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Re: Things to Think About!
So, I'm browsing through the new Readers Digest (okay, old fashioned yes, what can I say?!) this weekend, and lo and behold that very advice about the GPS and remote and the texting and the pin was in it. The story is called "How to Find Anything." This brings up a bigger rant, and if you'll bear with me a second.... I'm getting very tired of Internet foolishness getting passed along as actual truth by legitimate media who no longer bother to take the time to validate their stories. Whatever...
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Re: Scan to folder and Vipre
Montecore, I have spent many years in sales and began networking our systems almost 10 years ago. Currently, I handle all of our connectivity and solutions for our company and I have connected and troubleshot hundreds, maybe thousands of computers. I agree, a technician can and should be able to resolve this problem. However, first it is necessary to identify the problem. This requires ruling out what it is not. Of course, hindsight is 20/20. If I tell you this story, it seems simple.
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Re: Both HP and Lexmark increase prices Jan 01 2012
yeah, seems like dealers again will bear the brunt of this, since so many direct branches have a no increase cap on the cost per page. Stupid is as stupid does......
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Re: RBS Continues to Dump Machines & Make Dealers Look Bad!
I just looked it up: Predatory pricing (also known as destroyer pricing) is the practice of a firm selling a product at very low price with the intent of driving competitors out of the market, or create a barrier to entry into the market for potential new competitors. If the other firms cannot sustain equal or lower prices without losing money, they go out of business. The predatory pricer then has fewer competitors or even a monopoly, allowing it to raise prices above what the market would...
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Re: MFP Wars "Death of the Independent Dealer"
Art I too am an independent dealer and have trouble getting deals with schools or govt. agencies. How can we bargain with the OEMs to get a piece of the pie. I have dealings with schools on rentals but have a hard time getting new equipment in there. Any suggestions? If you want to email me my email is dosystems7@yahoo.com Thanks and God Bless! Leonard Garcia Jr. at Dependable Office Systems
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Re: Greg Brown
Hate to see you go, although I know you are in a better place with everlasting peace. Was hoping we would meet this week, however now I know we'll meet in the future. I will miss your enthusiaum and encouragement, but will remember that you're still smarter than the average bear. May the Lord Bless You and Keep You..
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Re: Ricoh launched a “Canon/Xerox ATTACK!”
I quess it would be more in tune to why you should pay more for the Ricoh devices. It just seems everyone is caught up in price and not caring about support. I'm telling the Ricoh story and new accounts have been a bear. I guess a general overview of how these machines work with network scanning, and network faxing would be a great place to start, and what deficiencies Kyocera has related to network scanning and faxing. Art
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Re: Winter 2009
All kidding aside, we sure wish there was a way we could help you all. Funny though that with all the locations with no electricity, no heat (and for those never having lived through it - it's a bear), and all the other issues going on, at least there's places to go where you can stay in touch. Good wishes going out to you and so many others!
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Re: Toshiba Launches Social Business Network Designed to Connect Sales, Service and Corpo
That's actually how I have the manufacturers boards configured now. If you're a dual line or more you have access to multiple boards. I am still building forums and still have to lock down some of the new boards. However I have left the general boards "open" to all members, as you will see in the catefory markings of "all members". Would like to hear more on this. Maybe I should add a socil site for P4P or would that be too much to bear? Art
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Re: 2238 Color Toner Yields
G'Day all. You will get your yield based on the figures given by Ricoh. However it is important to understand the issues with coverage. Also bear in mind that coverage to useage are not proportional. A square block of colour on a page 100x100=1000, if you double the size of the square you quadruple the coverage 200x200=4000. Also dependant upon what you're printing will make a difference. 5% of text and 5% of graphics are different due to image processing and laying of toner and charge.
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Re: Aficio 401 hard drive
No, but bear in mind it is a SCUZZI. It will cost you a lot to find out. And most of the Ricohs (these days at any rate) wont work with off-the -shelf drives.
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Re: Feature Article for February "BuyerZone.com Friend or Foe"?
"Poking the bear" I realize that most of the users of this site are sales reps who make their living off of commissions. This means what I'm going to say might not go over well, but I don't mean any disrespect. I hope this comes across as what I meant it to be, a "devil's advocate" approach to the issue. I'm not espousing this view as much as trying to explain them. First and foremost, Sales Representatives provide a valuable service for the customer by exploring the needs of a company,...
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Re: 240 scanner counter
Jason...actually I did run an 11 x 17 and it only jumped 1 click. I did a second one and it did the same...a third one, same result, 1 click. 17" x 3 should have resulted in 4 clicks from the start of the test. Need to do some more sampling to get what it's really telling us, although I don't really have much of a problem with my customers paying for linear feet off the Total Counter anyway, so it's not a high priority at this point. It is interesting to see what all is in there, though. Oh...
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Re: 240W...trailing edge of drawing missing on print but not in viewer
New f/w was just posted on the TSC site today. Attached is the readme file....
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Re: New P4P Web Site Launch April 1st 2007!
After many months, we are just about ready to launch, within a few days ost a date and time for turn on, we may have a few glitches so please bear with us. Basically, we developed a new portal that will link the blogs, link all of the other manufacturers message boards and give a more professional appearance. One of my ideas for the future is to remove all of the documents from this site and post them on documentmall, Ricoh users will have rights to ricoh documents, Canon for Canon, Kyo for...
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Re: Around the World w/Ricoh #3
If this email doesn't look like it's displaying properly, click here . ENEWS ::: July 2007 e-News July 2007 Edition arthur Welcome to the latest edition of eNews - with news of the world´s first duplex digital duplicator - plus information on remote MFD monitoring, a new joint venture, the cost of personal printing, green initiatives and another chance for you to win a revolutionary GX3000 GelSprinter colour printer. How to win - as a registered Ricoh eNews reader we automatically enter your...
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Re: Escalating Maintenance Agreements
Personally, I would rather be upfront with the customer (in many cases I am), rather than "hiding the cheese". I will admit that there are many occasions where I do not address the escalating cost of the service agreement, if it is brought up, I will then address it. I just see our industry as a whole "hiding the cheese" in many places. I will strive to tell more clients about the escalating increase, because I don't want to have a irate customer call me after the first year has expired.
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NexusTek Acquires Zumasys Cloud Hosting, Infrastructure and Managed Services
Denver, CO; Irvine, CA, July 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NexusTek , a leading provider of IT services including help desk, cloud services, cyber security services, IT consulting, server monitoring, VoIP and Microsoft Dynamics, today announced that it has acquired the cloud hosting, infrastructure and managed services business units from Zumasys, an Orange County-based national provider of cloud computing solutions. Today, tens-of-thousands of users rely on Zumasys Cloud, now NexusTek, to...
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Canon eyes expansion and partner growth with new platform launch
Imaging tech giant hopes usability and security enhancements will bear fruits for the channel Canon has taken the wraps off of the latest generation of its imageRUNNER ADVANCE platform, which it hopes will ease installation and management for channel partners, resulting in increased business. The third edition supports 26 products across seven series, bringing with it enhanced security, a focus of usability and full standardisation. Canon says the solution represents an opportunity for...
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Ricoh introduces Healthcare Direct Services, providing an interoperable, secure fax alternative for more reliable healthcare communications
MALVERN, Pa. , Nov. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh USA , Inc. today unveiled RICOH Healthcare Direct Services, an interoperable, secured and reliable fax alternative for healthcare organizations that optimizes patient and staff satisfaction by automating and digitizing communications. The service helps reduce clerical errors, improve security and drive cost savings by eliminating the need for fax's paper steps. Leveraging Ricoh's proven technologies and consulting expertise, RICOH Healthcare...
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Managed Print Services Shift Toward Digital Management
Managed print services (MPS) have traditionally included maintaining and managing the multifunction printers (MFPs), copiers, scanners and fax machines a business needs to run their operations — so in-house staff doesn’t have to bear that responsibility. The very devices that were developed to help offices run more efficiently can bring production to a halt when ink or toner runs out or machines malfunction and there aren’t skilled technicians on site. Customers want more to managed print...
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Avon council gets hacked, forced to reschedule meeting
Avon’s first attempt at a public meeting via the Zoom teleconferencing app was hacked on Tuesday, forcing the town council to reschedule the meeting. Mayor Sarah Smith Hymes said the hackers had malicious intent in crashing their meeting. “Thanks to everyone who tried to participate, and deepest apologies for any disturbing content you may have witnessed,” Hymes wrote in a statement. “As we navigate the new reality, we’ll make some missteps; please bear with us as we work out the glitches of...
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Re: RICOH CORPORATION ANNOUNCES
Here's what I posted on my blog today! Ricoh Organizational Changes Ricoh has finally pulled the trigger on the much anticipated merger of Lanier and Ricoh. The new Corporation will be call Ricoh Americas Corporation. The U.S. business unit of Ricoh Americas Corporation will continue to be known as Ricoh U.S. Lanier's Direct Sales Force will be merged with Ricoh Business Systems and thier name will change to Ricoh Business Solutions and they will sell Ricoh branded products. Existing...
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
I met with a business owner today, was with his doctor earlier in the week. The doctor stated that if the democrats win the election. He is going close his business, fire his employees and go to work in a hospital, since the burden of his compliance with the new healthcare law will be too much for him to bear. Why put up with the headaches, regulations he could work for the hospital and have no headaches and regulations that will mandate how much he can earn and how his business is...
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Re: Kate Kingston telemarketing training
no it's not, it's more of vertical market scripts for 12-14 different markets. You should have a script for every market, references for every market and know what documents are required with every vertical market. It's a bear even for me.
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Re: Fiery Free Form with barcodes
Maybe. But I'm not sure where Xerox is going to be with the 3535. What would be the process and or solution? What all do I need on the Micropress to drive either the 3850 or the CL7000? Please bear in mind that the only thing I know about micropress is that you can connect up to 12 systems to it. Thanks!
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Re: Wide Format. I can help
The controller was never updated past AutoCAD 2000 or 2002 and can only run on NT. If a customer wanted to update, they need to upgrade the PC, possibly the Little Bear Card, and also purchase the Ratio version of the software for the 7030D. It's a lot of expense and probably not much return for the customer. May be a good time to get into an Aficio 240W. If you still want to pursue the controller upgrade, there is a company in Ohio that now handles the Repro Fx controller since Visual Edge...
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Re: aficio 240 Scan Problem
OK, try this: On the desktop, set up a new folder, and name it ABC. In scanner settings box, use 215 dpi. select "scanner" for format size. In the main scanner settings box, under settings - options - general tab, select set and file. The path for the scan to file lights up - set for C://desktop/ABC then CLICK APPLY. Open a new set in scantool, and scan a 36 x 24 document. 1. Does it appear on your screen correctly? 2. Does the TIFF / PDF image appear back in the folder ABC on the desktop?
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Re: Commission vs Salary
I believe I did when I was younger, however I always had a draw every two weeks that I needed to pay back. The percentage of commissions were also much higher then and I didn't have the knowledge that I have now. I made it, however that was 25 or more years ago, and the dread of always having to make "x" amount to pay back was a bear. Just curious why you are asking. Art
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Re: Weekend Service
We did have a tech work offset hours (10AM - 7PM) and we had trouble keeping him busy. I think this is best handled on a case by case basis. Where you know what the fleet consists of and you can work out profitable accommodations for the technician(s). I think the case for the pitfalls was made very well in the above posts. The first question that has to be answered is "What is the demand for 24 Hour service?" Then what will the market bear for cost? If there is a market then the market will...
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Re: Sharp 3rd Quarter Results Copiers Dragging
Thanx for taking a look at that. Other copier companies are doing well, in fact KonicaMinolta is doing very well. Ricoh has turned it around also, one of the biggest factors is the yen has devalued against the US dollar. Copiers a core business for Sharp?? I don't think so... Yes, Sharps financial health is better, but isn't it just a matter of time before that massive debt becomes to much to bear? Art
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Scanning, Imaging Key Building Blocks for
Scanning, Imaging Key Building Blocks for OrganizationBusiness and Government End Users Cite Scanning and Imaging as Key Building Blocks for Organization Processes. AIIM Industry Study Reveals High User Satisfaction With ROI from Scanning and Imaging...
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The Lowdown On Longhorn
The Lowdown On Longhorn In sessions at WinHEC and with Microsoft officials, Pipeline Editor Scot Finnie got some fascinating insights on Longhorn. Here's his report. By Scot Finnie Courtesy of TechWeb.com [Editor's Note: The following report was prepared by CMP's Pipeline Editor Scot Finnie, as part of his independent "Scot's Newsletter."] I returned from WinHEC with a recent build (5048) of Windows Longhorn. In sessions at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) and a private...
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Aficio 615C "Gotcha"
I'll have to admit, I have not had a "gotcha" from Ricoh in quite awhile, until a few days ago. I am a big reader of brochures and Ihave read the 615C brochure over and over and over. And now I have just read it again! You would tend to think that...
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4th of July Independance Day
As the Fourth of July draws near..........over 200 hundred years ago America was a colony of the British Empire. Tyranny & Heavy taxation, limited freedoms and colonial censorship were the order of the day. We were able to proclaim our freedom and fight for what we believed in. We had help to win our freedom back then. France gave us ships, money and troops and moral support to stay the course. Let us not forgot that our freedoms and independence does not come with our cost. Lives have been...
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Konica Minolta Showcases "The Power of One"
Konica Minolta Showcases "The Power of One" at Inaugural ImageAmericas Business Conference & Expo. Technology Showcase Highlights Konica Minolta's Leadership in Desktop to Print Shop Product Offerings to Dealer Channel. RAMSEY, NJ, April 15 - Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Website) (Konica Minolta) highlighted the "Power of One" united Konica Minolta dealer channel at ImageAmericas 2004, the company's first annual business conference and expo. The inaugural event, which took...
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EFI Announces Partnership with Masterpiece Graphix (MGX) to Supply Coated Substrates
Ypsilanti, MI -- July 23, 2009 -- EFI today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Masterpiece Graphix, Inc. (MGX), MGX the largest provider of customized pre coated, print enhanced substrates for digital printing. Under the terms of...
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EFI Announces Partnership with Masterpiece Graphix (MGX) to Supply Coated Substrates
Ypsilanti, MI -- July 23, 2009 -- EFI today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Masterpiece Graphix, Inc. (MGX), MGX the largest provider of customized pre coated, print enhanced substrates for digital printing. Under the terms of...
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CIT Debt Sold to Widows Has Fine Print Pimco Resists
Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- As the world’s biggest bond investors cut off funding to CIT Group Inc., the commercial lender turned to retirees for debt financing. CIT sold $827 million of debentures designed specifically for individuals between...
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Selling Copiers & MFP's "The Tax Man Cometh"
I really, really hate this time of year, usually after the first of the year we'll start seeing the commercials for H&R Block, Hewitt, and Turbo Tax. This year started early, a week before Christmas I started seeing the tax adds! OMG, please no more reminders!! Over the years there's some years were I win (get cash back) and some years where I lose (gotta pay up). Since the Great Recession, I've been getting money back in the years prior to 08 to 03 I had to pay and pay and pay. For those of...
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Selling Among Wolves
Note from Art:I read this many years ago and thought it would be good to repost for all the new members and how the heck?? 21 out of 21???Selling Among WolvesBy Michael PinkWhen we first enter the world of commerce, we’re told how to conform and...
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3D Printing and the Second Amendment
By Nick HodgeFriday, October 5th, 2012Over the past few months I've railed against corporatism and Big Government. We've discussed how the most sophisticated financial systems (LIBOR) are a sham, and the bankers (HSBC, Jamie Dimon, Jon Corzine) with...
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The Future of Technology Disruption in Business
LONDON, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ricoh Europe and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) are launching an in-depth report to provide business leaders with a unique insight into the ways technology will change organisations between now...
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Trend Offset Printing Announced as First U.S. Company to Install the Oce ImageStream 2400
MELVILLE, N.Y., Oct. 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canon Solutions America, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc., today announced a monumental moment in the company's history as its long-time partner, Trend Offset Printing (Trend) , is set to become the first company in the U.S. to install the OcÉ ImageStream 2400 inkjet press . Trend, a nationally recognized commercial print business that specializes in the web offset printing of publications, catalogs, and direct mail for...
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Allison Payment Systems bolsters relationship with Ricoh to better serve customers and further grow its footprint
MALVERN, Pa. , Oct. 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced that Allison Payment Systems, LLC (APS), a full service communication solutions provider, added yet another InfoPrint 5000 GP platform to its expanding nationwide operation in its newest facility in Las Vegas . Serving primarily the finance, healthcare and utility industries, APS has seen its business grow considerably throughout its partnership with Ricoh, both in its Indianapolis and now its Las Vegas...
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Office Equipment "Industry report"
Industry report:This entry includes establishments primarily engaged in the wholesale distribution of office machines and related equipment, including photocopy and microfilm equipment; safes and vaults; accounting and adding machines; calculating...