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Re: A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
Art, You and I are from similar professional backgrounds and times. We started in 1980 selling Sharp and Juki typewriters. Everything sold near MSRP. Then the fax boom came and we caught that wave perfectly. We sold Ricoh thermal faxes for full list ($2995.00). The only issue was cash flow; we sold them faster than we could order and purchase them. Copier Maintenance agreements went from .022 up to .035 and did not include drums, developer, toner, fuser rollers or lamps! Also, like your...
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Re: A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
Yup we have the same issues with cash flow. It was a great problem to have. The Hunt for Red October was a great book, even found the movie awesome too! Ty for the comment, we should connect for lunch one day
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Re: MY Top 12 Likes about the New Ricoh MP2501SP
Hmmm, I thought Konica Minolta low end MFD's had all that covered, many months ago.
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Re: MY Top 12 Likes about the New Ricoh MP2501SP
Probably, but then I don't sell the KM products! Would love to see blogs from other members for their equipment, that would be awesome!!
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Re: MY Top 12 Likes about the New Ricoh MP2501SP
Wow. Gonna have to disagree. Thank goodness we have more than one line.
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Re: Can a Digital Copier Scan to Dropbox?
Great Post Art. Xerox have a DropBox app available for their new ConnectKey devices but the user has to buy a scanpack which cover X number of scans and has a 12 month shelf-life. The advantages of having it on the MFD as an App is that any user (e.g. at a college) can log in to their DropBox account and print or scan to / from their own account securely. We've been doing the same as you and circumventing the charge or need for an app by pointing the scan to a DropBox folder on a desktop.
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas"
The best thing Ricoh could give us is advanced scanning functionality as a standard feature. To be able to navigate to whatever network folder a user wants would be huge, as would the ability to scan to Word or Excel. Canon already has these features, so we are at a huge price disadvantage if it is functionality a customer needs since we have to add ICE (which has a less-than-desirable UI) or NSI AutoStore.
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas"
I was not aware that browse to any folder was standard on the Canon systems. Has it been like that for long?
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Third Week in January 2004
Wow, a Super Bowl thread from back in 2004, talking about the 14 game win streak from the Pats. It was the Pats vs the Eagles. Fly Eagles Fly, no Super Bowl for you this year! Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week! Re: Super Bowl Poll! Our Year! · 1/16/048:54 AM The Patriots are now on a 14 game winning streak. They will go into the Super Bowl on the longest streak of any team since the '72 Dolphins. And Peyton Manning is putting together what might be the best postseason for a QB in...
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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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The 411 on DocuWare Kinetic Solutions: Sell Preconfigured AP and HR Office Solutions with Ease
In June 2018, DocuWare launched its new cloud-based preconfigured workflow solutions called DocuWare Kinetic Solutions. I had the opportunity to chat with Jo Ann Kreidel, Solution Manager for DocuWare Kinetic Solutions at DocuWare to get a deeper understanding of what the solutions are, why they were developed, and how you can position yourself as AP and HR solution experts to sell these solutions to your current customer base. Learn how to become an Authorized DocuWare Partner to generate...
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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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Change is Good, Especially When it Comes to Scanning Documents with Copiers
Change is good, right? I'm going to change is even better. Being the same old you and doing the same old thing when presenting copiers can be prove to be a bad thing. Everything is changing at break neck speed in our industry. Thus last week I thought I would change it up a bit. Instead of providing the same old boring talk track of speeds and feeds. I opted for making one short power point presentation (5 slides) that centered around scanning workflows. There were no pictures of copiers, no...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago, The Last Week in September 2013
Wow, has it really been 5 years since the launch of Ricoh ICE. Well the threads from 5 years ago state it is. In addition I posted up a thread about copier demonstrations. Check em when you have the time. Enjoy the threads from 5 Years ago this week! 10 Awesome Tips for a Great MFP/Copier Demo Re: Adobe PostScript vs. Emulation IPS · 9/23/135:27 PM Czech is correct: there are Ricoh printer models with non-Adobe PostScript as well as 3rd-party Adobe controllers for Kyocera, Konica Minolta and...
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To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas 2018"
I always like to start these Christmas blogs with a small story about Christmas tradition in other countries. In Ireland, people celebrate Christmas in much the same way as people in the UK and the USA , but they also have many of their own Christmas traditions and customs. Christmas for Irish people, who are Catholics, lasts from Christmas Eve to the feast of Epiphany on January 6th, which some Irish people call 'Little Christmas'. Epiphany isn't now widely celebrated in Ireland. There is...
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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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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Second Week in July 2008
Ten years ago, it still seems like yesterday. Color MFP's were all the rage and third party solutions started to take center stage. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week! RICOH ANNOUNCES NEW EFI COLOR PRINT CONTROLLER TO MAXIMIZE WORKFLOW AND PRODUCTIVITY 7/9/088:23 PM savings and productivity. The company's robust product portfolio includes Fiery( R ) digital color print servers; VUTEk( R ) superwide digital inkjet printers , UV and solvent inks; Jetrion( R ) industrial inkjet...
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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 15 Years Ago, The Fourth Week in July 2003
It's hard top believe that Global has been around for more than 15 years now. There's a thread below about them making their 60th acquisition. My how time flies. UPDATE 3-Xerox profit slips 7/29/038:06 AM 10 percent of revenues, was down 11 percent. Xerox said revenue declines in developing markets are moderating, and it expects "continued improvement" in the second half of the year. Xerox said gross margin slipped to 42.4 percent from 42.5 percent amid plans to sell low- to mid-level...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Last Week in August 2003
Below is probably one of the most mis-understood printers (well not actually a printer) of our time. The Seri Print 25 was a really cool in-line attachment to the Ricoh duplicators. You would replace the Ricoh ink with Seri Ink, and then you'd be able to print on any gloss coatings. The Seri printer used a UV light to cure the ink on the gloss coat. Alas the Seri is no more and Ricoh is just about out of the duplicator industry now. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week! Konica...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Third Week of March 2014)
Wow! Hard to believe that the end of the first quarter is a mere two weeks away. Twenty five gone and Seventy five percent of the year left. How is your first quarter going? Would love to hear from you in the reply section of this blog! These were the top threads from 5 years ago this week. Enjoy Konica Minolta Honors Pacific Office Automation of Beaverton, Oregon with 2014 Pro-Tech Service Award for Service Excellence Art Post · 3/19/1410:16 PM Colorado. The company is also one of the...
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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 10 Years Ago, The Third Week in October 2008
I like to start these updates with some interesting things that happen to me in the last week or so. I received two leads and closed both of them from Linkedin. It was net new clients reaching out to me via Linkedin and requesting to set a meeting. Yes, this was the first I ever had two in one week. So I keep moving forward and keep growing my connections because you just never know when one of those calls might be for 20, 100 or 1,000 MFP's #nevergiveup Enjoy the threads from ten years ago...
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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 5 Years Ago (First Week of February 2015)
Do you want to relive the madness from 5 years ago when Sharp was sinking fast? If so we've got many of those threads in this weeks edition of what went on in the copier industry 5 years ago. Foxconn and the people have done an excellent job in rebuilding the brand, the programs and adding quality dealers! Enjoy These Threads from 5 Years Ago This Week! Bid Tabulation for Canon, Lanier & Toshiba for 180 plus Copiers Art Post · 2/7/1511:41 PM...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of February 2010)
Some additional tidbits from the show I was at for the last three days. I learned along time ago that in order to be successful at these types of events that you need to engage with people when they walk by your booth. You need to greet everyone that walks by and then ask them a question. The question I asked the most is where they were from, after getting a response I would then ask if they have a plotter or ask if they've ever seen a white board before. The questions sparked conversations...
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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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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Third Week of February 2005)
Finally! A decent day and some movement on some accounts. It's been a six week drought with a few small deals here and there. I will still struggle to hit my monthly budget, but a least there's light at the end of the tunnel. Still no time to waste since I'll be on vacation for the first week in March. Presidents Club one more time for this old dog! Enjoy these cool threads from 15 years ago this week! Look what Canon has Color imageCLASS MF8170c Guest · 2/22/057:59 PM Color imageCLASS...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Last Week of February 2005)
Why would this week be different than the rest of the weeks in February? Since I depleted by pipeline at the end of the year it's been quite the struggle to rebuild. Thus I'm no where near where I need to be with February coming to an end on Monday for me. To make matters worse I'm off to Aruba the first week of March for our Presidents Club Trip. I was able to add a couple of large opportunities this week, one for MNS and the other for 30 plus devices. At this time both are March or April...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago for the Second Week of May 2010
It's Sunday night just about 10:30PM. Not a lot of time to write tonight. Hope everyone enjoyed Mothers Day. Now let's go sell something tomorrow! Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week! Konica Minolta eyes bigger role in commercial printing Guest · 5/8/1011:14 PM Konica Minolta eyes bigger role in commercial printing LOS ANGELES, CA—Konica Minolta has targeted commercial printing as a key growth opportunity for the company. Executives made the announcement at an event earlier this...
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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 Industry 15 Years Ago for the Third Week of May 2005
Sunday and tomorrow starts the last 5 days before the end of the month. It can be bad or good, all depends on how you look at it. I see that I still have 20% of the month left to finish my goal. How do you look at it? Half full or half empty? Below were the most popular threads about copiers from 15 years ago this week! Re: KIP 3000 Guest · 5/23/0510:31 PM I was at the IRgA show in Las Vegas and saw the deom on the KIP3000. The machine looked good and the op panel looks like it is off of a...
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Re: How Can a Scanning Workflow be Created on a Copier?
FYI: Most IT managers don’t like scanned documents sent using email or saved in Exchange. Exchange is not a document management systems. Attaching, replicating and storing large files can cause issues. Preferred method is to scan to folder or directly to the DM solution if that is an option.
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Re: The Future of Scanning for MFP's aka Copiers is in the Cloud
Art, Interesting read! Here's a little "trick" I figured out. Setting up Cloud Scanning is very easy and can be without any additional software if the cloud storage offers a folder on your PC. For example, Dropbox and Google Drive when installed place "drag and drop" folders on your desktop. You can then set up a small workflow for scanning to the cloud by registering a Scan To Shared Folder and set the Dropbox or Google Drive folder as your destination. Your scanned document will...
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Re: The Future of Scanning for MFP's aka Copiers is in the Cloud
Czech Thanx for the reply, you have been scanning to a single folder on dropbox for years and recently added google drive on the 5 year old MFP we used in the sales area. You could set up multiple "buttons" on the MFP for additional folders.
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Re: The Future of Scanning for MFP's aka Copiers is in the Cloud
I can't say that I agree that scan to email or folder are dying in my experience. Scanning to Office 365 should only require a special connector configuration in the hub transport layer. Like traditional scan to email or folder the first time is difficult and it doesn't seem like it's worth the effort but in time it should become more simple. "Scan to Cloud" seems to be a vague term as most people who are looking for a solution like this may be referring to scanning to their application...
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Re: The Future of Scanning for MFP's aka Copiers is in the Cloud
Originally Posted by jswinberlin: (...) Some lines of business applications are really nice and provide configuration of "hot folders" which not only upload documents but delete them from the original folder. I'd love to see more services offer this feature. (...) Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I've yet to find a solution that meets the needs of even 30% of our customers like scan to email and scan to folder which by nature are very flexible in their simplicity. I'd love to hear...
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Re: Connect the MFPs you sell to any folder
When connecting an MFP to say DropBox, the MFP still doesn't allow for an end-user to view that DropBox's folder tree (without added software), correct? So essentially the customer scans to DropBox, heads back to their computer, and then searches around the DropBox folder until they find their scanned file - which isn't much different than the issue the end-user described in the first place? Am I correct in this? I've been looking around for a solution that can help with this that won't...
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Re: Connect the MFPs you sell to any folder
Hello TimW, Thank you for that question. I think it is very relevant, especially as we do have the browse feature for SharePoint. For cloud services such as Dropbox, Micorosoft OneDrive and Google Drive, Udocx enables users to scan directly to any pre-define folder. This means users can scan to several specific destinations within Dropbox. For example, if you want to scan to the 'orders' folder within Dropbox regularly, you can make a 'scan to orders' App. This App will be available to you...
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Re: Connect the MFPs you sell to any folder
Hi Iris, Thank you for the response! This helps, but the folders still need to be pre-defined, which would be the same thing as setting up a shared folder, no? And the MFP can do that natively. So out of the box, the installing technician could conceivably set up "Scan to Dropbox -Orders," "Scan to Drop-Box - Leads," "Scan to Drop-Box - Accounts Receivable" since no software is needed for this. Or am I incorrect? It sounds like the major plus to Udocx would be the ability to view the folder...
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Re: This History of the Fax Machine According to Art
Did that as well or sometimes would take several sheets of paper that I had done a sky shot with a copier and then looped them together...lol
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Re: This History of the Fax Machine According to Art
Loved the reflection on the history of fax. Although this was a relatively low residual product it offered a new way to get in the door. In the 80's, I would follow the fed ex delivery driver who often was delivering some printed pages (agenda's, schedules, documents) that needed to be there next day or sooner. It was an ear opener when you tell them you can them there next minute without the $12.00 fedex charge. Using afterhours timing for reducing long distance charges helped separate...
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Re: This History of the Fax Machine According to Art
@John Saramak now that's a cool plan! Follow the fedex driver, wish I could have thought of that one. Could only image how much more successful we could have been in the eighties if we were able to share information like this. Hope all is well with you!
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New Ricoh MP C306ZSP & MP C306ZSPF Spec Review
For those of us that sell Ricoh MFP's, we know that the Ricoh MP C305SP is a little long in the tooth these days. Personally, I only had one problem with the Ricoh MP C305SP, and that was the size of the color display. That 4.3 inch LCD...
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The Risks of Email Blasts and How the "Junk" Button Can Hurt Your Business
Sending out large email blasts to your market is so tempting. With the click of the mouse you can instantly spray email newsletters and event invitations to thousands of emails that you have gathered from your CRM, customer lists, and (worst-of-all)...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago 4th Week of October 2005
Rosa Parks , whose famous refusal in 1955 to surrender her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama triggered a bus-boycott and the beginning of the modern U.S. civil rights movement, died at the age of 92. The recipient of the Presidential...
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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...