This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago
Second Week of March 2007
Just when you thought we were done with two years of dealing with COVID19, the world could be on the verge of World War III because of Russia. Gas and diesel prices are going through the roof and inflation is the highest it's been since the early 80's in the US.
It is hard to stay upbeat today and especially after the two years that we've had. I can tell you one thing I remember from the 80's. That one thing is that companies will need to reduce costs yet again. It's not a matter of need or want, they will need to lower costs. Your job is to figure out how to make that happen.
That job can happen in many different ways. Reducing lease costs, maintenance costs, IT costs, or migrating services to the cloud, or even removing print servers for cloud printing. The opportunities are there, they just need to be found.
Enjoy These Threads from 15 Years Ago This Week!
Konica Minolta Launches the bizhub 360
Art Post (Guest) ·
Konica Minolta Launches the bizhub 360 Newest Monochrome bizhub MFP Supports Konica’s Commitment to Providing Secure Network Solutions Across All MFP Segments RAMSEY, NJ — March 5, 2007 — Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) today introduced the all-new bizhub™ 360 that will provide all-in-one capabilities (printer/copier/scanner/fax) and serve as an ideal replacement for Segment 3 monochrome multifunctional products (MFPs) to small and medium-sized office workgroups
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Kyocera Mita America Introduces Cost-Effective Color Printing For Workgroups of All S
Art Post (Guest) ·
business environment needs reliable and affordable business color to add impact to their most important printed documents,” said Bill Cassidy, associate director, product and solutions marketing for Kyocera Mita America, Inc. “To address this need Kyocera is offering the new FS-C8100DN, an affordable printer that provides exceptional image quality, fast performance and one of the industry’s longest preventative maintenance cycles.” The FS-C8100DN’s utilizes Kyocera’s ECOSYS® Technology, featuring
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RICOH CORPORATION ANNOUNCES
Art Post (Guest) ·
direct sales channel will begin a transition from selling Lanier branded products and services to selling Ricoh branded products and services. · Ricoh’s Gestetner dealer network in the U.S. will merge with the Lanier dealer network and form a new national dealer network selling Lanier branded products. The Gestetner brand will be phased out in the United States. “Establishing this new unified organization enables Ricoh to redefine our company and our business,” said Sam Ichioka, Chairman & CEO
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Re: OKI Printing Solutions to Unveil New Line-up
Art Post (Guest) ·
technology, combining microfine toner and multilevel LED heads and 1200 x 600 dpi resolution to render professional print quality in-house, while remaining conducive to strict business budgets Robust media handling capabilities including 8.5” x 34.5” banner printing, saving businesses time and money by enabling them to print high-quality materials in-house Printing, copying, scanning and analog faxing capabilities, allowing businesses to optimize office space and save cost through the use of a single
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CANON U.S.A. RECEIVES FOUR PLATINUM READERS' CHOICE
Art Post (Guest) ·
the types of incoming documents to be processed and the documents produced for external communication has helped Canon earn this award. In addition, the award recognizes Canon's efforts to help customers share information internally while maintaining maximum efficiency and ensuring an audit trail throughout the document lifecycle. In the 2006 BERTL Readers' Choice survey, Canon monochrome MFPs have earned the Platinum Award for reliability quickly becoming the printing and copying work horses in
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ABBYY USA Announces Toshiba America
Art Post (Guest) ·
. (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, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., TABS has four divisions: the Electronic Imaging Division; the Toner Products Division; the Document Solutions Engineering Division; and TOPAC U.S.A., Inc., dba Toshiba Business Solutions (TBS), a wholly-owned
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Xerox Names New Office Group President
Art Post (Guest) ·
Xerox Corp. said Tuesday Russell Pea**** will take over as president of Xerox Office Group to replace Tim Williams, who retires in April. Williams has held the position since Feb. 2004. Pea**** began working for Xerox (nyse: XRX - news - people ) in London in 1982 as a field sales representative. His latest post with the company was as managing director of Xerox United Kingdom. Xerox Office Group constituted $7.6 billion of Xerox's 2006 revenue. The division engineers, markets and manufactures
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Panasonics Offers Eye Candy Copiers!
Art Post (Guest) ·
SECAUCUS, N.J., March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic Digital Document Company (PDDC), a unit of Panasonic Corporation of North America, today announced four colorful new additions to its award-winning line of networked C3 copy/print/scan/fax/email multifunction products. Available in an array of colors including red, blue, yellow, and black, the new C3s are designed to improve worker productivity and morale by enhancing and enlivening today's typically bland office environments. "Many offices
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copier Bid pricing for Canon, Panasonic, Kyo & KM
Art Post (Guest) ·
Found this on the web, it is from Technology Bidding and Purchasing Program. See attached file. Dated January 2007
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Re: RICOH CORPORATION ANNOUNCES
Art Post (Guest) ·
and now they must adopt the name change. I sell down the street, just like alot of you, the last thing I need is another 4 reps in my area telling customers that they are direct with Ricoh and another 4 reps selling the same model number. Don't you think it would be a great time to launch the Great American Copier Corporation, darn... forgot about Xerox, however most of thier boxes are manufactured overseas also.
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Daylight Savings Time
Shaja ·
Has anyone seen anything from Ricoh about how their machines are affected by the early daylight savings time change this year? I'd like to know which models' firmware will automatically adjust for the change or if we need to advise our clients on how to manually make the time adjustment.
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CANON U.S.A. AND ROCHESTER SOFTWARE ASSOCIATES
Art Post (Guest) ·
imageRUNNER devices are a great fit because they meet the needs for scanning and production printing in the print center and the MEAP platform provides a high level of flexibility for the user interface." Canon was the first manufacturer in the industry to launch an MFP software development platform in 2003. The Java-based MEAP development environment provides a platform for the creation of unique applications, simplifying the interaction between users and Canon's devices, while tying tightly
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Ricoh RA2K launch
Art Post (Guest) ·
Ricoh is pleased to announce the release of new model support for printing IPDS in IBM zSeries (S/390) and iSeries (AS/400) environments. RA2K Integration for IPDS is an internal software solution, which resides on the hard drive of select Ricoh print devices and enables users to send AFP/IPDS print jobs directly from their S/390 or AS/400 systems. This solution is designed to allow your customers to print professional laser-quality output, access standard finishing and paper size options
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Your New ID-Theft Worry? Photocopiers
Art Post (Guest) ·
copier makers are now adding security features, but many of the digital machines already found in public venues or business offices are likely still open targets, said Ed McLaughlin, president of Sharp Document Solutions Company of America. "You actually have a better chance at winning 10 straight rolls of roulette than getting those hard drives on copiers rewritten," he said. Sharp plans to issue a warning about photocopier vulnerabilities Wednesday _ just ahead of tax time. The company, one of the
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Re: Laser vs. Inkjet
Art Post (Guest) ·
js give me make, model number and monthly volume of ink jet printer and proposed laser printer and I will get you the numbers, I beleive you you sell savin? if so make sure you give me the ricoh model number and I'll send this to you tonight.
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Re: Laser vs. Inkjet
reduction on a CLP22 or CLP27DN. I also told them we could work a trade for membership dues. I'm pretty sure if I stay close to them I should get the business. It's not any great shakes anyway, because there's no money in the deal, but I want to position myself for when they're ready to replace their analog Canon copier. I attached the information regarding laser vs. inkjet for anyone who can benefit from it. Thanks, if you guys think of anything else, please let me know.
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MP 1600L and MP 2000L Digital Imaging
Art Post (Guest) ·
Ricoh is pleased to announce the introduction of theSystems. The MP 1600L and MP 2000L match all the output speeds, volume ranges, document feeding and paper supply versatility of the MP 1600 and MP 2000, but offer Windows-based printed standard through the inclusion of a PCL6 Lite controller. In addition, these “lite” systems are intended to deliver simple network TWAIN scanning and digital monochrome copying capabilities standard to price sensitive customers. However, Scan-to and fax
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OKI Printing Solutions to Unveil New Line-up
Art Post (Guest) ·
more businesses migrate to the use of single devices for all their print document needs.” According to industry analyst IDC, color MFP shows the largest area of projected growth of all printing technologies, at almost 30% over the next five years. This trend is occurring as companies begin to realize the benefits and affordability of adopting color into their everyday business activities. The new Color MFPs from OKI Printing Solutions provide a competitive advantage with higher-quality output
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Ricoh Rumor!! New Strategy?
Art Post (Guest) ·
Rumor has it that Ricoh Japan is working on MFP's that will match or equal HP's successful M4345 MFP's, wonder if all of our banter had some input. Hopefully this is not a rumor and they can bring it to the US market and then all of us can start getting paid on captured clicks.
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Re: Fax forwarding, etc. with efi versions of color boxes?
skbens (Guest) ·
You would lose web image monitor, but fiery has a piece of software that comes with it called Command Workstation. It's a phenominal tool. You can control print jobs, reprint jobs, pull job history, color correct, interpose, and a wealth of other things. All the emailing functionality will still be available from what I've been told. Don't be afraid of the fiery, it's a great feature. I sold canon's for 5 years, never sold a color unit without the fiery option, it has tremendous value to
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Re: Fax forwarding, etc. with efi versions of color boxes?
We have sold Fiery for years but never before on an MFP. Ricoh's Graphic Color boxes like the 6513 use Fiery and of course come with all the Fiery Utilities you mentioned. We also sell OKI and have some experience with the OKI MFP which has a Fiery RIP but the fax and email functionality is nothing like what we have become accustomed to with Ricoh. Let me ask again...does anyone out there have hands-on experience with the fax and email capabilities with the new Fiery controlled Ricoh MFP's
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Re: Fax forwarding, etc. with efi versions of color boxes?
Art Post (Guest) ·
not here, hopefully we will be installing our firsat one in a graphics environment. My only concern was the scanning and printing and I did not research the fax an other features.
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Re: OKI Printing Solutions to Unveil New Line-up
Art Post (Guest) ·
OKI Printing Solutions ships one millionth color printer TOKYO, March 6, 2007 OKI Printing Solutions*, the world’s second largest manufacturer of business color printers, today shipped its one millionth digital LED color page printer. The one millionth color printer – the award winning C3400 A4 printer – left OKI Printing Solutions’ manufacturing facility in Thailand, which is responsible for 47% of the company’s global manufacturing output. OKI Printing Solutions’ one millionth color printer
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Re: MP5500 LAN fax Features
This is all great but we have no fax units to sell Ricoh does not have any...I have been waiting for 2 months now! -=Mike=-
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Re: Fair Comission Plans
Just to give you an idea of the kind of variation there is, I went to the BTA compensation Survey of 2007. According to their survey, the median compaensation for a salesrep with 6+ years experience was $127,500/yr with a maximum of $422,377 for a rep in the West vs. $54,000/yr. and $104,000 for a rep in the Southeast. There is a significant difference in the cost of living which effects both the employee and the employer and therefore also effects compensation.
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Re: Laser vs. Inkjet
Neal ·
did I miss something or have you had the chance to look at their true costs for this inkjet printer? if they will let you look at the last 12 months invoices for purchases they made for the cartridges you will have real world dollars for a monthly cost for the ink. usually that alone can cost justify even if you have todo a guestimate on the volume that goes on the printer.
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Re: Laser vs. Inkjet
Art Post (Guest) ·
JS: I could not find the 1200c in my database, so I used a 1220c, the cpp seems to be in line with what you stated, however the real cost is provided in the CA sheet I have attached. Showing them this should get you a sale, also I had to used the ricoh 7300, the new info on the c811's are not posted yet. Let me know what you think
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Re: Autocad 2007
image that is telling the printer to not print the trailing edge if it gets to close to the edge (even though the line is no closer to the actual paper edge than the leading edge line which prints). This is true for both printing DWG's out of Autocad and also printing the 30x42 PDF's using Winprint. Long story, but could this possibly be an Autocad issue with 30x42 files? Oh yeah, the trailing edge does show in the thumbnail image in Plotbase but it just will not print. Anyone have any issues with
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Re: Error msg on MP3500 when printing
IT Dude ·
I'm wondering if there is some old 3rd party print monitoring software on the pc's. I have seen something very similar and that's what it was.
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Océ introduces two new revolutionary Gemini
Art Post (Guest) ·
detects and adjusts for paper size and orientation so pre-printed and pre-punched media are printed correctly Sophisticated media handling — 12 paper trays and printing of oversized and custom media allow long, unattended print runs and flawless production of special jobs Intuitive user interface — Graphical print queues, sophisticated job scheduling and more End-to-end modularity The printers feature the Océ Smart Imager Controller, which brings high performance, multi-tasking capabilities, high
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