Tagged With "Full Colour Digital"
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Re: What's the weirdest place you've sold a copier to?
Can't take credit for it, but one of our reps sold a colour copier to a strip club. Let's just say that they were printing a LOT of 11x17 posters....
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Re: What's the weirdest place you've sold a copier to?
About to hit 17 years in the industry now so seen a few.. Sold a scanner to a strip club, I was new to the industry and just a teenager at the time - made the mistake of asking what they wanted to scan Had a "serviced" copier in a massage parlour (inherited the install base so I cant take credit for this) Sold/installed copiers/MFD's to both of the last two Prime Ministers offices/houses Installed a fax machine INSIDE a jail, there was a very dusty gap and some cables on the desk so I asked...
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Re: Print Copy Tool versus Plotworks
John, The PrintCopy Tool compares pretty favorably to Plotworks. I attached two documents to this post. The Product Support Guide lists differences between the two products. The PowerPoint has screen shots of all the settings in PrintCopy Tool. I hope this helps.
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Re: Toshiba now has tier based CPC's?
Hi, we sell Toshiba in the UK. The current colour range can run with a two tiered counter already. We used to sell the Kyocera range with this feature it seemed to be good and won us business, but lost us money in service. When colour costs are dropping to 4p, the percentage of toner from the 4p is getting less. So to breaking this down into 3 tiers could seem marginal. But let say you could offer 1.5p for 2% coverage then 2.5p for 2-5% coverage and then 4p for above, you have now lost out...
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Re: Toshiba now has tier based CPC's?
In Canada, no such plan exits nor am I even aware the capability exists within Toshiba copiers. In my market, multi-tier pricing for color does not comes up in competitive pricing. For a 25 cpm, pricing seems to be holding steady at $0.010 Black and $0.070 color for single units. I have seen less and sometimes we move the cpc around a bit. For example, when we set up a copier we build the initial toner costs into our equipment costs. That gives us 32,000 colour pages to play with.
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Re: Canon's new 75PPM A4 MFP series
This looks like it is just the Canon version of the HP engine they OEM for them so yes I would expect to see a colour one HP deployed thousands of M630’s (predecessor) at one of my customers doing big volumes - pretty robust Will be interesting to see how much longer the HP relationship with canon goes on..
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Re: Is selling at cost the future for print hardware?
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: Scan in One City, Print in Another
The eCopy Solution is not exactly cheap. With ShareScan, all of the Connectors and 5 year M&S on 20 copiers located in six cities, the extra cost is approx. $200k. I need 14x Black 65 cpm and 6x Colour 65 cpm at approx. $200k. I can pitch the $400k but I do not have six independent dealers with any techncial support familiarity with eCopy Share Scan.
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Re: A4 Page Volumes
In my marketplace, the used A3 market (especially Colour)is still able to displace new A4 products at the same price. Colour quality and reliability has improved a lot over the last few years, so even a one generation old colour copier is very much in demand. The marketplace has a strong demand for colour that for me now exceeds black. Of course, this is not great new for new A3 sales. Customers who have an A3, generally want to stick with an A3 replacement copier. A4 products are sold with...
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Re: When was the last time you did a demo in your demo room?
When you say you take a copier to a customer for a demo... Is it a Conditonal Sale? I will do this but only on the terms of if the MFP works as described you agree to buy/ lease that same unit without any further demos. I have seen too many potential customers do the Vendor merry go round with six copier vendors to get free copiers for several months. I have seen too many RFQs where a customer has to get three quotes and you are unexpected lowest bid. They ask you in for demo but never...
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Re: When was the last time you did a demo in your demo room?
Re: When was the last time you did a demo in your demo room?
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Re: New Samsung 11 x 17" Colour MFPs due Oct 01 USA
Our dealer rep from Sammy was in late last week to discuss what we need to be able to handle the 11 x 17 release. In Canada they say it will be a 35 and 45 B&W and a 25 and 35 colour. Part of what they see is the ability to bid for larger deals where there is a need for SOME 11 x 17 but they can still do large part of deal with A4 product. He said they expect it for first quarter 2011. They know they are going to be an also ran in some ways but if they get the CPC in line then we know...
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Re: New Samsung 11 x 17" Colour MFPs due Oct 01 USA
We have carried the Samsung B&W and the colour as well. Price point is good and we actually find we can get better margins on most of their models. Technical backup has been great. We have little in the way of field issues so it will all come to price point and cost of operation.
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Re: Drum Yields
A short discussion about copier vs printer yields. The document is a bit old but the main points are still valid.
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Re: Q. How does your company handle networking charges?
1st 90 days, all inclusive, with no time limit on hours required to get the customer to say they are happy. Thereafter, billable at $95.00 per hour onsite. Dealer, Canada
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Re: Monocomponent vs. Dual Component
Can't comment on the Canon use of single component but Kyocera uses this system and the copy quality consistently is better than equivalent Ricoh's we sell. As long as the unit is running enough prints to go through the toner on a regular basis you get better quality not less. The mixed developer gets refreshed with the toner and keeps the image quality up. They use mono component for their new colour as well.
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Re: It's Official, RICOH US launch of SP5200 Black A4
The X652de is a great machine I used to sell heaps. While it prints duplex It isn't a duplex/RADF scanner though! You need to go to an X464/X654 to get full duplex copy/scan. The HP M4555 is proving to be a great A4 device for us in this space, but almost everything we are doing is colour these days so our most popular box is the CM4540
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Re: Custom Page coverage meter
The new series of Kyocera colour MFP's that was introduced last summer provides the means to set three tiers of counter for colour based upon the coverage of colour on the page. This permits setting three price levels based upon the amount of colour coverage. The settings can be adjusted by the dealer to fit their price model. It means you don't have to pay a full colour page price when you print a small colour item, say a logo, if the contract is set up this way. We just won a large...
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Re: New Samsung 11 x 17" Colour MFPs due Oct 01 USA
Samsung Canada is set to release their A3 line of Black/Colour copiers this week in Toronto. What has been the experience in the USA with this product?
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Re: Ricoh Adds Colour to Its Wide Format Portfolio
So is this built on the Gels technology that Ricoh tried to introduce as a step between inkjet and laser colour in the MFP market and for 'business" desktop printers? My experience with them was they were a real flop.
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Re: Ricoh Adds Colour to Its Wide Format Portfolio
I would rather they just kept selling the Epsons
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Re: New Samsung 11 x 17" Colour MFPs due Oct 01 USA
Among many other incentives, Samsung is offering a significant per copier Credit Card reward on both their Colour and Black A3 Models to attract sales reps interest in promoting these products. The products themselves use a mono component toner/developer/drum system with a slightly higher Breakeven cpc. Due to aggressive intro promos, the copier crooks in my territory are already promoting the product in hopes of big commission cheques. The crooks often cannot get any other new A3 product...
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Re: Canon shaking up the great white north
WBM Office Systems and Ricoh Canada announced a strategic partnership Monday, a news release said. The move will see Saskatchewan-based WBM grow significantly, taking on many of the technical and sales staff and expertise previously employed by Ricoh Canada, as well as many of the customer relationships held by Ricoh Canada in Saskatchewan. The physical office locations previously operated by Ricoh Canada will be closed, with the Regina location being reopened as a WBM Technology Deployment...
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Re: Minolta - eat my shorts
This 12 x 48 banner print capability is also available on all of the new Kyocera colour line
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Re: Toshiba 6550C Help!
Fiery is an option on the e6550c. Colour quality is excellent as the copier is an 8 Bit RIP. I do not sell many Fiery's as the built in Toshiba RIP is very good.
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Re: Memjet "Who's Afraid of Memjet?"
Toshiba TEC partners with Memjet to produce a new 60 cpm Colour MFP!
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Re: OKI Data and Toshiba Tec Agree to Joint Development of Multifunction Printers
I have seen the colour print quality off of these new devices. It is quite good. The target market these devices are aimed at is those customers wanting to move from a Black only to a colour device where price is more important than quality.
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Re: Samsung Brings Copiers With IPhone’s Power to Beat Japan: Tech
One nice feature the Samsung A3 products do have is, preloaded on the HDD from the factory, is the ability to print Colour samples, product brochures, MFP Ecology brochures and Why Buy Samsung brochures.
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Re: Are you a Data Miner?
In the first round of 700 emails that I have sent out so far, I have sold one 20 cpm Colour and quoted a KIP wide format to customers that I would have never met otherwise. I hope to get to 2500 emails sent once a quarter a year from now. That would be 10,000 emails a year prospecting to new customer's As the message I send is very small with no pictures or web links, I do not get shot down by many web filters. So far only a handful of people have asked to be deleted from the list.
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Re: Pro C550EX
Is this still a current product? I am fairly certain now that a Fiery RIP does not have the ability to print in "Auto Colour". This can have a major negative effect on the Total cost of ownership. I have been informed that Ricoh colour product in general does not have "Auto Colour" when printing. It is a copy feature but not a print feature. Is this true?
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Re: Pro C550EX
It is still listed as current on the Ricoh USA and Ricoh Canada websites. Are they just trying to quietly clear them out? When you add a Fiery controller, regardless of brand, there is no auto colour. I was very surprised to learn about this Fiery weakness. The question is can the Ricoh general line print in auto colour? I know they can copy in colour.
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Re: Are you a Data Miner?
I got a lead today for a 65 cpm Colour machine from the emails I sent out yesterday. "The harder you work, the luckier you get" I like to put little helpful tidbits in my emails. I will take your advice Chuck and track down that book. The current one I was doing was during flu season offering a free bottle of hand sanitizer to place next to your current copier. I thought it was a perfect excuse for me to do a site visit and place my logo next to a competitors product.
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Re: Samsung Says Offer for Sharp’s Photocopier Unit Rejected
The A3 manufacturers have their antennas out listening to what Samsung has to say and offer and will react defensively to maintain market share. Samsung's new product line only goes up to 35 cpm in Colour A3, relegating them to an add on product line for any dealer. If a dealer gets too far out of line with Samsung, assumed discounts on 55 cpm Colour copiers might not be approved.
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Re: Samsung Says Offer for Sharp’s Photocopier Unit Rejected
I get everything you are saying up this point.
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Re: Samsung Says Offer for Sharp’s Photocopier Unit Rejected
A dealer might have grown accustomed in the past to receiving certain discounts on new hardware sales. If a dealer starts cherry picking between two product lines, of which one product line only goes up to 35 cpm Colour, a manufacturer might decline to offer special pricing on faster models if they do not see their whole product line being quoted to customers.
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Re: Are you a Data Miner?
That lead turned into the sale of one 55 cpm colour and one 85 cpm black copier last week. A take away from Xerox. I would have never have known about this opportunity if not for the email that I sent.
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Re: New 75ppm color from Toshiba
Toshiba has released a new A3 colour line in Japan back in Feb 2013 replacing the current e4540c series. It is coming to North America sometime soon with a top speed of 50 cpm.
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Re: Weekend Copier Notes from 1/20/08
found this for you: Source: Press release issued by the company, unless otherwise noted. 15th January 2008 – (SEE COMMENTS FROM CARY SHERBURNE BELOW) - Global printing manufacturer Ricoh, predicts that the production printing market will grow to €12.8 billion by 2013 . It is Ricoh’s vision to expand its presence in this market and become a leading force by 2010. Drupa 2008 is the platform for Ricoh to introduce the Ricoh Pro C900 and C900s a new colour digital printer and multi-function...
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Re: NEW Ricoh C900!! HV Color Printer
It will print up to 90 copies per minute even on heavy stock weights up to 300 gm2, with duplexing at full speed. The sheet format is SRA3 (the maximum is 33.2 x 487.7 mm) and there’s provision for up to 11,000 sheets (80 gm2) in the input trays. Resolution will be a “true 1,200 dpi,” and Ricoh says it has developed a new toner that offers both wide colour gamut and fusing at lower temperatures, allowing a wider range of stocks to be handled. It will be able to handle coated papers and...
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Re: NEW Ricoh C900!! HV Color Printer
15th January 2008 – (SEE COMMENTS FROM CARY SHERBURNE BELOW) - Global printing manufacturer Ricoh, predicts that the production printing market will grow to €12.8 billion by 2013 . It is Ricoh’s vision to expand its presence in this market and become a leading force by 2010. Drupa 2008 is the platform for Ricoh to introduce the Ricoh Pro C900 and C900s a new colour digital printer and multi-function device offering heavy production capacity. Also launching is the Ricoh ‘Pro’ brand, for easy...
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Re: Ricoh Rumor!! New Strategy?
do you mean these? A4 Colour MFD’s SP C220S – Copy, Print, Scan 16ppm Colour and BW, Network ready, GD1 driver SP C221SF – Copy, Print, Scan, Fax 20ppm Colour and BW, Network ready, GDI driver, Duplex Scan to email/Folder/FTP SP C222SF – Copy, Print, Scan, Fax 20ppm Colour and BW, Network ready, PCL/ PS3 drivers, Duplex Scan to email/Folder/FTP
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Re: Ricoh Rumor!! New Strategy?
GX 3000SF and GX3050SFN A4 MFD ( Copy, Print, Scan and Fax ) 29 ppm Colour and BW RPCS driver PCL driver (GX3050SFN) Duplex standard Network ready ( GX3050SFN ) Twain Scanning Scan to email and folder ( network required ) Internet Fax or these gel jet mfds the prices look way to cheap (well for a dim engineer they do)
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Re: Which RFG Dealer...
I'm still betting on RJ Young... RJ Young Opens Tennessee Distribution Center On Thursday, May 28, RJ Young (www.rjyoung.com), with help from Mayor A. Keith McDonald, cut the ribbon opening its doors to its new regional distribution center in Bartlett, Tenn. Many local companies came by to see the company's new location, demo room and warehouse facility. "We are very encouraged by the turnout from the business community," said Chip Crunk, president and CEO, RJ Young. "It shows that we made...
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Re: FS-C5030N color matching issues
pos Registered: 11/01/06 Posts: 3 05/07/07 at 08:40 AM Reply with quote #2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote: Originally Posted by sdds_ca We placed a FS-C5030N printer in an office where they had previously used a Xerox Phaser. The customer has been vocal about their dissatisfaction with the color matching (not matching, depending on your point of view) relative to the file as seen on the monitor. They are using programs like InDesign and...
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Re: Who delivers your equipment?
Whenever possible, we will have the transport company, direct ship our heavy 500 lb+ copiers direct to the customer location with Tail Gate service. We will meet the truck in the parking lot if need be and unbox and set up onsite. Our 20-45 cpm Colour copiers are fairly heavy. Some of my dealers will direct ship, deliver themselves or have a 3rd party moving company deliver the assembled copier. All of my dealers are getting older and I harp on them all of the time to think about the bad...
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Re: 2090 and Bates Stamping
The launch notice says, "The Bate Stamp Feature for the Aficio 2090/2105 Systems is available for immediate download from the Ricoh Technical Website." If I was successful. the bulletin is attached to this reply.
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Re: SAP Systems
Attached you will find the SAP Printer Vendor Program document. You will see that Oce', KonicaMinolta, Sharp, and Kyocera are on it and Ricoh is not. Ricoh's response is "There is no reason to believe that any Ricoh will not work with SAP but at the present time, there are no plans to spend the money necessary to become SAP certified." We have a Fortune 500 company that is completely SAP and the only problems we have is occassional kick-back from IT because we are not on the list. However, I...
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Re: Ricoh Introduction of the MP W7140 and MP W5100
Digitising your drawings has many advantages. It saves legacy documents for the future. It streamlines your workflow and speeds up the job turnaround. Capture, store and distribute documents efficiently with the Aficio MP W5100/MP W7140 Brochure Overview In the 1980s, Ricoh was the first company to market a digital and plain-paper wide format device. Since then, they have developed an impressive range of wide format products. We are proud to offer you the MP W5100/MP W7140 as the latest...
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Re: Oce end user wide format pricing
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Re: e-STUDIO 306LP Question
The e306LP offers a colour scanner. The scans can be either blue or black based upon your selection.