Tagged With "ep"

Good story. Minolta does it for many...

Gotta go back a REALLY long time in the industry, so many won't even know this: the Kodak 100 & 150. Really reliable machines that heavily created industry disruption with Xerox having dominant market share and IBM climbing fast in the mid-70's and then a new player, Kodak, opened the door for many other later players to enter.

First machine I knocked out was an “Olivetti Copia II” at a law firm at 120 Wall St in 1975 with a XRX 3100. I actually wrote the proposal vs an IBM “ Copier II” since I never saw the machine and the managing partner said the machine name with such a heavy Brooklyn accent I had never heard of the Olivetti “ Copia” 2 version. Never saw another one after that. Rental only available before xerox came up with XEEP .....

When I had my interview at AOE on Madison Ave I was totally perplexed at why the sales manager was so in love with the brand new Ricoh FT6645 and even said to him "It's just a copier". The following month this 22 year old made $6K on a Ricoh FT6645 and I never said: "it's just a copier" again.

Considering that entered the business in 1981. I started as a tech and was quickly offered a sales job when the owner of the dealership realized that I had some issues with putting copiers back together.   For the next ten weeks, I'll list all...

A blog from the past.  Enjoy!!   Part One:   Once upon a time (back in the early eighties) we sold copy machines.   It was a simple business. We had maybe three models of plain paper copiers. I can remember the EP (Eny Paper lol)...