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Re: What's the weirdest place you've sold a copier to?
The Amish Farmer-Printer may take the cake!! I don't think if I sold to every strip club or adult store in the region it would top that. That is awesome!
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Re: 57 Days of Selling "Day 44"
Love it Art! I had a day of running around with a networking luncheon followed by a training for a new device that I sold earlier in the month and stole from Sharp. I was extremely late to the party with this deal but they already had a canon that was very old and decided they wanted another canon and on top of that wanted someone to deal with local over Sharp and Ricoh direct. Then I was walking into the grocery store on the way home and got a call from a person I quoted a machine to about...
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Re: Desktop Shortcut to Scanned Images via store to HDD in scanner
Its pretty strait forward. Default the scanner to Store File to HDD. At the PC create a desktop shortcut to Web Image Monitor. Have customer click on Print Job/Store File -------> Document server. They will be able to download the document. The real problem though is you are encountering a lazy IT guy. Any IT guy worth his salt will help you set up scan to folder.
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Re: Will outside Sales Rep's go away?
We definitely are not out chasing them but we are much more versed talking about them and the benefits of buying them from us rather than the big box store. It has led to some very nice MPS accounts for us this past year. I don’t have a final count but I believe we added about 3 million new clicks this year from printer sales. Not breaking any records by any means but adding an extra 50k or so of revenue never hurts. And thanks to brother for having a minimum advertised price online for the...
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Re: Will outside Sales Rep's go away?
I’m a little late to this party but had the thread open since it was posted. As a 35 year old i straddle the “millennial” and old school gap (in my opinion haha). There is value of ordering things online that can be commonly used or even basic electronics. But if it’s anything above basic, I still believe talking to someone even if on the phone, pays dividends. We recently bought a new vehicle for my wife and explored for weeks online our options, the new vehicles options, what the price...
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Re: Will outside Sales Rep's go away?
I'll chime in. Like TML I'm in my early 30's and have been selling copy hardware for nearly 10 years. I think good sales people as a whole are quickly becoming scarce. Millennials don't seem to like to interact with others if they don't have to and as most "print" decisions move to IT, online buying is already what they know. Overall it is a convenience factor, they don't have to submit a form to a website and wait a couple days for salesperson to try and up-sell them to an A3 MFP. They...
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Re: Nsi Autostore
Personally, I have not been successful in selling Auto Store so I'm probably not much help. However, I would ask why it would be necessary to bundle these things. If I was fortunate enough to be in a situation where the customer sees the value of the software and this criteria is necessary, I would propose a basic workflow and 3rd party DMS integration and Sharepoint integration would be professional services at a billable rate or discounted block of time.
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Re: W6700sp help!
Like Art, it is rare that a 6700 leaves here without the aftermarket try. Just a heads up on that tray.......if the customer bumps into the tray there is a very good chance that the metal tray will fall on your customer's feet. I had it happen to me. To see what I mean mount the tray on your 6700 and push the tray forward in the center......the two hooks will disengage and the tray will come crashing down. I came up with a very simple modification to this tray that will eliminate the...
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Re: Around the World with Ricoh
Ricoh Selects Juniper Networks to Modernize its Group-Wide Network Infrastructure TOKYO, Aug. 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR ), an industry leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, today announced that Ricoh Group has successfully implemented Juniper Networks' high-performing solutions to modernize and simplify the operations of its core networking and security infrastructure that supports approximately 500 locations and 34,000 users in Japan. Ricoh Group...
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
It seems the prospects of tariffs going away anytime soon are fading. Eventually the cost of most goods in the copier industry are going to increase because of President Trump. SSG I'm okay with this! This may help in the long run because more clients may opt for something off lease, or even release their existing devices. In both cases I'll probably make more than selling new. You keep calling it a TAX, it's not a tax it's a tariff. When I go to the store and pay for an item, a tariff is...
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Re: Ricoh Pro C720
Ricoh Americas Corporation announced today the official launch of the Ricoh Pro C720/C720s, a production class multi-functional color system and the latest addition to Ricoh’s Pro series of products, designed specifically for the production environment. This flexible system targets corporate and commercial professional print environments with demanding application needs. The Pro C720/C720s has a robust duty cycle of 320,000 images per month, and runs at 72 pages-per-minute (PPM) regardless...
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Re: CBS NEWS REPORT ON COPIER SECURITY
this came across my alerts today!! « How Computer Forensics Firms Market Themselves | Main April 21, 2010 Going to Ditch a Copier? Think Twice. It May Carry Your Data. We had an e-mail from the Virginia State Bar's ethics guru, Jim McCauley, asking about an article he had read about how copiers can be gold mines for identity thieves. Indeed they can. Jim asked John to comment on the issue for a piece Jim is writing. As always, John's information is valuable and generally unknown to many...
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Re: At the end of term, who pays to ship the copier back to the leasing company?
SSG: Good Stuff, the return of the old system is one of the items that needs to be addressed, more often than not, if the customer has the space and the willingness to store and then ship the machine themselves, I'm all for that!
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Re: Who really needs 250 GB in a Konica Minolta Hard Drive!
Almost no idea what you are talking about. In my experience, people who have workflows that would benefit from storing images to the copier also need a Fiery controller. In those types of worflows with high-res color images, its quite easy to wind up with very large files. I've seen files stored on the Fiery that were more than 1GB for a single file. So, in those specific types of workflow, yes, a larger hard drive is not only useful but necessary. For general office work, there is generally...
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Re: CBS NEWS REPORT ON COPIER SECURITY
I talked to an IT Manager today who told me that if you format a HDD immediately twice in a row, it effectively destroys all useable data on the HDD. Most HDs store data in two parts. The Security Key and the data. Some Data removal software programs only remove the security key. I am told this is like removing the Index from a book and scrambling up the book. The data is still there but needs to be rebuilt.
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Re: Cloud Printing
I was in a small town last week at an six person Accountanting firm. They were using Cloud Computing for storage and document collaboration. They were concerned about the large amounts of paper documents that they had to store, retrieve and off site storage. They did not want to get a bigger office so they saw cloud computing as a way to get rid of filing cabinets. They liked the ability to be at a clients office and pull up their files at the customer's location. They liked the ability to...
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Re: Cloud Poll
Mircosoft Office 365 goes live today. http://www.cnbc.com/id/43557789 It does have the superior appealing feature over GoogleDocs of allowing business to store their data on local servers. With Google, it appears your data must be 100% in the cloud.
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Re: Can you trust the Cloud?
Is 2012 the begining of the end for File Servers as more companies move to Cloud Storage? http://storagenewsletter.com/n...-egnyte-file-servers "Forrester found that 41 percent of information workers surveyed were using various unapproved online file storage and data services for work purposes." "it poses a huge threat to data/file integrity and security, as unapproved tools store and share proprietary corporate data through the cloud without any IT oversight."
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Re: Hurricane Sandy Highlands NJ
HIGHLANDS - After weeks of stress and struggle following Hurricane Sandy, Highlands residents will gather together tomorrow afternoon for some serious fun at a free benefit concert. The concert, starring many well-known Jersey Shore musicians, will raise funds and awareness to help rebuild their town. The Hope for Highlands benefit concert will take place Sunday, November 25, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Seastreak Ferry terminal, 325 Shore Drive in Highlands. Although the concert itself is...
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Re: Padded Lease Rates
If and only if you process the entire billing packet you may have a point. If you do the job of a Sales coordinator (Check the deal and paperwork for completeness and correctness) Billing administrator (Complete the funding detail sheet, send the deal to the lease company, confirm funding has hit, send off docs) Cut any buyout /payoff checks and deliver them to the customer. Store equipment for stream of payment deals, then package, load and deliver equipment to old lease company. Then you...
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Re: Aftermarket software the would eliminate NCR
Maybe a better question is why they are printing the invoices at all? Any beyond the customer copy should be going automatically to a document management system. We had an Auto Parts store printing three copies at every trasnaction, even transactions that were just pennies. We saved them thousands.
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Re: Aftermarket software the would eliminate NCR
Old Glory, more on the auto parts store please! How was this accomplished?
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Re: Sharp Announces New High Performance Workgroup Document Systems With Second Generatio
SSG that is good info....thanks for sharing but this is really not that hard. You can use google print to send a print job to workstation that is running google chrome and configured with the local printer. I have done this from my living room as a test to 3 different printers and walked into the showroom when I got to the office and went around a retrieved all the print jobs. This is a FREE solution once configured properly. I have not heard of Breezy before so will have to research that to...
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Re: MP 301 Mobile Printing Solution
It's in both the Apple App Store Apple App Store & Google Play Google Play . For iOS, it will print all types of Office files as well as images. On Android, it only prints images, web pages opened in the application or text saved to the clipboard.
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Re: Minolta (Monica) BETRL gives em 5 *'s
Minolta Co., Ltd. President Yoshikatsu Ota announced that the DiALTA Color series CF3102 and CF2002 copier-printer-scanners each received the "Editor's Choice Award" in the color copier category from Better Buys for Business and the "Five Star Exceptional Rating" from BERTL (Business Equipment Research & Test Laboratories). We are very proud that the CF3102 and CF2002 received the "Editor's Choice Award," matching the success of their predecessor, the CF2001, and the "Five Star...
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Re: Cool New Feature on 2035-45
Quoted from the European Brochure: " Paper and Server-less Faxing The Aficio 2035/2045 greatly simplify your fax communications. Without an additional server, you can store incoming faxes in the systems memory and check the data on your PC before deciding to print, download or delete documents. All this can be done in a very straightforward way via the bundled Web Image Monitor and DeskTopBinder Lite software."
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Re: 2090 Doc Server Application
Why not store this as one whole document. I understand that certain sections need to be updated, but ... The 2090 Document Server has the Editor capability. With this feature you can select ranges of pages to be deleted and then simply added by scanning in the new updated pages. Plus once you enter the settings for this entire job, they are kept, regardless of how you delete and add pages. But perhaps the greatest way to impact their productivity work flow would be to connect this system.
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Re: 2090 Doc Server Application
Hey Guys, Once again, thanks for all the help on this one. The bad news is that even though the system is connected and printing, my plan to store the tabbed sections individually and print the job as a whole to the doc server still did not work. I thought that I had worked around my problems by using DTB to combine the multiple sections and send them to the doc server as a single job and then apply print settings. However, DTB will not allow the user to print to the doc server. So, I'm back...
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Re: Weekend Notes from the copier industry!
WEEKEND MFP INDUSTRY NOTES 8-5-07 The following is a quick review of copier/MFP industry news from industry publications. - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is legal for manufacturers to create a mandatory minimum selling price for their product. The case was decided regarding a store that sold women’s clothing, that ran afoul of the clothing manufacturer’s rules. Unknown if any copier manufacturers will adopt this policy. - A group in Australia at Queensland University, is claiming that...
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Re: Sales Tips
Sales Pipeline: A sales pipeline is a very important concept in selling because it is the recognition of the origin and result of each sale. Each sale starts as a lead -- which is a phone number, a name, an email address, a referral or someone who walks into your store -- they are leads. From there, you qualify the lead, which means, you make sure this person is capable of becoming a customer -- either they have enough money or the right size outfit for your product. For instance, you might...
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Re: c811dn storage of documents????
You can store prints by selecting "STORED PRINT" in the driver. The prints can be printed via the display on the printer or the WIM. You can change quantity but not finishing features.
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Re: Need Input for Color Deal
I also agree that this situation calls for much more than just hardware. There are data issues and workflow issues here. Hardware is the last part of this equation. In addition to Old Glory's questions, Have they discussed where their data is coming from, what format it's in and whether it's proprietary? How clean is the data? Do they have any other delivery needs for the output (for example, archiving pdfs of the invoices, searchable archiving, faxing, emailing)? How do they currently...
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Re: Ricoh Rumor!! New Strategy?
Does the Sammy 6345 have a feature like tihe Ricoh/Savin DOcument Server where you can store documents for walk up access? If I understand right the Sammys are relabeled as Muratec, do you guys see a benefit for being a Muratec dealer vs. Samsung dealer (maybe see less Muratec in Staples)?
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Re: Gas Price Check
Snopes says: Origins: The two most important basic facts about this misguided scheme for lowering gas prices are: • It was written several years ago, when the world oil market was considerably different than it is today. • It wasn't accurate even at the time it was written, containing many gross statistical errors and exhibiting a severely flawed grasp of oil industry economics. Although the message quoted above doesn't address where (outside of the Middle East) we import oil from, many...
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Re: How can I fax forward to email?
Step-by-Step procedure for the B089/B093/B147/B149/B135/B137 1.Pre-program the Address Book Management for E-mail Addresses in the Web Browser. Be sure that you can e-mail to that location. 2.In User Tools --> Facsimile Features --> Reception Settings --> Forwarding to ?ON?. 3.In User Tools --> Facsimile Features --> Key Operator Tools --> Forwarding to ?ON? & add ?Receiver? (This was pre-programmed into Address Book Management). 4.In User Tools --> Facsimile...
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Re: The Connection
This is very true, and all too familiar. Closing the deal is all about building the value proposition. We fail to do that, and we experience the customers rejection! With so many companies exploring electronic paper management, competing with solutions rather than with price better positions us to seal the deal. Try presenting the combined value of the digital copier and the Virtual Copier electronic paper management application as an integrated software solution. In fact, try it yourself...
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Re: off-site backup
I have an Amazon S3 account and use Jungle Disk to Back up. I back up all my music, pix and docs on a regular basis. Once you do a back up it only backs up the changes. I store probably in excess of 10G and it costs me 2-3$ a month.
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Re: Political Speeches
I received this email from whoever about an article from Jay Leno. We all agree that we have the right to disagree with someone else. Read on........ Jay Leno wrote this; it's the Jay Leno we don't often see.... > > " As most of you know I am not a President Bush fan, nor have I ever been, but > this is not about Bush, it is about us, as Americans, and it seems to hit the > mark 'The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some Poll > data I found rather hard...
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Re: Winter 2009
Out of 22,500 customers for our local power company, there are 4,800 left to hook up, and unfortunately, I am one of those 4,800. The biggest reason we aren't hooked up yet, is the alleys in the neighborhood are littered with trees and limbs. The tree crews have to get in and clear the trees before the power company can come in. We have neighbors with gas stoves, so we have a means to cook food, and I have a gas fireplace, which is what has been heating the house. About 2,000 generators have...
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Re: Storage of competitor's equipment during lease
Now-a-days there is no such thing as buy-out to Return...only buy-out to keep with a very high residual. We have stored equipment but the leasing company can never know about it. Marlin Leasing for instance sends it immediately to their legal dept for litigation if they find out. Far and away, the best answer is to fund the payments into the new deal and write the customer a check and have them make the payments and store the equipment.
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Re: Storage of competitor's equipment during lease
We do these all the time and occasionally have issues w/ the leasing company finding out that the equipment is off-site. How do you convince the customer to store the equipment themselves?
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Re: Storage of competitor's equipment during lease
Thanks very much, I think the consensus is that the customer must store the equipment themselves either on-site. Or off-site if no room in which case they are not going to want to pay for that, so that has to be factored in to the lease, maybe $50 a month for a storage unit, then it must be taken out at lease end, prepped for shippment back, then shipped. Not sure how often folks are going to want to trust a dealer to take care of all that - has anyone done that and if so how often?
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Re: MFP Wars "The Final Five"
COECO signs dealership deal By John Henderson Rocky Mount Telegram Friday, March 27, 2009 One of the oldest office systems companies in the country that is based in Rocky Mount has entered into an agreement to become an authorized Canon dealer. Carolina Office Equipment Company, known as COECO, was formed in 1921 by Grover Robbins out of a small office supply store in Rocky Mount. It has grown into a diversified digital office equipment company with stores in Clinton, Fayetteville,...
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Re: Where Do You see the Copier Industry in 5 years????
I see 5 players left, I also see inkjet or some form of ink technology being the primary technology to print on paper. Looking through the other crystal ball, I can see the emergence of color flat panel displays for viewing, editing and routing documents thru a wireless networks and internet access. You will be able to have documents signed and fill out information right from the screen, this product will weighh no more than two ounces, will be about 1/4 inch thick and the size of a letter...
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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: Smart Web Monitor
Individual documents can be password protected on scan, but I don't know if you can view them from the web interface once they have been password protected. Why would a health care organization be storing sensitive docs like that on the document server when it is intended to store more generic forms etc...? I would think that they would rather scan them to files. GT
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Re: Smart Web Monitor
Graham, They don't want to store them on document server, they only want to place them there temporarily so that they can retrieve them back to a computer and store them to file or cd, then delete those files. That process would require no software install such as Scan Router does. I believe you can view them and retrieve them even if they are password protected as long as you have the password. The main question is "can the 2035 be set (defaulted)to require a password for each scan before...