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Re: Print Copy Tool versus Plotworks
John, The PrintCopy Tool compares pretty favorably to Plotworks. I attached two documents to this post. The Product Support Guide lists differences between the two products. The PowerPoint has screen shots of all the settings in PrintCopy Tool. I hope this helps.
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Re: Panasonic Canada discontinues A3 Copier Distribution March 2011
Did Panasonic make their A3 MFPs for anyone else? Were they ever sold under a non-Panasonic label? The color units have a "Fuji" look to them and earlier A3 color units were also sold as Xerox WorkCenters and were from Fuji.
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Re: Panasonic Canada discontinues A3 Copier Distribution March 2011
I am certain they were actually Fuji engines labeled as Panasonic models.
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Re: Industrial Label Printers
We sold two copiers recently to a Window & Door Manufacturer. One of the copiers had 4k clicks on it in less than a week so we thought we would have a good revenue stream. I have been thinking about these Label printers so I asked the client about how they use the ones that they already have. I was floored when the client told me that they plan to spend $100k this year on labels alone.
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Re: Does any National Copier Vendor still have their own in house leasing service?
Canon has Canon Financial Services - which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon. This is a true captive program with Canon financial servicing the majority of the leases they originate Ricoh - Most of Ricoh's leases are sold to 3rd party leasing companies (GE, DLL, CIT, Wells) on a private label basis. Ricoh does have Ricoh Financial Services which is a true captive, but it only takes a small portion (Major Accounts) of the leases that are originated by Ricoh Ikon - they utilize Ikon...
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Re: Competitive Copier Vendors
I think the local dealers biggest advantage against the National vendors is flexibility. Dealers naturally have much shorter chains of command due to having far less employees. Therefore, dealers can make quicker decisions. The National Vendors are always going to have the advantage of price and a lesser concern for profitability. If you cant beat them on price, thow in some change-ups on them. 1.Free Pro Services 2 Free HDD Decommissioning 3.Copy Blocks 4. Throw a "bonus" Office Chair,...
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Re: MPC2500 migrate to MPC3002
I don't think there is a way to do this. I remember thinking it was possible and then having to print all of the files off the old machine & scan/label them for the customer. It was a doctor's office that stored all of their paperwork in their Document Server. Biggest beating ever!
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Re: Canon 7055 Help!
Art, The Brochure saya 14 - 80lb cover (52 - 220g/m2) in the draws (which means you can duplex them automatically. And up to 300g/m2 in the Bypass which means it would require a manual (flip) to duplex them.I prefer to go by the g/m2 off of the paper packages label because 100 lb Index is much lighter than 100 lb cover. I put a link to the paper weight conversion chart below, in case you need it. Paper Weight Conversion chart Vince
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Re: Paper
These are the specs from Ricoh TSC website CL3000 Avoid using the following, as they are not supported by this printer: · Paper meant for an ink-jet printer · Bent, folded, or creased paper · Curled or twisted paper · Torn paper · Wrinkled paper · Damp paper · Paper that is dry enough to emit static electricity · Paper that has already been printed onto, except a preprinted letterhead · Special paper, such as thermal paper, aluminum foil, carbon paper and conductive paper · Paper whose...
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Re: Ricoh Rumor!! New Strategy?
This seems to be a pretty good box but I have seen some problems. First of all if you have the Muratec machine, make sure you don't forget to put the Muratec sticker over the Samsung label!!! LOL One pain in the ass thing is having to tell the machine what size paper is in the tray whenever you refill the tray or load the bypass. I can understand and accept having to set the bypass size but not the main trays!!! Kinda stooooopid if you ask me. Also you can't recieve faxes in 11" and 14". You...
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Re: Ricoh Rumor!! New Strategy?
We have a half dozen or so in the field, no complaints here, I did watch a customer send a print job of a 100 page booklet and there was no pause. Is this just happening with copies? If so, it could be a memory issue. The machine that I spoke about had the memory upgrade installed before we put it in the field. That may be the issue. Let me know what you come up with.
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Re: Aficio FW240 NEWS
What are all the spec's for this system? Is this a true "Ricoh" product and not a re-label?
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Re: JP4500 Meter
The trouble with using user tools, is that it's a resettable counter, and thus would not be good to use, as it can be reset! Tech Sp mode under CopyData keeps ongoing, but is not customer accessible. Mechanical counters are inside front cover, to the left of the drum, covered by a plastic label type thing. Suggest that that label is pulled off on set-up, to allow counter readings. Cheers.
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Re: SAP Systems
Attached you will find the SAP Printer Vendor Program document. You will see that Oce', KonicaMinolta, Sharp, and Kyocera are on it and Ricoh is not. Ricoh's response is "There is no reason to believe that any Ricoh will not work with SAP but at the present time, there are no plans to spend the money necessary to become SAP certified." We have a Fortune 500 company that is completely SAP and the only problems we have is occassional kick-back from IT because we are not on the list. However, I...
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Re: Hot Spot Printers
SO, the way the Hotspot printers work (as I understand it) is, you plug them in and give them internet access and there is a label on the front with the printers email address. You email your document to the printer and it prints. You can optionally require that the submitter pay a fee via credit card (provider takes a cut of that)before it prints. So, the service fees for this would cover the email address, not an IP as the printer is sitting on your network, presumably behind firewalls, etc.
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Re: Futures
It's my understanding that the Aficia Color 3131 is a re-label of the Toshiba color unit.
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Re: Competitive Info needed Lexmark XM1145
I would focus on the cost per page first. Find out of the customer is going to take a maintenance agreement. You may have win there. If no maintenance agreement is needed I would then focus on the consumables costs of the A4 device. Such as cost per page for toner, cost per page for drum (imaging) and cost per page for the fuser kit. I found the fuser maintenance kit on CDW for $269.99, however, there is no yield stated. I also found another fuser kit for $356 and the yield is 200K which...
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Re: Ricoh Wide Format Marketing
Art - I feel your pain! In a letter to a Senior VP at Konica, my boss wrote that selling the Konica 8050 to IKON, and allowing them to re-label, was the biggest sellout in the history of the copier industry. I guess that Konica isn't the only "sellout" when it comes to their products. I hope for all our sake that the "X" dealer doesn't get involved because it's pretty easy to sell against them in the WF arena right now. Good luck
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Re: Need assistance from a Savin, Gestetner, or Lanier Rep
Looked on Ricoh 2018 rear cover (main ser #) It says 4018/DSm618/LD118/Aficio2018 all in a row, then way over to right of label says Ricoh Corp in small print. I'm pretty sure that all newer equip is labeled same way older equip used to say Savin/Gest or Ricoh separately
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Re: Lexmark’s new multifunction
Print Technology Monochrome Laser UNSPSC Code 43.21.21.10 Network Printing Methods LPR/LPD Direct IP (Port 9100) Socket (Raw TCP/IP) IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) HTTP NDS Queue-based Printing NDPS/NEPS (Novell Distributed Print Services, Novell Netware Enterprise Print Services) Enhanced IP (Port 9400) FTP, TFTP Network Protocol Support TCP/IP IPv4 IPX/SPX AppleTalk™ LexLink (DLC) TCP/IP IPv6 TCP/IP Set of Application Services Zero configuration DDNS, mDNS NTP: Network Time Protocol...
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Re: Konica Minolta and 140lb index
jswinberlin, I don't know what to tell you except that the Konicas were designed to do this and the Ricohs were not. I'm not an engineer, so I don't know the design decisions behind that. All I can tell you for us is that the machines have been living up to their promised specifications. You may want to consider your user's actual requirements in your "defense arguments." Just how often does the average business user really need to duplex 140lb anyway??? John, the Product Guide for the...
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Re: Ricoh Rumor!! New Strategy?
Method 2 Beam Laser Scanning Unit and Electro Photography Speed * Up to 45 ppm in Letter; Duplex Printing Speed: Up to 42 ipm in Letter Resolution Up to 1,200x1,200dpi Effective Output First Print Out Time 8 seconds (from Standby mode) Emulation PCL6, PostScript 3 Memory 256MB (Shared) Duplex Print Standard Copy Speed ** Up to 45 cpm in Letter Resolution (Optical) Scan: up to 600 x 300 (text, text/photo) up to 600 x 600 (photo using platen) up to 600 x 300 (photo using DADF) Print: up to 600...
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Re: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Last Week of February 2004)
I am out of the office until 05/03/2014. I am on annual leave until Wednesday 5th March 2014. If your email requires urgent attention please contact Mark Caveney on 01928 599 660 or mark.caveney@ricoh.co.uk ; or to place a service call and/or order toner for a machine please contact our service team on 08457 44 55 65. Alternatively, I will reply on my return. Many thanks, Ben. Note: This is an automated response to your message "Post By Art Post: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment...
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Re: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Last Week of February 2004)
I am out of the office until 03/03/2014. I will be out of the office from 21st of February until the 3rd of March with limited ability to check my e-mails. For immediate assistance, please contact Jason Trinder at jason.trinder@ricoh.co.uk or 02920 642590. Regards, Lloyd Davies Note: This is an automated response to your message "Post By Art Post: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry ..." sent on 23/02/2014 21:49:08. This is the only notification you will receive while this...
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Re: The Transition of the Copier Industry "Part III"
This type process is archaic Yes, for sure it is!!! And time consuming... PrintAnalyze will have something to say in this matter very soon...
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Re: The Transition of the Copier Industry "Part III"
Art, So you’re saying you used eQuill with eWriter to process your sales paper work? To this day, are you still doing it that way? Did you have many customers buying in to eQuill in the healthcare, government agencies and law enforcement fields? It would seem that any entity that processed sales would be a good target for eQuill too—did you find that to be so? Yeah—it’s tough not to resort to ‘commodity speak’ when prospecting b/c that’s what it seems to come down to—cannibalizing from each...
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Re: The Transition of the Copier Industry "Part III"
Great article as usual Art. I agree, technology like this is a great option for any industry. I think that the reason it has been so slow to take off is that people like the "hard copy". Whether it's because they feel it's more secure, or just out of habit, having the signed document in hand is a tough thing to let go of. I see the same with becoming a cashless society, people love paper!
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Re: The Transition of the Copier Industry "Part III"
Hey Jeff No, we did not use the eQuill/eWriter. I thought we should have put this to good use for our sales team. The usage of the eQuill in the field would have enable many conversations about how we use it, how we set the system up, and what was our back end process. It was an opportunity to break out of that commodity role. Thanx for the reply and questions!
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Re: Looking to take on new copier line
Muratec, they have awesome support, the KM line and have that incredible color label press!
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Re: True In House Leasing
We have our own private label, as far as holding the paper, only for a few and that's reserved only for principle of the dealership.
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Re: True In House Leasing
We have both a private label lease and a true in house lease that our company holds the paper on.
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Re: Konica Minolta Debuts Innovations for Label and Packaging Industries at Labelexpo Americas 2016
I'm fascinated with these Label printers/presses. Paper may be declining in the office, however the demand for full color labels is increasing at an incredible rate. Look for my blog next week about the Muratec Label Press which offers a great opportunity for office equipment dealers
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Re: Label printing (Aluminium backed)
Spoke with my guy about this and no the muratecs can't due a metal backed label, however there are substrates available that have a gold and silver background that you can print on
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Re: Imaging Channel, Let's Become the Innovation Channel!!
Ray Good stuff, however when discussing imaging (which is a wide portfolio of devices), everyone seems to forget about the huge growth of niche imaging devices. Those devices include wide format, grand wide format, label presses, and envelope presses. While in Las Vegas in the spring of this year, I was able to attend the ISA Sign Expo. I've been to a lot of events in the past year and the ISA was the largest event I every attended. Two hundred thousand square feet of convention space with...
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Re: OKI Data Americas Adds Grant Graphics to ColorPainter Reseller Program
Fellow P4P'ers take note color wide format, label presses, niche printing devices is where the growth is. If you are successful in production print then you'll be successful in niche printing also
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Re: Konica Minolta Acquires More Than Just Copier Dealers
Attached is the letter I received from Muratec Marketing
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Re: Scott Labels moves into digital with Konica Minolta investment
No I don't. Seems odd why it's not working for you. Here's the complete: The new, additional machine has been installed at the Liphook, Hampshire-based firm’s 743sqm premises in the past few months. Prior to taking delivery of the 18.9m/min device, Scott Labels was an entirely flexo operation, running a fleet that included two six-colour UV Focus Proflex flexo presses and a die-cutting machine used for plain labels. The Konica Minolta machine has enabled the six-staff company to...
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Re: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of September 2004
Thanks for your email. I will be out of the office until Monday, September 29. I'll have limited access to email and will return your message as soon as possible. All the best, Andrew Jones Muratec America, Inc.
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Re: Top Ten MFP Copier Industry Predictions for 2015
I really like number 4, and I believe #7 is going to happen sooner than we expected. I hold out hope as well.
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Re: Top Ten MFP Copier Industry Predictions for 2015
Not liking the Kyocera part of #4 at all. On the other hand really liking # 10 Add: Color equipment will become more prevalent with costs of color equipment continuing to drop and coming more in line with monochrome.
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Re: Top Ten MFP Copier Industry Predictions for 2015
5) - Canon bought a very large stake in one last year (Therefore). Locally hosted or cloud based.
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Re: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Second Week of May 2004
This info is 10 yrs old..looks like dates in meta data spewed old stuff
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Re: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Second Week of May 2004
Hi Mary: The title of the Blog is: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Second Week of May 2004 Art
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Re: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of April 2004)
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Re: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of January 2005
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Re: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of January 2005
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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: This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The Second Week of July 2006
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Re: Who Would be a Viable Buyer for Toshiba Tec?
Makes me wonder what may happen. From my talks with muratec, of course I'm not in a high position of being in the know, it sounds like the label presses will become their go to product and eventually the mfp's will be less important to them. It would be interesting to me if Samsung sold to HP for a billion (I'm not sure why HP thought they were getting a steal by paying a billion for the copier division) and then Samsung turns around and says "thanks for the billion dollars, now we are going...