Tagged With "Technology Summit"
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Re: Brent Hoskins Celebrates 30 Years With BTA
Congrats Brent! You've been an awesome steward of BTA for the last 30 years! Now let's hope for another 30!
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Re: OKC-based company IMAGENET wants to keep employees’ $1,200 stimulus payments….
I have some time to read through the link and it seems they bowed to pressure and have changed their policy. Thank goodness for that
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Re: OKC-based company IMAGENET wants to keep employees’ $1,200 stimulus payments….
Good god. what a piece of work (Putting it nicely). Talk about screwing over your employees. At what point did this seem like a good idea for a company of Pats size. I know everyone is hurting but the 100 mil dealer is not hurting like the 5-10 mil dealer right now in my opinion. Glad he bowed to the pressure but that should have never been considered.
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Re: Post-Virus We Must Defeat The Zombie Companies!
Although I am 60% on board with your move to A4 strategy, most of the rest of the stuff you are posting is "knocking it out of the park"! I would like to see a poll. As a business owner, during COVID-19 would you prefer? 1). No lease payments for 90 days 2). 1/2 price lease payments for one year The auto industry is pushing no payments for 90 days but I think business owners are more concerned about cash flow for the next year. I think the correct strategy is to offer as part of your...
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Re: Post-Virus We Must Defeat The Zombie Companies!
SalesServiceGuy, I would suggest that a payment strategy is not something I see valuable at all. Customers need help deferring payments on what they already own. In all do respect. A payment strategy is not helpful to end user strictly based on selling a new MFP. The Imaging Channel's resellers who only sell print equipment are going to find themselves in serious trouble. Customers don't need to upgrade their all already oversold A3 to another one. Dealers should credit back the unused...
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Re: Post-Virus We Must Defeat The Zombie Companies!
We generally do not build in prepaid copy/ print blocks into our leases. We do give away free copy prints up front but only intended as a short term bonus. We do normally charge a $25.00 minimum monthly maintenance fee but have waived that until the economy rebuilds momentum. I am in Canada, lease vendors are currently offering 90 day payment deferrals added back on at the end of term for those customers who request them. Leases expire every month and customers are happy with the equipment...
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Re: Post-Virus We Must Defeat The Zombie Companies!
SalesServiceGuy I will discuss this more on tomorrows "End of The Day With Ray!" Have a great evening
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Re: Post-Virus We Must Defeat The Zombie Companies!
I have to dial back the 1/2 price payments for one year. Most SMB business will only get lease approved for a six month Step lease. So for those customers wanting to preserve cash flow, a six month 1/2 price lease cost followed by a 60 month regular cost lease would be the best offer. On a $5k lease this would add approx $139.00 to the total finance costs spread over 66 months ($2.00 month).
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Re: 7 Deadly Topics from 7 Deadly Sinners at Top 100 Summit (Part One)
Is it just me, or does West McDonald look like Wolverine? I watched the Seat-Based Billing video that was posted from the Top 100 Summit. Definitely some interesting points going back and forth. Print Audit has done a great job of persistently marketing seat-based pilling to the copier industry.
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Re: STRONG EXHIBITOR REGISTRATION FOR drupa 2020
I'm really going to try to get to this event! It's a once in a lifetime gig
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Re: JohnReiling
I received the following e-mail from John's son, late last evening: Subject: He's never satisfied Who doesn't love a good rollercoaster? Most everyone at some time in their lives has enjoyed the exhilarating rush that builds with the slow click up the summit and is released as you whip with wild abandon up and around and upside down. And unless you're a pilot for the Air Force there's almost nothing like it in the world. It's thrilling, it's exciting, it's invigorating. Once. But you know...
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Re: Ricoh unveils Intelligent Devices and innovative technologies to meet the evolving needs of the digital workplace
can't wait read more about these devices!
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Re: 5 Questions for HP about the Acquisition of Samsung Printer Business Unit
Yup we'll see, it's interesting that I had a conversation about the pagewide technology at the Top 100 Summit.
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Re: Canon celebrates 30th anniversary of launch of first Bubble Jet inkjet printer
Brings back many xclint memories. I sold the Canon bubblejet color printer in the late eighties or early nineties. We got list for everyone of them. I forget the model number but it was the only one that was sheetfeed and could do upto 12x18 or 13x19. Can anyone recall that model number BJC 810?
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Re: Océ VarioPrint i300 iQuarius Technologies (Video)
Has anyone seen this video? The technology is amazing! iQuarius not be confused with Aquarius
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Re: Memjet and Canon Enter Into Cross-License Inkjet Technology Agreement
This announcement is HUGE! For a wide format buff like me, this gives Canon the ability to compete with HP PageWide. It will probably be a few years before we see any print devices, but we all know time goes so quickly. In addition we'll probably see A3 ink MFP's also. Just boggles my mind that the likes of KIP, nor Ricoh has committed to Memjet's waterfall print head yet
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Re: Memjet and Canon Enter Into Cross-License Inkjet Technology Agreement
Art, I agree. The first thing I thought of when I saw this was this may be Canon's answer to HP's PageWide A3s as well as Wide Format. Vince
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Re: Memjet and Canon Enter Into Cross-License Inkjet Technology Agreement
Canon needs to make serious improvements to the technology, The Oce Velocity, and the Xerox IJP 2000 were both Memjet large format machines and both were epic failures. Why would KIP get involved with Memjet? The 800 and 900 series machines are doing great against the HP Pagewide. If Canon can implement there printhead technology into the Memjet Printhead we may have something.
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Re: Memjet and Canon Enter Into Cross-License Inkjet Technology Agreement
Toshiba Tec has been manufacturing inkjet print heads for industry for many years. Japanese manufacturers that make and provide copiers worldwide are facing stagnation in the demand for their products, mainly due to the market saturation in advanced countries and a reduction in profits from consumables. As a result, they have lost their investment incentive for toner-based product development. While they are aggressively investing in and developing products for production and industrial...
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Re: Memjet and Canon Enter Into Cross-License Inkjet Technology Agreement
I think it was 5 years ago that Toshiba bought memjet licensing, just haven't heard of anything lately. I thought they would be one of the first
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Re: 7 Technologies That I Used to Use While Selling Copiers
Dang, I did forget that!!! I had at least three of them over the years! Good pickup fisher!!
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Re: Print4Pay Hotel Enjoys a Day @ Ethos Technologies
Art, I have also been in the industry for many years…Jan. 1983. Working on Savin Liquid Toner machines. It would be interesting to see the presentation that you have put together to compare the information that you put together here with what goes on in my world in Illinois. Jeff
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Re: Print4Pay Hotel Enjoys a Day @ Ethos Technologies
Jeff: It's great staring out as techs right? As far as the presentation goes...., Global is going to have to shell out the shekels and then I can come to your place!!
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Re: Print4Pay Hotel Enjoys a Day @ Ethos Technologies
Art, I will pass this information on to our President of sales Don Phillips for his consideration and I agree with you that your knowledge is worth money. You have yourself a good one and keep up the great work you do. Please feel free to reach out to me if there is anything that I can help you with and or provide for you. Jeff
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Re: who is going to BTA?
not me, we need to connect though, will be at Top 100 Summit in September
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Re: Technology is Transforming Communication
As usual, Ray, you're perfectly right. I add something totally in that mood. It happened just yesterday and, maybe, 2 or 3 people missed the history in the making. Over the English Channel, a man made a flight. https://www.lemonde.fr/interna...he_5496464_3210.html https://youtu.be/d9PFPLEC6tw I totally understand your reference to the Communicator in Space Trek. And this one is clearly about Marty McFly's hoverboard in Back to the Future. Dreams made reality!
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Re: Leasing Companies are not Exempt from Changes
Wow - that was quite the read. While there are a few details that I have a differing opinion on, I cannot agree more with Ray on the the fact that change is coming and the Leasing industry has not choice but to change with it. The question is not "will leasing companies change", but how much will they change and how much will they be able to change within their existing framework. Many of these leasing companies are part of larger banking organizations and will the regulatory and legal...
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Re: Leasing Companies are not Exempt from Changes
Thanks for commenting the first step to change is the ability to discuss why you should. As all of know change is usually a forced reaction unfortunately. I would say that the real disruptions to any deliverable are those which come from new places. too many see their competitors as someone like them. Today we all need to look in new places. Regarding Quicken I believe the mass market they attract are not 800 plus credit scores. The interest paid by end-users doesn't need to necessary be...
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Re: Dutch media reports Canon Océ job cuts
Interesting report. They will cut R&D, cut 300 jobs and still spend 90 million euros on R&D. Canon is calling in it's chips to get them profitable
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Re: IMPRESSIVE EXHIBITOR REGISTRATION FOR DRUPA 2020
I need to go to this, anyone looking to sponsor me
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Re: MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for November 9th 2019
Nice recap Art keep up the great work my friend
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Re: DRUPA WORLD TOUR STARTED
Who is going? I need to make this trip, lets get a few peeps and enjoy a week in Germany!
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Re: Thomas A. Russo Museum of Business History & Technology
Wilmington, Delaware, guess I'll be taking me day trip there!
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Re: Canon Launches 64" Océ Colorado 1640 Built on New UVgel Technology
Wow, this is cool, wonder what the cost is
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Re: Foxconn, Sharp Reportedly Set To Sign Takeover Deal March 31
with the original deal for $4.3 billion US dollars. Sharp USA reported that 45 million was to go to the North American market for building the business imaging division. In a document from Sharp the 45 million. Since the buy number is now 1/5th less. I would expect that number to now drop to 36 million or so.
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Re: Foxconn, Sharp Reportedly Set To Sign Takeover Deal March 31
I would be surprised if any such discretionary spending can survive unless Fox Con desides to dump a bunch of money into making this acquisition pay off. Remember that Sharp has already cut to the bone and some things probably cannot be cut any further.
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Re: Lexmark to Be Sold for $2.54 Billion
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Lexmark agrees to be acquired by China’s Apex Technology Posted on April 19, 2016 by M. David Nichols Lexmark International Inc., the beleaguered Lexington-based maker of printers and management software, announced Tuesday evening it has agreed to be acquired by a group of investors headed by China-based Apex Technology and PAG Asian Capital. “What we are announcing this evening is an outcome of our strategic review,” Paul Rooke, Lexmark chairman and chief executive...
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Wide Format Technology Update -The New Canon TM Series Wide Format Technical Series
Wide Format Technology Update -The New Canon TM Series Wide Format Technical Series Having just completed one of our most successful quarters ever, I can confidently say that one of the main reasons for our sales success in Q4 was the new Canon TM Series printers and MFP systems. This series was introduced by Canon to replace the very successful 78x series which had anchored the Canon iPF wide format line for the last number of years. The 78x series was overdue to be replaced and the...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Last Week in January 2004
In the next day or so I'll be blogging about the new Ricoh IMC MFP series. There's a lot of new stuff and I'm chomping at the bit to get my hands on one. Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week! Peerless Systems Announces Everest Family of MFP Controllers; New Controllers Based on Sierra Techno Boston Mike · 1/28/046:58 AM document products rely on a core set of imaging software and supporting electronics, collectively known as an imaging controller. Peerless' broad line of scalable...
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ATR opens a new ITAD processing center in Las Vegas expanding Managed IT Services and Secure Destruction services throughout the U.S.
LAS VEGAS , Jan. 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Technology Recycling (ATR) a global leader in Information Technology Asset Disposition (ITAD) and Electronic Recycling services is pleased to announce the opening of a new state of the art processing facility in Las Vegas . The new facility will be located at 4120 W Windmill LN, Suite 105, Las Vegas, NV. This will mark the third major expansion in less than 1 year for the Woman Owned ITAD management company who recently relocated their Salt...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 5 Years Ago (1st Week of February 2014)
Were you in the industry five years ago? If not some of these threads will shed some insight on what was the top threads 5 years ago this week. If you've been in this industry longer than five years, then many of these threads may bring back some memories. In any case enjoy these threads from 5 years ago this week! EFI Launches Fiery Digital Front Ends for New Konica Minolta Bizhub Presses Art Post · 2/6/149:20 PM EFI Launches Fiery Digital Front Ends for New Konica Minolta Bizhub Presses...