Tagged With "Samsung CLX-8640"
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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: Samsung Pushes Into Crowded A3 Market
I've never liked the GUI's on their A4's, I thought it was a more print centric device. If their GUI remains the same, I'm thinking tough existing A3 customers will have a tough time with the interface. I think the MSRP for 25ppm device is high, sctually very unless it comes with an additional paper bank and finisher. So far that's it from me, I haven't had the chance to do much research on these devices.
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Re: Samsung Printers Win Pick Awards for Outstanding Achievement from Buyers Laboratory
Just in the last week I've read several threads on the P4P Hotel and heard from several dealers that they are loving the Samsung line of copiers. Watch out Canon, Xerox, Ricoh, Sharp, Konica Minolta, Kyocera and Toshiba the train is coming down the tracks!!
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Re: Samsung Electronics Launches Business Core™ Printing Solutions for SMBs
This sounds pretty nice, is anyone using this yet?
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Re: Samsung Electronics Launches Business Core™ Printing Solutions for SMBs
Art, I have worked with and demo'd many of the individual components, and I had heard that Samsung was coming out with a bundle but this is the first I have seen it. The "Secuthru" Lite is a server less follow me printing, pretty cool. The Google Drive (Cloud App) worked pretty well too. Vince
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Re: HP Agrees to Acquire Samsung Printer Business for $1.05 Billion
Lets see how bad they can mess this one up....
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Re: HP Agrees to Acquire Samsung Printer Business for $1.05 Billion
Geesh, I feel for you! Although it might be good if they dive you access to XL pagewide
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Re: HP Agrees to Acquire Samsung Printer Business for $1.05 Billion
There must be a lot of pissed Samsung dealers out their!!
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Re: HP Agrees to Acquire Samsung Printer Business for $1.05 Billion
Art, I had a nice relaxing weekend of golf and football in the mountains and now I come back Monday to this!!! I hope there is a nice silver lining somewhere for us.
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Re: HP Agrees to Acquire Samsung Printer Business for $1.05 Billion
Yep this one threw me for a loop! WTF! Did NOT see this coming. Here's another question: What's going to happen to all the Canon engines in HP printers? Will they switch to Samsung engines now? That could be a huge revenue loss for Canon. They make a lot of money on their patents.
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Re: HP Agrees to Acquire Samsung Printer Business for $1.05 Billion
Here's something I picked up on alerts tonight: HP Inc. CEO Dion Weisler started Monday with a bang. His company, a giant in personal computer and printing, said it would buy Samsung’s printer business for $1.05 billion. Weisler’s hope is that the deal would help HP hpq better compete in the copy machine market and help offset declining sales of printers. HP said Samsung’s printing business brought in $1.8 billion in sales for its fiscal 2015. This number is just a fraction of HP’s overall...
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
Love it Art! Curious what HP does with this acquisition.
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Re: HP Agrees to Acquire Samsung Printer Business for $1.05 Billion
Here's the official release: HP Inc. Unleashes Next Generation A3 Printing Portfolio to Disrupt $55B Copier Segment Delivers Performance, Security, Serviceability and Affordable Color to Reinvent Business Printing BOSTON, MA--(Marketwired - Sep 12, 2016) - HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ ), the global leader in printing, today introduced an expansive line of powerful A3 multifunction printers (MFPs) designed to disrupt the traditional $55 billion A3 copier category. Visit the online press kit here.
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
Yup we'll see, it's interesting that I had a conversation about the pagewide technology at the Top 100 Summit.
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
Thanks HP for taking Samsung out of the picture and giving me a new line to put doubt in customers minds when competing against Samsung.
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
I think everybody was thinking who in the copier industry was Samsung planning on buying. Nobody thought that it would be Samsung who got bought up. It is not like they needed the money. I think there was some corporate pride at Samsung that they would become #1 in any industry that they entered. It must have been obvious to Samsung that to conquer the consumer electronics industry is one thing put to conquer the business to business copier industry was unlikely.
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
Interesting observations Art.
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
I think I figured out what happened. Their PR company accidentally sent out a press release from 15 years ago, not realizing that the core messages they put out were no longer relevant. It's like having Comcast put out a press release that they just bought an ISP and they are going to completely disrupt the dial-up internet market.
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
Art It was great meeting you in San Diego….. Thanks again for the work you do on this blog. Have a good week! Kim Louden Vice President, Sales Tel 319-261-4057 Cel. 319.491.7096 Fax 319.261.6057 klouden@greatamerica.com<mailto:klouden@greatamerica.com> www.greatamerica.com < http://www.greatamerica.com/ > GreatAmerica Financial Services | 625 First St. SE, Suite 800 | Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 [GFSC-Cannata-6outof7-BTA-Sig-2015]
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
My coworkers and I are scratching our heads too.
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
PRINTING BUSINESS UNIT DIVESTMENT GUIDANCE Following is communications guidance on the Samsung Printer Business Unit Divestment includes: The Samsung Electronics Press Release Q&A for Samsung Employees and Partners Samsung Printing Business Unit Divestment Statement “Samsung Electronics has reached an agreement to sell the entire global operations and assets of its printing business to HP Inc. This transaction is part of the Company’s efforts to concentrate on its core business areas.
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
What is puzzling to me is almost the same day that HP announced they were purchasing Samsung's print business, they launched a major new product line. Are they going to ditch the new Samsung line? Did HP buy Samsung's print business to take out a competitor and get the recurring revenue from parts, supplies and cpc contracts. To me, HP has always been an abbreviation for "hardly profitable".
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
I had the time at lunch today to listen to a recorded webex meeting from Photizo that offered up speculation on why HP bought Samsung. Here's my takeaways: Patents, more than 6,500 of them 1,500 world class engineers The eventual replacement of all canon marking engines with Samsung Thus, as there was much hype about the purchase of Samsung, I don't think was for the laser based engines, but more for the patents, the engineers, and the laser engines for HP printers. In addition, HP will now...
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
Any idea what an "in-cave stacker stapler is? Is this the same as an Inner Finisher which fits inside the body of the copier and takes up no floor space?
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
I hope HP (Hardly Profitable)'s idea of market innovation is not to make the whole industry hardly profitable. Outside sales reps need to make a buck and will not flock to a new product that dramatically reduces their commission on every sale. Kind of like the A3 to A4 transition of a few years ago. Sales reps do not want to be forced to try and sell a lot more boxes to earn the same income regardless of how great the technology might be. Did that, been there.
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
not here, I was going to google it to see
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
I'm not sure......will be interesting to see how the industry responds. I think it may be time for HaaS or Seat Based Billing for MFP's. Get ahead of the curve and tie up your accounts now!
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
Maybe they are calling the exit area in the MFP a cave, because it is surrounded on at least two sides. The finisher then sits in the cave?
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
Picked this up today: Seems these new PageWide devices will offer tiered billing just the like the tried and test HP Edgeline. Wow, this could get very exciting!
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
As of this date, BLI has published no specs on the new A3 product line. HP's website has posted a few images. http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-ne...s/2016/GPC_2016.html Tiered billing has been offered by Kyocera and Xerox for a few years. I think the tiers are very low and a customer quickly gets knocked up to Tier 3 full or above market price.
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
Yup, because these models will not be available until May of 2017. I agree, most are pushed up, and I'm not to worried
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Re: Will H.P. Uber the Imaging Channel
After a week og being overwhelmed with opinions this is the most sensible/viosionary article I read about HP - Samsung
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Re: Will H.P. Uber the Imaging Channel
Thanks Martin Hofman, The industry needs more "Imaginationalyst" (Yes I made that word up). Without the ability to imagine a completely different way of doing things, or the ability to break loose from stubbornness. Change will always happen to you instead of being caused by you. Too much analysis not enough Imagination we need to combine them "Imaginationalyst"
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Re: Will H.P. Uber the Imaging Channel
This is a great article! One point that I disagree on is that HP will be entering the SMB market with this acquisition. What's the point? Dealers own the SMB market, and most dealers will sell whatever their customers already have. Where HP has the advantage is going into their national and global accounts where they dominate with MPS contracts on A4 devices. Finally, they can go back to the banks/governments/etc and kick out the Canon/Ricoh/Xerox A3 devices that are in there. And because HP...
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Re: HP Agrees to Acquire Samsung Printer Business for $1.05 Billion
Samsung shareholders approve $1B printing business sale to HP as company reports 30% YoY profit drop | VentureBeat | Business | by Paul Sawers Samsung announced its Q3 2016 earnings yesterday, and they were pretty much as expected. The Korean tech titan confirmed revenue of 47.82 trillion Korean won ($41.8 billion), with operating profits hitting 5.2 trillion Korean won (around $4.6 billion). This represents a year-on-year (YoY) drop of 3.87 trillion won ($3.4 billion) and 2.19 trillion won...
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Re: Samsung Electronics Closes Down Printer Business in 33 Years
Where does this leave existing Samsung dealers and end-user clients?
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Re: Samsung Electronics Closes Down Printer Business in 33 Years
It leaves the Samsung dealers pissed off, I know that. We are not terribly happy with them. They came to our office and told us they were adding one of our competitors as a dealer. We told them they better find someone quick to sell it before we drop the line and they have nothing.
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Re: New Samsung A4 Color MFP Brochure
@fisher I was thinking the same thing about the quality of the engine itself. It seems very cheap but I guess thats what we get for $1,400.00 or so. I hope this machine works well and they didn't miss the boat with this machine. The 8640 was a disaster and the 8540 was even worse....
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Re: Samsung to Acquire Nuance?
Equitrac/Safecom/ecopy/ppdm its too small of a component of Nuance. I will bet you they split the document imaging division into a separate company.
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Re: Samsung to Acquire Nuance?
I think buying Nuance would be a great opportunity for Samsung to get deeper in the solutions side of the industry. However, I 100% agree with Yeti that it's too small of a division of Nuance. Knowing that iPhone's Siri uses Nuance technology gives Samsung huge opportunities to work with or against Apple.
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Re: Feedback on SMART X4250LX/X4300LX series
Cool….While you are there if you find out anything about the new A4 device that they are supposed to be coming out with to replace the 8640/8650 I would be very interested in that as well. Thank you!!!
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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: Who Would be a Viable Buyer for Toshiba Tec?
Makes me wonder what may happen. From my talks with muratec, of course I'm not in a high position of being in the know, it sounds like the label presses will become their go to product and eventually the mfp's will be less important to them. It would be interesting to me if Samsung sold to HP for a billion (I'm not sure why HP thought they were getting a steal by paying a billion for the copier division) and then Samsung turns around and says "thanks for the billion dollars, now we are going...
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Re: Who Would be a Viable Buyer for Toshiba Tec?
Wow, that would be a kick in the ass with Samsung. I was thinking a little more and thought Epson might be a candidate also. Just my two cents!