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Re: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of January 2005
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Last Week in January 2009
It's been a hectic week for me. Had to spend a couple days in PA for meetings, coupled with the end of the month. January was nothing but a bummer. That's what happens when you cram everything in for the end of the year. One item I was happy with was my commission check. Back to rebuilding the pipeline. Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week. Weekend Copier Notes from 1/25/09 Neal · 1/26/096:56 AM server, which is a relabeled Konica Minolta PRO C 6501. This certification is based...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Second Week in January 2004
Fifteen years ago I was not blogging about our industry. Most of what you'll see below is threads from P4P'ers asking and answering questions. The Print4Pay Hotel forums offers our members the opportunity to post questions, answers, news or maybe you want to blow off some steam. If you do here's a link to our forums. Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week! Ricoh Demonstrates Its Dedication 1/9/049:25 AM manufacturing, distribution, use and the recycling of its products. Sustainable...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Last Week in September 2003
Last week was a killer! Not that I sold anything, but I had a golf outing on Monday (did secure a meeting out of that), two full days of training in PA on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday AM I left for the Jersey office and what should have been about 2.5 hours turned into almost 5 hours because one of the major highways was closed in both directions. I had to bird dog my way home on the back roads of eastern PA. Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week! New Ricoh Type-H Staple...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Last Week in September 2003
There's a cool blog below from Bill Siderys titled MFP & Copier Pay Plan Changes for the Future . If you get the chance check it our. Bill is still a member of the Print4Pay Hotel, and I'd like to thank him for his valued long time membership. Check out the threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend Copier Notes from 09/28/08 Neal · 9/30/089:36 PM , selling out to Ricoh . Details on NewCal: o Founded by former Kodak copier technicians, Steve Tarpley & Ken Wilkens in 1991 o Won...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Third Week in September 2003
BTA National Event was last week in NYC @ the Stewart Hotel. With members and vendors I heard there were 345 attendees. That's a great showing! What was the most popular talked about theme behind the scenes? Yup, it was the One Rate or Flat Rate. More to come on this during the week. Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week! Fuji-Xerox merges 9/17/038:48 PM Fuji- Xerox merges internally Byron Connolly, CRN Wednesday, 02 April 2003 Fuji- Xerox will audit its printer -distribution channel...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Last Week in October 2003
Wile reading through the threads I re-read a post that I wrote about my brother fifteen years ago. It was this week fifteen years ago that he passed away. Even though we had our differences he is missed. Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week! Scan & Capture From the Copier 10/28/036:57 PM alike. When scans replace printouts and copies, it often translates into lower lease charges for dealers and diminished (high-margin) consumables revenue. In addition, selling and integrating...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Second Week in July 2003
It's Sunday night, I start vaca on Wednsday of this week. Not a lot of stuff from last week, except for the additional tariffs that will go into effect the first week of August. We're not sure if copiers are included this go around. Enjoy the threads from 156 years ago this week! Sales Training Help 7/15/034:56 PM December 31, 2011 - Sales Training Help - Click Here Industry Analysts, Inc. has been developing customized industry training programs and materials for over 30 years. Major...
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A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
The picture in the header showed our demo room back in either 1989 or 1990, might have even been 1991. As you can see by the photo Atlantic Office Systems (the first one in NJ) was Authorized for Adler Royal, Brother, and Tele VaxaFax (facsimile). Sometime later Adler Royal was purchased by Mita and the Adler Royal brand was changed to Copystar. I thoroughly hated the name Copystar because there was no brand recognition, at least with Adler Royal, our clients knew about Royal typewriters. We...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Fourth Week in July 2008
Last week seemed to be pretty interesting. I've been working on an order for about six months and was told the paperwork was ready to pick up tomorrow. As soon as I have the docs in hand I'll be writing about this, till then mums is the word. Weekend Copier Notes from 07/27/08 Neal · 7/28/0810:46 AM Russian investors are considering acquiring the company. - Kodak announced it has sold a NexPress 2500 production color system to Mailings Unlimited, a print and mailing house in Portland, Maine.
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The First Week in August 2003
Where on the web can you take a walk back down Memory Lane for the Copier Industry? We're proud that we have data going back 15 years for press releases, documents, pricing, leads, and our most valued data is the threads from our members over the years. It's those conversations about pricing, solutions, issues or just needed some help to close a deal that makes the Print4Pay a special place for our members! Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week! Buyers Laboratory Presents Ricoh...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2004)
In the last two blogs and in this blog I used some scene pictures. If anyone can tell me what country these are from we'll comp you a one year Premium/VIP membership at no cost. You need to post your answers in the reply section. Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week! Color On Demand from bizhub C350 4/9/044:56 PM punching with the addition of PK-501 Punch Kit. Printing and Scanning Capabilities are Standard The standard configuration for the bizhub C 350 includes color and B&W...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Third Week in October 2003
Crap there's a ton of threads below! From 1998-2003 many of us in the copier industry ew nothing about network printing and scanning. In addition neither did our managers and techs. The Print4Pay Hotel allowed us have a community where we could share experiences technical stuff and help meet our client expectations. Fifteen years later and all dealerships have on staff IT people and knowledgeable technicians that can handle most everything. Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week!
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Second Week in November 2003
So it was fifteen years ago that Ricoh launched the first GBC puncher. I remember it well, chads were evenly distributed through out the entire device! One of my accounts had to vacuum their GBC puncher once a week. Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week! Toshiba America Business Solutions Introduces the Flagship Model in its Workgroup Color Printer Line Boston Mike · 11/10/036:05 PM in TABS color printer product line. Boasting a powerful 600 MHz processor and 256 MB of standard RAM...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 15 Years Ago (Last Week of February 2004)
Just a short story from an order I had last week. The client was an existing account, almost five years ago it was net new. Thus I had some promo's I could throw at the client in order to secure the order. Now it comes time for the renewal almost 5 years later, there are some payments left in the lease. There is no way I can sell them at the same lease price per month. I also made an early mistake on the pricing when I met with the client. I never presented the lease price for the new...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (First Week of March 2004)
Seems we're coming to the end of the first quarter already. After dumping everything into the end of 2018. I've had a rough go of it for the past 7 weeks. Last week proved to be better with two orders and one of them was $45K. We're also going see have then end of the fiscal years for most if not all of the copier manufacturers. This time of years scares me because nothing is safe, you need to ask the tough questions up front and try your best to wrap up business either the day you met with...
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This Week in the Copier in Industry, The Last Week of November 2003
Looking back there was one incredible thread from 15 years ago and that had to do with a new member that refused give information that we required in order to approve them for membership. Those days were the early days from when we transitioned from an MSN community to a real web site. Back then all we had was the forums. Graham & Ted were also key players in getting the forums launched back then. Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week and make sure you check out that thread!
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2005)
For each of the next few blogs I'll be inserting some tips from what other dealers and sales peeps are doing on a daily basis from around the globe for staying relevant with their clients and prospects. 1. We promote our brand, products & services daily and when we return and hit the ground running we might take the opposition out who may not make so much effort working from home… Enjoy these incredible threads from 15 years ago this week! Konica Minolta Cuts 05/06 Profit Target Guest ·...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2010)
For each of the next few blogs I'll be inserting some tips from what other dealers and sales peeps are doing on a daily basis from around the globe for staying relevant with their clients and prospects . Share our FB posts daily. Enjoy these wonderful threads from ten years ago this week! Konica Minolta Helps AMG Resources Eliminate Paper Filing Guest · 4/8/1011:21 PM .A., Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop. For the third...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago for the Last Week in April of 2005
15 years, what were the hot topics in the copier industry? Better times for sure, take a peek at what was cool, what stunk. Take a trip back in time to remember some of the good ole days. You'll be glad you did! Most popular threads from 15 years ago this week!\ Konica Minolta Introduces the bizhub(TM) C450 Color Printer/Copier/Scanner Mike Sasso · 4/26/058:25 AM Konica Minolta Introduces the bizhub(TM) C 450 Color Printer / Copier /Scanner Featuring the New bizhub OP Open Platform, the...
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Prognostications for the Next Decade in the Copier Industry
Ten years ago I was a mere 53 years of age in 2010. Some news I remember was the start of the "War for A4" MFPs, Ricoh launched APP2ME (gone but not forgotten) and Canon purchased Oce for $1 Billion dollars (Oce brand is now gone also). Funny thing about time, as more of it passes by we tend to only remember the BIG moments and forget about all the small moments that led to those BIG moments in our industry. What will the next 10 years bring to our industry? Will it be feast or famine for...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (First Week of April 2005)
It's late, need to be ready for another day. You know what they say another day, another dollar! Xerox Launches Industry’s First Color................ Guest · 4/4/057:46 PM Xerox CopyCentre® C118 black-and-white copier and Xerox WorkCentre® M118/M118i black-and-white basic multifunction systems. These compact MFPs are designed for small to midsize workgroups that require copy, print, scan and fax functions. · The EFI™ Fiery X12e controller for the Xerox DocuColor 12 color copier/printer. The...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago for the First Week of May 2010
Years ago I use to burn the late night candle pretty often. In some cases I would still find myself emailing a prospect at 2AM in the morning. In most cases the email was to schedule a meeting for later that week. Those late night emails was just something I was use to. It wasn't until one of my clients made mention of the email that arrived at 2AM. Of course he didn't see it until he arrived at work. But this client went on to tell me that he wished he had more sales people like me, meaning...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The Fourth Week of March 2006
Savin CLP17 / Ricoh 2000 printer drums Deanw · 3/23/06 7:22 AM PCUs seem to be failing way early on these.Am I the only one seeing this?How are you handling it?Thanks Topic Ricoh Aficio 240w/480w toner price! 3/23/06 2:28 AM Does anyone know from where i could buy toner type 1160wat price less then 110 USD.?I am interested to buy large quantities Topic Canon's New MF7280 Boasts Big Office 3/28/06 9:16 AM Canon 's New MF7280 Boasts Big Office Capabilities Canon Introduces New imageCLASS...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of January 2006
Ten years ago this week KonicaMinolta exiting the camera business, and boy oh boy did they make the right move. A recent thread here on the Print4Pay Hotel forums mentioned KonicaMinolta's jump into the robotics industry. I believe the article stated KonicaMinolta needed to move towards "more fertile" ground as the imaging industry continues to contract. It's all about the consumables and I'm sure "bots" and robots will need plenty of those! Enjoy the threads from ten...
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Polek & Polek Delivers Excellent Customer Support and Imaging Supplies by Sled
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog this titled, "Polek & Polek Delivers Toner Supplies to Dealers by Sled". With an impending snow storm forecasted for the North East. I thought the snippet below would be appropriate! " I think about back to our early days of being in business when we still operated out of my fathers house. There was a long, steep driveway to get to the house. When heavy snowstorms were forecast, it was impossible to get a car up and...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago 1st Week of December 2005
What a difference 10 years makes, especially with wide format systems. Ten years ago, Ricoh wide format was hot! So hot, that it was not uncommon to make two to three thousand dollars on a single unit sale. Alas, all of that has...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago 2nd Week of December 2005
Before posting this, I was on LinkedIn for a few moments to check my account. I noticed that I've been a LinkedIn user for 10 years come December 27th of this month! Time really does fly by. LinkedIn was launched in 2003, thus I guess I'm one of the early adopters. Will be interesting to see what LinkedIn looks like twenty years from now. Here's a cool web page about the growth of LinkedIn. Sharp's AR-M355N & AR-M455N Imagers 12/14/05 7:49 PM offer copy, print,...
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Top 19 Old Copier Manufacturers that FADED Away
Did you sell these copiers, did you ever see one, or maybe you weren't even a twinkle in your Mom's eye when these copier manufacturers were the King of the Road! "Tell Us About Some Old Copier Companies", was a question we posed to our...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of December 2005
The December 2005 North American ice storm was a damaging winter storm that produced extensive ice damage in a large portion of the Southern United States from December 1416, 2005, while extensive snowfall was reported across portions of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec . The ice storm led to enormous and widespread power outages, and at least 7 deaths. Topic Sharp's AR-M355N & AR-M455N Imagers 12/14/05 7:49 PM offer copy, print, scan fax capabilities and support...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of April 2005
It's interesting how our industry changes right? I took a quick peek at the first head line from ten years ago, "Konica Minolta acquires Largest.....". Manufacturers acquiring dealers has slowed down in recent years, but on the flip side,...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of April 2005
What a difference 10 years can make right? Ten years ago, I was in the money with the Ricoh 240W. There was nothing else like it, we held margins, sold a boat load of systems and make excellent commissions. Alas, everything comes to and...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of October 2004
The Boston Red Sox top the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS , and win the series after being down 3-0, winning four straight games in the greatest comeback MLB playoffs history. The Red Sox continue on to face the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series....
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of November 2004
Ten Years ago, this grabbed the top Headline on the Print4Pay Hotel forums. Konica Minolta Business Solutions, Windsor, Conn., recently introduced the bizhub PRO 1050, a 105 page-per-minute (ppm) printer/copier, which contains over 150...
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Canon Business Systems Pulling a Ricoh
Heard from a friend who is a Canon dealer. That dealer states CBS is dumping machines to his existing base and selling in most cases for 20% less than his cost!! Also went on to state that CBS and Canon Dealers have no "Rule of...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of November 2004
Not a big week for news 10 years ago, but I did come up with this! Ken Jennings ends his 75-episode streak on Jeopardy! , becoming the foremost game show contestant in international television history. Jack-of-All-Trades...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Second Week of December 2004
When I first posted this last night, I got mixed up with the dates, thinking yesterday was the 7th, Well, it actual was because it was 1AM in the morning. It was good to see that Pearl Harbor has not been forgotten and we owe what we have to the...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of January 2005
There was not much happening in the news 10 years ago this week. I thought I would do my own flash back for January of 2005. I don't keep notes but with having data on the threads from the forums from 10 years ago, the threads do spark the...
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Top Ten Copier and MFP Proposals for May 2013
May 2013 business got me back on top of the leaders list for tops in total sales and tops in new business for the entire team. To date I've racked in $130k in net new business. However, June is not looking so good, a lot in the pipeline but...
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Selling Copiers "Should I Go Out on My Own"
Way back when in 1986 I went into business for myself at the ripe age of 29. I had been selling copiers for a Minolta dealer in central New Jersey since 1982, and believe it or not by 1986 the owner was in a divorce, hooked on other stuff and...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of May 2004
Randy Johnson pitches the 17th perfect game in Major League Baseball history in a 2-0 win by the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Atlanta Braves . Kyocera Mita America Calls 5/24/04 7:50 PM ...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Second Week of June 2004
Happy Father's Day! In just two weeks, we'll have run through the first half of the year. How time does fly! I've commented to my wife on many occasions that when your job comes down to monthly and quarterly numbers, it seems that...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago (2nd Week of February 2004)
Remember when bit color was an issue with the first color units. We all had to learn what 2, 4 & 8 bit color was. Funny, how 19 years later it's not even a topic of discussion anymore. Ten Year ago this week, this story was in the headlines. NineCubanmigrantsattempt to reachFloridain a modified 1959Buickthat was converted to a boat. They are intercepted by theUnited States Coast Guard. The same group had made a similar attempt...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Last Week of February 2004)
A wolverine , the state animal of Michigan , has been spotted in that state for the first time in 200 years. Relabeled Toshiba Color copier? 3/2/04 4:13 PM ...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago First Week of March 2004)
Exploration of Mars : NASA announcesthat Mars rover Opportunity landed in an area where "liquid water once drenched the surface". (SF Chronicle) UPDATE - Oce warns dollar 3/5/04 5:54 PM Topic by...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago First Week of July 2004
These were some of the hot news items from ten years ago. Famous actor Marlon Brando dies of pulmonary fibrosis. 17-year-old Maria Sharapova defeats Serena Williams 6–1, 6–4 in the Wimbledon Championships women's...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago First Week of August 2004
Scientists speaking at a news conference on natural disasters raise the alarm that the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma , Canary Islands , could erupt at any time, sending a 250 km 2 . rock crashing into the Atlantic Ocean and producing a...
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My Top Ten Copy Machines of All Time #3
Think about this, a copy machine that can copy up to A3 (up to 11x17), and only onto A4 size (letter or legal). You don't see that feature with todays digital copiers. I for one believe many of todays copier manufacturers are missing...
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Remember When Everyone Owned a Murata Fax?
While at the Canatta Awards Dinner last week, I had asked a question to Lou Sticklin (Director of Marketing) how Muratec America got started. For those of us that are dinosaurs in the industry, we remember that Muratec America was once...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Second Week of April 2004)
President Bush , praying with U.S. troops on Easter Sunday at a military base hit hard by hostilities in Iraq, acknowledges that it had been "a tough week" and it is unclear if the violence would ebb soon. Color On...