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Re: What's the weirdest place you've sold a copier to?
Picking up a signed order in the morning for a Canon color with hole punch and staple, from an Amish farmer-printer. Best two parts of the qualification process was having to run samples of a digital plate to run his offset presses and ensuring the power was in spec to be run off of his diesel generator/alternator set up. Oh yea, and he's got a tow motor we have to use to get it to the second floor. Been selling almost nine years and have been in lots of unique places too. Starbucks roasting...
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Re: First Look New Ricoh MPC2801_3301
I doubt the cost will be higher, however..... ya never know, probably best to tell the customer they are getting the latest and greatest if they can be patient for a few more days or maybe Ricoh will step up to plate and give you an MPC4000 at the same price, I've seen it done before. Call your DSM and
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Re: More layoffs at Ricoh
Little harsh there don't you think? Never easy to make cuts, but sometimes cuts are actually addition by subtraction, at least the way I've viewed them over the last few years. I see another round coming at some point as there is some still fat on the plate that can go.
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Re: Scam from a Local Company
This is not unusual. I know a dealer that would list several pieces of used equipment on one FMV lease show a new model being leased to the leasing company. I have seen signing for a 60ppm unit and delivered a 45ppm. I have seen changing of the name plate showing a faster model even if that was not the case. I have heard of a large buyout that was never paid to customer and dealer kept making excuses to delay the payment. I have seen all sorts of things the real challenge is to explain to...
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Re: 3850 & Camera Ready Art
From: JasonR Sent: 10/11/2002 7:32 AM Remember that even Ricoh is saying that the 3850 is BUSINESS color, as such there is no way this machine can be used for "real" proofing. A lot of people throw around the word proofing when they mean "prints we can do before we show this to the customer" or "prints shown to the customer with an understanding this isn't a "press proof". I'm glad to hear the 3850 output looks good, and for "camera ready art" while it isn't the machine I would pick, I'm...
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Re: Selling against Offset Press
Keith: I may have a few old excel spreadsheets, I will have to look. However, I can explain here and you may be able to create your own spreadsheet. Commercial Press Shops (ones that have union employees) have a tremendous overhead cost when it comes to making a plate for the press. You have to find out what type of plates they are making, whether paper, metel, or poly. The Metal has the highest cost and the paper plate being the least expensive and then the poly in between. The cost for the...
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Re: 1200 Series User History
Come on everyone, how bout everyone else step up to the plate here and tell us all how the 1224 1232 is running out in the field!!!!!!!! I know we have more than two of these in the field.
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Re: SR90 on Ricoh 2090
TECHNICAL SERVICE BULLETIN Page 1 of 1 BULLETIN NUMBER: SR90 – 003 06/30/2003 APPLICABLE MODEL: GESTETNER – SR90 BOOKLET MAKER for 9002/10512 LANIER - SR90 BOOKLET MAKER for LD090/LD0105 RICOH – SR90 BOOKLET MAKER for AFICIO 2090/2105 SAVIN – SR90 BOOKLET MAKER for 4090/4105 SUBJECT: CONVERSION KIT FOR SR810 FINISHER GENERAL: To install the SR90 to a SR810 finisher, you will need to install a VRC64151 Conversion Kit. This will enable communication between the SR90 and the SR810 finisher. The...
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Re: Ricoh Rumor!! New Strategy?
Samsung 6345N review! We'll its been about six months since the Samsung 6345N was introduced and about 4 months or so since it has been on the street. For those of you who do not know the 6345N is a 45ppm MFP that can scan, print copy & fax (optional) all for a retail price of $2,995. The system can take an optional fax module along with a finisher/stapler and upto three additional 550 sheet paper trays. I have sold six of these units since they came out and have captured about 50,000...
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Re: Around The World with Ricoh II
Ricoh Cleans Up! Story Link Ricoh congratulates all its volunteers for their efforts on Clean Up Australia Day 2004 On Sunday 7th March Ricoh fielded a team of 106 volunteers to participate in Clean Up Australia Day, 2004. Numbers of volunteers increased by 25% from the previous year. Representatives from Head Office and each branch gave up their time to don a pair of gloves, roll up their sleeves and get a little dirty for the sake of their local environment. Clean up sites included...
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Re: Duplicator and sorting ideas
Amanda: Here's how the press will produce documents. A press will make a plate just like the duplicator. On a press and a duplicator we can make multiple pages of one image or sheet of information. Therefor we can set the press or the duplicator to run 1,000 pages of sheet #1. If we have a 10 page document we must run the job 10 times on the press or the duplicator. When we are done, we have ten stacks of one thousand pages each. One thousand of page one, one thousand of page two, etc, etc.
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Re: Duplicator and sorting ideas
Jim: As always, GREAT STUFF! I have been successful with selling duplicators in the P4P industry. I sell the CTP (Computer to Plate) technology as the only way to buy. I will show the customer samples in my "art porfolion" (as long as he likes the quality), I will then ask him how many jobs do you think you can pull away from the press every month? Once he gives me his answer, I have ammunition I need to cost justify the duplicator or move on to the next print shop. After this step we set...
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Re: My Top 5 Secrets About Using Linkedin for Prospecting
Czech: I have a P4P facebook, just don't use it. I have too much to on my plate with the site, LinkedIn and Twitter. I agree we should chat sometime!
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Re: How do Original setting adjustments work?
How much time have you got??!! At switch on the machine checks the white plate underneath the glass and some dummy pixels on the CCD. The machine then knows what white is and what black is. After the image is scanned it is passed to the IPU (Image Processing Unit). The IPU carries out at least 6 processes of filtering. Different filters are used to actually break down the image so that it can be sent to the laser for writing. It also looks at the make up of the image to detect whether it is...
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Re: shady salesman
Stories like this burn my britches too. I think of all the times our tech support has stepped to the plate when I, wearing my sales hat, painted myself into a tech corner. The contribution value of competent and reliable tech support can not be over-emphasized and never taken for granted. Too many sales reps rely on tech support to close a deal for them, and simply walk away. Not only is it unethical, it is just plain dumb to alienate technical support. Thank you for sharing this story,...
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Re: 2400Wd: Paper misfeeding from Paper Cassette
I don't know if this is the same problem, but we had our first unit do this and the cause was part of the roll feed frame had been bent by our delivery driver. It would jam every time just where your unit is having the problem. Basically, something is bent inside and that is causing the paper to jam. Wish I could give you a better technical breakdown. Have your tech check up inside to see if everything is straight and that an upper plate above the cassette is not curved almost in a "u" shape.
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Re: Supply Question Savin Ricoh
I shall answer my own question. Yes and No. The Ricoh TYpe 185 will not fit the Savin 9918dp without modification. There are four tabs protruding from the side of the cartridge that is inserted into the machine. These tabs are staggered differently between the Savin and Ricoh models. However, two of the four tabs are common and one of them goes into the hole that has the switch for sensing the cartridge. So, you can remove two of the tabs (I suppose even three if you want) to make the...
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Re: What I want for Christmas from Ricoh!
How about selling only under Ricoh name plate. OK, maybe under one other.
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Re: How To Sell Duplicators Round Table
Print 4 Pay Market: Marketing: Cold calling, nine times out of ten the owner is always somewhere in the shop and 50% of the time you may have the chance to met him on the first cold call. Once you have the name of the owner or the buyer, (keep in mind this is all you want too accomplish on the first call) and a good look at the equipment that he is using, you will want to create a dedicated mailing list for P4P. I will then send them a direct mailer every month and follow up with an in...
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Re: The World's First Duplex Printing Duplicator
My thoughts also, I recommended Tohoku,Ricoh manufacturing a 4 color version of the TCII almost four years ago, heck if they can make a TCII, they can make a TC IV. I also though of just having a plate maker (master maker), this would keep the cost down on the hardware. They must be thinking of something else, I beleive ink technology may have put the final nail in the coffin for digital duplicators.
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Re: Konica Minolta Promises Unrivalled Productivity With the Launch of bizhub PRESS C1100 / C1085
These two units have launched in Canada and I suspect USA. I have attached the Spec sheet and Brochure.
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3 Things Sales Reps Need to Do To Help Smash Their Sales In 2019
To everyone in sales, you can perform much better and become more successful, if you just learn to master with consistency the basics. Vince Lombardi , the great Green Bay Packers coach, once said that football comes down to only two things: Blocking on offense and tackling on defense, and those are the basics his teams spent 80% of their time on in practice. Many analogies have been made between sales and sports. It’s often been said the one key fundamental principle in sports is to focus...
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FUJIFILM RECEIVES ALUMINUM TARIFF TAX EXCLUSIONS
FUJIFILM RECEIVES ALUMINUM TARIFF TAX EXCLUSIONS Hanover Park, Ill., January 23, 2019 – FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Graphic Systems Division announces tariff tax exclusions on its aluminum offset printing plates, currently making it the only major printing plate manufacturer in the U.S. to earn exclusion. Fujifilm has proactively worked with industry associations and the Federal Government to address the unintended consequences of the tariffs applied to the sales of aluminum offset...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Last Week in January 2004
In the next day or so I'll be blogging about the new Ricoh IMC MFP series. There's a lot of new stuff and I'm chomping at the bit to get my hands on one. Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week! Peerless Systems Announces Everest Family of MFP Controllers; New Controllers Based on Sierra Techno Boston Mike · 1/28/046:58 AM document products rely on a core set of imaging software and supporting electronics, collectively known as an imaging controller. Peerless' broad line of scalable...
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Leading Commercial Print Service Provider Invests in the Netherlands’ First Ricoh Pro™ T7210
Ricoh Europe, London – Leading Dutch commercial print service provider Magneet Communicatiecentrum has chosen to extend its service delivery and speed up production with The Netherlands’ first Ricoh Pro T7210 UV flatbed printer. The operation already runs two Ricoh Pro™ C9110 heavy duty digital colour sheetfed presses, a Ricoh Pro™ 907EX and a Ricoh Pro™ L4160 large format printer. It has added the Ricoh Pro T7210 to help it deliver a variety of applications that are currently being...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Nine, Course One
Yes, Since Summer is winding down, I thought I'd get back in the groove with the glossary of terms for Color Label Presses. It was a few months ago when I went cold calling in South Jersey. I was on the lookout for copiers but also wanted to keep my eyes open for companies that could benefit from a label press or a corrugated press. If you're not familiar with a corrugated press that device will allow a user print graphics for use on card board boxes. I was able to find three companies that...
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OneVision Software and SCREEN GP Americas with one stop-shop solution for label converters at the Labelexpo in Chicago
OneVision Software and SCREEN GP Americas with one stop-shop solution for label converters at the Labelexpo in Chicago Press manufacturer SCREEN GP Americas and prepress software expert OneVision Software present a holistic production workflow ranging from prepress to post-press at the Labelexpo Americas 2018 in Chicago. The seamless integration of OneVision’s automated label printing software Label Automation Suite with SCREEN’s Equios Workflow makes the day- to-day production of label...
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Precision Label Launches Digital Silver Ink Production with New HP Indigo 6900 Press
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Xerox Launches "All in Plan" for copiers and printers
Details are sketchy right now. I attached the brochure and did some price checking. Seems everything is included. When going through the web pricing plan, you need to select your degree of print coverage. I'm sure this will lead to many issues. Hoping to hear more from others as on this! https://allinplan.services.xerox.com/ Art
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Seven of Sales
Seems every morning is identical to the last one. What keeps flashing through my mine is Bill Murray and Groundhog Day. Still no end in site for the lock down in the tri-state area. The infection rates continue to increase each and every day. Enough about the bad stuff. Let's focus on the good stuff. Today was CRM day and what I called soft prospecting today. The first course of action was to weed out the crap (all the small stuff) and maintain a better focus on those larger accounts. I...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Thirty-Five of Sales
During the month of April we posted 66 blog and videos. Special thanx to Ray and Larry for their contributions. In my twenty years of hosting this site I've never seen this much inaction from the copier manufacturers. Just today I heard from an unnamed source (frak I always wanted to write that), that XBS former Global has axed up to 50% of their Market Place Presidents. A few days ago there was a another thread about lay-offs from Kyocera. Really? Does it really need to be this way? When...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Sixteen, Course One
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Three of Sales
This is the first night since I started writing this blog series that I wasn't sure what I was going to write about. After 43 days of writing how much more can you cover or how much more content can you provide for other peeps with help they might need. Tonight I'd like to cover a few things I've been doing everyday other than taking the occasional break and lunch. Many weeks ago I learned that I can't work with the TV on in my office. It's too distracting especially when I have the news on...
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Re: 240w background
I try cleaning the connection at the dev roller shaft and the contact plate that it touches (from the HV PWB) It may not look that dirty but I've seen them cause inconsistant reproduction of grayscale images.
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Re: Former Mount Vernon schools purchasing agent charged with bribery
WHITE PLAINS - The former head of purchasing for Mount Vernon schools will serve time in state prison for shaking down companies in exchange for district contracts, a judge ruled today. Westchester County Judge James W. Hubert sentenced Arthur Rose to serve 3 1/2 to 7 years in prison for taking bribes as a school district purchasing agent. Hubert spoke about "the two Arthur Roses" - one a minister for his community and the other a criminal. The judge said he was sentencing the latter. Rose...
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Re: Any new promos this quarter?
with half the year gone and the last half in full swing the manufacturers have all stepped up to the plate and I'm seeing incentives, spiffs and promo's like never before. I'll take it, cause it comes as easy as it goes. What has everyone else seen?? Please GINTEL helps with a lot of info for us and the least we can do help him out. Art
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Re: Xerox DOC 12 vs 6513 Matchprint
From: ricohaficio Sent: 10/31/2002 5:35 PM I'm sure if you look through EFI's web page you'll find some cool information to help fight the battle against Xerox. I have seen the Xerox in P4P and have won and lost, the only one I lost was due to the customer also needing a docutech solution upgrade. Xerox threw in the Doc12 as long as he upgraded his Docutech. Docutech was then using Splash as their color server, EFI bought Splash about a year and a half ago. You have to use DMAPL Level 6...
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Re: Canon Competition for 1232C
I posted information on this last night in reference a press release for "Canon In The News". I am tring to find out more also. HEY CANON ANY OF YOU IKON PEOPLE STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND GET US THE INFORMATION??? Art
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Re: 6513 vs. Doc 12
From: salesguru3 (Original Message) Sent: 10/31/2002 2:55 PM Hey, I am in against Xerox on a Doc12 and my client needs this device to be able to do match print type proofing. He says the Werox can do it and it is because of the Imation Front End on the Doc12. What does that mean and can the 6513 now, or will it be able to with the graphic arts package and the E820 controller? THANKS!!! Posts: 1210 | From: Highlands | Registered: Mon January 06 2003 Docusultant Manager posted Tue January 07...
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Re: Scanning Problem
I would class this problem/failure as normal wear and tear given the volume they are putting through the machine. Get your customers to buy the ref plate because of the amount of work they are putting through and show them how to fit it as well.
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Re: 1075 doc feed jams
Open the DF, remove the two screws on either side of the plate where the paper enters the platen, LHS, and clean the optosensor and reflector plate.
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Re: B052 (Gest. 232)
The shading plate and updated fw are the first things to try. As there are no clutches in the duplex unit, the code is telling you that the duplexed copy is late getting to the registration roller. And as I undrstand it, that time is measured from the on time of the duplex exit switch. Also check that the lower rollers in the dup are clean and the transport plates are not broken at the top where they latch into place. good luck
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Re: SR850 stack feed out
Have seen this or something similair I think. Check the plate near the anti static brush just as the paper enters the staple tray. The centre of this guide should be below the height of the rollers. Lift the black guide just before the staple tray where the anti static rollers are and you should see the metal guide which could be bent. You didn't say whether the finisher was new, mine was and was caused during production.
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Re: SR850 stack feed out
This 2560/SR850 have been out in the field now for approximately a year and a half. I will check the guide you mentioned next time I visit the customer, Thanks!
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Re: Aficio 240w/Savin 2400wd line problem
try checking the white plate in the area of your line, release the scanner springs so you can get a good look you will probably find something there
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Re: Suggestions Needed For Open House
Make sure that once you have developed a list of attendees that have said they are going to attend on the first call to them you: Call them a day or two before the event and confirm their attendence. Tie in the fact that their lunch or plate for the event has been ordered and we were simply getting a final head count and looking forward to their participation. You are really going to feel the event was time well spent or something like that. Whatever it is CALL them the day or two before, it...