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Re: Around the Word with Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta Again Joins the Fight against Childhood Cancer Ramsey, NJ, Aug. 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc . (Konica Minolta) today announced they will again support Tackle Kids Cancer, a philanthropic initiative on behalf of the Children’s Cancer Institute at the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center. As with last year, Konica Minolta is partnering with THE NORTHERN TRUST...
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Re: GR firm wins Muskegon school district's copier bid
Gee, IKON is a "Grand Rapids firm"? Who knew? I guess "Multinational Conglomerate" doesn't sound as good in the home-town paper.
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Re: Feedback on Canon C2020/2030 Models
Those are great little units in the segment 1 & 2. They are a hot commodity based on a few criteria that separate them from the 5000 series. Mostly the difference are in the RADF, 1st tray and media weights. Qualifying the needs are very important. There is a few grand price difference from these to the 5000 series as well. Hope this helps.
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Re: Ricoh Loses another Top Exec
You guessed correctly! Now that yet another 'IKON' guy has been named the Dealer Division VP for Ricoh, will it result in a final nail in the coffin for Ricoh's Dealer channel? Jim Corridi is the infamous Ricoh employye that managed the large IKON business before Ricoh acquired the GIANT. It was Corriddi who helped IKON grow their business to 46% of Ricoh's total revenues at one point, which harmed may RFG Dealers during the process. As one example, Jim negotiated a deal that allowed IKON to...
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Re: Got A Situation! What would ou do?
A deal like this could blow up in your face.... I'd sell them a new machine and it's all going to be on how you do your proposal. As fisher states your probably going to sacrifice profit on this one. Use only MSRP pricing for the new deal, they bought from you once, most likely they will do the same again. Charge for all of the extras like delivery, install, training, support. If you can get the 600 per month looks like you can get 13K for the new system. So, you take the list price and all...
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Re: Ricoh acquisition ‘bolsters’ IT services strategy
From what I learned at the BTA East Grand Slam event in Rye Brook, NY on 10/3/12, Ricoh will not adopt this strategy in the U.S. However, they are preparing the RBS locations to pursue Managed IT Services in certain markets. They have no intent to offer any type of offer to Ricoh Dealers, like XEROX has with ACS and Konica Minolta has with All Covered.
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Re: BTA's Capture the Magic District Event - Nov. 15-16, 2012
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release For More Information Contact: Oct. 10, 2012 Brent Hoskins Executive Director Business Technology Association (816) 303-4040 BTA West to Host Capture the Magic Nov. 15-16 in Las Vegas Kansas City, MO — On Nov. 15-16, 2012, the Business Technology Association’s (BTA; www.bta.org ) West district will host its second annual Capture the Magic event at the Mandarin Oriental in Las Vegas, Nev. Dealers who register by Monday, Oct. 15, will receive a $50 on-site...
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Re: Over Holding On MFP Lease Costs Unnecessary Dollars
Yes, AC68 that is exactly what we do for leases that go past expiry. We increase the cpc to what we call "market rate". Unfortunately, this makes the account easier for a competitive vendor to swoop in and "slam" the account with a new lease.
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Re: Sell the Solution 2001-2002 Contest
Your Solutions were great...The stories and situations all showed the Duplicator as a tremendous "Lead" product for your growth within these named accounts On behalf of Mike, John, Cliff and all who contribute to growing the digital duplicator business on a daily basis, we're proud to announce the 8 dealer side semi-finalists and the 4 direct side semi-finalists for the Sell The Solution Tournament. The following are in alphabetically order, the names, locations and type of deal that...
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Re: RBS Continues to Dump Machines & Make Dealers Look Bad!
Here's some more on this: The attempt to reduce or to eliminate predatory pricing is also likely to reduce or eliminate com petitive pricing beneficial to consumers. --Harold Demsetz Predatory pricing is one of the oldest big business conspiracy theories. It was popularized in the late 19th century by journalists such as Ida Tarbell, who in History of the Standard Oil Company excoriated John D. Rockefeller because Standard Oil's low prices had driven her brother's employer, the Pure Oil...
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Re: Ricoh 2035 vs Mita 4035
What I posted above is not any kind of slam on Greg, any of the others that have posted or the Ricoh system....Simply the way that I would respond as a salesperson if asked those questions... Hope it helps..
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Re: EFI to Acquire ADS Communications, Inc.
EFI Connect 2004 User Conference Set for Las Vegas; Customers Invited to Fifth Annual Conference, June 27-30, 2004 FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2004--EFI (Nasdaq:EFII), the world leader in digital imaging and print management solutions for commercial and enterprise printing, today announced it will hold the fifth annual Connect users' conference June 27-30th at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. More than 800 customers, industry leaders, media and analysts are...
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Re: Around The World with Ricoh II
Ricoh keeps Adidas International in Full Swing Ricoh Australia is again sponsoring the Adidas International, Sydney’s largest annual international sporting event. For the fifth consecutive year, Ricoh is the Official Supplier of office automation equipment to the tennis tournament. Servicing areas such as the Media Centre, Tournament Organisers’ offices and Player Services offices throughout the event, Ricoh network printers, MFDs and faxes will assist in maintaining efficient and effective...
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Re: Samsung SCX-6345N
The one I just sold had an additional paper tray and the finsiher and cabinet. Muratec MSRP is $4,995 for 4550, I think $800 for finisher and $350 for paper tray and $400 for cabinet. What I have been doing is not leading with this machine, I am leading with traditional A3 systems. When I get an objection, whether competition or price, I then ask the user if 11x17 is really needed to copy, print or scan. In most cases the answer is NO, from there I proceed to tell the story about how A4...
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Re: Let's Have Some Fun!
We'll I can't hold back any longer: 2 480W's (print n scn) 5 MPC4500 (paperbank, finisher) 1 MP 7000 (Finsiher) 6 Equitrac Copy Controllers & Suite Software 2 Ecopy Scan Station Whats the grand total??? 60 month lease for $8,111 per month!
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Re: Funeral Home
Sounds like you hit a home run, congratulations. Now that they have all this equipment, have you introduced them to an electronic paper management solution to complete a grand slam? If not, you may want to consider Virtual Copier. Great reason to meet with your customer again. Virtual Copier Web Site Download the trial and give me a call. Steve Breault 703.385.0101
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Re: Around the World w/Ricoh #3
Neon lighted by RICOH in Beijing On July 6 at 8:30 pm, on the roof of Landmark Tower located in East San Huan Bei Road where foreign companies gather, the neon sign was lighted up by the multinational company RICOH. RICOH, is an international campany that engages in manufacturing and selling office automation equipment such as copier and printer. Height of 7m and large of 42m, the red letters with white background glimmer in busy night, displaying alternately “RICOH” and its Chinese...
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Re: Aficio League Crapola
Yes, I had the same problem at the end of the summer. Alas, I thought I was a great video game player, however with Aficio's hit the homerun, I managed a mere 200 points. You are correct, there is a different game when you get to try for the "grand slam". Boo's the AF league for changing the swings and also Boo's the Aficio League for making us wait up to 30 days for points to be awarded. I inout all of my sales in clusters, it never fails that there one isw one or two "hung up" for 30 days...
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Re: Nuance Imaging Division was just sold to Kofax for $400 Million Cash
Vince THanx for this. I just pulled up a recent Wikipedia on them: Thoma Bravo Purchases Kofax [ edit ] Thoma Bravo , a private equity and growth capital firm , secured the July 2017 acquisition of Lexmark’s Enterprise Software business which consists of three entities: Kofax, ReadSoft , and Perceptive Software. [36] Following this, Kofax and ReadSoft would combine into a single, newly independent Thoma Bravo portfolio company. [37] The First Mile [ edit ] The “First Mile” is a trademark of...
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A New Era of Collaboration Powered by Canon Propels the Company Toward a Fresh Approach to Innovation
MELVILLE, N.Y. , Jan. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- A true innovator always looks to develop new ways to break the mold, which is why Canon U.S.A. , Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, will demonstrate how its technology can help empower a variety of different businesses to communicate their visions at CES ® 2019 (Booth #16206). In an effort to authenticate Canon's connections with like-minded innovators, joining Canon at the show will be returning visionary and remote camera platform...
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Acquisition for Konica Minolta France
EOS vendor Konica Minolta Business Solutions France has purchased seven Sequoïa Group subsidiaries in the Grand-Est and Reunion Island regions. Based in Metz, France, the Sequoïa Group is one of the leading dealers in the Konica Minolta network. Founded in 2006, the company employs 179 staff and reported sales of €36.5 million ($41.6 million) in fiscal 2017/18. The purchase is part of Konica Minolta’s medium-term development plan aimed at consolidating its presence in strategic regions, such...
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Loffler Companies Acquires Northern Office Outfitters
“Northern Office Outfitters is a quality organization that aligns with Loffler’s core values and business ideology. We welcome the team and look forward to working with them and providing excellent service and technical support to their clients,” explained Jim Loffler, Founder and CEO, Loffler Companies. “We thank our loyal clients from our 19 years in business, and are pleased they will now have access to the expanded business solutions they have requested and that Loffler can provide.
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Excel Business Systems Offers Unparallaled Office Printer Service in Grand Rapids and Virginia, Minnesota
For those looking for office printer service in Grand Rapids and Virginia, Minnesota, Excel Business Systems is the name to recall. This press release was orginally distributed by ReleaseWire Hibbing, MN -- ( ReleaseWire ) -- 02/13/2019 -- In the age of documentation, a lot of paperwork is done in most offices to keep the evidence intact. Paperwork is at the core of the business operation which might get thwarted due to lack of quality printers at the office unit. The absence of such office...
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US Signal Partners with Cloudflare to Deliver DDoS Protection as Part of Expanded Managed IT Services Portfolio
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich (PRWEB) September 19, 2018 US Signal , a leading end-to-end IT solutions provider, today announced that it has partnered with Cloudflare , the leading internet performance and security company, to bring a fully managed and customizable distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection service to market. The new service delivers powerful DDoS mitigation for network, transport and application layers and is backed by a 100 percent SLA. It is powered by Cloudflare’s global...
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Fujifilm to Showcase Superwide and Wide Format Inkjet Solutions at SGIA Expo 2018
FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division will showcase an impressive line-up of new and innovative wide format solutions to print industry experts at SGIA Expo 2018 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, booth #1119, October 18 – 20, 2018. Making its North American debut will be Fujifilm’s all-new Acuity Ultra , a cost-effective high speed, superwide UV roll-to-roll press for the production of high-end interior graphics and outdoor signage. The Acuity Ultra Series is...
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FULL FRAME SIGNS' ACUITY SELECT 28 FROM FUJIFILM OFFERS HIGH QUALITY OUTPUT FOR THE FILM AND TV INDUSTRY
FULL FRAME SIGNS' ACUITY SELECT 28 FROM FUJIFILM OFFERS HIGH QUALITY OUTPUT FOR THE FILM AND TV INDUSTRY Hanover Park, Ill., October 31, 2018 – Full Frame Signs, a Toronto-area based and family-owned print services provider, expands their print capabilities with Fujifilm’s Acuity Select 28, a versatile and economic UV inkjet press for a wide range of creative print applications. “We are part of the film and television industry out of Toronto, and our finished product will appear on camera,”...
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BTA Awards 24 Scholarships
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release For More Information Contact: July 16, 2018 Brent Hoskins Executive Director (816) 303-4040 BTA Awards 24 Scholarships $1.635 million has been awarded to students since 1984-85 Kansas City, Mo. — The Business Technology Association (BTA; www.bta.org ) has announced its 2018-19 scholarship winners. Twenty-four students were awarded scholarships. Each year, BTA awards one $3,000 and a number of $1,000 and $1,500 scholarships to qualifying children of...
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MFP Industry News August 5th 2018
Xerox and Fujifilm battle update - Nikkei Asian newspaper interviewed Shigetaka Komori, CEO of Fujifilm; "Fujifilm can grow without the acquisition (of Xerox), which does not mean we will lose our future." o is continuing its attempts to acquire Xerox, but has denied it will make any compromise, even if it fails in the bid. o "We would not go as far as to raise our terms of acquisition, set in January, to realize the deal." o "It will be better if we can buy Xerox", but the acquisition "is...
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HEALTHCARE VERTICAL NEWS
HEALTHCARE VERTICAL NEWS Canon relaunches solution for healthcare - announced its Nuance eCopy ShareScan Services for healthcare - advertised as document capture onramp that integrates with iManage and Epic software - allow Canon imageRUNNER MFPs to scan into these healthcare solutions - provide compliance for HIPAA and GDPR regulations - use OCR to convert images to HL7 protocol - (this solution competes with the Konica Minolta/Nuance AutoStore MD solution, which does even more as it can be...
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2019 BTA National Conference to Be Held March 22-23 in Orlando
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release For More Information Contact: February 13, 2019 Brent Hoskins Executive Director Business Technology Association (816) 303-4040 2019 BTA National Conference to Be Held March 22-23 in Orlando BTA member dealers receive 2-for-1 registration; can use $150/$250 discount codes received with membership Kansas City, MO — The Business Technology Association (BTA) will hold its 2019 BTA National Conference , hosted by BTA Southeast, March 22-23 at Disney’s Grand...
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RJ Young Celebrates Grand Opening of New Location - Knoxville, TN
RJ Young is pleased to announce the opening of the new Knoxville, Tennessee office. Customers, regional staff members, and the Knoxville Chamber gathered on December 4, 2018 for a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house celebration at the new location. “We had a great team of people working to make this event a success. This was the first time the Knoxville community was able to see our new office and we could not be happier about the overwhelmingly positive response we received from...
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Magna5 to Show Cloud Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery Services at 2018 Pacific Northwest Enterprise Risk Forum
Seattle, Nov. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reinforcing its support of compliance and risk management officers who are flooded with data and work in industries with strict regulations for IT governance, Magna5 today announced its Silver sponsorship of the 2018 Pacific Northwest Enterprise Risk Forum (ERF), taking place Thursday, November 8th at the Grand Hyatt in Seattle, Washington. Magna5 provides decision-makers who need to modernize their IT environments with the expert personnel and...
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IntelliChief ECM Advancing AP Automation, Sales Order Automation at Oracle Quest COLLABORATE 19
Tampa, FL, April 01, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IntelliChief , an Oracle Gold Partner provider of automated document management and workflow enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, announces IntelliChief ECM advancing AP Automation, Sales Order Automation at Oracle Quest COLLABORATE 19 (#Collaborate19). The event held April 7-11, 2019 in San Antonio, TX, will comprise an international congregation of JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and E-Business Suite users, discovering the latest system...
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Kemper Business Systems Hosts Open House Feb. 13 from 4-6 PM at Melbourne Office
BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – To celebrate their recently completed, total office renovation, Kemper Business Systems invites you to attend an Open House & Ribbon Cutting from 4-6 PM on Thursday, February 13. As the trusted local name in business systems providers, Kemper Business Systems celebrated 50 years of operation in 2o19. Now, the company kicks off 2020 with a newly renovated office, and you’re invited to attend it’s Grand Opening. Come see the local experts kick off...
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MPS Systems North America Officially Opens New Technology & Expertise Center in Philadelphia
MPS Systems North America Inc. is now officially operational in Philadelphia, PA. The North American subsidiary of the Dutch-based press builder celebrated the move with a packed Grand Opening event. On January 22 and 23, over 200 visitors attended the Grand Opening of MPS’ new North American Technology & Expertise Center. The two-day event included an official ribbon cutting ceremony, MPS customer testimonials, a tabletop exhibition and live demonstrations featuring connectivity and...
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UK Managed Services Summit 2020 announced
[London, 17 February 2020] IT Europa and Angel Business Communications announced today that they will jointly be staging the tenth annual UK Managed Services Summit on 16 September 2020. The event will bring leading hardware and software vendors, hosting providers, telecommunications companies, mobile operators and web services providers involved in managed services together with Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and resellers, integrators and service providers migrating to, or developing...
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Cybersecurity Update
A federal grand jury in Atlanta returned an indictment last week charging four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with hacking into the computer systems of the credit reporting agency Equifax and stealing Americans’ personal data and Equifax’s valuable trade secrets. o alleges that Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke, and Liu Lei conspired with each other to hack into Equifax’s computer networks, maintain unauthorized access to those computers, and steal sensitive, personally...
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Datto Expands in California to Support Success of IT Channel for Small and Medium Businesses
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 24, 2020-- Datto, Inc. , the leading global provider of cloud-based software and technology solutions delivered through managed service providers (MSPs), celebrated the opening of its new Irvine, California office with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The event was attended by Tim Weller, CEO of Datto and Julia Jech and Stephanie Martinez, Council Executive Assistants to Mayor Christina L. Shea of the City of Irvine. Also in attendance were more than 65 Datto...
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Mimaki USA adds ColorPainter Series of wide-format printers to company line-up
SUWANEE, GA, April 1, 2020 – Mimaki USA, a leading manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers and cutters, today announced the ColorPainter Series printers have been integrated into the company’s offerings. This follows the January 2020 announcement from Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd. (Japan) concluding an exclusive international sales agreement for the distribution of OKI Data’s ColorPainter™ printers, consumables, and maintenance parts. Three models join the Mimaki USA line-up Mimaki USA...
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Managed print services market growth
Managed print services market growth - report published by Grand View Research - predict that total market for managed print services in the U.S. will reach $49.7 billion by 2025 - use of analytics and cloud computing will boost the market over the forecast period
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Re: Ricoh to buy IBM's digital printer operations
(Advisory, IBM and Ricoh will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. EST today (Thursday, January 25) in the Manhattan Room of the Grand Hyatt in New York City next to Grand Central Station. Participating in the event will be IBM Executive Vice President Nick Donofrio, Ricoh President & CEO Masamitsu Sakurai and InfoPrint Solutions Company President & CEO Tony Romero.) Ricoh and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced formation of a joint venture company based on IBM's Printing Systems Division...
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Re: Former Mount Vernon schools purchasing agent charged with bribery
Former school district head of purchasing indicted on bribe receiving, official misconduct Rose WHITE PLAINS – The former head of purchasing for the Mount Vernon City School District was indicted Tuesday by a Westchester County grand jury on charges of bribe receiving, official misconduct, receiving unlawful gratuities and petit larceny. It is alleged that between June 21 and July 13, 2005, Arthur Rose, 49, of Mount Vernon took a bribe of $3,500 from a sales rep of Ricoh Americas Corp. for...
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Re: CUSTOMER BUYING MACHINES
You will always have customers who move you to a "bottom dollar" box sale. Those you spend as little time with as possible and move on. Finding and working with those customers where you provide a solutions based program will not only allow you to move beyond the commmodity to something that pays you and helps them. Those who live by the slammed deal will die by the slam deal.
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Re: Former Mount Vernon schools purchasing agent charged with bribery
WHITE PLAINS - The former head of purchasing for Mount Vernon schools will serve time in state prison for shaking down companies in exchange for district contracts, a judge ruled today. Westchester County Judge James W. Hubert sentenced Arthur Rose to serve 3 1/2 to 7 years in prison for taking bribes as a school district purchasing agent. Hubert spoke about "the two Arthur Roses" - one a minister for his community and the other a criminal. The judge said he was sentencing the latter. Rose...
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Re: Canon vs Konica Minolta
My sales guy ordered the folder, so I don't remember the model, but I think it was under a grand, maybe under $750.00 Vince
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Re: NJ assembly passes bill requiring information stored on copy machines, scanner be del
The Grand Ole State of New jersey passes another BS law. If the machine is leased does this mean that the leasing company needs to wipe the drive before it is returned or will the leasing company tag that on the customer. I'm thinking new leases may be order in NJ and most likely the leasing company will noew require the customer to pay for this before the system is returned and I'm also thinking some type of certificate will be required. Also, how will this affect when a Ricoh dealer has to...
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Re: So it happended again!
It's the first priority. Not last. I can assure you that no matter how often or how well it is explained, the attitude is "If I don't like it, you never told me". There isn't time to videotape the presentation and have a transcript notarized. And short of doing that, the response will be "You never said it because I never heard you". LOL. Yeah, it was all a scheme to save 1.49% on a couple of grand one time for one month. If commissions were $1,000,000 in the affected month and every single...
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
Is not the US political process set up in a way that a new bill has to be introduced in and approved by Congress, then pass through the Senate and be signed by the President before it can become law? I was recently watching two interesting CNN biographies of both Obama and Romney that showed each person in a positive light. I learned a lot of good things about Romney. But there was a point where Obama and Boehner were deadlocked on some big political issue. The two men eventually reached...