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Re: Samsung Copier Million Page Test "A Tree Massacre"
Art, I think Samsung needed to do this test to shut the mouths of the critics. Now anyone who wonders or asks if the Samsungs are reliable will get a link to this test. My Service guys tell me that the Samsungs have been working well! And the new MX series with the Android (OS) Tablet has been very cool. That wish list item that you asked Ricoh for has already been delivered by Samsung! I have just worked with a 3rd party tech company to get the first non-Samsung Android App ported to the...
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Re: Samsung Copier Million Page Test "A Tree Massacre"
Seems my Blog about the million page test was not that well received with Samsung. They complained to ENX Magazine who then pulled the blog off their site. Whatever happened to FREE Press? They were not happy that I pointed out that they used "x" amount of tree's for a 1980's type test! Since Samsung spends money with ENX, ENX pulled the blogs and is not posting any of my latest stuff. You know what, as far as I'm concerned we here this finance stuff about Sharp, Toshiba and none of the...
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Re: Samsung Copier Million Page Test "A Tree Massacre"
On average for every tree taken down in US for paper it is replaced by three new ones This is one of the reasons there are more trees in US than in past Dan Schmidt (sent from mobile device) > On Nov 23, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Print4Pay Hotel < alerts@hoop.la > wrote: >
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Re: 6 Reasons Why Flat Rate Service Program Will Change the Copier Industry
Art, a terrific take on the changing forces in the business model of the industry. Moneyball has arrived in the imaging business.
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Re: 6 Reasons Why Flat Rate Service Program Will Change the Copier Industry
Thank you Tom, writing it brought back some awesome memories
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Re: We Print 50 Trillion Pages a Year, and Xerox Is Betting That Continues
I was expecting more from this head line! Here is the url http://fortune.com/2017/08/17/...transformation-plan/
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Re: We Print 50 Trillion Pages a Year, and Xerox Is Betting That Continues
here is the video, I missed it http://fortune.com/video/2017/...bson-on-reinventing/
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Re: WSCA contracts
Hey Art, Been selling WSCA for years and frankly only do it because I have to. it is a lot of work for extremely little pay. Even the service is not that great for the dealer end. So when I can I find a way around it.
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Re: WSCA contracts
Its a nightmare for dealers. Ricoh can't get their act together on the paperwork. Its a loser. Also you don't get rewards points on machines when you use this program. Avoid it unless its the only way possible.
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Re: Color Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 3 (produce 31 to 40 pages)
I am out of the office on annual leave until the 26th Jan. In my absence please contact 01983 406522. Thank you
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Re: Still looking for Software Solution! HELP!
Art, What is the native application the print stream is coming from? There are multiple solutions out there that can do this but some of it depends on the native application. Maybe more information could help. Also, what type of demo are they looking for? A log file output or just an automated system where they type or hit print and the command is sent automatically outputting duplex? There isn't much going on there just forcing duplex so I am curious what they are hoping to see. All the best
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Re: Still looking for Software Solution! HELP!
ty, I have to check my notes, will post the info for you tomorrow. Art
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Re: "MFP Wars" Hi Speed A3 MFP's vs A4 MFP's
Art, one of the problems is dealers servicing a machine for $30.00 a month. however, the reality is the industry has allowed the sales engine to destroy the service model. selling full service on A3 for .006 or less in volumes of 5k a month. Dealers were chasing sales revenue as they sacrificed service profits. As volumes continue declining so will margins. Dealers will begin realizing that all the A3 service they gave away is too costly to manage and the shift will begin. The A4...
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Re: "MFP Wars" Hi Speed A3 MFP's vs A4 MFP's
Hi Ray I agree with the silliness of the low cost per page for A3. However most dealers have escalators that can raise the price as much as 10-15% per year whether it's A4 or A3. AS far as the $30 per month, almost no one will send out and invoice for $30 It's either billed quarterly or annually. One thing the A4 manufacturers won't due is too sacrifice the consumables. I also believe that dealers will always find a way to make their profit, whether it's Daas, flat rate, or seat based. I...
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Re: "MFP Wars" Hi Speed A3 MFP's vs A4 MFP's
Art, another piece of the equation is that monthly units placed are 45% to 74% mono A4 in the segment 3 and segment 4 speed range. Online retail is $170 to $600 where used A3’s are three times that amount. The real question here is what these placements are doing to the service department revenue and eventually to staffing.
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Re: "MFP Wars" Hi Speed A3 MFP's vs A4 MFP's
I've always sold A4 machines where they are a fit. There are very few A4 devices that offer a low CPC. Some carry CPCs that are very high. A bigger issue in many placements is that the Automatic Document Feeders on most A4 machines are not robust enough to meet the copy scan and fax demand. Many are complete garbage. In fact I've seen the quality of the Domument Feeders on A4 units go backwards in the last couple of years as if the document feeder is an afterthought or it is where the...
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Re: "MFP Wars" Hi Speed A3 MFP's vs A4 MFP's
Amen @fisher doc feeders are inept on most A4's
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Re: Muratec Label Press
MSRP of $18k, that makes $360 on a lease. Thus, you need to find someone outsourcing. After a little research, color labels that are 4x4 cost around 45 cents each. Thus someone outsourcing 800 labels or more can be a prospect for one of these devices.
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Re: Ricoh improves on a popular color printer
The RICOH SP C440DN prints documents in black and white at a cost of 1 cent per page and in color for 5 cents , well under typical costs of 7 cents per page and up. Note from Art: Interesting right, wonder if this includes parts, labor and maintenance
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Re: How One Simple (Smart Phone/Tablet) Print App Can Help You Close More Orders!
sounds like a great tool in the right hands. Thanks looking forward to the meeting,,,
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Re: How One Simple (Smart Phone/Tablet) Print App Can Help You Close More Orders!
Art, once the app is downloaded, how do you get login information. Is this a software as a service? Is there a monthly fee? Thanks!
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Re: How One Simple (Smart Phone/Tablet) Print App Can Help You Close More Orders!
There is a monthly fee, sign up for the webinar for the 9th or the 15th of February please, here is the link https://www.p4photel.com/calendar
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Re: OCR option MP C4503
I have not seen this yet. Have you tried to scanning to thumb drive to see if there is the same issue? I remember doing a scan demonstration for a client with blank page on (or at least I do) and the speed was incredible with the thumb drive. The next option I would try is scanning to ICE, because the OCR is done in the cloud, however not sure if ICE will do blank page. Art
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Re: OCR option MP C4503
got this from my DSM, he's really good. Running this document through a GSNX or AutoStore or eCopy server will absolutely be faster than our built-in OCR option. The processors in MFPs are vastly slower than a PC.
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Re: Ten Things You Need To Know Before you Lease or Buy a New Ricoh MP C3004 & MP C3504
Good info as always.
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Re: Ten Things You Need To Know Before you Lease or Buy a New Ricoh MP C3004 & MP C3504
Agreed. Great units.
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Re: Ten Things You Need To Know Before you Lease or Buy a New Ricoh MP C3004 & MP C3504
Good machines, if you need 11x17 size paper, but I would go a different route if the customer does not need it, cheaper and reliable A4 machine like the Kyocera CS356
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Recent Meeting with an IT person
I had a recent meeting with one of my existing clients that has a lot of Brother printers. Slowly been taking the Brothers out with Ricoh A4's. We had a recent email exchange in reference to spreadsheets that I developed for cost per page on my A4's. That IT person was stating my CPC was wrong and then emailed me thier file. That IT person had also figured in the cost of the Ricoh A4 in his cost per page analysis. I couldn't argue with them but its a reminder that the total cost should...
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6 Reasons Why Flat Rate Service Program Will Change the Copier Industry
I remember when plain paper copiers used rolls of paper and not sheets. I remember when the glass on the copiers had to move back and forth. I remember when copiers used liquid ink (toner) to produce an image. I remember when you used a dial to set how many copies you wanted to make. Yup, it's been a pretty incredible journey to see the industry evolve over the last 38 years! Back in the early eighties their was only one plan for a copier maintenance agreement. We included "x" amount of...
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Color & Black A4 Cost Per Page (12K Annual Pages)
This is an anonymous survey. Thus I'm hoping everyone can chime in. Based on an annual volume of 12,000 color pages. What is your cost per page? This survey is a great barometer of where you are with your cost per page for #A4 devices. Always good to know where you're at!
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Color & Black A4 Cost Per Page (24K Annual Color Pages)
This is an anonymous survey. Thus I'm hoping everyone can chime in. Based on an annual volume of 24,000 color pages. What is your cost per page? This survey is a great barometer of where you are with your cost per page for #A4 devices. Always good to know where you're at!
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Re: Curious about how everyone verfies Cost Per Page
If you can sit with accounts, or get invoices, best way to go. However, if they push back on that, I fall back to "industry standards" from a TCO site like FM audit or LDI. When they question my numbers, I then use that to ask for their actual invoices so we can verify.
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Re: Curious about how everyone verfies Cost Per Page
Jus an FYI - on low volume devices, or on local connected devices, we go with a flat rate per month. Much easier on all, and several years worth of history doing this in many marketplaces shows we are making money on flat rate deals.
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Re: Copier Color Cost Per Page Poll 1st Quarter 2014
Dear Thank you so kind of you Take Care and Kind Regards Mir Afzal United Engineers Center Jeddah Saudi Arabia Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:45:23 -0700
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Re: Copier Color Cost Per Page Poll 1st Quarter 2014
Are these colour rates toner in or toner out?
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Re: Color Cost Per Page for 2 Cents, Are You Crazy?
Sorry, Art, this will not happen. If you spread the cost by charging more for black and white, some would buy it and only run color. It's already expensive to run black only on a color device, costing 2 to 3 times or more than on a monochrome Production machine. And even at a penny for service and supplies, monochrome margins are low on color production units.
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Re: Color Cost Per Page for 2 Cents, Are You Crazy?
JC: Thanx for the comment! I should have communicated better. This would not be a pricing model for Production systems. You're right, if it was all they would run is color, however, I'm now seeing cost per page for color under 4 cents per page.
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Re: Color Cost Per Page for 2 Cents, Are You Crazy?
I think that while in theory this sounds good, it's not gonna fly. Already we're competing against dealers who have color clicks down to $.039 and black clicks down to $.005-$.006 on moderate speed office color units (35 & 45 ppm units). And these aren't those staggered click prices that Kyocera or Xerox dealers are offering for different forms of color (a splash, a bit, or full color). Even if they double click them, you're then back to industry standard for clicks, but most aren't...
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Re: Color Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
Art...for these click charges of .039 color and .045 black, what segment was this in? Second were these click charges for the same system or was one an award for a color system and the other and award for a monochrome system?
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Re: Color Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
Rogue That document and others are located here
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Re: Black Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
You need to have a "Not Available" option. I just left the question unanswered but that skews the results. For instance, there is no way my company would allow a segment 2 to be placed without a base no matter the cost per image was.
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Re: Black Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
ok, let me see if I can edit
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Re: Black Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
Did it!! Thanx for the help on this
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Eliminate Copier Overage Charges Once & For All
Most every company owns and or leases a copy machine. In most cases these copiers are covered under a maintenance/supply agreement. The billing model that is most prevalent is where a company charges a fee for "x" amount of pages for black and color prints/copies. Those contracts are be billed annually, quarterly or monthly. In addition to the base charges (annual, quarterly or month), there is also a charge for prints/copies that were made in excess of the agreement. For example. Annual...