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Re: Marco Acquires New Jersey Copier/Printer Company
Art- the # of your competitors didn’t change , their fingers and toes are now a whole lot farther away from their head. I picture you as Yankee Doodle Dandy and they are the Red Coats. Perhaps they will be as successful as .....Danka or IKON or RBS/AOE or GlobalXRX or ....
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Re: 7 Deadly Topics from 7 Deadly Sinners at Top 100 Summit (Part One)
No, Art. You're spot on. I haven't had many jobs outside the industry, but the majority of the old guard is so proud of the way they've always done it & receives so much validation from other dealers with the same mentality (via BTA, CDA, SDG, et al) that they often refuse to admit the need to change until it's practically too late. There are ideas & concepts that I brought up 3-5 years ago that were considered to be "interesting but not really necessary" that we're suddenly latching...
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Re: The Death Of The B2B Salesperson [Infographic]
Art, I call Bull ****! At least for our industry, the copier industry! This may be true of a commodity (like envelopes, or coffee, or even a PC) but copiers, really MFDs require a lot of attention, both before and after a customer buys it. This article seems to be written by an old brick & mortar company that successfully transitioned to internet sales. This will work for any company that drop ships their products. And I agree that the MFD manufacturers would LOVE for this to be, or...
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Re: Five Reasons Why I'm Stoked About the New Ricoh SP8400DN Printer
No, we are not doing any of those agreements with our MFP's. With the printer the device billing would not include the drum, or fuser. Client would pay for those. Device billing is a practical maintenance agreement for the new A3 ink based MFP's. Epson will be launching their 100ppm color device shortly. The only consumables is the print head and the ink. It's rumored that the print head will be warranted for 3 years. In addition the print head is very costly. The idea would be to charge...
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Re: Five Reasons Why I'm Stoked About the New Ricoh SP8400DN Printer
Thanks. Interesting. I wonder what the advantages and disadvantages of those ink jets are (compared to laser MFP).
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Re: Five Reasons Why I'm Stoked About the New Ricoh SP8400DN Printer
Client Pro's: Lower purchase or lease price for hardware Faster print speed than laser based vs same segment ink vs laser Unlimited pages No overage billing No unpredicted costs with overages Less downtime than laser Client Cons: Quality of prints or copies may not be equal to laser (does not matter if prints or copies stay in house) Print Head cost Ink cost may be higher than color laser, however that may be off-set by the lower purchase price Anyone care to add?
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Re: Five Reasons Why I'm Stoked About the New Ricoh SP8400DN Printer
Thanks! Same functionality regarding scanning? Scan to email, smb, ftp? Secure printing? Authentication and account track? Ability to implement solutions like paper cut? I guess this will be my last question
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Re: Up=Coming China Tariffs on Copiers parts & accessories
These are two listing that I found on ustr.gov site: 8443.99.20 Parts of printer units of subheading 8443.32.10 specified in additional U.S. note 2 to this chapter 8443.99.45 Parts and accessories of copying machines; nesoi Subheading 8443.99.20 following parts of printer units of subheading 8443.32.10: (a) Control or command assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: printed circuit assembly, hard or flexible (floppy) disk drive, keyboard, user interface; (b) Light source...
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Re: A Halloween Tale of an A3 Copier’s Death (Part Two)
Thanks Art Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 29, 2018, at 8:51 PM, Print4Pay Hotel < alerts@hoop.la > wrote: > >
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Re: Best Fishing Lakes in NJ
Think I might head out to Lake Valhalla on Thursday 10/22/09 and see who's biting in Montville! http://newjersey.hometownlocat...,lake%20valhalla.cfm http://www.panoramio.com/map/#...05&z=4&k=2&a=1&tab=1 Grab your rod!
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Re: Remember this Guy?
BELLEVILLE -- The day after the courts ordered an Okawville man to pay $1.2 million to Governor French Academy for fraud, the school placed liens on his properties to make sure it gets its money. Philip Paeltz, the school's head administrator, said he believes the liens are for properties in St. Clair and Madison counties on which Kevin Welch pays property taxes, according to county records. Paeltz said he is not certain of the value of these properties because it has yet to be determined...
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Re: Why in 2010 have we still not seen Solid State Drives (SSD) in copiers?
Much faster access time, 100% reliable, no moving parts, can't crash the drive head with sudden loss of power corrupting drive. Much smaller, lighter, much lower power consumption. Much less heat generated. Much less headaches for Service Dept compared to HDD as there is virtually no service required. An SSD can fit mechanically into the same hardware slot as a HDD. Just started showing up in laptops last year. MFP Copier vendors are always jostling to say they were first to market with some...
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Re: matt espe quits
As Bill W told me this AM, maybe the view from 30,000 feet was something Espe wasn't about to fall in love with. I thought this was a dynamic move for Ricoh, they needed someone like Espe at the head of the wheel. Now, I'm thinking something is drastically wrong with either the current business model or the Ikon/Ricoh thingy. Time will tell. Would like to hear from others on this!
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Re: Possibly moving to Ricoh....
Thank you to everyone for your input. I was offered the position and accepted. I will now be selling RICOHs, but I have the option to also sell Sharps. To fisher: I understand what you are saying. However, my current boss has provided neither my co-worker nor myself any real sales training. He won't even demonstrate how to sell (we think it's because he can't). I have also learned that we are being underbid by the other Sharp dealer in town, and our service dept head has said our prices are...
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Re: Memjet Color Printers to the Rescue?
This is pretty impressive, but has been around for several years. There have to be significant issues that have prevented adoption. I suspect that clogged nozzles are a really expensive problem for intermittent use machines, and imagine the level of ink wasted keeping them fresh. Folks throw a fit about a $600 print head for a Canon plotter and it's guaranteed for a year. I see a limited market for this.
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Re: PCL Drivers and Rotate Sorting
js: I've experienced this also (however, I just shook my head and sthought I don't have time for this) when printing to a new 40ppm color device, not sure what driver I was using however Jomama has a good point.
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Re: Scan to folder and Vipre
Just out of curiosity. Are you in sales or a systems analyst? It seems like you have spent considerable amount of time if you are a sales person on one item that I service tech could resolve. Computers have been a hobby of mine for the last 25 years and Vipre is a very good AV that more and more people are switching to. You will not find a good AV comparative because the makers of vipre have to release the right in order to go head to head. I have been talking to them for quite sometime to...
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Re: Stuxnet Lives!
A COMPUTER virus created to sabotage Iran's nuclear programme and stop Tehran developing an atomic bomb was designed by American and Israeli experts, it was claimed yesterday. The Stuxnet computer worm, the most sophisticated cyber weapon ever made, crippled uranium enrichment facilities across Iran last year and set the country back five years in the nuclear arms race. US military and intelligence sources have told The New York Times that a simulation of Iran's uranium enrichment facility...
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Re: For all Replublicans, or Indies
If the only criteria is "who can get the US back on track financially", I would vote for Romney. His financial background would be valuable in understanding how to fix things. I would like to see him team up as VP with whoever gets the nomination. He could spear head the financial reforms needed to get things going in the right direction. Questions is, whould he be willing to accept the invitation as a VP?
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Re: Top Color Production Systems?
Geesh, I know Ricoh has a full head of steam after introduces the c651,C751 series, they also have the 720 (72ppm no slow down for thick media) and the 901 (90+ppm with no slowdown for thick media). The latest and greatest is the C651,C751 series and the color is awesome.
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Re: Would You Loan this company Money?
The AEC market is in the dumps, however more and more of my clients are opting to buy the 240W's and 2400W's from the leasing company rather than spend for a 6ppm system!! Ricoh will be introducing a gel plotter in the summer, and oh my, the gelsprinters were the worst and I hope these are very different. The piezo print head is not geared for low volume users.
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Re: SP5200 Series. What's your plan???
At least here to start with, we are treating these the way we do our other MFP's, on a CPC basis. Again, to start we are going with $.0135 with a $90/qtr minimum. Keep in mind that there is a starter toner of 6,000 shipped with the machine and the maintenance kit that it comes with is supposed to go 120K which is well over three years if they do 3,000 per month. I'm not saying that these are big points of consideration. I'm just saying that there is a little bit of a head start compared to some.
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Re: Sharp enters crucial stage of rehabilitation
So I read it as... wah wah wa wwaaa,..... wha wha (Charlie brown imitation) whawaaaa wah wah (ditto) I'm confused. So translation: 7 months to rebuild or done? In the mean time we are milking the copier/home appliance/LED products for all they are worth? And We are definately not selling but if things dont go right by next March we definately might be? There is nothing definate about that statement. Not sure thats any better than the old version? No, Im sure thats not better. Maybe...
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Re: Ricoh acquisition ‘bolsters’ IT services strategy
Ricoh Australia acquires IMC Communications business to significantly boost IT Services capability Sydney, 2 October, 2012: Ricoh Australia has acquired the IT services business of IMC Communications effective 1 October, bolstering its strategy to be a complete technology services-based organisation. IMC Communications has been providing end-to-end IT Infrastructure services for over 18 years to some of Australia’s largest companies including Network Ten, Bankwest, SBS, Lloyds International...
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Re: How do you feel about the industry?
I have been in the industry about 13 years, I would love to say 33 but I'm only 31 years old (just to rub it in Art!) If there is one thing I realized in my early years, you can't work somewhere for a year or so and go to the owner/manager asking for changes. You haven't earned your stripes yet, the business has seen hundreds of sales reps motivated with piss & vinegar ready to change the world and they crash and burn in the first 18 months. The typical copier vendors in my area have 50...
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Re: Toshiba's Eco MFP. An industry first!
The Erasure unit has essentially a dual head scanner built into the top of it. A user may press some buttons on the control panel of the eraser unit to simply erase the page's contents or scan the page's contents to a network location before the information is erased from the page. This is not a security feature, it is more of a convenience feature.
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Re: Comcolor & Envelopes
Originally Posted by Art Post (Guest): Wee've had our Comcolor demo for almost 18 months, I have a demo for envelopes on this system. Our current system is leaving a spot of ink in the edge of the envelope, is this normal or has is there a fix for this? Please help. Art The envelope is hitting the first print head. It is probably a cyan ink spot. Make sure the envelope is flat (it can't be warped) and that you have the standard tray setting on envelope. Also have a tech install the new KG...
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Re: I hope it's not true
I am very sad to read this. Jim is finished I am sure. If he did do what he is accused of he very well should be. If he is a victim or false alligation he is still finished as head of Ricoh. Thanks to all you guys and gals for being here for me with laughs, info, solutions, encouragement, and yes even the sad sad news like this.
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Re: I hope it's not true
Current acting head of Ricoh US is Tom Salierno who is the past President and COO of Savin and the current head of Direct Sales Divisions. All Ricoh personel have been asked not to comment on the allegations.
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Re: 1060 v Minolta Di551/Konica 7155 need help!
There has been alot of good advice, but you can also go after Minolta and Konica corporate stability!! They;ve just merged into one company. Therefore, the vendor and or product might go through siginifgant changes passing head aches along to their clients!! Also with 1200 D.P.I Resolution, 2 Scan 1 Pass Doc Feeder, speed advantages, software applications pertaining to their individual needs and DEMO with JOB Programs set up for their specific needs. the 60 will sell itself.. Good Luck
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Re: PostScript Question
We also have systems out in the field printing from UNIX through PCL. Can't tell you what 'flavor' the UNIX is right off the top of my head. However we also have other customers printing to Ricohs from UNIX through Postscript.
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Re: printing on novel 5.1
Agreed! Novel networks are just like Win2K Server et all networks. If they are using novel then they must have a server somewhere. Jason, you hit the nail on the head. Yes...we can print with Novel networks NDPS there are some downloads that you have do do but it works well once you get it running! Graham
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Re: Looking for Sales Reps
God's Country eh....Sounds mighty attractive! So Jim, tell me this, do you and Ted go head to head since he is just down in Waco? Graham
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Re: 600 DPI VS. RISO GR3700
I probably shouldn't tell you all this but there probably isn't any reason that the variable data printer wouldn't work on a PriPort with alittle engineering to get the unit heigth right and one unit secured to the other.. The MX1200 is a multi-head ink jet printer (Made by Graphics Wizard) that rolls up to the exit end of the Riso. You create the master on the Riso with everything that is non-variable. Then a mail-merge program of your choosing sends variable data to the MX1200 which prints...
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Re: Gas Price Check
VIENNA, Austria – While oil prices rose Monday with an OPEC production cut later this week all but certain, the price of gasoline in the United States continued to tumble. Gasoline has fallen more than a dime a gallon since Friday, hitting a national average of $2.92 Monday, according to auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express. Chakib Khelil, president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, said Sunday that members plan to announce a "substantial"...
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Re: Email from Canon P4P'er "Ricoh Direct Pricing"
Hey, I agree, but when you see that type of pricing without competition, what is everyone to think??? I've seen new wide format fully loaded at 8K, and MP C5000's that were reselling at 2% above dmap 6. If I may be so bold, I truly believe that the head honchos have no clue what's going on in the street, plus even if they did they have no way of stopping it. They need the boxes placed in order to keep the factories running, more boxes placed equals more supply clicks. They just don't care,...
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Re: Canon & HP "Two MFP GIANTS for an Alliance"
HP, Canon Expand Printing Alliance HP will rely on Canon for multifunction device technologies and Canon will provide technical support for jointly produced devices. By Charles Babcock InformationWeek September 15, 2009 08:50 AM HP (NYSE: HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd announced an expanded alliance with Canon (NYSE: CAJ) Monday to supply a broader variety of managed print services and multifunction devices. HP will rely on Canon for multifunction device technologies and Canon will provide technical...
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Re: 2232/38 series productivity!
I too would like any information on where people have had success against the Canon 3200c. We've tried everything from 3800's, 3850c's, 1232c's and the 2238 (Ricoh). What is your strategy when coming head to head? CPC is most of the problem. But one or more tricks seems needed.
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Re: Around The World with Ricoh II
Ricoh Cleans Up! Story Link Ricoh congratulates all its volunteers for their efforts on Clean Up Australia Day 2004 On Sunday 7th March Ricoh fielded a team of 106 volunteers to participate in Clean Up Australia Day, 2004. Numbers of volunteers increased by 25% from the previous year. Representatives from Head Office and each branch gave up their time to don a pair of gloves, roll up their sleeves and get a little dirty for the sake of their local environment. Clean up sites included...
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Re: Weekend Copier Notes from 05/04/08
Thanks! I always love to see this info! I know of several print tracking solutions that do not require software loaded on the client. some examples off the top of my head: Canon Netspot accountant (now called imageWare something-or-other) reads the user code from the copier, so other than the print driver, no software required on client. Equitrac and SepiaLine both read from the windows print queue, so they have the Username and print data without need for software on the client.
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Re: Ricoh Americas Announces Organization Changes
so you now have a bean counter as the head of your sales organization.
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Re: Where Do You see the Copier Industry in 5 years????
I would recommend the book "Getting Insude Your Customers Head" by Kevin Davis. It has made a huge difference in the way I approach sales from my past. Does this slow down the sales process? YES! But when you consider that on average you're fortunate to close 1 in 5 "new business" prospects and this process has changed it to at least 3 in 5, that's huge. Keep it up Brian...it'll work out in the end.
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Re: Need Your help!
Here's what I did for Tuesday, just posted it on the blog www.mfpsolutions.blogpsot.com Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Copier Sales "A Week in the Life" Tuesday! Tuesday!....."Woke up, got outta bed, dragged a comb across my head, found my way downstairs and drank a cup and looking up I noticed I was late, found my coat and grabbed my hat...." and with that I was off to my 10AM appointment. It's strange how things work out, I got an email and then a call from my sales manager late yesterday asking...
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Re: Need Your help!
Here it is Tuesday morning the alarm goes off at 4:30am. I make some coffee and head quietly to my office on the other side of the house. I turn on my personal computer and spend the next 45 minutes dealing with all my personal stuff. 6:00am on turn on the work laptop and make sure everything is sychned to the blackbery and answer any emails that come through over night. 6;45am I am on the road to my networking meeting which starts at 7:30am. This usually results in meeting at least one new...
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Re: Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On
As I mentioned, IKON IT took over Ricoh IT and H.R. was next. It is now confirmed that the new head of Human Resources at Ricoh is from IKON, as recently announced. Should we start a new Poll to guess which Department is next? Could it be Dealer Division?
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Re: Ricoh CPC Methodology
No problem at all Art. Still scratching my head over all these dual-volume commitment contracts though.
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Re: Form Overlay on 2022/2027 Printing
If you have an image file that you want to use as an overlay, the first thing you have to do is print it using the RPCS driver and print to an overlay file...under job type...then you can call it from the RPCS driver and add it to the document in question. It's great for logo's, even generic letter head.