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Re: Will outside Sales Rep's go away?
It will be interesting to see what the manufacturers allow and don't allow. As of right now they are still very against e-Commerce and listing things on websites etc. I can only speak for my experience with Canon, Sharp and Brother, but they do not want things done via the web.
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Re: Will outside Sales Rep's go away?
In a way its already gone to the internet and away from the outside sales rep........at least for stand alone printers and A4 devices. If all someone needs is a printer or an A4 to be used for basic printing,scanning and copying.....face it, they really don't need us already. If you've been at this a long time you probably remember the days when you sold a lot of A4 machines to small offices. 20 years ago if you needed an A4 you called a copier dealer. Those days are gone for the most part.
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Re: Will outside Sales Rep's go away?
@fisher I agree almost completely, but to play devils advocate I will say that we are selling more desktop printers now than we ever have before. Mostly brother, as we became a partner a couple years ago. I think people are looking for reps to show them a better way than just buying another HP off amazon, but the rep still has to have a higher level conversation with the client...not just hey buy your printers from us.
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Re: Will outside Sales Rep's go away?
We definitely are not out chasing them but we are much more versed talking about them and the benefits of buying them from us rather than the big box store. It has led to some very nice MPS accounts for us this past year. I don’t have a final count but I believe we added about 3 million new clicks this year from printer sales. Not breaking any records by any means but adding an extra 50k or so of revenue never hurts. And thanks to brother for having a minimum advertised price online for the...
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Re: 11 x 17 Printer
Ricoh makes the SP C842DN and it's a beast. Works day in day out with little service intervention. Here's the link https://www.ricoh-usa.com/en/p...r-printer/_/R-408106 Sharp or Brother does not offer a stand alone 11x17 printer?
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Re: 11 x 17 Printer
It has to be laser and heavy duty like that Ricoh you’re talking about. Brother has inkjet and Sharp has small stuff. They are expanding the department so volumes will go up. So it has to be heavy duty
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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: Your Copiers Are Storing Confidential Information: What You Can Do About It
We are still a dealer but we have not sold a LEXMARK in quite a while. They eliminated the MPS Elite program we were own, or at the least removed us from that program. I never had anyone ask about the security due to the Chinese ownership but it’s a great point. Honestly, I have found their support, to us at least, to be very subpar. Our support from brother has been phenomenal the last 2 years. Most of my printer clients are replacing the lexmarks with the brothers as fast as they can.
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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: A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Copier Demo/Appointment
Had a demo years ago on a fax machine. Had a big wheel from corporate wanting to do a ride along with a rep for the day. Customer wanted to see quality and asked one of their customers to send a test fax. As all the admin complained about the speed, the corp guy explained that a very detailed fax would take more time because of memory issues. As everyone crowded aroud the fax to innspect, a very vivid porn image was reproduced with striking detail. We made the sale
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh
Found this on the web today:: By Pavel Alpeyev Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Orbis Funds, the asset manager that opposed takeover offers by Warren Buffett and Citigroup Inc., rejected Canon Inc.’s 730 million euro ($1.1 billion) bid to buy unprofitable Dutch printer maker Oce NV as too low. Canon’s 8.60 euros-a-share offer “significantly undervalues” Oce’s assets, and Orbis doesn’t want to sell its stake of about 10 percent at that price, the Bermuda-based manager of $20 billion in assets said in a...
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Re: New Samsung 11 x 17" Colour MFPs due Oct 01 USA
I don't think you're going out on a limb, talk is they want to challenge the likes of Ricoh, Canon, Global and KM for dealers as a sole source line and not a secondary line. Was in Office Max today and saw four new products from Sammy on the low end, what out HP, Brother an Epson!
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Re: Message Received: Special members update
Thanks for posting a comment. I am sorry, but I need to disagree with you. First, (this is spelled out) we must refrain from identifying ourself as an employee or affiliate on any blog, forum, or social networking site. Furthermore, you're right. Open dialog in a conversation so we can help each other improve is one thing, but written, documented detail is another. Not certain about your role within your organization, but a posting about improving our productivity to one person maybe...
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Re: Dealer Management Software
Thank you both Rick and Jason. We will definitely have them go over service contract invoicing and modules in great detail when we view the demo to see if it will suit our needs- great tip. Jason- being a user of both systems, your recommendation will weigh into my decision. Thanks again!
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Re: A Day That Will Never Be Forgotten
I was in my junior year of college and upon return from my 5:30am workout with the rest of my college baseball team, I laid down for a nap in my apartment until 7:45am Central time. After getting dressed and grabbing my things for my morning classes, I walked out to the living room and my brother was laying on the couch and told me a plane hit one of the towers of the World Trade Center in NYC. Of course, we were under the assumption that it was an accident until a little later when the 2nd...
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Re: Ricoh SP3410SF toner
Well, since we're all on the same page . I'm thinking it's a Brother engine. Anyone else?
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Re: EastCoast Franken Storm
We faired pretty well in NH, just lost power for 6 hours, but our wood stove kept us warm. My old neighborhood (Gerritsen Beach) Brooklyn was devastated. My brother and my friend tell me that they each had 6 feet+ water in their basements. They say the whole neighborhood is under water. My brother had to wade through chest deep water just to make it home from work. Keep them in your prayers, it will be a while before they return to normal. Vince
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Re: Padded Lease Rates
If and only if you process the entire billing packet you may have a point. If you do the job of a Sales coordinator (Check the deal and paperwork for completeness and correctness) Billing administrator (Complete the funding detail sheet, send the deal to the lease company, confirm funding has hit, send off docs) Cut any buyout /payoff checks and deliver them to the customer. Store equipment for stream of payment deals, then package, load and deliver equipment to old lease company. Then you...
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Re: Brother Industries Signs Agreement To Purchase The Document Imaging Business Of Eastm
This is a strange one. The Kodak imaging line and their software are all high end products (except a couple of products focused on the consumer photo scan area) with a substantial presence in the mid and higher end commercial market. I don't see any fit with Brother as it currently exists. It will be interesting to see what they do with this part of Kodak's product mix. Certainly, Kodak has been challenged but this is one area where their reputation has stayed intact. Their scanner product...
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Re: Toshiba Press Releases
From: Ted Sent: 10/31/2002 7:03 PM Maximum mo. volumes of 12,000 & 15,000? Kind of small don't you think? When Ricoh launches machines like this they start with machines that many firms can use. (i.e. 3800CMF). Now they are bringing out the little brother...the 1232. I bet the 1232 has a higher MMV than these. I'm not going to worry yet.
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Re: Global Lower Profits
Reuters UPDATE - Ikon posts 66 percent drop in quarterly profit Thursday July 24, 1:54 pm ET (Updates with earnings detail, stock activity) NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) - Ikon Office Solutions Inc. (NYSE:IKN - News), which provides business services and equipment, on Thursday reported a steep drop in quarterly earnings, hurt by weak sales of office and copier equipment. ADVERTISEMENT The Valley Forge, Pennsylvania company said it earned $14.7 million, or 10 cents per share, in the fiscal...
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Re: Service Agreements and "Free" Copies
Here's my thinking and I should have elaborated a little more and should have been more detailed. 1000 pages per month @ .05 profit per page = $50, minus cost of giving away 500 @ .05 = $25, net profit (based on .10) is $25 per month, per machine. Yeah, I goofed! However, I also though of this. With monthly billing or quarterly billing to add a monthly service charge of $25 (for processing paperwork, meter reads etc,), if this can be done you are back up to $50 per unit. The whole idea is to...
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Re: Weekend Copier Notes from 1/20/08
found this for you: Source: Press release issued by the company, unless otherwise noted. 15th January 2008 – (SEE COMMENTS FROM CARY SHERBURNE BELOW) - Global printing manufacturer Ricoh, predicts that the production printing market will grow to €12.8 billion by 2013 . It is Ricoh’s vision to expand its presence in this market and become a leading force by 2010. Drupa 2008 is the platform for Ricoh to introduce the Ricoh Pro C900 and C900s a new colour digital printer and multi-function...
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Re: NEW Ricoh C900!! HV Color Printer
15th January 2008 – (SEE COMMENTS FROM CARY SHERBURNE BELOW) - Global printing manufacturer Ricoh, predicts that the production printing market will grow to €12.8 billion by 2013 . It is Ricoh’s vision to expand its presence in this market and become a leading force by 2010. Drupa 2008 is the platform for Ricoh to introduce the Ricoh Pro C900 and C900s a new colour digital printer and multi-function device offering heavy production capacity. Also launching is the Ricoh ‘Pro’ brand, for easy...
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Re: Edge to Edge printing problem
I have printed UB40s and other healthcare forms on this printer successfully from many different softwares. Are you looking at printing the actual form onto paper? or data onto preprinted forms or data on overlays that are stored on the printer? In short: is the form cut off or the data? if the data is cut off then you might need to look at HMI, VMI etc for the data. Often the data starts correctly on the left margin, but is actually to "big" to fit inside the right margin. basic PCL...
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Re: How many prospects are in your territory?
If that number of businesses includes resturants and retail, you have a tough row to hoe my friend. Really, number of businesses is a poorer way of gauging one territory vs another than number of employees. However, the only "accurate" way is to use the BEQI (pr. becky) Index. That stands for Business Equipment Quota Index which is a market quota index for B&W and Color MFP's, B&W and color printers, and Fax's. It makes it possible to compare different territories b county, metro...
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Re: Gas Price Check
Jason...is it true that there was a referendum on the ballot on Tuesday that asked: "In the event of divorce should the husband and wife still be able to remain brother and sister?" I heard it passed
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Re: Greg Brown
Gregory S. Brown A Mass of Christian Burial for Gregory Scott Brown, 34, of 8-F Doral Drive, Flying Hills, who died in an auto accident Saturday in Cumru Township, will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in St. Stephen Church, Oil City, Venango County. A Memorial Mass will be Monday, Feb. 23, at 6 p.m. at St. Simon and Jude Church, West Broad Street, Bethlehem. Burial will be in Sunset Hill Memorial Gardens, Cranberry, Venango County. Morrison Funeral Home Inc., Oil City, Venango County, is...
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Re: Konica Minolta Introduces the Di1610 Series
Konica Minolta Unveils The Di1811p And 7218 Printer/Copier/Scanner/Fax Solutions New Modular MFPs Offer an Affordable, Flexible Solution to Meet the Diverse Needs of Small Businesses and Workgroups RAMSEY, NJ -- May 4, 2004 -- Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) today announced the Di1811p and 7218, new digital print/copy/scan/fax solutions designed to meet the increasingly complex document output needs of small businesses and workgroups. With standard GDI print,...
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Re: JAMMING ON A 1075
Just to provide a bit more detail, the problem was caused by a lack of conductivity through the rear drum bearing. Solved by replacing bearing (part of rear drum shaft housing, but can be pressed out of assembly to prevent having to completely remove the assembly). Good work Dan! and thanks for the interest, Merlin!
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Re: Samsung Msys-835P
We have one of these in our office but haven't moved it yet. We've had good luck with the SF-560 stealing retail prospects. Pretty similiar to some of the Brother Intellifax 4100 type machines.
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Re: Aficio 2238c vs. Canon IRC3200
I've seen the 3100 a couple of times, haven't sat down with it in detail. First impressions are, Nice box, nice features.... Color is business-class ONLY. Canon rates the 3200 as business color, but I have several customers who are graphics shops who use it. This will not ever happen with the 3100. Its color print quality is much more like the 3006 than say a 6513. Strangely, the 3100 can print without having a print controller added. It uses a technology called UFR (ultra fast rendering) to...
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Re: scan to SMB to Windows 2003 server with Ricoh MP2000Le
Recently Ricoh has greatly enhanced the scanning features. You can now set security rights for files. Such as Protection setting as "Read Only". I am not for sure that this "IS" the problem your experiencing but, this surely will help find this answer. Read the attached PDF. This was just release from Ricoh March 08. I hope this helps. Slim463
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Re: Dressed for Progress
It is the man (or woman) that "makes the suit." I know those custom fabrics and tailoring make the attention to detail and appearance seem professional, but the substance behind the outfit is even more critical when our customers rely on "trusted advisors."
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Re: Test Your Knowledge of the Copier Industry
ok, here's the answers to the quiz! 1. Chester Carlson: Hard to beleive anyone got this one wrong!! 2.Nakajima: 37% went with TOWA, they actually had a few systems that were sold under the TOWA name but were manufactured by Sanyo in the late 80's. Als0 35% went with Brother, Brother in the early 90's came out with a color analog copier. 3.Enterprise is correct!! Beta was actually the name of the first zoom lens copier from Minolta! 4.I screwed this one up, they were all model numbers for...
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Re: Question for Solution Managers.
Dr. PCL5 Good technical support! Pre & Post Sale. Available Technical Support. Not having every one and his brother have the same "solution" is a big plus. Vince
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Re: New AC104
The CL1000 is made by Brother and the 2000 & 3000 are made by Panasonic. Has anyone got service pricing on the AC104 yet?
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Re: NEW AC204...Who makes this one?
These too are Samsung. Samsung seems to be the new leader in low end to take on Brother. Several are relabeling Samsung products.
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Re: CL400dn
I'm having a lot of trouble uploading this pdf. I tried this and the upload forums and I get this message.
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Re: CL400dn
I get an error trying to download file. There was an FTP (file transfer) error. The detail is 'Failed creating the directory '/attachments/8/0/4/8041001701' error code: 550 /attachments/8/0/4/8041001701: Disk quota exceeded'.
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Re: SCANNING ON 3131
Goto-control panel, add/remove programs, add /remove windows components, highlight “IIS” and click the “detail” tab. Click FTP services and OK. You may need the windows CD.
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Re: scan to email with yahoo mail
We actually have several clients who do their mail that way. We go through their Internet Service Provider rather than their mail service. For example, they may have their internet access through your local cable company (as many of ours do). In most cases, you can access their cable account to send e-mails. You can put any e-mail address you want to as the sending address, as long as you have their user name and password to access their cable account. You can set their address book e-mail...
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Re: Who Needs 11x17?
Yes, this topic could be debated for decades ... perhaps it has. But those of us who were copier before digital, were always fed the canned reasons for the quality differences between "PC" type and "Commercial Quality" boxes. Bigger is better? And therefore more expensive ... enter into the digital age ... HP already controlled the network (with Canon made laser engines), even they have gone cheap on the low-end thanks to the likes of brother who, while the first few models left a bit to be...
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Re: Fiery E-8000 Controller
Can you provide more detail on the scanning situation? Does the controller lock up once you select the Scan tab? Or is it when you go into scan to email/LDAP? As someone pointed out, there are about six patches for the E8000 that should be installed. As a separate note, there will be a new version of system software available that incorporates all of the patches and MS updates. Please contact your Ricoh ASM for a copy of it. It should help stabilize the E8000 operation.