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Re: Samsung Copier Million Page Test "A Tree Massacre"
On average for every tree taken down in US for paper it is replaced by three new ones This is one of the reasons there are more trees in US than in past Dan Schmidt (sent from mobile device) > On Nov 23, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Print4Pay Hotel < alerts@hoop.la > wrote: >
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Re: Ricoh MP C3003/3503/4503/5505 & 6003 Scanner Review
Another thing all of these new machines including the 6502 and 8100 have is an insanely fast ADF, 120 sheets per minute or 240 images per minute duplex. Everyone that sees these comments how fast the ADF is.
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Re: Ricoh MP C3003/3503/4503/5505 & 6003 Scanner Review
same here, equally as impressive is that it will scan to USB just as fast. Customer wanted to take the scanned files back to the office after the demo to make sure they were searchable and check the quality
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Third Week in September 2003
BTA National Event was last week in NYC @ the Stewart Hotel. With members and vendors I heard there were 345 attendees. That's a great showing! What was the most popular talked about theme behind the scenes? Yup, it was the One Rate or Flat Rate. More to come on this during the week. Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago this week! Fuji-Xerox merges 9/17/038:48 PM Fuji- Xerox merges internally Byron Connolly, CRN Wednesday, 02 April 2003 Fuji- Xerox will audit its printer -distribution channel...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The First Week in October 2003
In the office on Friday we had a chat about the manufacturers in the industry. My thoughts centered around KonicaMinolta and the great job they're doing with diversifying. Ricoh was at the bottom of the list. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week: Ricoh Offers Managed Print Services to Reduce Printing Complexity 10/2/0811:10 PM . In the past, printing was simple as everyone either shared one device or had a personal printer . Now the printing landscape is more complex with multiple...
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Attention Sales Leaders... Are Your Sales Reps Invested?
The single biggest piece of investment advice: Invest in Yourself! Let's face it, it’s almost impossible to increase your income without first becoming a better sales professional. In order to obtain better investment results, one must first become a better investor. This means some of your investment must be diversified. How many on your sales team invest in themselves? YOUR sales team is the most important thing you can place your time and money on. Are you teaching them to invest? THEIR...
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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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A Recent Copier Appointment That Went From Bad to Good
My second appointment of the day proved to one of the most enjoyable appointments I've had in recent memory. It was with an existing account that was in the last 3 months of a 36 month lease for an A3 color MFP. The account only has one, but so do most of my accounts. I'd like to say I flourish with onesies and twosies. Just a tip for some of you that may be new in the copier business. When quoting leasing always lead with a 36 month lease. There are two well maybe three reasons for that.
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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 for the First Week of May 2015
I've been in the copier industry for 40 years. Our industry has always been somewhat recession proof since we provide technology services. With another round of lay-offs in recent weeks it seems our industry is not immune to COVID19. We must be prepared for doing business in a post COVID19 business world. Which means protection of our workplace along with putting safeguards in place to protect our clients while we are in their place of business. These plans need to be developed and finalized...
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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
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: What is Print and Imaging as-a-Service?
This just sounds to me like Facilities Management under a different name. Facilities Management is the practice of setting up a printing operation within a company as a service to the company. The people operating the equipment are employees of the Facilities Management company not the corporation. It is buying the apples, not the tree taken to the extreme. It's not uncommon that all postal services are packaged in as well. As far as MFP seat licensing...I don't see it ever coming to pass.
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Those Magnificent Men and Their Copy Machines
Those Magnificent Men and Their Copy Machines In 1965 I was eight years old, entertainment for me came in the form of movies (my how times have changed) and one of my favorite movies as a child (and still now) is a comedy classic titled...
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Samsung Copier Million Page Test "A Tree Massacre"
I recently saw caught a google alert in reference to a test that was done on a Samsung Multi-Functional Copier the other day. I thought, wow that's kinda cool, and dismissed it as a link that I didn't need to post on the site. ...
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Selling Copiers & MFP's "Running With the Big Dogs"
What's the Golden Rule when selling office equipment? Know your competition or least what they are quoting. Ever notice every time you walk the dog that he or she stops at every tree or fire hydrant, ever wonder what they're doing? They...
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Share The Wonder of New Technology With Your Prospects and Clients
Yesterday I joined Tim Cook in child-like wonder as he demonstrated how to answer a phone call on a watch—something I’ve wanted to do since I was a child. It was a simple and powerful moment. Of the long list of incredible things an...
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Ricoh MP C3003/3503/4503/5505 & 6003 Scanner Review
Scanning, scanning and more scanning, it seems that's all anyone wants to do with MFP's anymore. Prospects want to know how they can print and copy less and scan more. What this suggests to me is that it's just a matter of time before the...
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ONE Awesome Solution that Can Sky Rocket Sales
Let me count the ways I enjoy this business! Just when you think you've seen it all, along comes an entirely FRESH new idea!! Think about these openings for a phone or walk in cold call: Hi Mr. or Mrs. CEO, I was curious if you...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago
Wow, this was a busy, busy week on the forums ten years ago, 8 of these posts are from current members!! There's even a reference to color at .055 per page for a large Konica system, at that time the price was unheard of. Hope you...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago (2nd Week of November)
Ten years ago Ricoh released the first GBC stream puncher in the industry, it was interesting to say the least. Many of us poked fun at the chads that were scattered within the first GBC stream punch units. We actually had to dispatch...
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Major Copier Dealer Loses Thousands of Dollars in Power Struggle!
An October frost was about to settle on the pumpkins that were nested between two hay bales outside of the Gotham Police Headquarters. In the city streets there were bands of goblins, ghosts and witches all hunting for the sake of savory...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago (1st Week of November)
Ten Years ago this week.............After 26 years, and at a distance from Earth of over 8 billion miles, Voyager 1 exits the solar system. It is expected to keep on transmitting into the 2020s . [47] [48] Enjoy these threads from the Print4Pay Hotel forums 10 year ago! I Get To Change Jobs! November 8, 2003 1:27 PM Topic by Graham Well all, it looks like I will be making a Job Change on December 1st. My company has been sold to our chief competitor.I will be still selling...
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Comparing Printers and Copiers "The Real Dope for Copier Salespeople"
Dam, I almost finished this entire blog and I erased it!! There's a new game in town for comparing printer and copier devices Back in the eighties it was all about speeds and feeds, if you needed to compare a Ricoh vs Canon, you grabbed your spec check book, made a copy of each page, then broke out the color highlighters and proceeded to highlight your best specs vs the competitors worst specs. Those that had more "best" specs usually won the day and the sale. Do You Remember When? Back in...
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3 Things Sales Reps Must Use So They Don't Look Like Sales Monkeys With A Loaded Gun
In my prior my post, 5 Things Top Sales Reps Do And Why Most Just Shoot Themselves With Complacency Bullets , pinpoints what makes sales reps so successful. Great salespeople do the same thing every day. They are purpose driven. They focus on the success and happiness of their prospective and current clients. They are able to see the business world through the eyes of the other party. They are naturally curious and love serving their clients. The silent killer to sales success lies with one...
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To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas in 2016"
The Christmas season in Italy begins on the first Sunday of Advent, which is four Sundays before Christmas. Christmas fairs feature fireworks and bonfires along with holiday music. Families go to the Christmas markets to shop for gifts and new figures for the manger scene. Some families set up a Christmas tree and decorate it. Families set up their presepio, or manger scene, on the first day of the novena. They gather before the presepio each morning or evening of novena to light candles and...
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“A tree stops growing when it gets root bound, and so does a business.”
Over the weekend, I decided it was time to transplant a couple trees that have been growing in the sun bleached pots on my patio. As I started to pull the trees out of the pots, I noticed the dirt in each pot had almost disappeared and had been replaced with a massive root ball. I had to completely destroy the pots to get the trees out. Both trees had stopped growing a year or so ago. They did not die, they just stopped growing - they were root bound. In life or in business, if we stop...
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Why We Still Need Legacy Sales Skills
I'm probably going to go a little off topic here and there, however please bear with me. A few minutes ago I finished up reading "Why a Lifelong Salesperson Thinks Salespeople Are Unnecessary". That the 80%of the purchasing process will take place without human to human contact by 2020, threw me for a loop! Dang, that's only three years from now! The blogger wrote about a software company that has NO salespeople, and that they grew to 450 million in revenue in 15 years. The gist of the blog...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Last Week of September 2014)
Enjoy these most excellent threads from 5 years ago this week! Konica Minolta and Kodak Showcase New Front End Solutions for bizhub Presses at Graph Expo 2014 Art Post · 9/25/1411:43 PM Konica Minolta and Kodak Showcase New Front End Solutions for bizhub Presses at Graph Expo 2014 Industry Leaders Drive and Manage Digital Press Solutions With Common Production Process RAMSEY, NJ --(Marketwired - September 25, 2014) - Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. ( Konica Minolta ) and Kodak...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Second Week of February 2003
Interesting threads from 15 years ago. Imagistics (anyone remember them), Panasonic, Mita (now Kyocera), ah does it bring back those memories. Speaking of memories, does anyone remember when Sharp was King of the copier industry? It was back in the mid to late eighties. When I was selling Minolta copiers for a dealer in the early eighties whenever a client asked about a Ricoh device, we responded with "what's a Ricoh"? Enjoy the threads from 15 years ago! Toshiba Info 2/11/036:09 PM From:...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of July 2004)
Fifteen years ago, hmmm, I was 47 years old and was with Century for 5 years. That time was something special since it was what I call the digital age of copiers. There were still analog copiers to be upgraded and the we attacked new business was to educate the client on how much that fax and printer cost per page was. Faxing was still big and most fax machines had a cost of 3 cents per page or higher. For companies that were receiving a couple of thousand pages a month the cost...
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OMG, it's a Brother "Part 4"
It's been about three months since my trip to Itex 2019 where I had the chance to meet Peter (birth full brother) for the first time. Yup, there's been a lot to digest since Ancestry gave me that DNA hit for a full brother. Just a few days ago I have the chance to meet Pete's daughter (my niece), she flew out to NJ with her Aunt. Such a smart girl for 11 eleven years old. We had the chance to go out to dinner and after dinner I took them over to Sandy Hook so they could have some fun with...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of May 2014)
In each one of the "This Week in the Copier Industry", I'm always looking to add some type of content or tip that would be of value to our members. There's a blog in these threads for "Is There Really a "Natural Born Salesperson"? . I wrote this five years ago and it's still relevant five years later. Enjoy these threads from 5 years ago this week! Canon Solutions America: 5 Questions to Ask When Selecting Media for a Wide-Format Printer Art Post · 5/13/1411:16 PM MELVILLE, NY—May 13,...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of May 2014)
Lately I haven't had that much to blog about, and over the years I've noticed that sometimes you can go weeks on end and just nothing seems to come to mind. Thus next week I'll start doing some spec reviews on some of the new Ricoh MFP devices. I'll be starting with the new IM 350 and finishing up with the new Ricoh PRO 5160. Enjoy these threads from five years ago this week! Canon Solutions America: 5 Questions to Ask When Selecting Media for a Wide-Format Printer Art Post · 5/13/1411:16 PM...
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The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago 3rd Week in November 2015 With Thanksgiving next week I'd like to thank all of our members and sponsors for their support in 2020. This year has not been easy for any of us and we are all looking to a better climate for business in 2021. I have only three words of encouragement for everyone "Never Give Up". Enjoy these awesome copier threads from 5 years ago this week Selling Copiers “The Good Ole Days” ART POST · 11/18/1512:05 AM Selling Copiers “The Good...
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The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago
The Week in Copiers Five Years Ago Second Week of December 2015 Today was just one of those days where I couldn't move anything forward. Thus I took a trip back in time 5 years ago this week. That was the time when we all thought Toshiba Tec was toast, we witnessed the complete failure of Sharp and then the million page test massacre that Samsung put one of their MFP's through. That one million page test was equivalent to 120 trees. Enjoy all of these awesome copier threads from 5 years ago...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago Third Week of October 2016 I was alerted the other day to a dealer that has lost a decent number of there service staff during COVID19. It was explained that all went outside for the industry because of other job openings. I called around to a few principals today however I was not able to get in contact with them. Thus I thought I would post to our members and ask what you are seeing? Enjoy These Awesome Threads from 5 Years Ago! Konica Minolta...
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To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas 2021"
I always like to start these Christmas blogs with a post some snippets about Christmas tradition in other countries. Iceland Icelanders really go all out in Christmas celebrations. Most people start preparing and celebrating on the first day of Advent, 4 Sundays before Christmas Eve. Of course, preparations vary from one household to another, and people celebrate differently - so excuse me for any generalisations! Some people buy the Christmas tree early in December, while others make a...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Fifteen Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Fifteen Years Ago Last Week of February 2007 A little delayed with Covid19 but last week had me attending our (Stratix Systems) 2022 kickoff. Yes, I was able to get to Presidents Club in 2021 because my dealership gave the tools that helped me in my quest. Ob the flip side if you don't use of understand the tools that your dealership provides then you'll never have the opportunity to excel. As much as it's about me reaching Presidents Club it's also about the...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago
sponsored by The year 2023 will mark 43 years of sales in the office technology space. I've spent all of my years in down the street (SMB) office technology sales, even when I had my own small dealership for 12 years. I was never the flashy type, never the bull ****ter or one that made promised of gifts and dinners. I just went about my business and exercised a great work ethic to win more than I lost. I never minded losing because I was able to learn from those losses and always kept the...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago
sponsored by The golden age of copiers and some may argue when that was, however I had the opportunity to be in the golden age of the business. It's my belief that the Golden Age of copier started in 1980 and ran till 2010. My reasoning starts with the mass production of plain paper copiers in the early eighties, then the introduction of the digital copiers in the nineties and lastly the coming of age for digital color copiers. Technology which brought about so many changes in those 30 years...
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3 Interesting Facts About Office Printer Paper
3 Interesting Facts About Office Printer Paper When it comes to printing, cutting costs is not just about the expensive printing machines. Buying, using, and disposing of printer paper can affect printing costs and either boost business efforts towards going green or undermine them. Understanding the importance of proper paper handling can help business offices save time and money. Here are a few interesting facts about printer paper every office can use to help streamline office printing...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago
This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago Second Week of November 2007 sponsored by Last week I stated the countdown continues and today marks 7 weeks left until the start of 2023. That's significant for the the Print4Pay Hotel because it means we'll start a new series "The Week in Copiers 20 Years Ago". I guess that's quite an accomplishment because our data is not just press releases but more and insight as to what was on the mind of our imaging professionals on any given month or...
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This Week in Copiers Twenty Years Ago
This Week in Copiers Twenty Years Ago Second Week of February 2003 With all of the recent news about China with the recent the recent shooting of the SPY balloon and the downing of three "UFOs" (suspected from China), will this alert MFP buyers to ask "where are your MFPs manufactured"? I remember in the eighties when many buyers wanted no part of copiers that were manufactured in Japan. Of course that all ended when Xerox partnered with Fuji and all copiers where manufactured in Japan.
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Daily Digest April 25th, 2023
One of the cool features with our site is the ability to receive a daily digest of the threads for each day. Go to https://www.p4photel.com/account/follows, you need to log in to get to this page. Daily Digest Email This is a Daily Digest from Print4Pay Hotel. Convention Lounge (All Members) / Copiers Stuff "We Found on the Web & Videos" Copier Art Art Post [ Read Entire Topic ] General Information (All Members) / Industry Discussion Room SP Richards Art Post Do we have any members that...
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A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
Re-post from 2018 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...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Twenty Years Ago
This Week in Copiers Twenty Years Ago Third Week of August 2003 Real Copier Sales No words of wisdom today, just swamped with things at home and things at work. Let's finish with a have an awesome August! Is it too early to talk about Section 179 with our clients? Great threads from twenty years ago this week Kyocera Mita Introduces Art Post (Guest) · 9/19/039:06 AM scanning, copying and faxing with exceptional reliability, superior image quality and an affordable price. "By incorporating...