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Re: OKC-based company IMAGENET wants to keep employees’ $1,200 stimulus payments….
I have some time to read through the link and it seems they bowed to pressure and have changed their policy. Thank goodness for that
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Re: Print Copy Tool versus Plotworks
John, The PrintCopy Tool compares pretty favorably to Plotworks. I attached two documents to this post. The Product Support Guide lists differences between the two products. The PowerPoint has screen shots of all the settings in PrintCopy Tool. I hope this helps.
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Re: How I turned $15 into a 24K Opportunity
Hey Art! I started using Aweber email software about 5 months ago. I send out a monthly newsletter with a customized template. People read it! Best part is that you always stay top of mind with your prospects. I actually exported my contact list from my CRM software and imported that into Aweber. Currently have about 100 prospects and customers in my email list. It's great! Much cheaper than a mailer.
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Re: Your Copier
Welcome back😀 https://www.p4photel.com/blog/...-the-copier-industry 6 Reasons Why Flat Rate aka One Rate Will Change the Copier Industry Art Post 36 minutes ago 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...
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Re: Five Reasons Why I'm Stoked About the New Ricoh SP8400DN Printer
Nice read. Good printer. I am curious about the 'device billing'. What exactly do you mean by 'device billing'?
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Re: Five Reasons Why I'm Stoked About the New Ricoh SP8400DN Printer
I will answer that tonight, off to a few appointments this afternoon
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Re: Five Reasons Why I'm Stoked About the New Ricoh SP8400DN Printer
Device billing is when you charge a flat price for service each month. There clicks are unlimited, however the client needs to buy the consumables. Preferably from you.
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Re: Five Reasons Why I'm Stoked About the New Ricoh SP8400DN Printer
What consumables are not included? Only the toner? What about other parts like drums, fuser, rollers etc.? Do you do those kind of agreements for MFP's too?
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Re: Five Reasons Why I'm Stoked About the New Ricoh SP8400DN Printer
No, we are not doing any of those agreements with our MFP's. With the printer the device billing would not include the drum, or fuser. Client would pay for those. Device billing is a practical maintenance agreement for the new A3 ink based MFP's. Epson will be launching their 100ppm color device shortly. The only consumables is the print head and the ink. It's rumored that the print head will be warranted for 3 years. In addition the print head is very costly. The idea would be to charge...
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Re: Five Reasons Why I'm Stoked About the New Ricoh SP8400DN Printer
Thanks. Interesting. I wonder what the advantages and disadvantages of those ink jets are (compared to laser MFP).
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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: Manufacturer Support on Bids
I agree. My KM rep and his boss were in the office yesterday and I asked him why he didn't show any interest in this opportunity and he said because you are buying at the lowest I can give you right now and there is nothing else I can do from a support part. He said he gave it about a 3-5% chance of winning the account based on what he read and what he could do. I am ok with that as most of our bid opportunities are not set up around here for dealers to participate. They always have some...
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Re: MPS and Linux HELP!
So some clarification first. PaperCut absolutely does support Mac. In fact, it is the only cost recovery/print control solution that I know of that actually installs in an all Mac environment. (Server and Client) It also is the only solution I know of that installs in a Linux environment. So both of your issues are solved with PaperCut. I included the install guides for Mac and Linux to get you started.
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Re: Marco expands client base in Iowa
I had to read this a second time, I thought I read a "cloud based provider of copiers". I think that would work also!
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
I read past the "bill" description too fast. A bill is not law, it is, I think, just an expression of unanimous opinion by the Senate. Somewhere in the news this week, I read that Kyocera intends to increase production of A3 copiers in China by expanding a current factory. I am sure all copier manufacturers plan 10+ years into the foreseeable future and cannot worry about politicians who could come and go every four years.
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Re: P4P member: Allegheny County signs 5 year contract with Amcon Office Systems
Gman - Your absolutely right...Green Initiatives have always interested me and from a financial perspective they are great investments right now for stocks. Art - Thank you -- this was the most competitive and nail bighting 4 months in my career so far. Being government this bid had to go out to the public. The bid requirements were 50 pages long, and the time spent in dotting I's and crossing t's was insane. Every company who sells copiers bid in the Pittsburgh Market. Everyone body who...
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh
So, will KM enter a better bid?? Read below: Océ may terminate the conditional agreement with Canon in the event that a bona fide third party makes an offer which is, in the reasonable opinion of Océ’s Management Board and Supervisory Boards, superior to the Offer. An alternative offer shall only be regarded as superior in the event its bid price exceeds the Offer price by 10%, or in the event of a consecutive bid by 5%. Canon has a right to match a superior offer. In the event the...
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh
I read an article from 2005 that counted 55 total imagistics dealers at 55.
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh
So, potentially Canon as added 100 additional locations in the US market for a cool 1.9 billion. Could they have acutally addded 100 million a month to the annual sales in the US with this deal?
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Re: Panasonic Canada discontinues A3 Copier Distribution March 2011
I read the article on limewire and it stated the factory in Japan is ceasing to manufacture A3's guess thats it for the US market also!!
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Re: The Effect Currency Evaluations have on the MFP industry
The Chinese YUAN has only marginally changed in the last 12 months compared to the USD. I have read on CNBC that this could be as much a result of Chinese Govt manipulating their currency on the world market to be undervalued to encourage exports.
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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: Time in business requirements
I can agree that they leasing companies (and all lenders) acted foolishly in the past. Now the banks are acting like banks. That's not bad, though it may make it tougher to provide people with equipment you, I and they all know they have no business leasing. [If you were over 2 years in biz, 90% of the time no PG was required.] And now we know that two years in business is not adequate assurance of the company's ability to make the payments, so more assurance is required in the form of a PG.
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Re: Why in 2010 have we still not seen Solid State Drives (SSD) in copiers?
Much faster access time, 100% reliable, no moving parts, can't crash the drive head with sudden loss of power corrupting drive. Much smaller, lighter, much lower power consumption. Much less heat generated. Much less headaches for Service Dept compared to HDD as there is virtually no service required. An SSD can fit mechanically into the same hardware slot as a HDD. Just started showing up in laptops last year. MFP Copier vendors are always jostling to say they were first to market with some...
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Re: Global Image Charge Wording
Had to retype??? Don't you have PPDM? Looks like a Scan-to-Word opportunity.
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Re: Top 9 Blunders that B2B Sales Reps Make
Blunder #6: They don’t know business basics. What they do: They reveal their ignorance of basic business and accounting principles. Why they do it: Unfortunately, it’s usually because they are, uhh… ignorant about basic business and accounting principles. What happens: The lack of such knowledge seriously limits the rep’s ability to add value to the discussion. The rep seems at a loss when the conversation moves to important issues like ROI and how the rep’s offerings will impact the...
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Re: New Samsung 11 x 17" Colour MFPs due Oct 01 USA
I thought I read on this site that the release was for November, Wrong?
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Re: Ricoh NEW PRODUCT RELEASE - C3001, C3501, C4501, C5501
Art, you need to read the stuff you send. The answer was in the Lanier FAQ's that YOU posted. Q. What is the new Quota Setting feature? A. Quota setting is a new feature that allows administrators to set limits on the volumes that individual users or groups can run on the machine. More than a User Code tracking feature, limits can be placed on different kinds of output (color/B&W mode, copy or print, etc.)
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Re: Weekend MFP Industry Notes 11/21/10
ya, I was kinda shocked when I read that, let me know what you found out.
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Re: The reason why Ricoh Bought Ikon
Is any copier vendor begun to charge for MFP scans yet? I think I read somewhere recently where some vendor gives 45k free scans before the meter starts to charge. What would be a "market price" for a scan?
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Re: The reason why Ricoh Bought Ikon
Art stated: "Geesh, so where does that leave the likes of KonicaMinolta, Toshiba, Kyocera and Sharp?" This specific Ricoh Press Release is a direct response to Konica Minolta acquiring All Covered, Inc. If you read carefully, there is no real newsworthy 'event' or 'announcement' in the Press Release, which is a statement in itself. The Press Release announces an 'intent' rather than an 'action' that has been taken. Sources tell me that this 'dog-and-pony' show was dressed up at an event held...
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Re: Setup in wireless environment
Thanks Art. I thought about that option but I am not sure if that will work with a copier. Also I have read they are not that reliable if it did work. Has anyone used a print server like this on a copier that is not usually setup as wireless?
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Re: Setup in wireless environment
Thanks for the feedback. To be on the safe side I ended up snaking a 100 foot Cat5 cable back to the fast ethernet switch. I just was not too sure on the stability or how to setup one of these units. When you plug the cat5 into the copier are you using the wireless print server or the wireless bridge? Some wireless print server do not have the bridge from what I read. Can someone explain how to configure one of these units so we all can learn. JasonR what make/model are you using?
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Re: Tohoku Earthquake Wreaks Havoc on Printer Industry Supply Chain
Whoa, that's a great read. Seems we're still not out of the woods!
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Re: Recent letter to RFG principals
Have not read it but sure would like to see it, can someone post?
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Re: NY Times Article about Ricoh Japan
Having read this article and comparing what has been told to us regarding a lack of product inventory by mid June, something just doesn't make sense. To still expect a 16+% increase in Profits YoY after what has happened seems unreasonable. Ideas anyone, other than outright misrepresentation of the facts for investors but that's too big a risk.
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Re: Advantages of Ricoh
All manufacturers have their own spin, even Konica Minolta. My father once stated " believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you read"!
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Re: Q. How does your company handle networking charges?
1st 90 days, all inclusive, with no time limit on hours required to get the customer to say they are happy. Thereafter, billable at $95.00 per hour onsite. Dealer, Canada
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Re: Ricoh USA Eliminates CEO/President
This is probably the best article I have ever read concerning the reality at Ricoh: http://industryanalysts.com/IA...esident_%26_CEO.html It is such an accurate depiction of the situation since IKON took over the reigns at Ricoh. The only item that I disagree with is that the Dealer channel is only about 12% of Ricoh's total revenue (as opposed to the 20% mentioned in the article). The comparison to how current leadership at Konica Minolta is steadily growing revenue and becoming the new...
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Re: Scan to folder and Vipre
Montecore, I have spent many years in sales and began networking our systems almost 10 years ago. Currently, I handle all of our connectivity and solutions for our company and I have connected and troubleshot hundreds, maybe thousands of computers. I agree, a technician can and should be able to resolve this problem. However, first it is necessary to identify the problem. This requires ruling out what it is not. Of course, hindsight is 20/20. If I tell you this story, it seems simple.
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Re: Cloud Poll
Vince thanks for the description. You are absolutely correct. This is a very hot topic out there right now. I have used this several times and it works like a charm. Customers love it and it's FREE. Here is an interesting point to keep in mind as you know Google Docs is FREE however have you ever read the EULA? Did you know whatever you send to the cloud when using the free google docs that google owns the rights to your documents? They can do whatever they wish with your information. That...
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Re: MP W2400 fine black dots/dirty background
Thanks for answering! I have read posts saying that drums from IPC should be better than Ricohs. We'll try one of those. Anyone who has experience with IPC?
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Re: Why is single clicking an 11×17 on a “copier” legal?
"Like Button" We could have one of these, however I would have to "unsecure" the forums. Which means no one would have to register and anyone not in the industry could read the threads. I asked for this with the "secure" forums, however at this time the eve format will not support a "like" button. I would like to have this also, but still think we need to keep the forums secure for everyone. Art
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Re: Custom Page coverage meter
Could this be it?? Patent application title: IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISCRIMINATING WHETHER DOCUMENT IS COLOR DOCUMENT OR BLACK AND WHITE DOCUMENT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND FACSIMILE MACHINE INCLUDING THE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM Read more: http://www.faqs.org/patents/ap...317186#ixzz1ll5UowBw
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Re: Canon shaking up the great white north
Do not read too much into what happens in a small Canadian province and then apply it across North America.
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Re: Canon shaking up the great white north
WBM Office Systems and Ricoh Canada announced a strategic partnership Monday, a news release said. The move will see Saskatchewan-based WBM grow significantly, taking on many of the technical and sales staff and expertise previously employed by Ricoh Canada, as well as many of the customer relationships held by Ricoh Canada in Saskatchewan. The physical office locations previously operated by Ricoh Canada will be closed, with the Regina location being reopened as a WBM Technology Deployment...
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Re: Should you ever sell something for nothing?
You'd never know it but this thread is over a year old. I always like coming back to this thread to put things in perspective. I too have given systems away at no profit and in a couple instances lost money on a particular deal to penetrate the accoount. That account stayed with me for many years and probably was good for 20-30 units over time. It's more about what you build, it seems we're always building new accounts, for whithout new accounts we would see our commissions, and sales...