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Re: Best Black & White MFP for 10k/month yeild. Suggestions?
First is this your actual reply to the account looking at thoseToshiba products listed (455 & 305)? If yes and they have a great history with the Toshiba product, telling them there a "bottom dweller" would make anyone think that you're only wanting to sell them what YOU'RE offering. The models they requested are older models of Toshiba and who knows if they've worked well for them or not. Also if you research the Okidata product, most of their MFP's are based on the Toshiba platform now...
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Re: Best Black & White MFP for 10k/month yeild. Suggestions?
Actually, I did not mention that I am offering any equipment to them. I'm not even sure where they are located, I'm not looking to sell them, All of the recent MFP's that I've seen at the shows have pretty much the same GUI> I do remember something about a more robust partnering with Toshiba/
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Re: Best Black & White MFP for 10k/month yeild. Suggestions?
FYI: Toshiba, overall, is in the top ten for R&D Spend-to-Sales ratios. "Bottom dweller" really is not a fair use of words. With any device manufacturer, product is only as good as its dealer support. Get references if need be. RE: maintenance; The asker is talking B&W devices not color. Regardless, get the maintenance. Fewer spikes in copy quality or hardware issues because you'll make that phone call to fix rather than putting up with poor copy quality, etc. for fear of how much it...
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Re: Best Black & White MFP for 10k/month yeild. Suggestions?
TimB: Thanx for the comment! I believe you with the top ten in R & D for Spend to Sales ratios, but I don't R & D being conducted for copiers not like Canon, Xerox, KonicaMInolta & Xerox. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck then it must be a duck. Toshiba's market share over the last ten years in the US has always been at or near the bottom of the pack, thus they are cellar dwellers, bottom feeders, in the US market. You are correct with the MA, they were not asking for...
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Re: Best Black & White MFP for 10k/month yeild. Suggestions?
Art, I like your general guidance to the initial poster, and I won't grade your writing since this isn't an English class. In regard to this brief post conversation, I think honesty is the best policy with customers and with ourselves. Yes Tim, they probably are in the top ten. However, the customer was asking which is the best. By rankings in the market place, the top seven do not include Toshiba. They fall within the bottom 7% of market share for shipments and the bottom 8.6% for market...
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Re: Best Black & White MFP for 10k/month yeild. Suggestions?
thanx for nor grading my English!!! most threads are done at night and I'll admit, I'm much better at selling than writing.
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Re: Sometimes I just don't understand.......
We don't have a rule like that but I've pretty much self imposed my own similar rule. I wind up putting in just as much time and effort on those little machines as a $10,000 A3.
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Re: Canon C5240A Questions
Art, New model is C55XX. The rates are a bit unrealistic (high). Depending on a guaranteed base (or not), more like .065 and .01 The C5540i
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Re: Canon C5240A Questions
...In the series C5560i up to 60ppm C5550i up to 50ppm C5540i C5535i
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Re: Canon C5240A Questions
Yes. San Francisco canon dealer here. All the above is true call Monte at 415.286.1127 if I can help
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Re: Canon C5240A Questions
I think those rates are low based on what we sell our contracts at but I know everyone is in a different market. The extremely low rates don't seem to get thrown around our city as often as others. We keep most everyone around .013-.017 for b/w and .08 or higher for color.
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Re: Canon C5240A Questions
I had the chance to meet with the prospect yesterday. Canon is out of the picture. However the users states they are using secure print as a default from every PC for every print job. Is this a standard feature or is it a MEAP solution type add on?
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Re: Is the time right for MFP Manufacturers to only offer...
Not just color. We could see a big consolidation of speed bands too. If certain manufacturers can make low cost 40 and 50ppm engines that retail for under $4,000 do we really need to have 25ppm engines that retail for over $5,000?
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Re: Is the time right for MFP Manufacturers to only offer...
If they offer them for the price of black & white units, yes. If they try to have the same price point as current color systems, they would lose out on price to any manufacturers that continue to make b/w only systems. Additionally, they would have to have a multi-tier billing system for color so as to not scare off people that have intentionally stayed away from color. The industry billing systems (e-Automate, OMD) would need to make that easy to manage & bill as well.
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Re: Is the time right for MFP Manufacturers to only offer...
Agreed that the cost of color would have to be the same as the current black systems. I for one would like to only offer color, I think it would be better for the industry. I also believe that the color machines don't cost that much more to make the black systems. I'd bet that the margins are the 20-25-30 ppm nlack systems are huge from the manufacturing side.
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Re: Epson 100 ppm Ink MFP
I went back the next day to see a demonstration on this unit. I asked to see a demonstration of mixed sized originals. I was told, "sorry we are only doing controlled demonstrations and can't show that", I then asked does the device have that feature? The rep answered yes. WTF, controlled demo's? Thus, I'm thinking they are hiding something.
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Re: HP PageWide Color Ink Cartridge
Was told the yield for the ink cartridges is 15K based on 5% coverage. Could not get a price for the ink. These PageWide systems are scheduled to be launched in the fall of 2017. BTW, three year warranty on the print head, does not matter how many clicks you put on it.
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Color & Black A4 Cost Per Page (12K Annual Pages)
This is an anonymous survey. Thus I'm hoping everyone can chime in. Based on an annual volume of 12,000 color pages. What is your cost per page? This survey is a great barometer of where you are with your cost per page for #A4 devices. Always good to know where you're at!
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Color & Black A4 Cost Per Page (24K Annual Color Pages)
This is an anonymous survey. Thus I'm hoping everyone can chime in. Based on an annual volume of 24,000 color pages. What is your cost per page? This survey is a great barometer of where you are with your cost per page for #A4 devices. Always good to know where you're at!
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Last Week of February 2005)
Why would this week be different than the rest of the weeks in February? Since I depleted by pipeline at the end of the year it's been quite the struggle to rebuild. Thus I'm no where near where I need to be with February coming to an end on Monday for me. To make matters worse I'm off to Aruba the first week of March for our Presidents Club Trip. I was able to add a couple of large opportunities this week, one for MNS and the other for 30 plus devices. At this time both are March or April...
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Re: Color Cost Per Page for 2 Cents, Are You Crazy?
Sorry, Art, this will not happen. If you spread the cost by charging more for black and white, some would buy it and only run color. It's already expensive to run black only on a color device, costing 2 to 3 times or more than on a monochrome Production machine. And even at a penny for service and supplies, monochrome margins are low on color production units.
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Re: Color Cost Per Page for 2 Cents, Are You Crazy?
JC: Thanx for the comment! I should have communicated better. This would not be a pricing model for Production systems. You're right, if it was all they would run is color, however, I'm now seeing cost per page for color under 4 cents per page.
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Re: Color Cost Per Page for 2 Cents, Are You Crazy?
I think that while in theory this sounds good, it's not gonna fly. Already we're competing against dealers who have color clicks down to $.039 and black clicks down to $.005-$.006 on moderate speed office color units (35 & 45 ppm units). And these aren't those staggered click prices that Kyocera or Xerox dealers are offering for different forms of color (a splash, a bit, or full color). Even if they double click them, you're then back to industry standard for clicks, but most aren't...
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Re: Black Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
You need to have a "Not Available" option. I just left the question unanswered but that skews the results. For instance, there is no way my company would allow a segment 2 to be placed without a base no matter the cost per image was.
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Re: Black Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
ok, let me see if I can edit
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Re: Black Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
Did it!! Thanx for the help on this
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Black Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages)
This poll is for A3 Black MFP devices only We'll have seven parts to this please. According to the volume listed what is the cost per page that you charge for Segment 2 (21-30 pages per minute) BLACK devices. All...
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Black Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
It's been a long time coming for the new poll. However yesterday we posted first of six new polls for Cost Per Page for Black A3 MFP's. In the near future (when spring finally comes to NJ), we also be posting four new polls...
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NEW BLACK-AND-WHITE RICOH PRINTER AND MFP ADVANCE CUSTOMERS’ INFORMATION MOBILITY VIA STRONG DEALER SUPPORT
NEW BLACK-AND-WHITE RICOH PRINTER AND MFP ADVANCE CUSTOMERS’ INFORMATION MOBILITY VIA STRONG DEALER SUPPORT RICOH MP 401SPF and RICOH SP 4520DN print up to 42 pages per minute, enable mobile printing, and offer a low cost-per-page Malvern, PA, March 12, 2015 - Ricoh Americas Corporation today unveiled two new document imaging products that help individuals and organizations improve their information mobility at the small office and workgroup levels. The RICOH MP 401SPF black-and-white...
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Color Cost Per Page for 2 Cents, Are You Crazy?
Many years ago while I was on my way to sales call, I would travel south on Broad street in Red Bank, New Jersey. Located on the northbound side was a copy center, and every day when I passed that shop, I eyed a purple neon sign that touted...
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Is the time right for MFP Manufacturers to only offer...
While driving today, I thought about how many color systems I've sold in the last six months compared to black systems. Thus I went back to the aficio league and counted the numbers. Seventy five percent of my sales were for color....
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Cost Per Page Discussion "Has the time come for one cost per page"
One P4P member recently brought up the point that it seems that cost per page is being low balled on black and the difference made up in color. I'm pretty sure it was that, just checked and it was.. here's the link...
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Xerox Fights Back Against Black Market Printer Supplies
NORWALK, Conn.--(Business Wire)-- Xerox (NYSE:XRX) recently supported raids and prosecutions around the world to protect customers from counterfeit consumables and products, which unknowingly lead to damaged equipment, shoddy output and higher costs. According to The Imaging Supplies Coalition , the estimated worldwide impact of counterfeiting is $3.5 to $5 billion annually. It’s an industry often targeted by counterfeit distributors because “fake” toner is often indistinguishable until it...
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Best Black & White MFP for 10k/month yeild. Suggestions?
From time to time I'll see an interesting thread or post on a forum and I'll take the time to give an unbiased opinion based on the questions that are presented. Below is a thread I found on a forum that really didn't answer the question for the...
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Kyocera Extends TASKalfa Technology to Seven New MFPs
Kyocera Extends TASKalfa Technology to Seven New MFPs By: Reporting Company August 28th, 2013 Robust Color and Black-and-White MFPs Boast Superior Quality, Performance, and Reliability FAIRFIELD, N.J. – August 27, 2013– KYOCERA Document Solutions America, one of the world’s leading document solutions companies, strengthened its award-winning TASKalfa lineup today when it announced the launch of seven new color and black-and-white multifunctional products (MFPs). The new devices deliver...
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CW2201SP Cost of Print Heads
Can anyone tell me the MSRP of the color and black print heads for the CW2201, along with the yield. Trying to finish up a cost per square foot analysis for us.
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Canon C5240A Questions
I have the opportunity to upgrade some Canon C5240A's. Couple of questions for everyone. Are these still current devices or discontinued? If discontinued what model would be the current replacement? I'm seeing .0126 for black on their current MA is that norm or high? I'm seeing .077 for color on their current MA is that norm or high? C5240 is 40 pages per minute in color and black correct? Thanx Art
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Unlimited Black and Color Page Maintenance/Supply Plans
Recently went up against a company that was offering Unlimited Black and Color pages plans here in NJ. Not sure how they are doing it, has anyone else seen this crop up in their area? Here is there web address, takes while to load....http://www.copysmart.me/m/ checked to see if they were authorized for any manufacturers and came up with nothing.
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Canon U.S.A. Expands Recent Black-and-White imageCLASS Line Refresh with Additional Models Designed for Small-to-Medium Businesses
MELVILLE, N.Y. , March 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Small-to-medium businesses seek compact, easy-to-use printing solutions that can help boost productivity and allot employees more time to dedicate toward the creative tasks at hand. Canon U.S.A. , Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, delivers on these expectations with its latest black-and-white imageCLASS lineup refresh, focusing on user experience while simultaneously introducing advanced technology into a smaller device footprint.
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Sometimes I just don't understand.......
I was told the other day that we are not going and not allowed to sell the lower A4 color & mono MFP's from Ricoh. Thus, if someone wants color and the volume is very low, I have to either walk away or try to sell them the color A4 MP C307SP. With a black device, it's the MP 301SPF. Now, I have multiple clients that have larger A3 devices that have bough many of the lower A4 color & monochrome devices. Usually I'll sell the black devices for about $1K and the color for $1.3k. I'm not...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The First Week in June 2003
WooHoo! Finally a decent Saturday at the NJ Shore. For our family it was Cousins Day at Monmouth Park in NJ. Cousins get together to share some food, share some drinks and get to place some bets on the ponies. I love going to the track and wish I had more time to do it. While I only placed four bets, I was able to come home with $300 in profit. Not a bad day at all. What was more interesting is that I lost a super trifecta bet that would have paid $18K. Next time I'll pay more attention to...
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Re: HP PageWide Quality Mode Print
not a bad print, however not a great print either. HP is pushing two fronts with this device, security and acceptable color. I'm thinking more of a solution for enterprise accounts where quality color is not desired or needed. The system is also capable of tiered billing.
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Re: HP A3 PageWide
I was also curious if this system could copy mixed size originals. You can not load a statement, letter, legal and ledger and have it pull from the appropriate paper trays. There is a setting on the device for letter and legal, and letter and ledger. BTW, I had to argue with the demonstrator, he told me that when we put a letter size doc and a ledger doc in the document feeder that the letter document would skew because the guides on the document feeder were holding the ledger doc in place...
