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Re: We're Sorry.......To all my Canadian P4P'ers!
I have been glued to the TV watching Canada win Gold in the Women's Olympic Hockey final beating USA in a thriller. in the men's hockey, Canada beat the USA 1-0 and advances to the gold metal round. I am waiting for Barrack Obama to pay up on his losing bet to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and deliver two cases of beer! Productivity was not that great today in Canada as everybody who could was watching TV.
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Re: Do Black & White Copiers Really Exist?
Um, you can use the Positive/Negative setting and it reverses the "colors" of black and white. I know,I know, still not copying/printing in white toner! ;-)
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Copier Quoting Tool Could Add Weeks of Selling Days Every Year
Usually I take Friday nights (yah I know it's Monday) off from writing a blog. My Friday's are usually spent relaxing with access to my iPhone or PC, and watching Gold Rush and ZNation. I had a call from my buddy Jesse with Pahoda Imaging while on my way back to the office from an appointment. Jesse is the smartest dude when it comes to marketing copiers on line. He's got his stuff down! Jesse sends me this link to check out one of his copier sites that he's just built. He told me that it...
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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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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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What Do You Do When You Need Competitive Copier Specs?
Years ago and I'm talking before the dawn of the internet. There were only a few ways you could get information on other manufacturers copiers. BI (before internet) 1) Call your competitor and ask to speak to a sales person and fib about who you are, your company, and give a BS call back number. We did this many times in order to get answers to those speed, feed and feature questions. In many cases we got snagged and had to hang up. 2) Another way was to get your significant other to do your...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2015)
For each of the next few blogs I'll be inserting some tips from what other dealers and sales peeps are doing on a daily basis from around the globe for staying relevant with their clients and prospects. 1. Promote yourselves and our business daily on social media Enjoy these incredible threads from 15 years ago this week! This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of April 2005 Art Post · 4/12/157:15 PM . Built-in Wi-Fi in printers could make a tech's 4/18/05...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago for the Second Week in April of 2015
For those of you that are new to the industry, there's a cool blog I wrote about making the phone calls. Believe it or not the phone is your friend. You can read that here or below. Fourty Eight Hundred Phone Calls a Year Can Equal a Lot of Dough! Enjoy these awesome threads from 5 years ago this week! Bid Tabulation for Xerox_Sharp_Samsung_Canon_Kyocera.pdf Art Post · 4/14/1512:55 PM Topic Konica Minolta Expands and Enhances Corporate Communications Team at US Headquarters Art Post ·...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Third Week of February 2015)
It's late and the last post of the night for me. Enjoy! bid tabulation for Ricoh Toshiba Xerox.pdf Art Post · 2/21/1511:05 PM Blog Post This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of February 2005 Art Post · 2/21/1511:36 PM Canon and would appreciate any and Xerox6030 With P/S 2/25/05 10:23 AM Topic by Guest Does anyone know anything about The Xerox 6030 wide format copier that prints and scans and how it compares to the Ricoh 240 Ricoh MV310 2/24/05 7:28 AM...
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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 5 Years Ago for the Last Week of May 2015
Two selling days left in the month and I looking for another $10K to get me over the hump. Two days of pushing coming up and it should be exciting! Enjoy these awesome threads from 5 years ago this week! Ricoh Multi Copier Lease Award in Missouri ART POST · 5/31/1512:50 AM TOPIC Ricoh SP4520dn print will not print... ART POST · 5/26/159:58 PM Ricoh SP4520dn print will not print on to carbonless paper from Relyco. No matter what we did it was still pulling two sheets. Rats!!! Proposed...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (First Week of April 2015)
Since the last two to three weeks have been less than perfect I figured we could reminisce when times were better. There's a cool little story about and event that took place in Jamaica while on a Presidents Club trip with Dr. Feelgood. That link is below! Enjoy these awesome threads from five years ago this week! Konica Minolta acquires printing business of Monotech Systems Art Post · 4/7/1510:05 PM NEW DELHI: In a bid to have direct interface with its customers, Japanese printer firm...
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Re: Why I Still Cold Call for Copiers after 33 Years
Art your comments are great to help remind people of the "Lost Art of Cold Calling" or Gold calling. I was kicked out of the Sears Tower more than once cold calling Laser Printers (yup Laser Printers in the 80s) but uncovered some great deals as well. You've added tips that show how better prepared we can be on cold calls now than back in the day!
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If An Old School Copier Rep Can Build His Brand, So Can You!
"A brand is no longer what we tell the customer it is - it is what customers tell each other it is" Scott Cook Should copier sales reps leverage the power of branding to differentiate themselves to rise above the noise? My answer, an absolute yes! Branding is powerful. When you think of brands, most turn to large brands such as Google, Amazon, Starbucks and McDonalds, just to name a few. Why is establishing a world-class business brand invaluable? Besides the distinct value it brings,...
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Four Reasons Why I'm SO Excited about Print Audit Insight Dashboard!!
After viewing the first Print Audit Insight Webinar a few months ago, I thought I would pick five existing accounts that I would approach and offer them a print analysis of their fleet. Over the last month, I identified those five accounts, and...
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What Does Comprehensive Data Security Look Like?
Information security has become one of the most widely discussed topics among boardroom members, public sector officials and consumer advocates in the past few years, as identity theft has ravaged the U.S. economy. Although progress has been made in this regard, firms are still struggling to really strike the right chords with their security programs, and the biggest problem appears to be a lack of comprehension, leading to vulnerabilities that can be capitalized upon by threats. Hackers and...
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The Transition of the Copier Industry "According to Art"
The Transition of the Copier Industry "According to Art" Part One: I can only start from the early eighties. Six months after graduating a copier tech training school, I had sold my first copier. I'm pretty sure I remember the building, but not the name of the company. On a recent drive by that company was no longer in that building, I was kinda bummed because I would have enjoyed to cold call them again If you bought or leased a copier in 1981, the only function of that copier was to copy.
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Workflow is Nice and Provides a Ton of Business Benefits "Part Two"
It's my pleasure to introduce our first quest blogger for "What is Workflow?" Doug Gruver has been doing this Document Management/Workflow longer than I've been doing copiers. For me, Doug is my "go to" guru. Enjoy! Wikipedia has several definitions of “workflow” – look it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workflow Workflow Management is the sub-definition that best describes what we in the it/content management business call workflow.
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Arrrgh! Toner Pirate!
It's happened yet again. I have been writing, posting, sharing and speaking to my customers, repeatedly, about the sneaky tactics of the Toner Pirate. I have suggested that they place a large sign in a prominent position on the...
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Two severe Windows vulnerabilities addressed, another two unpatched
Windows users might have noticed that on the morning of Nov. 13, they were greeted with a large number of updates for their systems. This is all too common of a problem for IT departments as they scramble to patch servers, desktop computers and...
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The past, present and future of cybersecurity
Protecting enterprises with cybersecurity tools has been a long process, one filled with failed attempts, confusion and human error. Furthermore, many new infrastructure-as-a-service offerings are attempting to provide IT departments with high-levels...
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Empowering Dealers: ITEX Expo 2015
Empowering Dealers: ITEX Expo 2015 By Sand Sinclair, Conference Director/Editor The annual ITEX Expo & Conference is one of the most focused and credible venues to deliver the latest tools, strategies, education and industry information to those in the office, imaging, and IT channels. Each year ITEX spotlights a power house exhibit floor, power hour education tracks, and powerful workshops to yes, empower attendees. Sharing a spectrum of information on new and...
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The Harder I work the Luckier I Get
I wrote this just about 11 years ago. This may have been one of my first blogs, but was posted in the forums section of the Print4Pay Hotel. When I wrote this I had 24 years experience in down the street sales. Enjoy! Is a...
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The Transition of the Copier Industry "According to Art"
A blog from the past. Enjoy!! Part One: Once upon a time (back in the early eighties) we sold copy machines. It was a simple business. We had maybe three models of plain paper copiers. I can remember the EP (Eny Paper lol)...
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Ask Art " How Can a Premium P4P Hotel Membership Help With My Sales"
Hi Art, I am already a year in in the copier industry. It's interesting to know that membership includes qualified leads. I like the idea but not sure it would work for my role. I am an Account Exec in California. I have zip codes assignment but...
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5 Reasons Why Managed IT Makes Sense To New Copier Reps
So, the first one everyone knows, hey we're already in the office servicing the account for copiers. Our service and support is excellent and we are a valued service provider. The second reason is also a no brainer for most companies. One...
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Why I Still Cold Call for Copiers after 33 Years
This is the fourth time I've revised this blog, the original was posted almost three years ago, the last update was about a year ago and just today I added some new content for cold calling. ENJOY! If you'd like to read the previous one please...
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New Vertical Market for A3 Color Printers
Dang, picking up a solid lead on a Saturday is a wonderful thing, right? So, I was out to do my Saturday AM ritual of dropping off and picking up my dry cleaning. By the way, why is it that we sales people can't claim dry cleaning as...
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Advice For Starting An Unauthorized Copier Dealership
I always enjoy answering emails and today I was able to send this reply to a Print4Pay Hotel Member that asked me this: A friend of mine and myself are potentially looking to partner together to start an unauthorized copier dealership. We want to...
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Do Black & White Copiers Really Exist?
Ok, today was the day that the straw finally broke the camels back! I just ran across an article titled "How to print content in black & white colors on Microsoft Edge". I was expecting to read about some printer or copier that was capable of printing the color white. What I wasted my time on was an article on how to print black from Microsoft Edge. White is still a color the last time I checked. In fact the writer of the article stated that in order to print black you need to select the...
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Copier Side by Side Comparisons "Do You Remember Those?"
Back in eighties, before PC's were on every copier sales persons desk, copier sales people would turn to Copier Buyers Guides. Those guides were as good as gold, and we scrambled for them when the new editions arrived. Those guides listed every current and discontinued copier spec on the market. Those guides were our Bibles! Many of us stuffed them in our briefcases (remember when we had those), while others left them at the office. The really good copier salespeople always had his copier...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The Third Week of May 2006
May 2006, the Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year. Yes, the Xerox 240/250 5/19/06 5:25 PM ; only the fusing temperature is different. The 240/250 comes standard with an internal Fiery controller (same architecture as our E7000), with options for the server-based Fiery (same as our E8000), Creo, or Xerox controller. They are definitely targeted at print...
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Want To Win More and Assess Less? 2016 Assessment Essentials
Are you new to Managed Print assessments or are you a seasoned veteran looking to raise your “A” game? Either way it’s a good idea to make sure that your assessment practice is better than the folks you are competing with. There is an all out war for pages and a solid assessment practice can help ensure that you win more business with better profits. Below are 6 great focus areas to help you wow your customers and win more business through assessment selling: 1. Document your assessment...
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57 Days of Selling "Day 45"
It's Friday evening, just about 10:30PM. I've finishing watching my Friday night series of "Z Nation" & "Gold Rush" and have put away a couple of Bahama Mamas for a night cap. I've often wondered how many other sales rep get a rush every time one of the three gold crews come up big with their weekly clean up of the wash plant. For me, it's prospecting 101 and digging in the dirt to find that gold streak, well, it's something we do every day. We're just not digging in the dirt. LOL, I'm...
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New Jersey Print Shop Selects Pre-Owned Ricoh MP W3601SP vs KIP 3000
New Jersey Print Shop Selects Pre-Owned Ricoh MP W3601SP vs KIP 3000 Buy a pre-owned wide format multi-functional KIP 3000 or buy a pre-owned Ricoh MP W3601SP from an Authorized local dealer? That was the scenario that I ran into a few weeks ago with a new prospect. I can’t blame prospects for searching the web for to get the most bang for there buck. However, with wide format multi-functional devices there can be many pitfalls to buying for the lowest price. Our Ricoh MP W3601SP offered a...
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MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for November 9th 2019
November 9 th , 2019 MSP & MSSP Industry Notes Sponsored by Arcoa Group ARCOA has established itself as an industry leader in the recycling and processing of electronics scrap. Our management has over 30 years of experience in scrap and precious metals recycling. As an R2:2013, ISO 14001:2015 and OHSAS 18001:2007 certified electronics recycler, we can assure you that all of our material processing is done in a safe and environmentally responsible manner. Hackers Target ConnectWise...
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MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for September 1st, 2019
MSP & MSSP Industry Notes I T Total Care New Co-Managed IT Promises Relief to Strapped SMB IT Teams Located in Foster City, California, provides outsourced IT support to small and medium sized businesses Offers their Co-Managed IT, allows companies to “lease” IT Total Care’s staff wot work with their existing IT department IT Total Care operates in San Francisco Bay area since 20019, has worked with more than 2,000 Bay Area companies Logically Expands Sales Leadership Team to Drive...
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MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for September 7th, 2019
MSP & MSSP Industry Notes September 7th 2019 Spectrotel awarded 2019 Visionary Spotlight Award for Managed Services Spectrotel based in Neptune, NJ provides national integrated solutions and managed services for enterprise businesses ChannelVision Magazine awarded Spectrotel Ross Artale, President & COO, “We are honored to be recognized by ChannelVision for offering one of the most comprehensive end-to-end soluitions”. Red River Acquires CWPS Red River located in Claremont, N.H.
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of September 2014)
Sorry for be late with these. Up half the night, figured I would do an auto post in the AM. Enjoy these awesome threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend Industry Notes from 09/13/09 Neal · 9/14/097:47 AM running jobs. Canon now shipping the imagePRESS CR Server A7000, which is a relabeled Creo print controller for its imagePRESS C7000VP system. RJ Young Company, a Canon copier dealer in Tennessee, bought Photocopy Supply Company, a dealer in Nashville that carries Savin and Panasonic...
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To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas 2019"
I always like to start these Christmas blogs with a small story about Christmas tradition in other countries. On Christmas Eve, children, especially boys, often go out singing 'kalanda' (carols) in the streets. They play drums and triangles as they sing. Sometimes they will also carry model boats decorated with nuts which are painted gold. Carrying a boat is a very old custom in the Greek Islands. If the children sing well, they might be given money, as well things to eat like nuts, sweets...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of December 2007)
Just a few items that may be of interest. In January we'll start publishing "This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago". Yup we've got data going back 15 years now. Should be interesting to look back on the last 15 years. Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend Copier Notes from 12/9/07 12/9/078:11 PM are based on the poll of end users’ opinions: o Best Color Range Platinum Award = Konica Minolta § Gold Award = Xerox o Color Reliability Platinum Award = Panasonic § Gold...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of January 2003)
Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week. Konica Minolta Corportaion Lee · 1/9/0310:22 AM of business in matured markets such as Europe, the U .S. and Japan. Both cameras and consumer imaging products and services serve to propel the brand image of the new corporate group. Medical and graphic imaging products and measuring instruments place effort into securing stable profits and achieving ongoing development. Common Function Companies Technology Center By integrating the technologies...
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The Ten Yen Trip
I guess this could have been my first blog! Back in 2002 I wrote a journal while on a Ricoh sponsored trip to Japan. I found it today buried in the forums when I did some searching on threads from 2003. It does bring back awesome memories and I thought it might be a good read for all. Please enjoy and feel free to comment at the end in the reply section June 4, 2002 To Japan and Back: Tales of a “Sell the Solution” Winner “Sell the Solution,” a successful nationwide sales contest organized...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Last Week of February 2003
Each week I'll scan the threads and look for something interesting and or something unique. This week marks the 15th anniversary for Old Glory as an excellent Print4Pay Hotel member. Jim and I have met several times over the years and I'm thankful that he is such a great supporter and a friend of mine. In addition Jim just sent me a copy of Minella's Pocket Guide to copiers for 1990. Thus a special shout out to you!! Enjoy the threads from fifteen years ago this week! Konica, Kyocera, Sharp,...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Five, Course One
I had a few minutes before I had to get to three appointments on Thursday of last week. Thus, I thought I would visit our Ricoh MP 3601SP demonstrator unit in our showroom (yes, we still have one of those). I was curious how many labels did Ricoh adhere to the MP 3601SP. I was shocked! If you have a Ricoh MP 3601SP, here's a little bit of homework for you. Check all of the outside covers, then the toner hopped and then the roll feeder. Let us know how many labels you find (color or just...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Third Week of January 2003)
Pretty cool that this post will be the third installment of our Week in the Copier Industry 15 years ago this week. Looking back many of us new nothing about networks, nothing about networked printers and scanners. This site enables many copier sales people to lean on others and to share information that helped us compete. Many of these founding P4P'ers are still members today. I'd like thank them for all that they did over the years. 2002 Better Buys for Business HV 1/18/034:29 PM for 2002...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of August 2014)
Some what of an interesting day today I arrived about 645Am to the office. Had to prep for a 10AM, 1PM and 4PM appointment, All were closing opportunities, thus I wanted to have all of the documentation ready to sign. First appointment needed to "think about it", not worried been doing business with him for 20 plus years and that's just what he does. But, I also delivered a side by comparison via email later in the day (stated he might be looking at another copier from another vendor). I'm...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of August 2009)
No story tonight, watching the Mets Vs Nationals, Mets down by 2 top 8 Enjoy these awesome threads from 19 years ago this week! Topic Konica Minolta, CTWP Put Printing Technology to Work in "100 Percent Green" 8/12/0910:58 PM Konica Minolta , CTWP Put Printing Technology to Work in "100 Percent Green" Office bizhub MFPs Increase Office Efficiencies and Eliminate Waste at Waco Chamber of Commerce Highlighted Links Count on Konica MinoltaRAMSEY , NJ and WACO, TX--(Marketwire - August 12, 2009)...