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Re: Need HELP! Kyocera Color A3 question
Top three points I make when against Kyocera. #1. Take them color samples from your device and any Kyocera because the color output is sub par on all units. If you don’t have access to one look in your crm for an account you co-exist with Kyocera in. Or the next time you have a knock out make some samples and keep them in a binder. If color quality is important to the customer it will be a win. Another point is showing them you get what you pay for, meaning 3 tier color is what they have...
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Re: Need HELP! Kyocera Color A3 question
This is great stuff, it's awesome to see input like this, please let me know if you need help with other manufacturers that I could help with
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Re: Need HELP! Kyocera Color A3 question
Copystar/Kyocera 7052ci and 8052ci are still current models as the 7353ci and 8353ci were just released. same goes the the 70/80ppm mono's. not sure when they will get discontinued but we can still order them as of today.
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Re: New 5th Colors for Ricoh C7100 series
I have only heard about Fluorescent Yellow. I think you will see all. I also think the 9110 is able to add the 5th station(hope so anyway).
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Re: Kyocera finally put's out a low volume A4 Color
Looking for feedback on this. Has anyone sold these are had a chance to put hands on it and get an opinion. What type of service rates would you charge for toner inclusive service agreement on this?
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Re: Kyocera finally put's out a low volume A4 Color
Yes I have sold a couple of these. For the price these are fantastic. My service manager is impressed which is hard to do. Dual side scanning is a definite selling point. The cost per page is going to be higher of course. I would say in the .015 black and white and .11 color to be safe (depending on your market of course). Not as good as say the 6535 per say but the machine is less than half the cost. If the run more than a couple thousand a month I would move them up to the 6535cidn. Let me...
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Re: Ricoh Production Unit Question
There is friction feed with air separation on all the current production machines. So they have rollers that actually feed the paper and there are fans that blow the paper apart to help prevent multifeeding and it also helps if the paper sticks together and won't pull out of the tray.
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Re: Worldwide Page Volume Continued Slow Decline in 2012 as Gains in Developing Regions Failed to Offset Slowdown in Developed Regions, According to IDC
Who would have thought that smart phones would have increased page volumes!!
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Re: Kyocera Extends Award-Winning TASKalfa Technology Into Seven New Multifunctional Products
Just an FYI, I had the chance to inspect a previous model of one of these types of systems. I pulled out the paper drawer and I then realized that the cover of the paper drawer (which is plastic) had the feel of the same plastic that is used for garbage cans. Just my opinion and to me it doesn't bode well for the rest of the parts.
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Re: Kyocera Extends Award-Winning TASKalfa Technology Into Seven New Multifunctional Products
I get giddy when I see the previous generation in the field. I haven't come across a single account that is happy with the performance or reliability of the Kyocera color series.
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Re: Ricoh launches new color MFPs -MP C3004/C3504/C4504/C6004
Interesting that there is no MP C5504 to replace the MP C5503 (there was in Japan). Guess Ricoh decided there was too much overlap with the MP C6004. Anyone have the "What's New / Different" Doc for this? - Jake
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Re: Ricoh launches new color MFPs -MP C3004/C3504/C4504/C6004
InfoCenter - Launch Presentation PowerPoint has it.
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Re: Ricoh launches new color MFPs -MP C3004/C3504/C4504/C6004
Here is the What's Different. It was retrieved from the Launch Presentation that Old Glory, mentioned. C3004/C3504 Whats Different C4504/C6004 Whats Different
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Re: Ricoh launches new color MFPs -MP C3004/C3504/C4504/C6004
Awesome. Thanks, Slim. Ricoh does a great service laying it out like this. Do you know when the official launch will take place (when the press release will go out)? Thanks, Jake
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Re: Ricoh launches new color MFPs -MP C3004/C3504/C4504/C6004
Ricoh eliminated the 50ppm device and lower the 60ppm to within 5 or so % of the 50ppm device. This should help when competing with others
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Re: Canon Expands Enterprise Portfolio with New imageRUNNER ADVANCE Multifunction Systems and imageCLASS Laser Printer
Are these A3 or A4 systems?
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Re: Lexmark Introduces New Generation of A4 Color and Large Workgroup Monochrome Printers and MFPs
I don't see what the BIG deal is with these new devices
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Re: Sometimes I just don't understand.......
We don't have a rule like that but I've pretty much self imposed my own similar rule. I wind up putting in just as much time and effort on those little machines as a $10,000 A3.
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Re: Canon C5240A Questions
Art, New model is C55XX. The rates are a bit unrealistic (high). Depending on a guaranteed base (or not), more like .065 and .01 The C5540i
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Re: Canon C5240A Questions
...In the series C5560i up to 60ppm C5550i up to 50ppm C5540i C5535i
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Re: Canon C5240A Questions
Yes. San Francisco canon dealer here. All the above is true call Monte at 415.286.1127 if I can help
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Re: Canon C5240A Questions
I think those rates are low based on what we sell our contracts at but I know everyone is in a different market. The extremely low rates don't seem to get thrown around our city as often as others. We keep most everyone around .013-.017 for b/w and .08 or higher for color.
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Re: Canon C5240A Questions
I had the chance to meet with the prospect yesterday. Canon is out of the picture. However the users states they are using secure print as a default from every PC for every print job. Is this a standard feature or is it a MEAP solution type add on?
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Re: What would your service department do?
If they asked me, I would tell them to make sales cost what the wholesaler bid plus the cost of the PM and limit the sale to a 36 month term lease and under 20K/mo. environment. I guarantee all would be happy...sales, service and customer.
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Re: What would your service department do?
We do quite a bit of pre-owned equipment. We probably wouldn't bother reselling a high meter machine like in the original post to a client. We would wholesale a machine like that. We cherry pick low meter machines from our own equipment that comes back and from several brokers. The majority of our pre-owned that we sell to customers has less than 200,000 total impressions and a lot of it has less than 100,000. Our supply of real nice, low meter pre-owned is such that we don't need to sell...
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Re: What would your service department do?
We do a fair amount of preowned equipment. We also cherry pick our own lease returns and a few brokers here and there. We typically do not put a machine back out in the field with more than 200,000 on it. Bigger machines maybe 300K but thats about our limit.
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Re: What would your service department do?
Of course I keep a few junkers around for the folks who only want to spend a thousand dollars or more. I'll never understand the thought process in that. We have a customer that buys a 800.00 junker about once a year. He is on his 4th one now in 3 years and even after showing him he could have bought a new one that would last a long time, he sends me a check for 800.00 and tells me to bring the machine over.
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Re: Is the time right for MFP Manufacturers to only offer...
Not just color. We could see a big consolidation of speed bands too. If certain manufacturers can make low cost 40 and 50ppm engines that retail for under $4,000 do we really need to have 25ppm engines that retail for over $5,000?
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Re: Is the time right for MFP Manufacturers to only offer...
If they offer them for the price of black & white units, yes. If they try to have the same price point as current color systems, they would lose out on price to any manufacturers that continue to make b/w only systems. Additionally, they would have to have a multi-tier billing system for color so as to not scare off people that have intentionally stayed away from color. The industry billing systems (e-Automate, OMD) would need to make that easy to manage & bill as well.
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Re: Is the time right for MFP Manufacturers to only offer...
Agreed that the cost of color would have to be the same as the current black systems. I for one would like to only offer color, I think it would be better for the industry. I also believe that the color machines don't cost that much more to make the black systems. I'd bet that the margins are the 20-25-30 ppm nlack systems are huge from the manufacturing side.
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Re: RICOH INTRODUCES NEW COMPACT COLOR MFP DRIVEN BY INTUITIVE INTERFACE
Anyone have the "Whats New/Different" doc for this model? Whats your take on these changes/and improvements from a value proposition perspective? Thanks, jake
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Re: RICOH INTRODUCES NEW COMPACT COLOR MFP DRIVEN BY INTUITIVE INTERFACE
I'm not seeing anything on InfoCenter.
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Re: RICOH INTRODUCES NEW COMPACT COLOR MFP DRIVEN BY INTUITIVE INTERFACE
WHAT’S NEW AND DIFFERENT? SOME FEATURES LISTED BELOW REQUIRE ADDITIONAL OPTIONS IN ORDER TO WORK • 10.1-inch soft-key Smart Operation Panel, 320 GB HDD, and embedded Java are now standard. • Near Field Communication (NFC) helps support authentication and mobile device printing. • Specific Use Applications. • Standard Document Server function. • Standard Gigabit (1000Base-T) Ethernet connectivity. • Silent Mode. • New Device Software Manager utility simplifies finding and installing the...
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Re: RICOH INTRODUCES NEW COMPACT COLOR MFP DRIVEN BY INTUITIVE INTERFACE
The MP C306 is now on InfoCenter. The Sales Information Guide says that the supplies are NOT interchangeable with the C305 so hopefully the costs are lower but I haven't seen supply pricing yet.
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Re: RICOH INTRODUCES NEW COMPACT COLOR MFP DRIVEN BY INTUITIVE INTERFACE
Good stuff, Thanks team. - Jake
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Re: If you make your living selling MPS
Great article from West! Those are some interesting stats. Regarding "Canon go Kaboom": Canon will always push hard for colour because they want to maintain their #1 spot in the marketplace. On the dealer side profitability is based on what the account needs. If a customer is doing 10 colour prints a month on an inkjet printer, dealers will sell a monochrome box. Corporate Canon on the other hand will push for a colour box, even though the colour volumes are not enough to make profit on the...
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Re: Office Depot expands in-store presence of Xerox units
Well, just after we hear about Staples buying Dex Imaging. We know see Office Depot is going to add thousands of Xerox MFP's to their locations. In fact from what was posted Production Units will also be in play. Does Office Depot have the cash to buy Xerox?
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Re: Office Depot expands in-store presence of Xerox units
Today's news and now this are pretty interesting to read about. Will be very interesting to see how this is to play out.
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Re: Office Depot expands in-store presence of Xerox units
In the early 2000s you could go into a Staples store and they would have commercial Canon copiers. It didn't last long.
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Re: Sharp Expands A4 Lineup With Two New Desktop Color Multifunction Printers For The Technology Driven Workplace
"Alexa please make me 5 copies". "I'm sorry Bill, no one makes copies anymore"
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Re: Sharp Introduces New Line Of Color Multifunction Printers For The Technology-Driven Workplace
client "Alexa, copy my documents for me" Alexa "I'm sorry I don't understand" client "Alexa, what don't you understand?" Alexa "None one makes copies anymore"
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Re: NEW Ricoh - IM C300(F) & IM C400(SR)F A4 Color MFPs!
Looked for the brochures and could not find anything out there but drivers..anyone have anything...pricing?...service pricing?
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Re: NEW Ricoh - IM C300(F) & IM C400(SR)F A4 Color MFPs!
They have launched in Europe. Let me check