable protein-based coating and packaging solutions for the agri-food sector. EVENT 12-10-2004--$1.25 million in a private placement OPPORTUNITIES company expected to make purchases to support... - advancing research and development - sales and marketing initiatives - general working capital purposes potential opportunity to provide… - products and services to
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Re: Ricoh 1170L Fax (Savin SF-3810)

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Yes. Press Menu 5 times to get to Advanced Fax Features, Cursor until you see Receive Forward (not send forward), turn on and input the timeframe. Tested on Savinfax 3810.
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I can get many types of files to view but not PDF's. A message comes up that says "This file will print but cannot be viewed" Are you able to see PDF thumbnails in Plotclient WIN prior to sending a job to Plotbase?
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that is the way it is. You can not view PDF files in plotclient win. You can view them in plotbase. You could open in Reader and then print with the WP driver if you need to view before printing. You ar eright - time consuming if you have a batch job. In plotbase, right click on an entry, then click add. I THINK you can add PDF files then directly to Plotbase, and then they can be viewed.
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Re: Service Rates for Fw240

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We are having trouble getting roll paper from Ricoh. Can you give me the contact info for your paper source? I have three clients waiting on paper. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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LOL!!!! I figured as much. Guess my 2 cents was worth about -2 cents! I know you are humming with Virtual Copier.
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what are dealers selling paper for? 36 x 500 rolls and 24 x 500 rolls at 20lb bond? Is there a minimum order and is shipping included?
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DAVID READ Director Paper Group Tel. 203-967-5092 Fax. 203-967-5016 david.read@ricoh-usa.com
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of December 2009)

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Do you remember? 

Roledex’s (not be to be confused with Rolex), index cards with call back notes, telephone cords that got all twisted up, yellow pages books,  street address books, competitive books like Minellas Guide to Copiers. If so there's an excellent post on Linked from Brent Wiesner and David Owens over at Accel Imaging Systems Inc., make sure you check out the cool video and chime in!

Here's the link: Video from Accel Imaging Systems

Printer Sales in Taiwan Rise in Q3 2009: IDC Taiwan

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accounted for 14.9% of the overall A3-size color printer market, a decline for the third straight quarters. Fuji Xerox, Sharp, and Toshiba were the top-three player in the segment. (by Quincy Liang)
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Re: TABS on the block

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Rumors that Toshiba is considering selling Toshiba America Business Solutions or Toshiba Business Solutions have circulated for some time. Although TABS and many of Toshiba's other business units (specifically memory/semiconductor) have struggled in recent years, Toshiba has consistently denied that it plans to sell its copier business. Toshiba distributed a letter to its dealers and direct sales force in February, 2009 maintaining that, despite recent rumors, it has no plans to sell its copier
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Another Project I'm working on "Need Your Help"

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Working a few articles with Christmas theme for the MFP solutions Blog: Last year I did a piece called To Ricoh "What I want for Christmas" Here's the link http://mfpsolutions.blogspot.c...t-for-christmas.html Can we have someone do one for konicaminolta, kyocera, sharp, toshiba, canon, xerox and canon? Come on, I know we all have wish lists of new features that we'd like to see. I'll post them with your name and give thanx!!! Art
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Konica Minolta Streamlines Office Productivity for AEG With bizhub MFPs

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needs." About Konica Minolta Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop. For the second consecutive year, Konica Minolta was recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys. For more information, please visit www.CountOnKonicaMinolta.com and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KonicaMinoltaUS . About AEG AEG is one of the leading sports and
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OKI Printing Solutions Strengthens Commitment to Small Businesses by Expanding its Co

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offers a selection of ENERGY STAR(r) certified products. As an extension of the company's dedication to its customers, OKI Data Americas created the Color Me OKI philanthropic program to support the fight against breast and colorectal cancers and the people courageously battling those diseases. # # # OKI, Reg. OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd. ENERGY STAR Reg. T.M. U.S. EPA, Single Pass Color T.M. and design Reg. T.M. OKI Data Corp. 1 As compared to the Konica Minolta magicolor 169OMF, Dell
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Ricoh and Equitrac Release Java-Based Version of Embedded Security ...

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solutions are at work helping organizations recover costs, reduce waste, increase returns and maximize efficiency in printers, copiers and multifunction devices. For more information visit http://www.equitrac.com . About Ricoh Americas Corporation Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company Ltd., the 73-year-old leading supplier of office automation equipment and electronics, with fiscal year 2008 sales in excess of $20 billion. Ricoh Americas
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Sharp Wins BLI'S 2009 MFP "Line of the Year" Award

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operate, secure and reliable." Last year Sharp became the first of the traditional copier vendors to launch workgroup-level A4/letter MFPs that, like copiers, feature separate drums, developer and toner. These are the BLI highly recommended MX/DX-B401 and MX/DX-C401, along with the MX/DX-C311, which received a BLI "Pick" Award earlier this year. This award acknowledges that Sharp offers A4 products that meet the differing service requirements of various customers alongside A3 models that offer a host
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Letter about Canon & Ikon/Ricoh

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(121\2009) to clarify their relationship (or lack their of) with IKON (a wholly owned subsidiary of Ricoh). And if you read the letter it makes it perfectly clear to both IKON and all the Authorized Canon Dealers that neither IKON nor an Authorized Canon Dealer are permitted to enter into a “behind the scenes” agreement to service Canon equipment in partnership with IKON. Apparently that was an IKON pipe dream. So now all the cards are on the table IKON can not get firmware, patches, updates
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Copiers & School Budget Cost-Cutting (Galesburg IL)

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Copiers & School Budget Cost-Cutting It may not seem like a big deal on the surface, but what could soon happen if the Galesburg School Board approves new copy machines for the district's facilities could mean much more than that. The District-205 board Monday night will consider entering into an agreement with Xerox for new copiers for the district at a cost of about a half-million dollars over five years, plus another roughly nickel per color copy. The agreement will be either to lease new
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Fuji Xerox to launch Color 1000 and Color 800 Presses in new year

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printing can customize and increase added value of sales promotion tools as well as publications, including catalogs, direct promotional mails, flyers, labels, packages, photo books and more. Expressive high image quality Color 1000 Press / Color 800 Press are the first high-end printers to employ the Emulsion Aggregation-Eco Toner, or EA-Eco Toner, renowned for its advanced image quality. Additionally, the newly developed Clear Toner Note 1 adds specialty to application design such as glossy
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Xerox & Ikon Michigan State Contract

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Copier Contract and Supplies Summary LEASE Copiers - Digital Multifunction Devices (Print, Scan, Fax) Contract #071B9200190 Pricing sheet Vendor: IKON Office Solutions Contract Expires: 4 /9/14 Contact Person: Ask for either Carol Bertrand or Noe Contreras To order, call 800-968-2987 HOW TO DO BUSINESS WITH IKON Copiers - Digital Multifunction Devices (Print, Scan, Fax) Contract #071B9200232 Pricing sheet Vendor: Xerox Corporation Contract Expires: 6/15/14 Contact Person: Greg Mohr Telephone
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BLI Recognizes Sharp with 3 More Pick Awards

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awards acknowledge “outstanding performance” and excellence “in areas of importance to IT professionals” in the MX- and DX-C401 models (Outstanding Mid-Size Workgroup A4 Color MFP), and the MX-B401 (Outstanding Mid-Size Workgroup A4 Monochrome MFP). "We are very happy to accept these Pick Awards for the MX- and DX-C401 Models," said Gary Bailer, associate director product management, A4 multifunction printers, Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America. "Along with the BLI Pick Awards
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Commissioners to consider Copier renewal

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• CONSIDER renewal of contract with Xerox for copier for Juvenile Probation and take action as necessary. http://www.palestineherald.com...story_345013330.html
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KonicaMinolta Bizhub 1200 "Pricing on the Street"

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BizHub 1200 (new) pf 703 "vacuum deck" RU 506 "relay buffer unit" LS505 "large tray" RollAway Cart on board print controller optional FS521 $4,344 ($133.80 - 36 month lease) $63,027 (36 month - 1941.23) cpc no minimum .0049 This was a direct quote
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Xerox hit by Toner shortage!

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Adam Hooker, printweek.com, 08 December 2009 Digital press manufacturer Xerox has been hit by a worldwide toner delivery problem due to an increased demand from customers. However, the company said that the problem is a short-term one and would be overcome quickly. PrintWeek has been contacted by a number of printers claiming they have been made to wait up to 10 days for delivery of toner. One printer, who preferred to remain nameless, said: "We will run out of black toner this afternoon. We
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Xerox Board Elects Jacques Guers as Corporate Officer

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Ricoh develops world's first 'green' toner

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paper is recycled, the toner still harms the environment because during the recycling process, a de-inking phase separates the toner from the paper, with the toner usually disposed of via burning or burying in landfills. Ricoh, one of the world’s leading providers of digital office gadgets and equipments, has developed a technology that instead uses plant-based biomass as a replacement for petroleum-based resin. In fact, the Tokyo-based company has already introduced the world’s first digital
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Radware Signs with Fuji Xerox for Distribution of Alteon Products in Japan

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, solutions and services throughout Japan. With this agreement, Radware aims to reinforce its relationship with Fuji Xerox and to expand its sales in Japan. This announcement extends Fuji Xerox's highly successful sales record of Alteon products in the Japanese market. The new agreement is designed to further increase the success of its reseller partners delivering the newly acquired Alteon product line from Nortel. Radware's partner program will provide Fuji Xerox with enhanced training, programs
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Re: TABS on the block

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The mini nuclear reactor thing was an internet scam. They never existed. The e451c is a great copier with good reliabilty. Toshiba TEC (TTEC), a subsiduary of Toshiba Corp., is responsible for manufacturing Copiers/POS/Thermal Label Printers. Copier production left Toshiba Corp many years ago. TTEC and copiers were profitable in its last publicly released financial statements April 2009. Copiers make up around 55% of TTECs business. TTEC is unlikely to go away.
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Re: Questions about Xerox's MPS Offerings to SMB Customers

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Hey Art, I have not heard of the XPS program. But Xerox has alot of flavors of MPS, thats for sure. So far it looks like Xerox has a well developed direct-to-enterprise MPS program through Xerox Global Services (XGS). This has been around for a while, but they recently "announced" it as Enterprise Print Services (EPS). Four components: - Office support - Remote worker/device support - Production and mailroom support - External doc procurement (outsourcing) Its pretty all-encompassing. Thats
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Re: Scan in One City, Print in Another

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quote: Scan in One City, Print in Another CopyFax Jax. I think the ouput will look like an email with Headers, etc. txeagle24. All copiers are on the same WAN. I am quoting a Toshiba but I will test your suggestion. Thanks.
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Kyocera TASKalfa 500ci Series

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We are competing against this unit with a C5000. On the TCO website we did a comparison and the models look pretty similar. Any dual line dealers out there that can give me more competitive information? Thanks for your help, John
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Latest Océ PRISMAaccess Print Management Software Helps Print Providers

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orders and increase print volumes.” Document Submission Made Easy With Océ PRISMAaccess Version 5.0 software, customers can submit jobs to the printshop as easily as routing work to a local printer. Internal and external clients can send documents from a desktop using a web driver or via web submission. Both methods offer customizable job tickets and personalized tracking. With Océ PRISMAaccess Version 5.0 software, print providers can take on more short-run jobs and confidently commit to fast
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Scan in One City, Print in Another

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I have to quote a law firm with locations in three cities. They want to be able to scan a document in one city and have it auto print to a MFP in a different city without bothering the local users. Any suggestions?
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Wanted: Moderator for Canon Forums

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We're in need of a moderator for the Canon boards. Here's what a moderator would do: Post information in reference to Canon Products (whatever you feel will help the community) Update the community with new product information (keep us informed of whats new or whats changed) Move posts or threads to the correct forum if it was misplaced. Spread the word about the P4P forums for Canon We'll supply you with a FREE premium membership for as long as you moderate! If interested please send me and
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Wanted: Moderator for Kyocera Forums

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Wanted: Moderator for Sharp Forums

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We're in need of a moderator for the Sharp boards. Here's what a moderator would do: Post information in reference to Sharp Products (whatever you feel will help the community) Update the community with new product information (keep us informed of whats new or whats changed) Move posts or threads to the correct forum if it was misplaced. Spread the word about the P4P forums for Sharp We'll supply you with a FREE premium membership for as long as you moderate! If interested please send me and
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Wanted: Moderator for Toshiba Forums

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Wanted: Moderator for Xerox Forums

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We're in need of a moderator for the Xerox boards. Here's what a moderator would do: Post information in reference to Xerox Products (whatever you feel will help the community) Update the community with new product information (keep us informed of whats new or whats changed) Move posts or threads to the correct forum if it was misplaced. Spread the word about the P4P forums for Xerox We'll supply you with a FREE premium membership for as long as you moderate! If interested please send me and
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Purchase Of Printers

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Purchase Of Printers Organization: Court Of The State Of Rio De Janeiro Tender Name: Purchase Of Printers Tender Details: Tender notice are invited for purchase of printers. Tender Location: Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Tender Type: Tender Notice Tender Category: Printing & Allied Machinery & Equipment Products: Laser Printer Tender Document File: Save the Document Important Dates: Publish Date: Submit Before: Time: 11:00 a.m. Bid Opening Date: December 16, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. Contact Details: Address
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Actual Canon termination Letter

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Yesterday we brought you the blog, today we bring you the actual letter!
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LRS Commissions Report on Enterprise Output Management and its Alignment with Managed

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elements, it can be difficult to get a clear view of an organization’s enterprise output management landscape,” says Fernandes. “By implementing an output management strategy that covers an organization's entire output from office printing to mission critical documents, organizations can uncover opportunities for significant cost savings in both resource and monetary terms.” ‘Uncovering the Enterprise Output Management Opportunity’ is free to view and available now at: www.quocirca.com . # # # LRS
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'Tis the season for currency counterfeiters

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exchanging of currency back and forth," he said. There are people who are looking to exchange the money to get genuine U.S. currency by passing a counterfeit $100 or $50 bill for an item that costs about $10, he said. Others are using the fake money to actually purchase items such as electronics. A Secret Service agent from the Orlando field office said there's another type of counterfeiter who uses a three-in-one printer to make several hundred dollars worth of counterfeit money to pass at nightclubs
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Word not so perfect

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I have a law firm that is printing to a Savin 917. They are printing address labels to the bypass. When they print they get a paper type mismatch saying load custom size paper. In the page setup in wordperfect it says Avery 5160. I changed this to Letter and tried to print it with the same result. The only success I have had is by using form feed. Does anyone know why this happens and how to resolve it?
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PIKES PEAK LIBRARY DISTRICT

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BUSINESS ITEMS A. New Business a. Review of Bid Protest by Bircham’s (RFP#600-08-02-multifunction copiers): Decision 09-10-1 The Pikes Peak Library District contracted with The Ascher Group to complete a Request for Proposals (RFP) for copier services. The RFP was released on October 23, 2008. Four qualified responses were received by November 10, 2008. District staff and The Ascher Group interviewed all respondents, and The Ascher Group ranked the bidders’ proposals in three categories – cost
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Assuming that they're on the same WAN & that it's a Ricoh system, you can set it up to Scan to FTP, but instead of an FTP address, set the destination as the IP address of the printer they want it to print on. This also works great if you have a customer that needs to make color copies but doesn't want a full color MFP. You can color scan to FTP on the MFP and set the destination to a color printer, resulting in a color copy.
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Re: Rumor has it.....

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New in 2010! Ricoh Wide Format Gelsprinters!! Naw, we'll just get Epson to make them for us!
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Re: TABS on the block

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Kyocera would be the obvious buyer here, especially if they want to stay in the game. Heard that they had opened a couple of branch offices also, is that true?
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Re: rw-480 plotbase unable to plot

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Sometimes tings get "out of synch" communication-wise and the printer has to be hard reset with the red power switch. It was more common with older plotbase versions. Glad it's resolved.
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Re: TABS on the block

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GIntel - you gave an outstanding analysis of the possibilities with TABS. You are earning your money. I suspect Toshiba has a long term plan to phase out it's MFP business altogether.
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Thanks GMAN. I just found out from an AV industry analyst I know that Toshiba just pulled out of the US projector market. So maybe this is part of a trend. More money in nukes and chips i guess...
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quote: Originally posted by Art Post: New in 2010! Ricoh Wide Format Gelsprinters!! Naw, we'll just get Epson to make them for us! Yeaj, I couldn't get my Wide Format rep to say who is manufacturing them, but they did say they weren't GelSprinters after I pressed and asked the questions 3x.
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Re: TABS on the block

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Yes, Toshiba projectors are gone, at least in Canada. Industry prices and volumes have collapsed from a few years ago and it is not worth the overhead costs to support them.
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Re: TABS on the block

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quote: Originally posted by SalesServiceGuy: The mini nuclear reactor thing was an internet scam. They never existed. This is a scam? http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Toshiba 's_Home_Nuclear_Fusion_Reactor You just never know anymore, even the internet's not safe!
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of December 2009)

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Reading through some of the threads below I re-read Ten Ways to Save Energy and Reduce Waste with your Office Copiers & Printers. It may be ten years olf but most of it is good content to share with your clients. Pick and choose what you want and feel free to add come of your own!

Enjoy these wonderful threads from ten years ago this week!

Konica Minolta Receives Sales Support Award from Mail Boxes Etc., Inc.

Ramsey, N.J. and San Diego – December 2, 2009 – Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced that it has received the annual Sales Support Award from Mail Boxes Etc., Inc. (MBE), a UPS® Company, and franchisor of The UPS Store® and Mail Boxes Etc. ® brands. This is the second time in three years that Konica Minolta has been recognized with this award. The
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Printer changes saving Clarion University money

used product results in thousands of dollars in purchases each year, leading to an effort to curb this expense by moving to centralized print devices. Led by President Joseph Grunenwald, the administrative offices in Carrier Hall are leading the way for campus. Most all of the desktop/personal printers, including those in the president's office, have been removed. A Ricoh central printer/copier/scanner, for use by the entire floor has replaced the personal printers. One centralized networked
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Re: Need your input~~!

Other than Ricoh members, there are almost 500 members that belong to Canon, Kyo, KonicaMInolta, Sharp, Toshiba, Sharp and Xerox. I'm not sure why they are not posting in the dedicated forums, most seem to be lurking (which is ok), I would like to see more activity in the other forums, however I can't force them to. Would opening up all of the forums make them post more? I'm not sure because they are not doing it now. People need to stimulate the forums, ask questions in those dedicated forums
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City Selects New Copier & Printer Vendor

Saving Money and Protecting the Environment City Selects New Copier & Printer Vendor On November 18, 2009, In News, By City of Evansville . (EVANSVILLE, IN) – The Board of Public Works today gave its approval for the City to enter into contract negotiations with a local Xerox vendor to provide multifunction printing and copying devices at a savings of potentially up to $1 million over the next five years. “Today’s selection marks yet another step toward greater government efficiency and savings
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Konica Minolta Selects GE Capital as a Premier Finance Partner

, $100,000+ transactions. About Konica Minolta Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop. For the second consecutive year, Konica Minolta was recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys. For more information, please visit www.CountOnKonicaMinolta.com and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KonicaMinoltaUS . About GE GE Capital, Office Imaging provides wing-to-wing
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Konica Minolta Streamlines Office Productivity for AEG With bizhub MFPs Color

inefficiencies from their current printing operations, add much-needed functionality, and realize a more productive and higher-quality print environment, we remain committed to delivering customized solutions and demonstrating how customers can count on Konica Minolta for their worldwide printing needs." About Konica Minolta Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop. For the second consecutive year
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Managed Print Services Sales

Managed Print Services Sales Job Description Konica Minolta is currently seeking an Optimized Print Specialist. RESPONSIBILITIES Drive and manage Konica Minolta's Optimized Print Service business Collaborate with the RSC and RSE and direct and dealer management to drive overall revenue targets for Optimized Print Services Coordinate local resources to accomplish OPS regional goals Provide and reiterate training to sales teams on OPS sales processes Perform all activities related to the OPS
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Fuji Xerox launches latest DocuPrint and Phaser Printers and MFPs

users who are looking for quality color printouts in a low cost and easy to use package. Both printers boast Fuji Xerox Printer’s own single-pass color engine, a powerful 333MHz processor, standard 128MB memory and print resolutions of up to 9600 x 600 dpi, all in a small package. In a network environment, the C1110 is a perfect with its small size, fast printing, and network and print security. The C1110 supports Auditron functionality which is an authentication function that allows the
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Konica Minolta launches Digital Doctor

assured of on-time delivery of printer consumables without having to do any orders. Besides recording meter ­readings of the printer ­automatically, the Digital Doctor also protects the company’s sensitive data by accessing only the machine memory, and not the image memory or the hard disk drive of the MFP. The Digital Doctor, which is offered at no cost, is available on both Konica Minolta’s range of bizhub Pro production printing system and bizhub office MFPs. — By SUBASHINI SELVARATNAM ++++
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Xerox: Automated Document Management Key To Cost Savings

Xerox: Automated Document Management Key To Cost Savings By Joseph F. Kovar, ChannelWeb 11:37 AM EST Mon. Dec. 07, 2009 Businesses could realize significant productivity increases and cost savings by changing the infrastructure of their document management and implementing automation and outsourcing. That's the message from John Kelly, president of Xerox (NYSE:XRX) North American global services, who Sunday used his opening keynote to discuss document management opportunities with IT executives
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Kyocera Mita America Launches TASKalfa 300i Multifunctional Product, Completes 30 Suc

respectively). With its powerful yet sleek, space-saving and energy-efficient design, the TASKalfa 300i delivers big performance for the needs of any office environment. The TASKalfa 300i is built on Kyocera's award-winning MFP engine technology that utilizes the company's patented long-life Amorphous Silicon drum, and an offers crisp 600 dpi image quality with fast and efficient print, copy and scan functionality and document portability. With a 300,000 page preventative maintenance (PM
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TOSHIBA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS NAMES JIM HAWKINS VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS

University of Central Florida. He also participated in the Lead-On “Building High Performance Teams” two-year leadership program from 2006-2008. About Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) manages product planning, marketing, sales, service support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Headquartered in
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Ricoh Type 8000 Printer/Scanner unit

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Have this for sale, taking offers.Steve301-424-9686
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Top 10 Ways to Save Energy and Reduce Waste With Your Office Copiers & Printers

Here are ten simple, effective ways you can save energy with the copiers and printers in your organization. 1. Reduce - Print what you need, when you need it. A print-on-demand document strategy reduces paper and electricity waste because you aren't producing extra copies for 'just in case' scenarios that may never come. 2. Re-use - Set your printer/MFP’s default to make two-sided (duplex) copies. 3. Recycle - Choose recycled papers and printers/MFPs that can print on them reliably. 4. Live
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Dell Launches World’s Fastest Office Color Laser Printer

performance black and white printing. These new printers will be launched and available in Europe and the Middle East on Nov. 24. The Dell 5130cdn can print up to 47 single-sided and up to 37 double-sided letter pages per minute (ppm) in both mono and color (actual print speeds will vary with use), making it the world’s fastest letter size single-function office color laser printer. The 5130cdn also premiers ColorbyDell, a total print quality solution that delivers excellent color saturation and
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Genova Diagnostics Boosts Productivity with RICOH Pro C900

Genova Diagnostics Boosts Productivity with RICOH Pro C900 Digital Imaging System Handles Large Volumes Quickly and Efficiently WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Production Printing Business Group (PPBG) of Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced that Genova Diagnostics, based in Asheville, North Carolina, installed the RICOH Pro C900 to meet the demands of their extensive reporting requirements. Replacing two color copiers, Genova chose the Pro C900 as it provides improved
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Kyocera Mita America TASKalfa 500ci Color MFP Series Earns Pantone Approval for Indus

, Pantone’s color scientists and analysts developed expertly tuned look-up tables (LUT), specific to Kyocera’s TASKalfa 500ci series to enable users to print the best possible simulations of PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors. As the composition of the colors depends upon the printing system, the TASKalfa 500ci series was closely analyzed to meet the high standards that Pantone demands of candidates for their color matching approval. In developing the LUT for Kyocera, Pantone conducted rigorous testing
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Re: Plotter CPP

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Attached is a spreadsheet that is using data that is almost 2 years old. Since it is in Excel, you may be able to update the numbers with current data. This was provided to me by Kevin Reidy who used to be the Sr. Strategic Products Sales Manager for Ricoh. I remember him saying at the time that if an HP Plotter was going through a roll of paper a month (150 prints) then you could place a 240W for less than the supply costs of the HP.
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Collingwood replaces offset press with Xerox iGen4

said October was one of its most successful months ever, with 41 orders placed for high-end production printing kit. "There is no doubt that business confidence is improving and many organisations are ready to invest in print-related communication initiatives," said Simon Lane, national manager of Fuji Xerox's production services business. "This can clearly be seen through the renewed investments in digital printing solutions and services by print services providers, not only in Australia, but
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InnerWorkings Announces Multi-Year Print Outsourcing Services Agreement with The Scot

=5277 About ScottsMiracle-Gro With nearly $3 billion in worldwide sales and more than 6,000 associates, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, The Scotts Company LLC, is the world's largest marketer of branded consumer products for lawn and garden care, with products for professional horticulture as well. The Company's brands are the most recognized in the industry. In the U.S., the Company's Scotts(R), Miracle-Gro(R), and Ortho(R) brands are market-leading in their
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Sharp MFPs Once again Recognized by BLI for Outstanding Performance

standard. Sharp’s award-winning Scan2 technology enables users to scan two-sided documents in a single pass, speeding up workflow, reducing misfeeds and improving reliability. In judging these awards, BLI subjects color printers and printer MFPs to a battery of rigorous lab tests. Products taking top honors demonstrate outstanding performance in BLI testing, which evaluates products for a variety of important performance aspects, including reliability, image quality, productivity, print drivers
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New Océ VPconvert Conversion Software Helps Customers Overcome Data Barriers in Print

, automated conversion tool processes Variable Data Intelligent PostScript Printware (VIPP) data, allowing it to run with Océ hardware and software workflow. Customers can route their legacy VIPP print applications to Océ systems without modification to take advantage of Océ reliability and versatility. “With Océ connectivity products, customers can better manage the variety of data streams in their mixed printing environments. They can integrate Océ workflow and printing systems into Xerox® environments
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Regarding Canon Fax830i

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Hi all, My customer has a Canon 830i fax machines.They would like to have the Fax to prints faxes only once the whole fax has been completely received in the machine’s memory. As it stands, they are printing out one page at a time (very slowly) as each page is received in memory. Is there a setting that can change to achieve that?
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Océ VarioPrint 6320 Ultra, high volume cutsheet printer

Océ VarioPrint 6320 Ultra, high volume cutsheet printer 3 December 2009 The Océ VarioPrint 6320 Ultra is the most productive digital perfecting system in its class. Based on Océ Gemini Instant Duplex technology, this duplex printer series takes monochrome speed to new heights. With ultra-fast speed and benchmark reliability, print professionals can take on more jobs and turn them around faster, enter profitable new markets like digital book printing, expand services and do more with less. All
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Questions about Xerox's MPS Offerings to SMB Customers

I am trying to get a better understanding of Xerox's MPS offerings for the mid-market, specifically regarding the new XPS program, what it entails, and how it is being sold (as I understand it, solely through the partner channel). Can anyone else elaborate on this?
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DECEMBER PROMOS* and HOME THEATER GIVEAWAY!!*

Paradigm Imaging DECEMBER PROMOS* and HOME THEATER GIVEAWAY!!* EACH qualifying imagePRO sale earns you a chance to win a HOME THEATER! BrandModelRegular Dealer PriceDealer PROMO PriceSPIFFTotal SavingsHome Theater Giveaway With our companies like Paradigm, Print Audit, Polek & Polek, they keep this site free, this is a great promo for all! Check them out! go here for rest of post
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Hardcopy market sees 11.6% sequential growth in Q3, says IDC

Security and Control Endpoint Security and Control combines anti-virus ... Email Security and Control Keeping unwanted and malicious email out of your i ... Web Security and Control Web Security and Control at the gateway blocks spy ... Network Access Control With network access control (NAC) protection you r ... Suppliers Free White Papers NAC at the endpoint: control your network through device compliance 716983f2-2a90-4dba-aca1-8be0d94dec38NAC at the endpoint: control your network through device
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Man convicted in Staples scam

COVINGTON - A 33-year-old Loveland, Ohio, man was convicted of getting almost free cameras, printers and computers from a friend who worked at Staples. A federal jury on Friday found Paul Shumbayaonda guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud after a four-day trial, according the U.S. Attorney's Office. Prosecutors say Shumbayaonda and two of his friends, Huyaimuzoona Bere and Bekizulu Mhlanga, conspired to profit from Bere's position as a customer service representative at a Staples call
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Re: Need your input~~!

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There may be a lot of us who work for dual line dealer. Like myself we are a Ricoh/Kyocera Dealer, but a lead with Ricoh. So, I don't do much with Kyocera except if I am in a price war against a Ikon or Lanier Dealer. We have a small Lanier Dealer that will cut our knees out every time we run against him.
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Re: A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Copier Demo/Appointment

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Several years back we had a demo in a pastor's home office for a couple of days when he called in because the machine was misfeeding. We had been selling him on the reliability of this model, so he wasn't very pleased with the performance. When our technician went out he opened the side of the copier and found that one of the Pastor's kids poured cornflakes into the copier. We got it cleaned up and he bought the demo.
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Re: A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Copier Demo/Appointment

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I received a telephone help call from one of our clients who had a malfunction code on their new copier. To clear these malfunction codes it’s usually a case of opening the front door for a few seconds and then closing it again. I asked the client to do this and then come back to the telephone. He returned a few moments later and asked “now what” I asked what happened when he opened and shut the front door, did it clear the code. “no’ was the reply, “it just got colder in here” He’d opened and
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D’Onofrio’s business contracts legal, ethical, but could create dilemma

Oneida County Legislator James D’Onofrio, R-New Hartford, has done nothing illegal in landing sizable county copier contracts through competitive bidding. Under the laws of the state and county, he has the right to do business with the county he represents. And he hasn’t done anything unethical, either. All of his business dealings with Oneida County are amply disclosed on the appropriate forms, and even his competitors for county work acknowledge D’Onofrio’s Arlott Office Products has earned
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Samsung has appointed Synnex national distributor for its full IT product portfolio.

Samsung has appointed Synnex national distributor for its full IT product portfolio. Synnex will initially focus on the vendor’s displays, printers, consumables, notebooks/systems and storage products. CEO, Kee Ong, cited strong opportunity for Samsung’s re-launched notebooks in the local market, as well as its print offerings in the managed services space. “Samsung has tried to consolidate its distribution model – now they’ll be working with one national distributor that covers all the IT
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Winners for November 2009

Every month we are giving away two Premium Memberships for the Print4Pay Hotel. The Premium Memberships are possible through the sponsorship of Print Audit www.printaudit.com and Dealer Marketing Systems www.dealermarketingsystems.com! Our winners are: Jason R wins a 6 month Premium Membership for "Top 5 Posters" Print Audit Sponsor jswinberlin wins a 6 Month Premium Membership for "Top 5 Topic Starter" Dealer Marketing Systems Sponsor Congrats and thanx for making this a great place for our
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Plotter CPP

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I need some help finding the cost per page on an HPDesignJet 1050c and an HPDesignJet 800ps. This seems to be elusive and evidently no one at Ricoh can figure this out. For general purposes, let's assume D size plot, black only and 5% coverage. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
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Canon letter as of 12/1/09
 
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of November 2009)

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Dang, it's been ten year since Canon bought OCE.  Interesting that it took ten years to finally retire the OCE brand.

Ten years ago I was blogging about the War for A4, I also find it interesting that the war has been going on for 10 years now, and finally people are starting to pay attention.

Enjoy These awesome threads from ten years ago this week!

UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh

Minolta Holdings, which is in a business alliance with Oce. "Konica Minolta procures high-end production printing machines from Oce, while Oce procures lower-end machines from Konica Minolta," Mizuho Securities analyst Ryosuke Katsura said. "(The) chances are Canon machines will replace Konica Minolta gear in this relationship," he said. Production printers, or digital commercial printers, are used to print such documents as product manuals and direct mail quickly and in large volume, and are a fast
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Weekend Industry Notes from the week ending 11/15/09

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the area for $43 million. - Ricoh announced that it has sold an Aficio C900 production color system to GAM Printers, a print shop in Sterling, Virginia. - Ricoh announced it is forming a Business Process Automation Group, as part of its Document Solutions & Services Division. “BPA is a true value-add for Ricoh customers because we’re able to offer a suite of services from consultation to sales to implementation under one roof” said Mark Miller, Senior VP & Deputy General Manager at Ricoh. Ricoh’s
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh

said the deal is positive for Canon, while potentially negative for rival Japanese copier and printer maker Konica Minolta Holdings, which is in a business alliance with Oce. "Konica Minolta procures high-end production printing machines from Oce, while Oce procures lower-end machines from Konica Minolta," Mizuho Securities analyst Ryosuke Katsura said. "(The) chances are Canon machines will replace Konica Minolta gear in this relationship," he said. Production printers, or digital commercial
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh

bidder entering the arena. Canon's offer values Oce at 5.4 times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA). This compares to an average of 7.5 times EBITDA for the peer group, analysts at SNS Securities calculated. Konica Minolta (4902.T), which has a cross-selling agreement with Oce, said it was not interested in entering a bidding war and Xerox (XRX.N) has recently made a major acquisition in the U.S.. That leaves Ricoh (RICO.BO) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ.N) as the
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Canon deal may up ante for Xerox

Canon deal may up ante for Xerox Matthew Daneman – Staff writer Business – November 17, 2009 - 3:00am One of Xerox Corp.’s biggest business rivals is planning to buy another. Japanese electronics giant Canon Inc. announced Monday it will purchase Dutch production printing company Oce NV for $1.1 billion. Each company goes head to head with Xerox in a particular segment of the printing industry, with Canon being a major player in office equipment and Oce specializing in particularly high-end
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Konica Minolta and Nuance launch eCopy document imaging software for integrated MFPs

, in the United Kingdom through a direct sales force and a network of independent dealerships. Konica Minolta digital imaging systems are manufactured in Japan and China. All are ISO9002 accredited for quality procedures. UK turnover for Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd is in excess of £150 million, placing the company fifth in the digital copier market with a 6.8 per cent share of the black and white market and a dominant 30.5 per cent share of the colour market (not including colour
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Purchasing - Hospitals, Healthcare Providers to Save with Premier’s New Printers, C

Purchasing - Hospitals, Healthcare Providers to Save with Premier’s New Printers, Copiers, Facsimile Devices Agreements 20.11.09 | 15:05 Uhr Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, today announced new agreements for printers, copiers and facsimile devices have been awarded to Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A Inc. Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, today announced new agreements for printers, copiers and facsimile devices have been awarded to Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. of
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh

manufacturing and key management will remain in place. Océ will be responsible worldwide for wide format, commercial printing and business services. Canon's Large Format Printing will functionally be integrated in the Océ Production Printing Division ("Océ division") over time. Océ's office activities will be integrated in Canon's Office Imaging Products (OIP) division. Océ had 2008 sales of 2.9 billion euros, one seventh of Canon's revenue from imaging products and printers. The integration of both
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh

Bid? Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., the Japanese lens and office- equipment maker that has a business partnership with Oce, said yesterday it has no plan to counter Canon’s offer. Canon fell 0.3 percent to 3,460 yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Oce added 0.3 percent, to 8.60 euros in Amsterdam trading. It surged 70 percent on Nov. 16 after Canon announced its offer. “We believe that our offer, as was agreed by Oce’s management and supervisory boards, is sufficient,” Canon said in an e-mailed
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Canon Pulls the Rug out from KonicaMinolta "MFP WARS"

I was just on the phone with a friend of mine in upstate NY, can you guess what we were discussing, yup you got it the Canon/Oce deal. Think about this, when Xerox bought Global, Ricoh was the big loser. When KonicaMinolta bought Danka, Canon was a loser, along come Ricoh with the acquisition of Ikon and Canon got their clocks cleaned and now Canon agrees to buy OCE and KonicaMinolta gets hammered! The only one who hasn't lost is Xerox! Funny how these things happen. Many months ago there were
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Canon Forums

Just wanted to reach out to all of the Canon members on the P4P Hotel. By asking questions in a forums we can start a very lively dicussion for Canon products. Keep in mind that your discussions can't be viewed by Ricoh, Toshiba or Xerox, unless there are dual line dealers. Over the years the Ricoh forums have excelled, because members take the time to ask questions in the forums, someone will post an answer, then someome will have a comment and bang the forums are thriving and everyone is
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Samsung announces premier color multifunction printer for high speed offices

workgroups in large corporate environments and for copy-intensive small-to-mid size businesses," said Doug Albregts, vice president, Information Technology Division, Samsung Electronics America Inc. "Along with being one of the fastest digital color printers on the market, the CLX-8540ND also bridges the gap between Letter/Legal verses Ledger printers by including advanced printer and copier features usually only found on larger machines. What we've done is simplify the selection process for IT
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Re: Rumor has it.....

Here's some predictions: Believe it or Not! KonicaMinolta aquires Toshiba MFP Business Kyocera aquires Sharp MFP Business HP makes hostile Bid for Xerox And then there were The Final Five!
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh

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-Big boost to Canon's Production biz -Decent boost to Canon's Direct sales -Big FU to Konica and its OEM/Production units (Oce arguably KM's #1 reseller) -Big Benefit of having just $119M in debt (Canon=0.4% debt load) -the 730 Euro price is barely above Oce's 704E debt - Both Ricoh and KM were deemed too financially unstable to bid on Oce -Hp and Kyocera may counter offer, but unlikely -Wow
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh

strategic business units (SBUs): Commercial Printing Systems, Wide Format Printing Systems (including Canon’s portfolio), and Business Services. It remains to be seen whether Canon’s relatively new services business will be rolled into the Océ Business Services SBU. Océ, as a wholly owned division of Canon, will maintain its current responsibility for portfolio marketing, sales and services and the management of the SBUs will report to the Océ corporate board. Océ will lead R&D and manufacturing
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Copiers Could Be a Key to District 205 Cost Savings

Copiers Could Be a Key to District 205 Cost Savings Office supplies might end up being one of the main ways the Galesburg School District is able to save some money in what otherwise could be a tough budget period. District-205 Assistant Superintendent for Finance and Operations Guy Cahill told the school board's Budget Committee Tuesday bids have come back on the proposed lease of a new set of copy machines -- this, following the district's current lease expiring back in January. Cahill told
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GAM Printers Inc. Takes Delivery of a RICOH Pro C900 Digital Color Printer From IKON

GAM Printers Inc. Takes Delivery of a RICOH Pro C900 Digital Color Printer From IKON (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) November 16th, 2009 MALVERN, Pa.—-IKON Office Solutions, Inc., a Ricoh company, today announced that GAM Printers, Inc of Sterling, Virginia, has installed a RICOH Pro C900 digital color printer, giving them the versatility, superior quality and fast turnaround times needed to meet their customers’ wide range of variable data and creative design and printing needs.
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Konica Minolta employees donate

Konica Minolta employees donate Nov. 20th, 2009 at 2:40 PM Employees of Konica Minolta in Windsor held a Turkey and a Twenty drive and delivered 148 turkeys to Foodshare today. Enthusiastic Foodshare volunteers helped unload and stack the entire pallet of frozen birds and then paused to pose for a photo! Thanks to everyone at Konica Minolta for your efforts!
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You're now selling Managed Print Services "Your Thoughts Now"

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Canon Buyout Marketing Dollars

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Wilmington native joins business as specialist

headquarters at 100 Reservoir Park, Rockland, MA and has more than 37 years experience serving the document imaging needs of businesses throughout Massachusetts. In addition to a full line of Konica Minolta, Muratec and Lexmark equipment, Bay Copy provides comprehensive managed print services programs for customers looking to reduce both their per-print price of generating information and their labor costs. Bay Copy provides consultation services and offers their clients detailed print assessment and
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh

William Mitting, printweek.com, 23 November 2009 Shares in press manufacturer Océ are trading at a slight premium to the 8.60 euro a share offer from Canon, indicating the market anticipates Canon may be forced to raise its bid. Last week, Orbis, a 10% shareholder in Océ said that it believed the bid "significantly undervalued" Océ, despite a general impression that the bid was a strong one in order to deter a counter bid from Konica Minolta. Canon requires acceptance from 85% of its
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Managing printing also crucial

Managing printing also crucial As Ingle said, IDC’s research suggests that cost control is going to remain a major factor for most if not all businesses. Also they must be sustainable both financially and environmentally. Bob Roth, vice president of strategic technology sourcing at Viacom, presented a snapshot of his company’s transition to managed print services. Viacom’s corporate copier contract was due to expire; at the same time, the company wanted to streamline its printing and copying
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Multifunctional Copier Rental

All-In-One Large Office Copier, 25 pages per minute. Black-and-white printing, black-and-white copying, color scanning, black-and-white faxing, color printing, color copying. http://p4photel.com/eve/forums...=675109891#675109891
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Ricoh Americas Corporation Launches Business Process Automation Group

Ricoh Americas Corporation Launches Business Process Automation Group Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment, announced the creation of a Business Process Automation (BPA) Group. Aligning under Ricoh's Document Solutions and Services Division (DSSD), BPA combines consulting services and technical resources with an experienced sales force to help current and prospective customers analyze their document management operations. In addition, BPA helps customers
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EIS Quatra Color Wide Format MFP Saves the Day!

Another repost for ya, btw the way we're killin it with sales, now we have to keep it rolling!! I just finished my first install on the EIS Quatra "M" series from Paradigm Imaging. This is an awesome unit! The ease of set-up and install is exceptional along with the configuration of scan, print and copy drivers! First, we had the unit dropped shipped to the customers location, this was a great savings since the shipment did not... go here for rest of blog
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North American MPS Market Sees 27 Percent Growth, Canada 30 Percent

North American MPS Market Sees 27 Percent Growth, Canada 30 Percent Special version of MPS Market Report now available for dealers and resellers Lexington, KY (MMD Newswire) November 20, 2009 -- The North American market continues to grow at a remarkable 27 percent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR), according to the latest Managed Print Services (MPS) research from the Photizo Group. The new "2009 Managed Print Services Summary Report" looks at market size, share and forecast analysis for
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Re: Rumor has it.....

quote: Originally posted by vwrome: Ricoh Aquires Kodak It could happen, and may now have to happen with Ricoh. Or could KonicaMinolta HAVE to buy Kodak?
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh

[LIST] How much marketshare could KM lose? How does KM counterstrike? Is Sharp, Kyocera or Toshiba now willing to get out of the business Geez, KM may be right back to where they were 5 years ago!
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Konica Minolta Says It Has No Plan to Counter Oce Bid (Update1) By Mariko Yasu Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., the Japanese lens and office-equipment maker, said it has no plan to counter Canon Inc.’s offer to buy Oce NV for 730 million euros ($1.1 billion). “There’s no plan to make an offer to Oce at the moment,” Minoru Ikehara, a spokesman at the Tokyobased company, said by phone today. While Konica Minolta had considered an acquisition of the Venlo, Netherlands-based
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Re: Canon Buyout Marketing Dollars

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Canon & Oce Deal

It seems the purchase of Oce will go through, now with that purchase and the agreement that Canon announced a few months ago, coupled with the addition of many new Canon Dealers.
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Canon & Oce "Was this a good deal or a not so good deal?"

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John Buonomo jailed for stealing coins from copiers

John Buonomo jailed for stealing coins from copiers Penny for pol’s thoughts? By Laurel J. Sweet Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Updated 10h ago Laurel J. Sweet has been featured in the ABC miniseries "Boston 24/7" and the 9-11 documentary motion picture "Looking For My Brother." For the chump change he was caught on camera tapping from copiers and the cash he stole from struggling taxpayers who voted him into his $110,220 job, John Buonomo, former Middlesex register of probate, was sentenced to
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Thoughts about the Canon/OCE deal?

What goes going on out there, what have you heard in reference to the pending Canon aquisition? Good, Bad, let me know.
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Tulare Public Library receives $25,000 grant for computers & Copier

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W--Multifunctional Copier Rental

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Mainframe Printing Solution "Due 12/08/09"

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Obama picks Xerox CEO Burns for education role

Obama picks Xerox CEO Burns for education role (AP) – 3 hours ago NORWALK, Conn. — President Barack Obama on Monday tapped Xerox Chief Executive Ursula Burns to help lead an education initiative aimed at helping students excel at science, technology, engineering and math. The so-called STEM initiative will be led by Burns, former Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett, Time Warner Cable Inc. CEO Glenn Britt and former astronaut Sally Ride. Burns, a mechanical engineer, joined Xerox as a student intern
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Quanta Storage Loses Patent Lawsuit to Ricoh

Quanta Storage Loses Patent Lawsuit to Ricoh Quanta Storage Inc. lost two patent lawsuits to Japan?s Ricoh and is ordered to pay $14.50 million as damages, the company said in a statement. A US Court in Wisconsin on November 20 made a judgment that Quanta Storage, the largest Taiwan-based ODM/OEM maker of slim-type optical disc drives, should pay US$14.5 million to compensate Japan-based Ricoh for infringement of the latter's patents. Quanta Storage, the largest slim-type ODD maker in Taiwan
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Printing Solution "Due 12/08/09"

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A2iA Named a Finalist for KMWorld Magazine’s KM Promise Award

A2iA Named a Finalist for KMWorld Magazine’s KM Promise Award Because of A2iA DocumentReader’s Worldwide Successes KM Promise Award honors organizations that provide innovative technology solutions and help organizations realize improved business processes. NEW YORK, August 25, 2009 – A2iA, the worldwide leading developer of handwritten and machine printed text recognition, information extraction and intelligent classification of paper documents, announced today it was named a finalist for
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Coates receives $50,000

Coates receives $50,000 Coates Toners, Dallas, has received a $50,000 investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania to help the company install a new color printer toner production line. Coates Toners currently produces monochrome toner for non-impact printers and copiers.
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HP Q4 Profit Climbs 14%; Boosts FY10 Outlook

(RTTNews) - According to market research firm Gartner, Inc. (IT), worldwide PC shipments increased in the third quarter by 0.5% year-over-year to 80.9 million units. HP continued to lead the worldwide PC market with market share of 19.9%, followed by Acer with 15.4% market share and Dell with 12.8% market share, Gartner said. However, Dell was the top PC vendor in the U.S., the world's largest PC market, in the third quarter, with a market share of 26.2%. In its preliminary fourth quarter
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Here's the deal

Three systems, customer just wants hi speed data printing. Players: imagrePRESS 1125, Bizhub1200 and Ricoh PRO1357 Whats wrong here? Why is the pricing for the imagePRESS almost double of the others?
 
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of November 2009)

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Did you know that Frank Sinatra was in the copier business for 20 years back in 2009?  Hoping Frank is still around he's still in the business and ready to celebrate his 30 years experience.  I thought the same thing Frank Sinatra?  Yup seems there is more than one. Here's the link https://www.p4photel.com/topic...ce-in-the-copier-biz
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Canon in Las Vegas, Part 2 Powerful Tools for In-Plant Printers

of commercial printing operations can avail themselves of business development tools offered by equipment vendors. Capture (HP), MarketMover (Kodak), and ProfitAccelerator (Xerox) are replete with comprehensive business building tools, templates, guidebooks and more that print providers can use to bring in new and repeat business. This material is heavily skewed towards the commercial print operations and not necessarily adaptable to in-plant operations even though they may use the exact same
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Xerox Enterprise Print Services: From the desktop to the in-house print centre

Xerox's move to widen the scope of its MPS offerings across the enterprise addresses the need to manage and control printing as it occurs in several parts of the organisation—at the desktop, in the home or other remote locations, or in internal print-rooms. In itself, the office environment represents a significant source of paper output and is characterised by a range of printers, copiers and multifunction peripherals (MFPs). This environment can be a huge cost drain due to the lack of control
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Copying His Way to Success

Bob Leone doesn’t hesitate when asked what makes him a successful businessman. And he is that. He just sold his wildly successful Xerox Corp. agency Mr. Copy, which he built from the ground up during the past 15 years, to Xerox itself. For a lot of money. How much? He won’t say. He’ll continue in his job, and expects to add up to 30 jobs in the next year or so. But he will talk about how he handcrafted his company into a dynamo in the copying industry. A Xerox employee for 20 years, he decided
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Ingersoll Rand to cut operational costs by 30% with Xerox document management

Ingersoll Rand to cut operational costs by 30% with Xerox document management 12/11/2009 Global manufacturer Ingersoll Rand reckons it's seeing cost savings and greener operations since going live with Xerox Enterprise Print Services. William Gauld, senior vice president at Ingersoll Rand, explains that the company's nine-year EPS contract effectively brings multiple output devices, print budgets and vendor support systems all under centralised Xerox management. As a result, he says
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CSU to shut down university print shop

printing technologies are rapidly replacing traditional offset (printing) for many forms of print marketing," administrators said in their justification. "There are fewer dollars out there, and buyers are carefully choosing where to spend." Cutting the eight jobs and dropping two others to part time will save the university $280,000 annually, administrators said. Administrators said print jobs will be handled by other staff using copiers and other digital equipment at the FastPrint and CopyRite
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Fuji Xerox adds three Nuvera models

magnetic readers and sorters. The machines boast productive printing capabilities with the Nuvera 200MX printing at speeds of up to 200 A4 duplex images per minute, while the Nuvera 288MX can print up to 288 A4 duplex images per minute. Other features include: Cheque Production Integrity : An optional feature that automatically tracks the total number of cheques in a run and captures every printed MICR line to determine if a number in a cheque sequence is missing, duplicated or out of order
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London Graphic Systems appointed Xerox reseller

Specialist print reseller becomes Xerox UK’s latest channel partner. Published on Nov 9, 2009 London-based supplier to the creative industry, London Graphic Systems, has added Xerox colour technology to its portfolio of specialist colour printing systems. “This is an exciting time for London Graphic Systems,” says Gordon Christiansen, London Graphic Systems’ managing director. Adds Peter Taylor, director, Production and Graphic Communications, Xerox UK: “The relationship Xerox has with London
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Ricoh W5100

One of my cleints just needs a color scan solution, however the Ricoh Color Scanner is not on GSA, thsu I need to go to the W5100. Can this system just be confingured with the interface card and the scan license?? Thus the RW print license is not needed. am I correct or am I missing something. Art PS, I would use the netwrok acnning, however they need more control over scanning old documents.
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Xerox wins Gegenheimer award

Xerox wins Gegenheimer award Press release from the issuing company Xerox Corporation has been awarded the 2009 Harold W. Gegenheimer Corporate Award for Industry Service from NPES, The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies. Xerox is the first manufacturer of digital printing equipment to win the award, which recognizes leadership and participation in NPES and industry activities, civic leadership and technical innovation. "Xerox has been instrumental in
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Océ Offers Customers Secure Printer Access

. Availability HID OMNIKEY brand readers are now available from Océ direct sales offices. A variety of acquisition plans are available, please visit www.oceusa.com . About Océ Océ is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. The company’s solutions are based on Océ advanced software applications that deliver documents and data over internal networks and the internet to printing devices and archives -- locally and around the world. Supporting the
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Print Audit Named 2009 TechRev Innovator

located in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, Canada and the United States. For more information on Print Audit, please contact: Angela Onstine 1.877.412.8348 pr@printaudit.com www.printaudit.com Outside of North America, please contact: Print Audit - Europe +44(0)1483 726206 www.printauditeurope.com inquiry@printauditeurope.com Print Audit - Australasia +612 9922-3756 http://www.printauditaustralasia.com Print Audit - South Africa +086 110 5777 (Within South Africa
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Re: Weekend Industry Notes from 11/08/09

quote: - Muratec is now shipping the new MFX-4555 A3 b/w MFP, featuring: - actually made by Samsung of Korea - Base MSRP of $5995 - Can print up to 11”x17”, but can only copy up to legal size originals Not correct, this is an A4 device only and will not print 11x17 click here
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Canon unveils world’s fastest portable scanner

is located on integrated memory, which auto loads when plugged into any Windows PC. It can therefore be used easily when on the road and on any compatible Windows computer. Paper is placed onto the automatic document feeder that opens up at the top to accommodate 20 sheets of paper. Trevor Dodsworth, head of marketing for business products, said its appeal was that is was no heavier than a bag of sugar. Also unveiled was the Canon DR2020U, a 20 pages per minute capable office scanner with an
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requires a service contract for its fleet of departmental printers.

Wake Technical Community College requires a service contract for its fleet of departmental printers. These printers are all HP printers, and range from smaller departmental printers to larger departmental multi-function devices.
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OKI brings fully managed office automation service to market

OKI brings fully managed office automation service to market This division offers managed services on the OKI ES range of multifunction and colour printers. Johannesburg, 12 Nov 2009 OKI Printing Solutions has established an office automation division to meet the market's growing demand for fully managed print services. This new division, which became operational at the beginning of October, comprises dedicated sales, support and maintenance staff, which offer managed services on the OKI
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Re: Dealer and Direct Branch Counts

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Agreed, This info is hard to track down. Even harder if you want to be exact. For IKON I used the "400" figure that was published at the time of Ricoh's acquisition I pulled the 664 figure from a report on Vision 2007 Ricoh dealer meeting. That did include all RFG dealers. Interestingly, the report said that Ricoh had over 1,300 dealers in 1999. I took your suggestion and converted Xerox' GSA to excel and did the math. Agents added up to 540, but I assume that some of those are actually Global
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Re: A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Copier Demo/Appointment

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A customer was demo'ing a canon color copier with fiery in their office. I stopped by on the second day to check to see how everything was going. The office manager asked me if there was any way that images or pictures would just randomly print off the hard drive of the system. Apparently, some very explicit images had been printed on the copier right before I got there. Rightfully so she was absolutley furious. I explained that the pictures had to have been printed by someone in the office. We
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Frank Sinatra "20 Years of Experience in the Copier Biz"

n?A motion to approve a five-year multi-function copier agreement was tabled by supervisors to allow board member Frank Sinatra to view a demonstration of the equipment. He said Nov. 4 that he has 20 years of copy machine experience. The township will lease at least five copiers for the administration, finance, police, parks and MCA-TV. The vote to table was 3-1 with supervisor Marvin Eicher dissenting and Craig Swen absent. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg...57.stm#ixzz0We58iWWY
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Wapakoneta, OH

they would have been without it. Since Cash for Clunkers ended, the office has seen a decrease in sales, but that is typical through mid-March since people steer away from purchasing new cars during the winter months. “We would like to set that money aside for further renovations of the building as needed,” Kohler said. Two computer funds supported by fines charged in each court case should be well funded for 2010, she said. Ten dollars from each case, excluding traffic cases which charge $5 each
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New P4P Promo

For the next three months December 09, January 2010 and February 2010. Print Audit and Dealer Marketing Systems will sponsor our new P4P Promo! The top two posters for each month will receive a FREE SIX Month Premium Membership for the Print4Pay Hotel forums! Be sure to post often!! I'll be posting the winners here and then upgrade your membership!!! Thank You!!
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New Photizo 2009 MPS Tracker Study: 93 Percent of Companies Use MPS Provider

New Photizo 2009 MPS Tracker Study: 93 Percent of Companies Use MPS Provider Most also note reduction in carbon footprint as result of MPS programs November 12, 2009 – Lexington, KY – Almost one half of all Managed Print Services contracts are directly with equipment manufacturers, according to the latest MPS Decision Maker Trackerä study from the Photizo Group. The study also found nearly 95 percent of MPS sites reported a reduction in their carbon footprint as a result of more efficient
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Re: Dealer and Direct Branch Counts

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Thanks Chuck, I came up with 114 RBS locations based on Ricoh's July GSA, but it doesn't seem to adding up in terms of authorized dealers (just 143). I tracked down a count from Vision 2007 and Ricoh, L & S had 664. Considering the number of authorized dealers probably didn't expand too much, I'm going with that as a rough estimate for now. still open to suggestions and clarifications though....
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Surely that 143 does not count IKON locations and your numbers may be suspect due to a dealers having multiple locations etc., etc. Also are you looking for JUST Ricoh or are you considering RFG locations/dealers. I also know that IKON uses a Phone Number/Home address of individuals as a "location" ergo, that throws off your count too.
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Re: Dealer and Direct Branch Counts

Anyone have an idea of how many sales people there are in the industry??
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Re: GENERIC TONERS

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that 4% of PAPER sold in the US is 11x17, which is totally different. If the average customer used 11x17 4% of the time, and assuming 1,000 pages a day, that's 40 pages of 11x17 at every customer, every day. Of course in reality, lots of customers print 80-100 11x17 pages a day, and some certainly print 0, but there are still many applications that call for 11x17.
 
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Last Week of October 2009)

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There's a really awesome topic from ten years ago titled "Is selling at cost the future for print hardware?". I went back and read it several times, and realized that 2009 was the start of the great recession. Somehow we survived, but recently I've heard some grumblings in the AEC industry and they are not good

Enjoy these awesome threads from ten years ago this week!

Weekend Industry Notes from 10/25/09

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- network based authorization, authentication and accounting - enhanced reporting of media usage - end user popup notifications including hyperlinks - web-based Release Station allowing print jobs to be released using web browser - Follow-You Printing now allows Xerox and Sharp copiers to have embedded application to over-ride printing rules and print color instead of b/w - Supports Apple Remote Desktop - Ricoh’s complaint seeking to bar Okidata from selling any more printers and MFPs in the U.S
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Konica Minolta cuts 2009/10 outlook on slow demand

TOKYO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Japan's Konica Minolta Holdings Inc (4902.T: Quote, Profile, Research) cut its annual profit forecast by 24 percent on slow copier demand, casting a shadow over the performance of other office machine makers such as Canon and Ricoh. Konica Minolta, which competes with Xerox Corp (XRX.N: Quote, Profile, Research), Canon Inc (7751.T: Quote, Profile, Research) and Ricoh Co Ltd (7752.T: Quote, Profile, Research) in copiers and printers, lowered its operating profit outlook
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Color Multifunctional Printers and Monochrome Digital Presses Recognized for Outstand

Neal ·
, Peripherals Category, including: • bizhub® C652/C552/C452 Series and bizhub C360/C280/C220 Series of color multifunctional printers (MFPs - print, copy, fax, scan all-in-one system) • bizhub PRO® 1200/1200P/1051 Series of monochrome digital presses Based in Tokyo, the Konica Minolta Technology Center actively develops unique and cutting-edge technologies that will expand the world of imaging, on the basis of proprietary materials, optical, nano-fabrication and imaging technologies. Phosphorescent
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Kodak Tumbles "Big Time"

, missing analysts’ forecast of $1.89 billion. On a sequential basis, sales were flat. While the July-September period illustrated the difficulties still facing Kodak, the company said it was encouraged by sales of its consumer inkjet printers as well as rising orders for commercial inkjet printers scheduled to hit the market early next year. Note from Art: Time for one of the big boys to buy Kodaks PPG?
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RICOH Pro C900 Receives BERTL's Prestigious Five Star Exceptional Rating

Multi-Functional Digital System Outperforms Competition with High Speeds and Outstanding Image Quality WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Production Printing Business Group (PPBG) of Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced that its RICOH Pro C900 was awarded a Five Star Rating from BERTL. Several hundred copiers, printers, fax, multi-functional, color and production devices are evaluated and tested by BERTL each year. BERTL's prestigious Five Star Rating is reserved for a
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OKI unveils three new mono printers for small workgroups

simultaneously cut costs and increase productivity." Given the feature set and capabilities, OKI says the MB400 MFP Series includes the most cost-effective devices in their class with advanced features2 and lower TCO than most competitors. Boasting one of the fastest first page out print speeds and one of the highest maximum page inputs among comparable printers3, to further boost productivity the devices combine black and white printing and copying, colour/mono scanning, analog faxing and scan-to
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CANON U.S.A. DEMONSTRATES ITS IMAGE CAPTURE TECHNOLOGIES AT ARMA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

, FileBound and I.R.I.S. Professional Solutions on display in its booth. FileBound will be showing its FileBound AP software, which streamlines accounts payable processes, running in conjunction with a customized Canon ScanFront 220P Network Scanner. I.R.I.S. will be showing its IRISPowerscan production scanning and OCR solution, running with a Canon DR-X10C Production Scanner. About Canon U.S.A., Inc. Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital
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Connect With Print Audit On The Web In Three New Ways

recapture over $150 million in printing and photocopying expenses while saving an estimated 190,000 trees a year. Print Audit has offices located in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, Canada and the United States. For more information on Print Audit, please contact: Angela Onstine 1.877.412.8348 pr@printaudit.com www.printaudit.com Outside of North America, please contact: Print Audit - Europe +44(0)1483 726206 www.printauditeurope.com inquiry@printauditeurope.com Print
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Kodak Demonstrates Digital Records Management at ARMA 2009 with Solutions that Captur

paper-based documents.” KODAK Products are backed by KODAK Service and Support. KODAK Service and Support is made up of more than 3,000 professionals reaching more than 120 countries. It is a leading multi vendor integrated services provider, delivering consulting, installation, maintenance and support services for retail services, commercial printing, graphic communications, document imaging and data storage industries. KODAK Service and Support professionals are uniquely qualified to provide
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Ricoh Announces Common Access Card Authentication Solution Version 2.0

Ricoh Announces Common Access Card Authentication Solution Version 2.0 WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh Americas Corporation , a leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced that its Common Access Card (CAC) Authentication Solution V2.0 is now available for exclusive use by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). This latest update to the smart card technology solution, developed in response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) that requires
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IKON Renews Comprehensive Document Management Solution Agreement

, printers and MFP technologies, and document management software and systems, to deliver tailored, high-value solutions, implemented and supported by its team of services professionals. IKON leverages the manufacturing and engineering expertise of Ricoh, a more than $20 billion global technology innovator, with the experience and reach of its locally based sales and services teams, to provide end-to-end solutions and one of the industry’s broadest portfolios of document management services
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Siberian company building up cooperation with Japan in nanotechnologies.

identical interests. The Russians side invited executives of the two Japanese corporations to visit Russia for getting familiarized with Sun’s production facilities. Konica Minolta’s President Akiyoshi Ohno said in a comment on the results of the talks his company is ready to develop relations with Russian partners, including Sun Ltd. The company started out on the market manufacturing photo and X-ray film and its current line of products includes industrial printers used for applying special coatings
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Re: Kodak Tumbles "Big Time"

Neal ·
could it be Konica Minolta? With the integration of Danka they have one of the biggest Kodak MIF's around plus their new focus on Big Iron it would make sense.
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Canon U.S.A., Canon Virginia and Christopher Newport

. Brian Huffman Charlottesville, Va. Jessica Johnson Midlothian, Va. Sara LaFrance Sterling, Va. Jess McCormac Charlotte, N.C. Victoria Miller Fort Washington, Pa. Shelton Nalley Greensboro, N.C. Katie Schumacher Easton, Md. Tierney Stark Manassas, Va. Megan Talley Springfield, Va. Francis Wilson Woodbridge, Va. Michael Zimmerman Durham, N.C. About Canon U.S.A., Inc. Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions
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Océ Arizona 350 XT and Océ Arizona 350 GT printers win

exposition held October 7-9, 2009 in New Orleans, LA. The Product of the Year Awards compare output from competing devices using a common test file designed by the association. The prints are reviewed by a panel of judges, each with a background and expertise in digital printing and imaging. The judges look for color appeal, detail and tonality, and the output is also judged on how closely it matches the test print. The images for both entries were processed using ONYX ® ProductionHouse TM V
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Steven Stegman Joins MWA Intelligence, Inc.

. (MWAi) delivers enterprise-class and leading-edge M2M (machine-to-machine) and M2P (machine-to-people). MWAi provides an enterprise class solution designed to manage the MFP's, printers (locally and networked) collecting, automating meters, consumables, service alerts, and Managed Print Service (MPS) tools. MWAi literally connects the people who service and sell the assets with the actual machines and ERP systems delivering greater customer satisfaction. Solutions include: Intelligent Service
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Need some help ---Scan Router for Vista 64 Bit

I have a SAVIN 3515mf for my home office...My new desktop runs Vista 64bit...and I can't get scan router to work... Does any one know how to do this or this just unsupported.... Apolotize for posting here --- But can't get into the RICOH BOARDSS anymore////////ART@!!! :0
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Register TODAY for Mutoh’s “Hands-On” School of Wrap Dec 1st-3rd 2009, in Lexington,

Phoenix, AZ (October, 2009) – MUTOH America has added December 1-3 to the 2009 “Hands-On” School of Wrap schedule in Lexington, KY. This is the last wrap class of the year, so take advantage of this opportunity by registering TODAY! Hosted by Pat Buckley, a veteran graphic installer, and Todd LaBrie, President of Carwraps, Inc, teach vehicle wrapping, time saving techniques that generate revenue. Pricing is only $995/Person. A FREE Wrapper’s Starter Kit is included ($185 Value). Limited seating
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Re: Competing against the Xerox 4127 b/w production print system?

Merlin. Your right, the finishing on the Xerox 41 series is pretty light, Booklet, interposing, and stapling is about as much as you can get...For a Very high price point at that w/ booklet...Its close to $10,000 to upgrade to that finisher. The 41 series are considered OFFICE MONOCHROME and not production. I am not as familiar w/ the new RICOH PRO series but seems like RICOH finally is addressing the production needs with the finishing. How well does the RICOH pro handle heavier paper? Can it
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Re: Is selling at cost the future for print hardware?

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quote: Originally posted by 5050: Really hard to speculate on a business model which we don't know anything about. But the one thing that I do know is that - these idiots are everywhere..... If you can't speculate, how do you know they are idiots? The business model of selling products at a loss to gain future revenue is not new. Microsoft loses money every time someone buys an xBox, Dell gives away printers costing $1,000 for free, Razors and blades, etc. All of those examples have been very
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Re: Need Help for Print Solution!

This my boo boo, I asked my sales manager about this application and the reps at Sage, all stated it could be done out of the box. As to what they were doing before, they did not have the accounting package and asked for a dot matrix printer for forms, I investigated got false info and sold them an 8200N stated it would staple the two pages. I am now in the process adding Planet Press
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Re: Need some help ---Scan Router for Vista 64 Bit

Jason -- thanks -- but that sucks== Does anyone know how to get an older ricoh product to scan to VISTA? I have A SAVIN 3515mf running Vista 64bit
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Re: Is selling at cost the future for print hardware?

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Interesting approach to the sales process. Strikes me the next promo is for 10% below sticker price...of course unlike cars, manufacturers don't put a sticker price on MFP's to advise the public what the price is supposed to be. At this point we find the margin we are able to obtain on most sales of hardware barely covers the cost of sales for the product...any business profits come from services bundled around the hardware, either connectivity plans, support plans, supplies for colour etc
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Re: NEED HELP QUICK --- SINKING SHIP

JasonR ·
Ouch, that's a tough one. If it's really a proprietary system, there's probably no chance of a converter being available. What's the actual file format? Does it save in an an autocad format? or HPGL? Secondly, why do you need it to be PDF? If it's for printing to a ricoh wide format, could they use a PDF print driver to drop the file into a folder for the Rioch to grab it from?
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Re: NEED HELP QUICK --- SINKING SHIP

Jason -- no the goal it to print a version of an 11 x 17 drawing and scale down to a letter size document. My PCL and PS3 driver is not reading the lines on the drawing as an image. I posted for a colleague so who just joined so I am not sure of the file format, nor am I familiar w/ this application. 2nd part yes -- they could do that -- that was a quick work around that we did - but was unhappy with the amount of clicks that it had to go through. They have a CANON that does it no problem.
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Re: NEED HELP QUICK --- SINKING SHIP

5050 is actually a xerox p4pmember, so he does not have access to the ricoh forums. So I guess he posted here, maybe should have been in the solutions fourms which are open to all members.
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HOW TO BEHAVE AND WHY

This is the best book for sales ever -- it is short, sweet and to the point....we got it for my daughter when she was 3 and you'd be surprised about the little things we teach our kids that you can let go...
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Kemmerer City Council meets

Department. After asking a couple of questions the Council voted for the Mayor to sign the Equipment Lease Agreement with IKON Office Solutions for a Ricoh MP 2550 copier.
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scan router pro anyone?

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Need a copy of scanrouter pro. Any suggestions?
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TSG Solutions Unveils a revolutionary NEW business application

, bringing a fully customized sales and business management application to the Office Equipment Industry. AgentDealer™ is a 100% Force.com native application, benefiting from the reliability, scalability and performance of salesforce.com’s trusted global service infrastructure. Equipment dealers can manage all their business relationships, connections, deals, agreements, sales quotas, commissions, service calls, meter reads, equipment expiration dates and more with TSG Solutions new CRM
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MWA Intelligence, Inc. and Image Star Launch Industry First nMPS Supply Chain

quality printer supplies and automated supplies ordering process for dealers and resellers. Image Star’s line of quality printer supplies will be an integral part of the nMPS, the industry-first national fleet service program that supports dealers and resellers across the U.S. to expand and enhance their MPS offerings to satisfy requirements from end-user organizations on lower TCO and supplies replenishment automation. “Image Star has won a great reputation in its high quality supplies products
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MWA Intelligence, Inc. and Image Star Launch Industry First nMPS Supply Chain

, Printers (locally or networked) collecting, automating meters, consumables, service alerts and Managed Print Service (MPS) tools. MWAi literally connects the people who service and sell the assets with the actual machines and ERP systems delivering greater customer satisfaction. Solutions include: Intelligent Service Management, Intelligent Managed Print Services, IntelliDashboard and Intelligent Device Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.mwaintelligence.com . Contact Rose
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NUWC awards 5 year office equipment supplies contract

For Immediate Release Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport Awards New England Toner Service 5 Year Contract. Newport, Rhode Island --- New England Toner Service Inc. dba NETS Printer Solutions of Portsmouth, R.I. has been awarded a $4.9 million, five year contract to supply ink and toner cartridge supplies to NUWC Division Newport in Newport, Rhode Island. The contract was won through a competitive bidding process, requiring a formal response to a Request For Proposals (“RFP”). “We
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Océ CS665 Pro Color System Helps Fry Communications Grow Their Color Personalization

faster and more effectively. The quality and reliability of Océ digital print technology has helped us enhance clients’ efforts with color and variable data,” said David P. Colatriano, General Manager, FryDIRECT, the direct marketing division of Fry Communications. The Pennsylvania-based company has built a production platform for personalized communications using Océ digital printing, including the Océ CS665 Pro color system and the Océ VarioPrintâ 6160 duplex system. With these resources, Fry
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Paradigm Imaging Group receives BERTL® Four-And-A-Half Star Rating on New EIS Supra!

PARADIGM IMAGING GROUP 1590 METRO DRIVE #116 COSTA MESA, CA 92626 714-432-7226 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jane Napolitano Email: jane@paradigmimaging.com Web site: http://www.SCANtopia.com Paradigm Imaging Group receives BERTL ® Four-And-A-Half Star Rating On New Supra Costa Mesa, CA – October 22, 2009 – Paradigm Imaging Group, a leading distributor of large-format scanning and printing solutions, announced today that they have received the prestigious BERTL ® Four-And-A-Half Star
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Re: Competing against the Xerox 4127 b/w production print system?

but again,,,,who would sell a unit like this for that volume? It doesn't make sense... When we carried the Konica High End Line - I had a customer running about 1.5 millions a month, with coverage that came back around 1% on 40% of the jobs and 17& on 60%...The machine ran horrible when they did low coverage, and we had to retrofit a toner recyling vacuum pack. At the end I added 2 additoinal 1050's and 2 6500's w/ a micro press.. I don't know what its rated for but I never sold against that
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Re: PowerSelling by Steven Power

This is a great BOOK!!!!! Everyone who has a career selling copiers should read.
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Re: Competing against the Xerox 4127 b/w production print system?

merlin ·
Art, here is a quote from Xerox on a 4112 I was going against. This just happen in the last week.
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Re: Competing against the Xerox 4127 b/w production print system?

merlin ·
Art I forgot one thing. All of these Xerox will use there Free Flow Software, which is proprietary. So down the road if the customer wants to switch to a different dealer they will have to convert there files over. It use to be call RDO's. This is not a cheap covert.
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Re: Competing against the Xerox 4127 b/w production print system?

quote: Originally posted by merlin: Art, here is a quote from Xerox on a 4112 I was going against. This just happen in the last week. Thanx for the quote! Wish everyone else would chip in!
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Re: Competing against the Xerox 4127 b/w production print system?

quote: Originally posted by merlin: Art I forgot one thing. All of these Xerox will use there Free Flow Software, which is proprietary. So down the road if the customer wants to switch to a different dealer they will have to convert there files over. It use to be call RDO's. This is not a cheap covert. interesting on the FREE Flow Software, I'll have to keep this handy!
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Re: Competing against the Xerox 4127 b/w production print system?

merlin ·
Art, Couple others things that may help. First, the price quote was for a government account, plus the Xerox does not have a Ring Binder option. We have them out and they work great.
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Re: Need Help for Print Solution!

they are typically user customized in the application. For example a law firm printing to an HP 4000, when they print a letter it's always in dup or triplicatel; right? So the program is set up when they select to print, a letter that they get: 1. a print on letterhead 2. a print on plain paper 3. a print on colored paper 4. an evnelope. I always run into this when replacing printers, because it never is configured to do the same thing, and i have like 30 legal secretaries wanting to kill me
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Re: Is selling at cost the future for print hardware?

I have good relatioship === but employer is a little big... I am positive that equipment is dirt cheap, lease rates are bumped, but just like any other company, overhead to run a company has to be built in somewhere...Business's are in business to make money.....Even Non PRofits..... Merlin, are you a principal? I think the real point that should be taken away from this thread is that people have the ability to look at their company from a different perspective, not just the side of a salesman
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Third Week of September 2009)

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If you have some extra time make sure you check out Brian's post from ten years ago. It was pretty awesome.



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Enjoy these awesome threads from 10 years ago this week!

Canon U.S.A. Announces Availability of The COPYblue MEAP Kiosk Version 2.1 Solution

Providing storefront and hospitality businesses with an opportunity to generate additional revenue from copying, scanning and faxing, CanonU.S.A., Inc., a leader in advanced digital imaging and software solutions, and GBCblue, a recognized leader in guest computing technology and support services, today announced the availability of the new COPYblue MEAP Version 2.1 solution for select Canon imageRUNNER multifunctional products (MFPs). The new COPYblue MEAP application transforms a Canon
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Konica Minolta Business Center Opens Doors at Innovation Park at Notre

Neal ·
Minolta Business Center features Konica Minolta's award-winning product lines of multifunctional printers (MFPs - print, copy, fax, scan all-in-one system) and digital presses. Innovation Park's clients are expected to be regional, national and international organizations, including those ventures in their earliest stages as well as Fortune 100 companies. Clients will include innovators and entrepreneurs drawn from the University's faculty, student or alumni community, as well as other ventures
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Sammy "Going After the Big Dogs"

Monday, October 12, 2009 Sammy "Going After the Big Dogs" Samsung, or as I refer to as "Sammy", talk has it that they will be coming to market with some A3 devices somewhere down the road. Talk, also has it that they would like to be a full line OEM with the likes of Ricoh, Canon, KonicaMinolta, and Xerox. Fact, besides Sharp, none of the above manufacturers have yet come to market with thier own (OEM) A4 device as of this time. Yes, there are some rumors that Ricoh or Toshiba will come to
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Color Copying & Printing Can Be Expensive (Unless....)

[URL=http://www.heirloomsbydesign.com/Liz%20at%20Copy%20Machine%20IMG_2910.JPG] [/URL] This months featured Guest Blogger for the [URL=https://www.p4photel.com/eve]P4P Hotel[/URL] is David Murphy from [URL=http://www.newinkjet.com/]Riso[/URL]. About a week ago, David and I had the chance to speak for about an hour on some of the everyday costs associated with color copying and printing. Color Copying Can Be Expensive (Unless…) About 14 months ago, Citigroup issued a memo to its employees
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Canon Considers Acquiring Outsourcing Company

printing based on personalized customer itineraries. The initiative helped minimize wastage as it eliminates the need to store as well as produce standard travel brochures in bulk. As part of its shift toward "solutions" rather than device sales, Canon today also officially unveiled a free audit service, where it provides a "health screen" of a customer's imaging environment, said Chng. The company has so far conducted an audit of its own office premises in Singapore, as well as a few other
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emFAST INC.’S FACSys® CONNECTOR PASSES RICOH DEVELOPER PROGRAM COMPATIBILITY TESTING

Ricoh MFPs with the company’s secure and intuitive fax server solution. Using Ricoh’s sophisticated Embedded Software Architecture (ESA) platform, emFAST was able to enhance the capabilities of FACSys® by leveraging the inherent print functions found in Ricoh’s MFPs through Ricoh’s open architecture. “emFAST has utilized the Ricoh ESA development platform to take the integration between the FACSys® fax messaging platform and the Ricoh MFP to a whole new level,” said Peter Valier, director of IT
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Kyocera Mita America Launches New Mid-Range TASKalfa Black & White Multifunctional Pr

print, copy and scan functionality. The TASKalfa 520i/420i is based on the company’s award-winning MFP engine technology that utilizes Kyocera’s patented long-life Amorphous Silicon drum – delivering more business “uptime” through an industry leading 500,000 page preventive maintenance (PM) schedule. This incredible PM interval ensures longer periods of time between required service visits, maximizing productivity and performance for end-users and providing the highest level of dependability
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Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. Pays Tribute to Dealers for Outstanding Custo

- Texas/New Mexico Toshiba Business Solutions - Venezuela TGI Office Automation The Copy Shop Tri-State Copy Turks Kern Copy Inc. U.S. Business Technologies United Imaging VanDyke Inc. Zoom Imaging Solutions About Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) (http://copiers.toshiba.com/usa...porate-overview.html) manages product planning, marketing, sales, service support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products
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Re: P4P member: Allegheny County signs 5 year contract with Amcon Office Systems

GMAN ·
This is an excellent example of why Dealers should be aware of their manufacturer's Environmental initiatives and be able to speak intelligently about 'sustainability.' Ricoh does a great job in this area, as well as XEROX and Konica Minolta. You also see more discussion on 'environmental benefits' in Managed Print Services strategies.
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InfoPrint Launches Latest Monochrome Multifunctional Workgroup Printers

that support complex jobs Printing speeds of up to 35, 45 and 55 pages per minute1 (ppm) respectively Duplex as standard, saving paper by printing on both sides A USB port that offers direct print-and-scan convenience High levels of security with PIN-based user access controls, corporate directory browsing and encryption Optional wireless connectivity to reduce installation costs These latest models boast features such as an “Eco-Mode” setting to further reduce energy consumption. A standard
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This Week in Ricoh "TWIR Notes"

This Week in Ricoh "TWIR Notes" Gathered from Print4Pay Hotel Members from around the world and a few moles in very good places! - Ricoh announced it won a bid from AREVA Inc. AREVA is a nuclear power equipment maker, with facilities in 43 countries. Details of the contract were not announced. - Ricoh announced it now has a special discount pricing program for members of NAPL/NAQP, allowing it to increase its sales of production print systems to printshops in the U.S. [URL= http://mfpsolutions
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Print4Pay Hotel Member "Biggest Deal of My Life!"

I had the opportunity to meet Brian, geez back in 2002 or 03 at a Ricoh event titled "Sell the Solution" in New Jersey. We were all there to see who would win a trip to Japan. I won the trip, however Brian banged it out with this HUGE order!! Kudos to Brian. Brian has also been a member and proud contributor to the Print4Pay Hotel Forums and web site. If you're reading this, awesome job and congrats wish I had something like this to hang my hat on!!! Allegheny County / City of Pittsburgh / and
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History of printers

The invention in 1938 of a dry printing process called electro photography commonly called a Xerox, by Chester Carlson, who received U.S Patent 2,297,691 for his invention, was to lay the foundation for laser printers to come. The original laser printer was developed in 1969 at the Xerox Research centre by Gary Starkweather, and then in 1971 adapted Xerox copier technology adding a laser beam to come up with the Laser printer. The first printer to combine laser technology and electro
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Smart Sourcing Summit: Print costs are out of control

allowing office managers to handle a very big spend. So, most firms have uncontrolled procurement of print supplies (paper and toner, especially) at the department level, Crowley says, yet prices of these supplies typically rise by almost 8% annually. "The ideal environment would have users having as much printing and copying capacity as they need with supplies being delivered only when needed," Crowley says. But that often is more a hope than a reality. So, he says outsourcing the imaging fleet to
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Xerox 6279 Wide Format

John ·
Group, I am upgrading 3 legacy Ricoh 470's and have proposed the new Ricoh MP W5100 systems with the embedded and external controller options. I found out that my competitor in the deal is Xerox and they are proposing the 6279 model with color scanning. I do not know if they are proposing an embedded or Access external controller. I have looked at the brochure on the Xerox but I cannot figure out what significant advantages that the Ricoh would have. Any help here from a dual line dealer or
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Xerox "The Week in Review"

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Xerox "The Week in Review" Gathered from Print4Pay Hotel Members from around the world and a few moles in very good places! - A judge in New York granted Xerox’s motion to dismiss an antitrust claim made against the company. Media Sciences, maker of generic printer supplies for Xerox printers, was trying to establish that Xerox maintained an unfair monopoly on the market for cartridges & ink for its printers. Xerox is still suing Media Sciences for patent
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BTA Upcoming Workshop Dates and Locations:

employees the first year. "In today's economy, many customers are looking to do more with less," says Morgan. "This fits perfectly with the solutions of a professional services group." What are professional services? Generally speaking, they are chargeable, often knowledge- and support-based offerings such as: document-related software implementation and customization (i.e., document management, variable data printing solutions, etc.); ongoing software maintenance; managed print services; custom
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Image Access Announces Distribution Agreement with Allied Images Ltd. for the United

Wuppertal, 12 October 2009. Image Access, a leading manufacturer of scanning technologies, has entered into an agreement with Allied Images, a large format scanning and printing solutions distributor providing a high level of quality products and services throughout the UK. Allied Images will promote and distribute the complete range of Image Access wide format scanners for professional applications in the UK. The WideTEK scanner family from Image Access includes sheet feed scanners for
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New Fujitsu ScanSnap Network Scanner Increases Document Management Productivity and E

, reduce operating costs, and enhance work processes. Network scanners help organizations by decreasing the complex nature of scanning without compromising access to important document scanning functionality. The Fujitsu ScanSnap fi-6010N iScanner includes time saving features such as Scan to E-mail, Scan to Folder, Scan to Network Fax, Scan to FTP and Scan to Network Printer. Utilizing its "Job Button" feature, you can pre-program frequently used functions into the scanner, including setting a
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Photizo Group Continues Growth with New European Office

Photizo Group Continues Growth with New European Office And Top Notch Additions to Executive Force Amsterdam, The Netherlands – October 22, 2009 – The Photizo Group continues to grow in response to the burgeoning need for Managed Print Services research, consultation and community. With the opening of a new European office in London, England, the total number of Photizo Group locations is now five. Company headquarters are in Versailles Kentucky, with staff in Boston, New York and Austin, and
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P4P member: Allegheny County signs 5 year contract with Amcon Office Systems

realize additional savings as it eliminates the small personal printers and consolidates printing on the multifunctional devices. The new equipment will also provide functionality that is currently not available in many County offices, such as document scanning. “Thanks to the County’s coordination of purchasing for other government agencies, we were able to aggregate volumes and combine purchasing power to save even more money,” added Onorato. “This is another great example of government
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Integrated Book Technology, Inc. Powers Up New Print-on-Demand Center with Océ Inline

burgeoning print-on-demand operation that prints books to order in quantities as small as one and as large as several hundred. Installed in December 2008, the IBT "book-of-one" production line comprises an Océ VarioPrint 6250 digital duplex cutsheet printer to print book pages, a CEM DocuConverter to split/merge the pages into book blocks, an Océ CS650 Pro color system to print color covers. A CP Bourg perfect binder marries book blocks with perfect-bound covers, while a Viadek system to read barcodes
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The Print Management Company! nEW wEB SITE!!

Whoa, was my first though on the new website from The Print Management Company! , go check it out!!
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Xerox DocuColor 252 w/Fiery

- Xerox DocuColor 252 w/Fiery for $22,000 with b/w clicks at $0.0129 and color clicks @ $0.049. 11”x17” billed as one click.
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"What is?" Transpromo Printing?

Transpromotional From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Transpromo is a compound expression formed from the words "transaction" and "promotional". By adding relevant messages, companies can piggyback promotion or even advertising onto existing transaction-related documents, such as statements, invoices, or bills. Transpromotional documents combine CRM ( Customer relationship management ) and data mining technology with Variable data printing and location intelligence . Overview Adding
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Ricoh Aficio PRO 907EX

Ricoh Aficio PRO 907EX w/Fiery/bookletmaker/stapling finisher for $32,800 with b/w clicks @ $0.0048. 11”x17” billed as one click.
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Re: P4P member: Allegheny County signs 5 year contract with Amcon Office Systems

in the TOP 5 through eggs and mud at each other and the purchasing department - it was tenacious. Aside from the Green initiatives, there were several criteria that this was based on. 1. Equipment Specs 2. Idea for Print Re-Direct and Migration Strategies. 3. How would implementation process work 4. How will account be managed 5. Deliver Equipment within 60 Days (we did in 30) 6. Scanning Initiaves of Entities. 7. Proposed Solution to integrate paperless workflow over 7 differnt networks. The
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Re: Is selling at cost the future for print hardware?

Without a value statement that goes beyond copiers and even mps at this point --- people will be selling at cost, because they are transient, non-professional, and either don't have or have confidence in their skill set. The Trick is to work with companies that aren't in the market to buy copiers---I guarantee that their are other challenges that they are facing and trying to overcome...When you do this you can sell at retail, because there is no competition and you earned that commission. Why
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Formax Announces MailDoc Software

Tuesday, 06 October 2009 13:32 Formax introduces MailDoc Software Suite, a tool for generating Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) and Bar Code Recognition (BCR) marks directly on documents for intelligent inserting of varying multi-page documents. Two versions are available, MailDoc Beginner and MailDoc Professional. The Beginner Suite generates basic OMR or 1D BCR marks to process varying multi-page documents, and works with printers operating at any speed. The Professional Suite offers these
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Formax Announces MailDoc Software

multi-page documents, and works with printers operating at any speed. The Professional Suite offers these basic elements, in addition to sequence checking, automatic document diversion, grouping documents with similar addresses, selective feeding, simplex to duplex printing, and e-mail document capability. These additional features increase document security and help to reduce printing and postage costs. Options for the Professional Suite include electronic overlays with a company logo, message
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Gartner on cloud security: 'Our nightmare scenario is here now'

managers are caught in the middle, losing their earlier controls. Gartner analysts, including David Cearley and Gene Phifer, trotted out user case studies involving FedEx, Presidio Health, Johnson Diversey and others extolling the public or private cloud, while in a separate session Michael Lock, head of enterprise sales at Google, found himself looking like a budding rock star in front of an huge audience of high-tech execs eager to hear about Google Apps. With new ways of conducting enterprise
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Re: Cross Polination of Vending Controls

Thanks Art --- Jamex actually locked this down. I was thinking the long the same lines as you. Nobody makes an adapter...Like when RICOH used to have 4 channels but slotted every toner bottle different. Remember when they used to protect people....
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Re: InfoPrint Launches Latest Monochrome Multifunctional Workgroup Printers

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quote: the addition of three new wide-format monochrome multifunctional printers (MFP). WIDE FORMAT??
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Re: InfoPrint Launches Latest Monochrome Multifunctional Workgroup Printers

. Toner cartridges available at a significant discount (available on select printer models) InfoPrint Solutions Company printing supplies have been engineered specifically to complement InfoPrint's line of workgroup printers. Manufactured with stringent quality control standards, InfoPrint Solutions Company printing supplies can help you maximize productivity, minimize maintenance and deliver exceptional print quality. To optimize the performance of your InfoPrint Color 1759 MFP use only genuine
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Re: Scan to email in Plotbase / Scantool 3.7.1

Spent hours on this. Never could get it to work. Strangest part is that the Ricoh product manager did not know it had this option. We settled on the idea that the SMTP server needs authentication, although the customer IT dept. swears this is not true, and it works an dozens of small format Ricoh MFP's. Has anyone had scan to email work for them on Plotbase controllers?
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Re: Scan to email in Plotbase / Scantool 3.7.1

maybe someone can copy this an put it in the ratio forum, they support the plotbase software.
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Re: Konica Minolta Business Center Opens Doors at Innovation Park at Notre

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This is a real coup, Xerox has the entire campus, but after only a year and a half we were able to get this done. Big Big kudos to Charlie Curl....my boss in getting this done underneath the giants nose!!!
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Re: Competing against the Xerox 4127 b/w production print system?

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Looks like the Duty Cycle for this model is 2 million. Its interesting, this may have changed from 600k because I used to have 600k for the Enterprise Version and 2 for the Copier/Printer version in my records. And now both are 2m: http://www.xerox.com/digital-p...inter/spec-enus.html http://www.xerox.com/digital-p...nting/spec-enus.html
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Re: Ricoh & Oracle

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Oracle, Oracle, Oracle. We haven't sold Ricoh in a few years but - dang! - just the mention of Oracle still turns my hair grey!!!
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Re: Ricoh & Oracle

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With thousands of successful implementations, it's a shame that Ricoh and a few others have soiled Oracle's name in this industry. These are not Oracle problems any more than forgetting to ship something is a "FedEx" problem. Someone botched the implementation.
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Re: Ricoh & Oracle

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Oracle is not the issue here, it is how Ricoh tried to implement Oracle.
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Re: Ricoh & Oracle

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The problems I wrote about on this board were the mere TIP of the iceberg. When I think about the times it took me more than an hour to input a simple one-machine order because of that blasted !@#$!%^^&* Oracle system crashing...!!! Sure, the implementation is the source of the problem, but who guided the implementation? Surely Ricoh didn't do it on its own. Then, who didn't fix anything when their system wasn't working?
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Re: Ricoh & Oracle

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Young hot shots from Accenture helped with the implementation, which was internally guided by Dennis Dispinzerie, who was promtoted to Ricoh CFO despite the disaster that was the Oracle implementation.
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ARC Extends Technology Services With Acquisition of Atlanta-Based RCMS Group, LLC, a

above 50%. 9% of users who formally measure ROI see returns above 100%. Gaining BIM capabilities and expertise requires investments in a broad range of products and processes. Contractors are the most likely to see a need to focus on nearly all areas of investment, today and five years from now. To download a free copy of the report, point your browser to: http://www.bim.construction.com/ About American Reprographics Company American Reprographics Company is the leading reprographics company in
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of October 2009)

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For the next couple of weeks I'll be posting a picture of how many visitors we've had on the site at one time.  All of this activity is from the last 30 days. I can't thank everyone enough for their support and making the Print4Pay Hotel a special place for Imaging (copiers) & IT Professionals!

Enjoy these awesome threads from 10 years ago this week!

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Konica Minolta Supports the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009

climate convention, Konica Minolta effectively runs several programs to minimize impact on the global environment, including the Zero Waste initiative. Partnership for COP15 includes the provision of more than 30 Konica Minolta bizhub color multifunctional printers (MFPs) and monochrome production printing systems. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, these products will meet the printing, copying, scanning and faxing needs of all UN participants and all delegates prior to and during the
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Is selling at cost the future for print hardware?

Is selling at cost the future for print hardware? This was the title of a recent blog/article I found on http://www.channelweb.co.uk/cr...gives-print-hardware Here's the article: Deptford reseller ABT Office Supplies has started offloading its Ricoh and Canon multi-function devices (MFDs) at cost price, subject to a delivery charge and service agreement sign-on. The dealer claims the move is to save the cost of printing for businesses by encouraging a switch to MFDs rather than stand-alone
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Sammy "Going After the Big Dogs"

Monday, October 12, 2009 Sammy "Going After the Big Dogs" Samsung, or as I refer to as "Sammy", talk has it that they will be coming to market with some A3 devices somewhere down the road. Talk, also has it that they would like to be a full line OEM with the likes of Ricoh, Canon, KonicaMinolta, and Xerox. Fact, besides Sharp, none of the above manufacturers have yet come to market with thier own (OEM) A4 device as of this time. Yes, there are some rumors that Ricoh or Toshiba will come to
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Canon USA Launches New Managed Document Services Initiative

Printing, Rules-Based Routing, Authentication, Desktop Accounting and Print Center Management * Canon U.S.A. Professional Services brings the expertise to design and implement managed document services, from analyzing a customer`s print environment and developing new designs to reporting results and identifying areas for future improvements * Canon MDS Knowledge Portal provides a secure Web site for business development and support, including business plans, training modules, best practices, white
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Case Study: Konica tightens product quotes

13 October 2009 Printer specialist Konica Minolta Business Solutions partnered with Experlogix to streamline its product quote system. Konica Minolta Business Solutions New Zealand (Konica Minolta NZ) is a leading printer and document solutions company and has been working with New Zealand businesses for more than 35 years, helping organisations efficiently manage information flow and harness new document technology. Konica Minolta NZ differentiates through the quality technology brands it
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emFAST INC.’S FACSys® CONNECTOR PASSES RICOH DEVELOPER PROGRAM COMPATIBILITY TESTING

Ricoh MFPs with the company’s secure and intuitive fax server solution. Using Ricoh’s sophisticated Embedded Software Architecture (ESA) platform, emFAST was able to enhance the capabilities of FACSys® by leveraging the inherent print functions found in Ricoh’s MFPs through Ricoh’s open architecture. “emFAST has utilized the Ricoh ESA development platform to take the integration between the FACSys® fax messaging platform and the Ricoh MFP to a whole new level,” said Peter Valier, director of IT
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Ricoh Print/Scan MP3030

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This Week in Ricoh "TWIR Notes"

This Week in Ricoh "TWIR Notes" Gathered from Print4Pay Hotel Members from around the world and a few moles in very good places! - Ricoh announced it won a bid from AREVA Inc. AREVA is a nuclear power equipment maker, with facilities in 43 countries. Details of the contract were not announced. - Ricoh announced it now has a special discount pricing program for members of NAPL/NAQP, allowing it to increase its sales of production print systems to printshops in the U.S. [URL= http://mfpsolutions
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OKI® Printing Solutions Introduces the Versatile MC360 Letter/A4 Color MFP to

Mount Laurel, N.J. (October 5, 2009) – OKI Data Americas , which markets its products under the OKI® Printing Solutions brand, today announced the introduction of the MC360 Letter/A4 Color MFP. Ideal for very small workgroups (VSWG) and small offices/home offices (SOHO), the MC360 Color MFP features a compact design and small footprint with four-in-one functionality (print, copy, scan and fax). Combining fast print and copy speeds, reliability and ease of use with high quality HD Color printing
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Ricoh joins NAPL member discount program

program is a step toward increased commitment to the Association and its membership. NAPL, the Association for the Business of Print offers its members management resources and support which lead to unparalleled sales and operations results. NAPL's integrated approach to supporting a wide variety of members and partners is similar to that of Ricoh's Production Printing Business Group (PPBG), which recently launched several new products and solutions designed to meet various customers ranging
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Smart Sourcing Summit: Print costs are out of control

allowing office managers to handle a very big spend. So, most firms have uncontrolled procurement of print supplies (paper and toner, especially) at the department level, Crowley says, yet prices of these supplies typically rise by almost 8% annually. "The ideal environment would have users having as much printing and copying capacity as they need with supplies being delivered only when needed," Crowley says. But that often is more a hope than a reality. So, he says outsourcing the imaging fleet to
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Xerox "The Week in Review"

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Xerox "The Week in Review" Gathered from Print4Pay Hotel Members from around the world and a few moles in very good places! - A judge in New York granted Xerox’s motion to dismiss an antitrust claim made against the company. Media Sciences, maker of generic printer supplies for Xerox printers, was trying to establish that Xerox maintained an unfair monopoly on the market for cartridges & ink for its printers. Xerox is still suing Media Sciences for patent
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Re: IKON Delivers RICOH Pro C900 Digital Color Printer for Grover Printing, a Consolidate

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Assumed that so I asked the question. Heard (maybe here) that Ricoh was reducing Production Printing Div's field sales by 25% (22 of 88).
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Integrated Book Technology, Inc. Powers Up New Print-on-Demand Center with Océ Inline

burgeoning print-on-demand operation that prints books to order in quantities as small as one and as large as several hundred. Installed in December 2008, the IBT "book-of-one" production line comprises an Océ VarioPrint 6250 digital duplex cutsheet printer to print book pages, a CEM DocuConverter to split/merge the pages into book blocks, an Océ CS650 Pro color system to print color covers. A CP Bourg perfect binder marries book blocks with perfect-bound covers, while a Viadek system to read barcodes
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InterContinental Hotels Group Selects InnerWorkings for Print Management in the Ameri

relates to print in the Americas, InnerWorkings can provide the solution that IHG needs." As part of the agreement, InnerWorkings will be managing print and fulfillment for the world's largest hotel loyalty program, Priority Club(R) Rewards, with 44 million members worldwide. "IHG is an industry leader with top brands and print programs that span across many different product categories," said Eric D. Belcher, Chief Executive Officer of InnerWorkings. "We are thrilled to team up with IHG and
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Selling Against OCE PlotWave "A few tips"

[LIST] Plotwave has no scan2email 4 touches for scan2folder no file naming for scanning no document server
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Intelligent Bar Codes

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Does anyone know what is necessary to print Intelligent Bar Codes on a Savin MLP32 and/or a Savin C6060 using PostalSoft software? I'm assuming there is some font or something that may be installed in the driver or something.
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Lexmark delivers another industry first with new solutions-ready, touch screen laser

productivity-enhancing features and professional-quality color printing. Both models feature Lexmark's Duo Drawer standard, providing up to 900 sheets of standard input capacity, the most of any color laser printer or color laser MFP priced under $1,000. In addition, for customers who need even more paper capacity, a new optional 550-sheet drawer allows for a maximum capacity of 1,450 sheets. The Lexmark X546dtn and Lexmark C546dtn ship with more toner than their leading competitor, up to
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MNDOT recommends higher speeds in Sheldon, Black Hammer

Pogodzinski also received approval for the highway department to purchase a new color copier/printer/fax machine for $9,817. He said the county’s information technology department had recommended buying rather than leasing. “The break-even point is at 29 months,” he said. Pogodzinski said money is available in the current highway department budget because some equipment previously included wouldn’t need replacement yet. He said the current copy machine is using $250 a month worth of color
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Océ CS665 Pro Color System with Inline MultiPunch Finishing Cuts Document Binding Ti

systems, printers can produce professionally finished documents in approximately half the time it takes to bind documents by hand. Corporate printrooms and commercial printshops can deliver more print products in the same amount of time and with the same staff. One System with Maximum Finishing Versatility The MultiPunch is the latest in a series of finishing options for the Océ CS665 Pro system. The Océ CS665 Pro system, launched in 2008, now has eight finishers with 24 configurations. Users
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Océ launches new office color multifunctionals

Venlo, The Netherlands, 5 October 2009 — Océ, an international leader in digital document management and delivery, today announced three new office color copier systems that complete the revamping of its office color multifunctional line. The new Océ VarioLink® systems — with color speeds of 22 to 36 ppm — offer copying, printing, scanning, faxing and finishing. They are designed to fit smoothly into office workflows so that users can quickly print documents and then get back to core tasks. In
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Paradigm Imaging Releases New imagePRO FLEX

4ips color scan speed o Up to .8” max media thickness (T models) o 48-bit color data capture o Network ready with Gigabit Ethernet connectivity · Rocket Scanner Controller o Includes Windows XP ® Professional o Intel Core 2 Quad-Core Q6600 1.4Ghz processor o 2GB DDR PC2-5300 memory o 250GB SATA-150 (7200 rpm) 8MB cache hard drive · Exclusive Paradigm imageFLOW ® scan-print-copy software o Touch screen and keyboard control o Interactive scan-print-copy controls o Over 550 printers
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Konica Minolta had a pretty good showing for this Poll on the RFG p4photel. I did not think of that until this recent discussion. Both have solid Product Lines.
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Re: Embeded Print Director/PCS 6.0

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Ok I got the Java and the print director embedded installed fine. The customer wants to be able to track scans and fax also. According to the jobs list I did not do any scanning though I know I did. I found something the referanced an "Enhanced External Counter SDK" but cannot figure out where to download. Ricoh says it is part of the Java card. In the Administrator tab I see an option for this "Enhanced External Counter" but cannot see where to turn it on as it is greyed out. Ricoh has
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Re: Is selling at cost the future for print hardware?

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quote: Originally posted by Larry Levine: but you sure are not going to be a very healthy & profitable company long term. Hrmm, well, sure they are. Notice it doesn't say anything about Service or Supplies, we can assume those are either at their normal rate or slightly elevated. It doesn't say anything about lowering the lease rate on this MFD you are buying at "cost" either, so we can assume those are also either at normal or slightly elevated. If we also assume that their sales will increase
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Re: Senior VP wants P4P Access!

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Quote: originally posted by Art: "My thoughts, why are you trying to hide your who you are?" You definitely asked yourself the correct question. The p4photel has become the most informative and honest forum to share ideas, experiences, and strategies for success. I would hope this is not compromised in the future, due to censorship or spin. For example, we heard that XEROX had an army of 'bloggers' trolling the internet to promote the ColorQube and to combat any critical assessments. The p
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Re: Konica Minolta Adds Regional Aftermarket Managers

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UPDATE: I understand that Konica Minolta has filled all of the Aftermarket Manager positions for each of their four (4) Independent Dealer Regions.
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PLUSTEK ANNOUNCES SMARTOFFICE PS282 SCANNER IS NOW CERTIFIED FOR USE WITH KOFAX VRS

: 600 dpi Document Feeding Mode: Simplex and Duplex Dimensions: 10.36“ x 5.02” X 5.83” Weight: 3.65 lbs Grayscale: Input 16-bit; Output 8-bit Paper sizes: Business card, Letter, Legal SALES/PURCHASE All Plustek scanners can be purchased from authorized resellers, DMRs, VARs, and distributors including Ingram Micro and D&H. For more information, please contact Plustek at infoUSA@plustek.com. ABOUT PLUSTEK Respected as one of the world's leading image solution providers, Plustek manufactures and
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Re: Who has the BEST product line?

Ricoh, over the top!!!!
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This is not a fair question. This board is heavy Ricoh tilted since this is the majority of the users.
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Re: Who has the BEST product line?

I agree, there are alot of Ricoh people here! Reach out to your peers and tell them about the P4P Hotel, we have dedicated forums for every manufacturer!!!
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quote: Originally posted by montecore: This is not a fair question. This board is heavy Ricoh tilted since this is the majority of the users. Just because I sell Ricoh doesn't mean I voted for it
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Re: Who has the BEST product line?

This is not the RFG Ricoh Board anymore, this board is for anyone in the indsutry! All users from the other boards have migrated to this board. I can't say why they don't vote or post more.
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Re: Color MFP Trends, Tactics, etc

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I'm with Art. I think the A4 systems are in the market to stay and soon everyone will have them. Samsung will also have A3 systems within the next 18 months to be able to offer them with the A4's on bids and tenders. We shouldn't forget old HP when we have this discussion...they still collect more clicks in NA than any other manufacturer and they are seriously getting into the managed print business. It seems to me it is going to come down to who is going to gaurantee the client the toner
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Re: Weekend Industry Notes from 10/04/09

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Jason....were you a copywriter in a previous life?
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Re: Embeded Print Director/PCS 6.0

I'm gonna cc the guys at print audit and I'm sure they'll have an answer for you. Today is Canada's Thanksgiving!
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Got it figured out. In talking with Ricoh tech support they had me downgrade the Java software to work with PD5. When I loaded PCS (PD6) it did not track scan's and I had forgotten to put the newest Java back on the card. Did that this morning and all is well.
 
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of October 2009)

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How was your day today? I hear that quite a bit.  One question that I'll ask other reps is "What type of day is it today", the usual response is something about the weather.  Mine is it's a great day to sell something!"  Enjoy these awesome threads from ten years ago this week in the copier industry!

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Nuance Acquires eCopy, Extends Network Scanning Solutions that Connect MFPs with Ente

— result in scanning solutions that maximize gains in productivity and cost savings and provide MFP partners with an ability to deliver valuable solutions to more customers and prospects. Strong OEM Channels — Nuance and eCopy have developed innovative solutions for, and strong partnerships with, the most extensive list of leading MFP vendors in the industry, including Brother; Canon; HP; Konica Minolta; Océ; Ricoh; Sharp; Toshiba; Xerox and others. The combination of the two companies will
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Nuance buys E-Copy!

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— result in scanning solutions that maximize gains in productivity and cost savings and provide MFP partners with an ability to deliver valuable solutions to more customers and prospects. Strong OEM Channels — Nuance and eCopy have developed innovative solutions for, and strong partnerships with, the most extensive list of leading MFP vendors in the industry, including Brother; Canon; HP; Konica Minolta; Océ; Ricoh; Sharp; Toshiba; Xerox and others. The combination of the two companies will
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Kyocera Mita America Launches FASTtrack Managed Print Services Program for Dealers

with the leading resources and capabilities to prepare them for integrating an MPS business model. Addressing key areas, including assessment and remote monitoring, leasing and supplies, and sales & service training, the program provides dealers with specific Kyocera exclusive MPS partner programs as well as insight into the various elements for implementing a successful MPS strategy. Kyocera strongly believes in the business value a fully optimized Managed Print Services model can deliver to its
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Canon brings professional printing performance in-house for small business

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / PRURGENT Sydney, 1 0ctober, 2009 - Canon Australia has announced two new colour multifunction laser printers designed to make high-end commercial print standards accessible to small business operators. Affordable and compact, the imageCLASS MF8050Cn and MF8350Cdn deliver fast and accurate network laser output across printer, fax, scanner and copier functionalities. “Fast print speeds and superior output quality will reduce small business reliance on outsourced printing
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Introduction of Konica Minolta bizhub® C360/C280/C220

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IKON Delivers RICOH Pro C900 Digital Color Printer for Grover Printing, a Consolidate

purchase the RICOH Pro C900,” says Davis. “We have worked with IKON for several years, and can trust them to come up with innovative ways to meet our needs.” “The RICOH Pro C900 provides customers with exceptional color quality, extensive finishing options, and complete end-to-end workflow solutions,” says Spencer Adamson, Vice President, Production Solutions and Commercial Print, IKON Office Solutions. “In addition, through IKON’s experience in digital printing, we can help printers like Grover
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Kyocera Mita America Awarded Printer Manufacturer of the Year Honor from Marketing Re

. “We congratulate Kyocera Mita on receiving the Printer Manufacturer of the Year Award,” said Frank G. Cannata, president, Marketing Research Consultants. “It is a great testament to the quality of the products as well as the people who support them in the field. This is also an acknowledgement by the independent MFP dealer community that Kyocera Mita printers represent a very important part of their product line up.” The Printer Manufacturer of the Year award recognizes the manufacturer that
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SHARP PROMOTES RICH BOOMSMA TO SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, SALES

Televisions, 1-Bit™ digital audio products, SharpVision® projection products, Notevision® multimedia projectors, Insight® Microwave Drawer® appliances, SuperSteam™ ovens, Plasmacluster® air purifiers and the OnEnergy™ solar system. For more information visit Sharp Electronics Corporation at www.sharpusa.com CONTACT: Karl Pawlewicz Chris Loncto Crenshaw Communications Sharp Electronics Corporation Phone: 646-484-4523 Phone: 201-529-8680 Email: karl@crenshawcomm.com Email: lonctoc@sharpsec.com
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World Leader in High Technology Products Delivers Dynamic and Engaging Online Experie

. To see the new re-designed TABS Web site, visit www.copiers.toshiba.com . About TABS Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. (TABS) manages product planning, marketing, sales, service support and distribution of copiers, facsimiles, multifunction printing products, network controllers, and toner products throughout the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has five divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products
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Fiery Controllers Power Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE Line-Up, Delivering Vibrant Color a

. Additional information about these programs can be found at www.usa.canon.com/kyosei . To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss . About EFI EFI (www.efi.com) is a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation. EFI's award-winning solutions, integrated from creation to print, deliver increased performance, cost savings and productivity. The company's robust product portfolio includes Fiery® digital
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Sign Version of EFI PrintSmith Management Solution Now Available

waste and help generate more profits. PrintSmith Sign is built on the foundation of PrintSmith, a flexible, feature-rich print management information system and the market-leading solution for on-demand, copy shop, quick printer and small commercial shops. “As the sign segment of the printing industry continues double-digit growth, as we’ve seen with the market demand for our VUTEk® and Rastek™ printers, and as many printers look to diversify by adding or enhancing their sign making
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World's Fastest Electrophotographic Printing at 180m/min Enabled by Newly

World's Fastest Electrophotographic Printing at 180m/min Enabled by Newly Developed High-Intensity LED Chip KYOTO, Japan-- Kyocera today announced that with the development of its new SLH-Series LED printhead it has achieved the world's fastest*1 electrophotographic printing at 180m/min in 1200dpi high-resolution. The printhead incorporates a newly developed high-intensity 1200dpi LED chip, that at 150μW (1mA drive current), produces four times more light than Kyocera's conventional models
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NOTABLE SOLUTION INC.’S AUTOSTORE PRODUCT PASSES RICOH DEVELOPER PROGRAM COMPATIBILIT

took advantage of the Ricoh software development kit to quickly and easily integrate Ricoh MFPs with the company’s document capture and workflow solution. Through Ricoh’s advanced Embedded Software Architecture (ESA) platform, NSi was able to update AutoStore 5 to support Ricoh’s latest MFPs by tapping into Ricoh’s open architecture. Almost all of Ricoh’s MFP and printer lines manufactured after the fall of 2004 have the potential to run ESA. Legacy and new customers have the capability of
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RICOH AWARDED AREVA CERTIFIED SUPPLIER SEAL OF APPROVAL

relationship between the two organizations. AREVA, a world leader in the nuclear power industry, selected Ricoh among 150 companies in the U.S. for this recognition. To receive this certification, Ricoh was required to meet 25 different AREVA criteria such as quality, sustainable development values and competitiveness. Other decisive areas include investment in innovation and R&D and the attention to nuclear/occupational safety and the environment. “We are honored to receive this distinction from AREVA
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Canon enters surveillance market

surveillance and security market which is estimated to be Rs 100 crore," he said. Apart from this, the range unveiled today includes four single format inkjet printers, 10 all-in-one printers, 3 laser printers, 5 projectors and one scanner. Canon has added Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) feature in one of its projectors, which has a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels. This projector can display direct image from PictBridge-Compatible digital cameras. Canon claims that high
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eCopy Brings Business Application Connectivity to Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE Series

ADVANCE capabilities, providing an easy to use yet powerful solution for Canon MFP customers. eCopy has certified more than 1,750 technicians within the Canon sales channel to install and configure eCopy products. eCopy ShareScan also operates on Canon DR and ScanFront scanners. By spanning Canon multifunction product and scanner environments, eCopy enables office workers to use common scanning procedures at any of an organization’s document imaging devices – which support ease of use and
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e-automate Adds Canon U.S.A to list of Industry Leading Partner Integrations

Provo, Utah— Sept 22, 2009. Digital Gateway, the makers of e-automate dealer management software for office equipment dealers, is pleased to announce the availability of an integration connector with Canon U.S.A.’s imageWARE Remote technology. “Canon U.S.A. has recently completed an integration with e-automate; that from initial feedback will be very beneficial to our shared dealers,” said Jeff Despain, Partners Service Director for Digital Gateway. “With more than 1000 dealers using our
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This Week in Xerox "TWIX Notes" 10/06/09

Gathered from Print4Pay Hotel Members from around the world and a few moles in very good places! Xerox announced that its desktop DocuMate scanners (which are actually made by JFL Peripheral Solutions/Visioneer), now have a driver to work with Linux operating systems based computer. The driver is called SANE (stands for Scanner Access Now Easy). Competing against Xerox where a customer wants to use tabs in a production print environment? Xerox’s Freeflow system apparently has the following
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Canon U.S.A. Announces Two New REALiS Multimedia LCOS Projectors

New Mode Allows Users To Have Greater Control Over The Look Of Projected Images LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced the addition of two new projectors to its acclaimed line of REALiS Multimedia LCOS Projectors, the WUX10 Mark II and SX80 Mark II. These projectors include a new Photo Image Mode allowing for advanced color management and adjustments for ambient lighting conditions. This new mode is ideal for professionals with the most discerning
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Updated Product Releases for Ricoh 10/6/09

November 09 Aficio SP C420DN-KP w/3 Year Subscription SP C420DN-KP w/4 Year Subscription Creo C-80 controller for Ag-P1 December 2009 Aficio SP 4100N-KP Aficio MP 2851SP January 2010 Aficio MP 3351SP Aficio MP 4001SP Aficio MP 5001SP Aficio SP 3400SF Aficio SP 3410SF 3183DNP (Duplicator) Feb 2010 Aficio MP C6501 Aficio MP C7501 GX 5550N March 2010
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OKI Printing Solutions Introduces the Versatile MC360 Letter/A4 Color MFP to Increase

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. -- OKI Data Americas, which markets its products under the OKI® Printing Solutions brand, today announced the introduction of the MC360 Letter/A4 Color MFP. Ideal for very small workgroups (VSWG) and small offices/home offices (SOHO), the MC360 Color MFP features a compact design and small footprint with four-in-one functionality (print, copy, scan and fax). Combining fast print and copy speeds, reliability and ease of use with high quality HD Color printing technology, this
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Océ CS665 Pro Color System Using CREO Color Server Receives FograCert Validation for

images consistently.” The KODAK Print On-Demand Solutions Group develops high-performance CREO Color Servers and workflow solutions for a wide range of digital production printers and presses. CREO Color Servers offer the digital printing industry leading workflow connectivity solutions. They utilize intelligent, JDF-enabled automation of all print-production steps to help drive business performance and profit. About the Océ CS665 Pro Color System The Océ CS665 Pro full-color digital printer offers
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paper

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Ricoh is getting out of the paper business. I am looking for a supplier that has paper that meets specs of Ricoh products - for example the new Savin CLP340d can run glossy paper but only 28lb weight - everywhere I look I find glossy 32lb weight - can anyone suggest a good source for paper I can refer my customers to? Thanks!
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I have to agree, Darrel Amy is a good choice. At my company we use Printfleet to collect meters. It sends us meter/supply info and we have to input pricing on our own. If you are a Ricoh house, their @Remote service/device is always an option. Not a great option, but hey, it's an option
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Re: Vendors of Products

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When you say Print Audit, do you mean that you are by-passing Ricoh (Print Director) and getting the product direct from Print Audit? I would be curious to know what the reasons would be for that.
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Re: Vendors of Products

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For the Facilities Manager we would be going through Print Audit directly. For the PCS Director 6 packages, we of course would be ordering through Ricoh.
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Re: Legal Size Booklets?

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I believe the full lineup of color MFP's can run legal booklets, as long as you can add a booklet finisher to them. I remember that a few years ago this was a big selling point at Monster Mayhem, because only Ricoh manufactured machines could run Legal booklets, whereas the others had to run Ledger.
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Re: Legal Size Booklets?

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Thanks...txeagle24. I noticed you mentioned the color MFP's from Ricoh does that do legal booklets from the print driver? Or just at the copier? Do the black MFP's do legal booklets at the machine and print driver?
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Re: Legal Size Booklets?

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quote: Originally posted by montecore: Thanks...txeagle24. I noticed you mentioned the color MFP's from Ricoh does that do legal booklets from the print driver? Or just at the copier? Do the black MFP's do legal booklets at the machine and print driver? I believe both the b/w and color MFPs can run the booklets at the machine and in the print driver. For booklets, we typically use the RPCS Driver.
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"Green Jobs"

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suppose my job is a "Green Job" as well since Ricoh has all sorts of brochures touting how "Green" their products are. What a Fraud!!!!!
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Rutt's Hut Fried Hot Dogs

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If you are into SPECIALTY weiners and like your food FRIED, take a spot at Rutt's Hut in New Jersey (not far from Ricoh HQ and the Pine Brook office!): http://www.hollyeats.com/RuttHut.htm Check out this great video of 'special' customers stuffing themselves with these delicious DOGS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaxe8zM0eeE Nice!
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Scan to email in Plotbase / Scantool 3.7.1

Has anyone here been able to get the scan to email function to work in Scantool 3.7.1? I am installing a RW240 and we cannot figure it out. The IT guy says that all their Ricoh small format copiers need is the SMTP server address. This hasn't worked for us yet.
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X-Rite X-RiteColor DTP34 QuickCal Densitometer

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DTP34 QuickCal Densitometer is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the DTP32 Automatic Strip Reading Densitometer, reflection versions, it will by default report itself as a DTP32. Most existing software packages will reference a DTP32 in their connection menu while newer software may use DTP34. Select DTP34 if it is available, otherwise select the DTP32. Densitometer, interface, and power supply and Kodak color strip. Best offer.
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Quiz: What Do Customers Want to Buy?

SCENARIO: You’ve been asked to summarize your ideas and offerings to a group of customer decision-makers. Your presentation starts with an exciting and interesting statistic, then brilliantly summarizes the customer’s current situation. So far so good! You must now create the pivotal slide that introduces the section of the presentation where you’ll talk about what you’re selling.
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Yet, @Remote will collect your customers data and it can be accessed by Ricoh. With the IKON factor looming, you may not want that possibility.
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Re: Vendors of Products

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While I totally agree with your concern, Ricoh would respond that the data is held by an independent third party and would *never* be made accessible to IKON (even though it goes to a center in Japan, not the US, and even though *you* can't access it until the next day). I guess I'm just too jaded to believe them.
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Re: Vendors of Products

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I thank you for the many responses on solutions. I knew if I wanted an answer, the best resource is the p4p. We are looking into the areas everyone suggested, and another avenue is Print Audit Facilities Manager. This program allows us to retrieve meters, receive toner alerts, and service alerts, and may be the better fit for us. The powers to be must decide that, but at least I get some input. Thanks again for your input. As always it is greatly appreciated.
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There are advantages to both Printfleet and PA-FM, I hear for local (non-networked)devices PA-FM is great. Just FYI, all the items you listed (Meters, Toner alerts, Service alerts) can be done by Printfleet as well.
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