Tagged With "Lexmark and Brother"
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Re: BLI Recognizes Leading Healthcare Solutions Providers with First-of-its-Kind PaceSetter Award
Well, this is the first type of award/acknowledgement that I've ever seen that is geared towards a vertical market. Guess there will be more of these to come in the future
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Re: Will outside Sales Rep's go away?
It will be interesting to see what the manufacturers allow and don't allow. As of right now they are still very against e-Commerce and listing things on websites etc. I can only speak for my experience with Canon, Sharp and Brother, but they do not want things done via the web.
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Re: Will outside Sales Rep's go away?
In a way its already gone to the internet and away from the outside sales rep........at least for stand alone printers and A4 devices. If all someone needs is a printer or an A4 to be used for basic printing,scanning and copying.....face it, they really don't need us already. If you've been at this a long time you probably remember the days when you sold a lot of A4 machines to small offices. 20 years ago if you needed an A4 you called a copier dealer. Those days are gone for the most part.
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Re: Will outside Sales Rep's go away?
@fisher I agree almost completely, but to play devils advocate I will say that we are selling more desktop printers now than we ever have before. Mostly brother, as we became a partner a couple years ago. I think people are looking for reps to show them a better way than just buying another HP off amazon, but the rep still has to have a higher level conversation with the client...not just hey buy your printers from us.
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Re: Will outside Sales Rep's go away?
We definitely are not out chasing them but we are much more versed talking about them and the benefits of buying them from us rather than the big box store. It has led to some very nice MPS accounts for us this past year. I don’t have a final count but I believe we added about 3 million new clicks this year from printer sales. Not breaking any records by any means but adding an extra 50k or so of revenue never hurts. And thanks to brother for having a minimum advertised price online for the...
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Re: 11 x 17 Printer
Ricoh makes the SP C842DN and it's a beast. Works day in day out with little service intervention. Here's the link https://www.ricoh-usa.com/en/p...r-printer/_/R-408106 Sharp or Brother does not offer a stand alone 11x17 printer?
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Re: 11 x 17 Printer
It has to be laser and heavy duty like that Ricoh you’re talking about. Brother has inkjet and Sharp has small stuff. They are expanding the department so volumes will go up. So it has to be heavy duty
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Re: Your Copiers Are Storing Confidential Information: What You Can Do About It
We are still a dealer but we have not sold a LEXMARK in quite a while. They eliminated the MPS Elite program we were own, or at the least removed us from that program. I never had anyone ask about the security due to the Chinese ownership but it’s a great point. Honestly, I have found their support, to us at least, to be very subpar. Our support from brother has been phenomenal the last 2 years. Most of my printer clients are replacing the lexmarks with the brothers as fast as they can.
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Re: A Halloween Tale of an A3 Copier’s Death
What is even more scary is how your commission cheques will fall in $ value if you only sell A4 copiers. The copier/printer market is not getting any larger and if a commission sales rep focuses on selling lower $ value A4 boxes, they are going to have to make a lot more sales calls and sell a lot more boxes to earn the same money.
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Re: A Halloween Tale of an A3 Copier’s Death
How true! And whats next? How long will it take before A4 will also be banned from the offices? My opinion; As soon as Generation Z enters the office-floors (A3 and A4) print will (sooner or later) ‘disappear’. Who's already preparing his business for this future?
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Re: A Halloween Tale of an A3 Copier’s Death
All great comments, this the reason to change now if you still plan to be in this industry for another twenty years. I probably won’t be, but I still have a plan in place to make the shift to niche printing hardware devices. Still continuing to educate myself for the future
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh
Found this on the web today:: By Pavel Alpeyev Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Orbis Funds, the asset manager that opposed takeover offers by Warren Buffett and Citigroup Inc., rejected Canon Inc.’s 730 million euro ($1.1 billion) bid to buy unprofitable Dutch printer maker Oce NV as too low. Canon’s 8.60 euros-a-share offer “significantly undervalues” Oce’s assets, and Orbis doesn’t want to sell its stake of about 10 percent at that price, the Bermuda-based manager of $20 billion in assets said in a...
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Re: New Samsung 11 x 17" Colour MFPs due Oct 01 USA
I don't think you're going out on a limb, talk is they want to challenge the likes of Ricoh, Canon, Global and KM for dealers as a sole source line and not a secondary line. Was in Office Max today and saw four new products from Sammy on the low end, what out HP, Brother an Epson!
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Re: A Day That Will Never Be Forgotten
I was in my junior year of college and upon return from my 5:30am workout with the rest of my college baseball team, I laid down for a nap in my apartment until 7:45am Central time. After getting dressed and grabbing my things for my morning classes, I walked out to the living room and my brother was laying on the couch and told me a plane hit one of the towers of the World Trade Center in NYC. Of course, we were under the assumption that it was an accident until a little later when the 2nd...
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Re: Ricoh SP3410SF toner
Well, since we're all on the same page . I'm thinking it's a Brother engine. Anyone else?
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Re: EastCoast Franken Storm
We faired pretty well in NH, just lost power for 6 hours, but our wood stove kept us warm. My old neighborhood (Gerritsen Beach) Brooklyn was devastated. My brother and my friend tell me that they each had 6 feet+ water in their basements. They say the whole neighborhood is under water. My brother had to wade through chest deep water just to make it home from work. Keep them in your prayers, it will be a while before they return to normal. Vince
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Re: Brother Industries Signs Agreement To Purchase The Document Imaging Business Of Eastm
This is a strange one. The Kodak imaging line and their software are all high end products (except a couple of products focused on the consumer photo scan area) with a substantial presence in the mid and higher end commercial market. I don't see any fit with Brother as it currently exists. It will be interesting to see what they do with this part of Kodak's product mix. Certainly, Kodak has been challenged but this is one area where their reputation has stayed intact. Their scanner product...
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Re: Toshiba Press Releases
From: Ted Sent: 10/31/2002 7:03 PM Maximum mo. volumes of 12,000 & 15,000? Kind of small don't you think? When Ricoh launches machines like this they start with machines that many firms can use. (i.e. 3800CMF). Now they are bringing out the little brother...the 1232. I bet the 1232 has a higher MMV than these. I'm not going to worry yet.
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Re: Gas Price Check
Jason...is it true that there was a referendum on the ballot on Tuesday that asked: "In the event of divorce should the husband and wife still be able to remain brother and sister?" I heard it passed
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Re: Greg Brown
Gregory S. Brown A Mass of Christian Burial for Gregory Scott Brown, 34, of 8-F Doral Drive, Flying Hills, who died in an auto accident Saturday in Cumru Township, will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in St. Stephen Church, Oil City, Venango County. A Memorial Mass will be Monday, Feb. 23, at 6 p.m. at St. Simon and Jude Church, West Broad Street, Bethlehem. Burial will be in Sunset Hill Memorial Gardens, Cranberry, Venango County. Morrison Funeral Home Inc., Oil City, Venango County, is...
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Re: Samsung Msys-835P
We have one of these in our office but haven't moved it yet. We've had good luck with the SF-560 stealing retail prospects. Pretty similiar to some of the Brother Intellifax 4100 type machines.
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Re: Test Your Knowledge of the Copier Industry
ok, here's the answers to the quiz! 1. Chester Carlson: Hard to beleive anyone got this one wrong!! 2.Nakajima: 37% went with TOWA, they actually had a few systems that were sold under the TOWA name but were manufactured by Sanyo in the late 80's. Als0 35% went with Brother, Brother in the early 90's came out with a color analog copier. 3.Enterprise is correct!! Beta was actually the name of the first zoom lens copier from Minolta! 4.I screwed this one up, they were all model numbers for...
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Re: Question for Solution Managers.
Dr. PCL5 Good technical support! Pre & Post Sale. Available Technical Support. Not having every one and his brother have the same "solution" is a big plus. Vince
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Re: New AC104
The CL1000 is made by Brother and the 2000 & 3000 are made by Panasonic. Has anyone got service pricing on the AC104 yet?
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Re: NEW AC204...Who makes this one?
These too are Samsung. Samsung seems to be the new leader in low end to take on Brother. Several are relabeling Samsung products.
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Re: Who Needs 11x17?
Yes, this topic could be debated for decades ... perhaps it has. But those of us who were copier before digital, were always fed the canned reasons for the quality differences between "PC" type and "Commercial Quality" boxes. Bigger is better? And therefore more expensive ... enter into the digital age ... HP already controlled the network (with Canon made laser engines), even they have gone cheap on the low-end thanks to the likes of brother who, while the first few models left a bit to be...
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Re: Can anyone help?? w/MFP solution
No Dplex printing, no neteork scan, no duplex fax, 166MHZ processor (slow for MS applications), paperport scans are proprietary! Cost per page with out service and parts is .02333 per page. Wonder what a hassle it would be to chnage the fuser when needed. Dell MFP Laser Printer 1600n Dell's first laser-based all-in-one (AIO), the Dell MFP Laser Printer 1600n, is a mixed bag. On the plus side, you'll find better print quality than most monochrome lasers produce and such features as a fax...
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Re: competiton
My main problem is that almost ALL my competition is now allowed to sell their product (Xerox & Oce are the main ones) and MY 240w product. I could understand if it increased market share for the Ricoh, but it doesn't. The only one that loses is me because now I have to go down on price while the competition is fumbling around telling them all wrong information (like that you can just use your current desktop for the print server). I have lost one deal to a freaking dealer that has a...
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Re: hp news!
Isn't this kind of old news? Both Ricoh and Brother (and Riso) have hi-speed inkjet, at least as prototypes. I think it is a matter of very little time before everybody sells this kind of technology.
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Re: new Ricoh SP1000SF.
We have the Savin version in our showroom. Looks good. Same as the Savin 3815 fax, but has a platen also. Smells a little like a Samsung or Brother but documentation indicates its a Ricoh OEM. Feeder seems more reliable than the Savin AC205. A good tool to compete against the big box office supply chains and catalogue companies. Fits many needs, small laser printer, fax machine, convenience copier. With the price being so low any company can afford one. I guess the real question would be how...
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Re: Lexmark Introduces New Generation of A4 Color and Large Workgroup Monochrome Printers and MFPs
I don't see what the BIG deal is with these new devices
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Re: The Quest for $200K Starts Tomorrow
So you worked for MBS right? I believe that was Metropolitan Business Systems. My brother worked there as a tech also, in the mid eighties
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Re: Centralized Office Copier/Printers Replace Water Coolers As Place To Chat And As Sources Of ...
Every now and then we need a break from the computer screen. Centralized print/copy devices provide that break. Oh Brother, give is a break!!!!
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Re: Lexmark Launches New Approach to Enterprise Print with Cloud Print Infrastructure as a Service
Is this a big deal?
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Re: Lexmark International Hires UBS to Lead Debt Refinancing Effort
Holy crap, $1.8 billion in debt!! @Ray Stasiezcko
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Re: Lexmark Extends Enterprise Strength into SMB Market with Two-Series Product Line
Re: Lexmark Extends Enterprise Strength into SMB Market with Two-Series Product Line
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Re: Lexmark Extends Enterprise Strength into SMB Market with Two-Series Product Line
Re: Lexmark Extends Enterprise Strength into SMB Market with Two-Series Product Line
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Re: Lexmark Wins Prestigious 2019 Printer/MFP Line of the Year Award from Keypoint Intelligence
Just a thought, how do you win Printer/MFP of the year when you only have four color A3 devices?
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Re: The One Device in Your Office That's Sucking Away Productivity (Infographic)
This is funny, because the article makes no mention that Brother devices have some of the highest cost per page costs, along with consumables that have a hard time delivering yields. More importantly, is it not right to talk at the centralized MFP? Should we all just sit at our desks for four hours at a clip. Medical reports now seem to indicate that sitting is one of the worst things you can do for extended amounts of time.
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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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Re: Xerox & Brother Dominic - Together They Set the Page Free
I believe Xerox first started airing the Xerox "Brother Domenic" commercials in 1977. I though the first one may have been aired with the 1977 SuperBowl, anyhow, I distinctly remember those Xerox commercials and would have thought that a mere three years later I would get my start in the copier industry! LOL
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Re: Epson MFP's
Here are more pics of the Epson MFP's. I think there is a niche for this but I am not sure we will go down this road or not. We are looking at their large format as everyone and their brother carries Canon Wide Format in our market now. The machine does have meters to write service contracts with it which is interesting to me for an ink machine.
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Re: Epson MFP's
We are not selling it now. We are probably going to take on their wide format line since everyone and their brother has access to canon wide format. I ran some fairly large jobs 100-300 sheets at a time and the machine started printing out half pages, blank pages, and smeared pages. It definitely is geared toward the one man office and we have Lexmark and Samsung for that.
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