Tagged With "Big Shift"
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
In a hint at what is to soon happen with tariffs on copiers/ printers from China headed to the USA, Harley Davidson Motorcycles announced today that it would shift some production headed for Europe to other global manufacturing facilities to avoid paying tariffs estimated at up to $2,200.00 per bike. It could take nine to 18 months to make this change. It also said that it would not increase prices to European dealers and would take a hit to profitability for the remainder of this year at...
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Re: Copier Parts & Accessories China Tariff Starts in 9 Working Days
I, for one, don't care much what Ricoh thinks about my selling options. Tariffs also have a way of redirecting business decisions. China may sease to be a viable place for manufacturing. No manufacturer has 100% of their maunfacturing being done in China. No matter what, the effect of any tariffs will be watered down by whatever manufacturing that is being done elsewhere. I would really love to see something that tells what % of manufacturing is being done in China broken down by...
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Re: A Halloween Tale of an A3 Copier’s Death
All great comments, this the reason to change now if you still plan to be in this industry for another twenty years. I probably won’t be, but I still have a plan in place to make the shift to niche printing hardware devices. Still continuing to educate myself for the future
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Re: The A4 Challenge or Opportunity
Most are missing this great opportunity to shift dollars. The satellite channels are starting to tell end-users to shift print spend to IT Security, and other more pressing issues. It won't be long before the buyer starts circumventing the sales engine of yesterday. Thanks for posting Art
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Re: The A4 Challenge or Opportunity
Does Ricoh have an A4 that will shift sort or rotate sort?
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Re: The A4 Challenge or Opportunity
The Ricoh color A4 devices have a one bin tray, they may do what you are looking for.
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Re: The A4 Challenge or Opportunity
No, they do not The one bin is only an extra output tray, originally ment for seperating faxes
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Re: Color MFP Trends, Tactics, etc
"4) Improved Consumable yields and costs * Konica Minolta continues to shift its color MFPs away from using imaging units featuring both drum-developer to offering separate mono developer and drums. This provides greater cost benefits for mono output and allows lower Mono CPC. Konica Minolta also increased toner and other consumable yields in its latest generation and forthcoming Color MFPs." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Konica Minolta Boosts Productivity for Small- to Mid-Sized...
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Re: Color MFP Trends, Tactics, etc
I havn't seen one placement of the frontier in my territory yet. But that doesn't mean they aren't out there. I see the whole copier industry making a shift to A$ devices in the next 24 months or less, they have too. Price is the driving factor, I've heard it all about A4's, such as "A4's can't hold up to heavy volume", oh yea then why do I see laser printers with hundreds of thousands of prints on them and they weigh under 100lbs? Heck, I just came from an account that has 180K on a Ricoh...
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Re: Ricoh Pro C720
Ricoh Americas Corporation announced today the official launch of the Ricoh Pro C720/C720s, a production class multi-functional color system and the latest addition to Ricoh’s Pro series of products, designed specifically for the production environment. This flexible system targets corporate and commercial professional print environments with demanding application needs. The Pro C720/C720s has a robust duty cycle of 320,000 images per month, and runs at 72 pages-per-minute (PPM) regardless...
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Re: Panasonic Canada discontinues A3 Copier Distribution March 2011
Panasonic Takes Aim at Fast-Growing A4 Class MFP Market Company to emphasize growing A4 MFP format in response to customer demands SECAUCUS, NJ (February 4, 2010) — Panasonic System Networks Company of America today announced plans to substantially increase its footprint in the burgeoning market for A4 multi-function products. The A4 market has undergone rapid growth and is emerging as the de facto standard in the marketplace. As a consequence the A3 market has been fading and will no longer...
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Re: Colortrac Inc. Distributes its SmartLF Wide Format Scanners via Promark Technology
Colortrac Announces Financial Results and Growth in Scanner Sales Colortrac Inc. Colortrac has achieved record unit sales, revenue, and profit in their financial year ending April 30th 2010. Not including new business from OEM agreements, worldwide unit sales of Colortrac brand SmartLF large-format scanners increased by 24 percent over the previous year. Colortrac's consolidated result (unaudited) shows that group revenues increased by 42 percent to GBP £7.3 million, with a corresponding...
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Re: The Effect Currency Evaluations have on the MFP industry
Toshiba recently revealed that it actually profited from the strengthening of the yen that took place during the first half of its fiscal year through September. The company has apparently moved much of its manufacturing and product sourcing outside of Japan since 2009, resulting in the yen's rise positively impacting its earnings. Toshiba made 48 percent of its products in Japan between April to September 2009 and bought 45 percent of its components from Japan-based suppliers. By the same...
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Re: First Look New Ricoh MPC2801_3301
Spec sheet for the Lanier LD630c/635c and LD645c/655c attached.
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Re: PCL Drivers and Rotate Sorting
I agree, the PCL5 is better for older applications. However, at some point I feel like you have to go with the new stuff and see if you can make the switch...I've had fairly good luck up until now and when there is a problem (usually a medical office printing from practice management or EMR software that is older). Unfortunately, the PCL5 doesn't resolve the issue either. Here is the best solution I've found so far. 1. When installing the print driver, you go into printing preferences and...
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Re: Tohoku Earthquake Wreaks Havoc on Printer Industry Supply Chain
This was an article from the NY times over the weekend! SHIBATA-MACHI, Japan — When the ground shook violently on the afternoon of March 11, the ceiling collapsed in part of the huge Ricoh copier factory here, exposing the vents and wires above. The offices at the Ricoh plant near Sendai are still in disrepair; workers have focused on restoring the factory and production. The ceiling is still not fixed. But employees are back at their posts, working under temporary lighting and wearing hard...
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Re: Stuxnet Lives!
A COMPUTER virus created to sabotage Iran's nuclear programme and stop Tehran developing an atomic bomb was designed by American and Israeli experts, it was claimed yesterday. The Stuxnet computer worm, the most sophisticated cyber weapon ever made, crippled uranium enrichment facilities across Iran last year and set the country back five years in the nuclear arms race. US military and intelligence sources have told The New York Times that a simulation of Iran's uranium enrichment facility...
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Re: Finisher Attach Rates for A4 MFPs
Rare. Don't sell many finishers on mid volume either. We mostly do shift sorts and one bins.
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Re: Aficio MP 9002 Series
What's new - What's Different See Attached. Just what you probably would have guessed.
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Re: Samsung Says Offer for Sharp’s Photocopier Unit Rejected
One of the interesting sides to this would be what would happen to Sharp's direct operations under a Samsung take over of the copier operation. Samsung in Canada has been extremely adamant that they do not do direct sales in any of their operations, consumer or BtoB. Interesting to watch these global operations shift.
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Re: Samsung Says Offer for Sharp’s Photocopier Unit Rejected
Samsung has been looking for a way into the North american market going on 5 years now. they own 90% of the MFP/Printer market in Korea (Look it up). If Samsung gets the business from Sharp they will have a small but established infrastructure that will give them a foothold into North America. With all the doom and gloom out reports from the analysts these days its good to hear something new and exciting.
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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: 35 /45 Saddle Stitch Finisher
I believe it is made by Canon and is a proven unit. It is and operates from what I can see very similar to the Saddle Stitch finisher from the old 551 and 700. I also think that you lose the shift sort functionality with this finisher (PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG ON ANY OF THIS). There are a number of pros and cons to this finisher, if you need and do lots of saddle stitch it is fine, if you do little saddle stitch and are going to get this for the convenience of it, I would stick with a...
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Re: 400 DPI IMAGE MOVEMENT!!!
I don't know how much you have worked with these but some things to keep in mind with dig. dups...The print will move some on every sheet and every pass. It just isn't noticed with a single color or on the first pass. Therefore, on a two-color of red and black for instance, the black has moved alittle "+" on some sheets and alittle "-" on others as did the red on the second pass. The problems come in on those sheets where the black went alittle "+" on the same sheet where the red went...
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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: Gas Price Check
$4.19 for regular unleaded and the RV industry in my neck of the woods is failing fast. I've had to shift my focus out of Elkhart County, Indiana...layoffs and closings are a daily thing
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Re: Ricoh CPC Methodology
I know alot of dealers and branches that will make you commit to a minimum black volume and a minimum color volume. So will get the meter monthly and other quarterly. Monthly reads would make the dealer or branch more profit if the customer DID NOT hit mimimum volumes, the quarterly read is better since meters are read only once per quarter, thus giving the customer more time to met the minimums. This shift started awhile ago, and is very nice profit when customer DO NOT hit the monthly or...
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Re: GBC ProClick Pronto 3000
On a Ricoh brochure, when it says LEF, does that mean long edge feed? On a Ricoh brochure, when the SR4060 Finisher with a 3,000 sheet Shift Tray LEF output capacity is combined with the GBC StreamPunch Pro, with a 8.5 x 11 LEF capability, does this mean that up to 3,000 sheets can be punched without operator intervention? Somewhere, I thought that I read the unattended output capacity with the StreamPunch III was 100 sheets? In this quote, the client has mentioned that they occasionally...
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Re: GBC ProClick Pronto 3000
Any idea on what the unattended output capacity is? On a Ricoh brochure, when the SR4060 Finisher with a 3,000 sheet Shift Tray LEF output capacity is combined with the GBC StreamPunch Pro, with a 8.5 x 11 LEF capability, does this mean that up to 3,000 sheets can be punched without operator intervention? I have read that it could be 100 sheets on a StreamPunch III.
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Re: What Happened with the RICOH Pro L4000
I wish everyone that is selling wide format in Ricoh continued success. I know it is a tough endeavor and will continue to be considering the internal shift towards color and support for direct. If you required better support, I hope you receive it in the future. Good Luck.
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Re: 4035e & 4045e finisher & 1 bin
You might be thinking of the 2022 and the shift sort tray and finisher which can't be used together. To the best of knowledge, the 1 bin tray is not mutually exclusive of anything.
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Re: Aficio 240W & Plotbase, is it possible.........
to get jobs into plotclient in the correct order - clivk bottom right job, holding down shift key, and then click top left job - reverse of how we nornmally do this!
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Re: IS200e brings us new opportunities!
I realize that as copier reps, we tend to put more importance on copier features than they may deserve but that doesn't mean they should be totally ignored. How many of our copier customers are willing to give up: > 8 second FCOT on the 2238C vs 12 seconds of the CL7100 which may be longer when coming as a scan vs a print. > 11x17 platen vs 8.5x11 > Book copy > Document Server > User Stamps, Page Numbering, etc. > Color Conversion > Erase Color > Margin Shift >...
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Re: Riso MZ790 info
Drew: Jim Parker @ CBS Digital is a Riso Dealer, you may want to contact him, can anyone else help Drew about the RISOZ790? RISO Introduces MZ790 at AIIM ON DEMAND New Printer-Duplicator Unit Engineered to Make Two Color Printing Faster and Easier Than Ever. DANVERS, MA, June 2, 2005 – RISO, Inc., a worldwide leader in digital printing technology, recently unveiled its newest product, the MZ790 Printer-Duplicator, at AIIM On Demand. Engineered to provide speed, versatility, high quality...
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Re: Who Needs 11x17?
Darren: Good to hear from you! I'm not sure if the HP prints short edge or long edge. If I were to quess I would guess short edge, therefor if it could feed long edge first it would even be faster! Maybe someone can confirm the short edge or long edge for us. In reference to the rotate sort, you could fix this with a "shift tray" in the exit area, then there would be no need for rotate sort.
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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: Sales Tips
Major Shift? Go to the Top If you are selling a service or product that causes a major shift in a corporation, then only sell to the top. A smart day-care center owner we know only markets to the presidents or CEOs of large corporations. Most large organizations don't want the "shift" and overhead of providing an in-house day-care center. Our entrepreneur proves to top management that she can provide them a needed service without a major shift.
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Re: Viewing PDF Thumbnails in Plotclient Win
In Plotbase 3.3 - highlight an entry, then hold down shift, and you can drag and drop to change order of files.
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Re: Ink Based MFP's In The Market Place
Product acceptance may be the key. Have you ever seen a business class ink product that can match the image quality of a toner machine? I know they can in the production space. If they can go head to head with toner in the business class, then you have a possible game changer. My 2 cents...
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Re: Ink Based MFP's In The Market Place
I think Canon may think a lot of the quality. They listed Photo paper as an acceptable paper type.
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Re: Ink Based MFP's In The Market Place
Ink is here to stay, however it seems like a slow adoption rate from many of the major manufacturers in the SMB market. Ink based MFP's could be the salvation to many service departments that have aging service technicians.
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Re: Ink Based MFP's In The Market Place
I think that all may change with the Big Dog (Canon) coming to market with a great machine. Hey, we ain't talking HP Edgeline. The machine will fit in SMB and it looks similar to other machines.
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Re: "MFP Wars" Hi Speed A3 MFP's vs A4 MFP's
Art, one of the problems is dealers servicing a machine for $30.00 a month. however, the reality is the industry has allowed the sales engine to destroy the service model. selling full service on A3 for .006 or less in volumes of 5k a month. Dealers were chasing sales revenue as they sacrificed service profits. As volumes continue declining so will margins. Dealers will begin realizing that all the A3 service they gave away is too costly to manage and the shift will begin. The A4...
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Re: HP should Buy Xerox
Appreciate the comments. However, your arguments regarding A4 vs. A3 pertain to what’s good for you. Industries which are going through disruption or when an industry’s particular product or its services become less valuable to those once dependent on them. The disease of Product-Centric thinking will infect those with a stubbornness to modify. It is not up to those who sell a product or service to determine its value. Its value is determined by those who buy the product or service.
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Re: HP should Buy Xerox
There is little to no margin in A4. Folks who want those products are just going to buy on-line. Let them. Best bet is focus on areas where you can still make money. Let other people chase the race to the bottom stuff.