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Re: Need HELP! Kyocera Color A3 question
Top three points I make when against Kyocera. #1. Take them color samples from your device and any Kyocera because the color output is sub par on all units. If you don’t have access to one look in your crm for an account you co-exist with Kyocera in. Or the next time you have a knock out make some samples and keep them in a binder. If color quality is important to the customer it will be a win. Another point is showing them you get what you pay for, meaning 3 tier color is what they have...
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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: Toshiba now has tier based CPC's?
Hi, we sell Toshiba in the UK. The current colour range can run with a two tiered counter already. We used to sell the Kyocera range with this feature it seemed to be good and won us business, but lost us money in service. When colour costs are dropping to 4p, the percentage of toner from the 4p is getting less. So to breaking this down into 3 tiers could seem marginal. But let say you could offer 1.5p for 2% coverage then 2.5p for 2-5% coverage and then 4p for above, you have now lost out...
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Re: MPS and Linux HELP!
So some clarification first. PaperCut absolutely does support Mac. In fact, it is the only cost recovery/print control solution that I know of that actually installs in an all Mac environment. (Server and Client) It also is the only solution I know of that installs in a Linux environment. So both of your issues are solved with PaperCut. I included the install guides for Mac and Linux to get you started.
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh
Konica Minolta Says It Has No Plan to Counter Oce Bid (Update1) By Mariko Yasu Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., the Japanese lens and office-equipment maker, said it has no plan to counter Canon Inc.’s offer to buy Oce NV for 730 million euros ($1.1 billion). “There’s no plan to make an offer to Oce at the moment,” Minoru Ikehara, a spokesman at the Tokyobased company, said by phone today. While Konica Minolta had considered an acquisition of the Venlo, Netherlands-based...
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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: Possibly moving to Ricoh....
Thank you to everyone for your input. I was offered the position and accepted. I will now be selling RICOHs, but I have the option to also sell Sharps. To fisher: I understand what you are saying. However, my current boss has provided neither my co-worker nor myself any real sales training. He won't even demonstrate how to sell (we think it's because he can't). I have also learned that we are being underbid by the other Sharp dealer in town, and our service dept head has said our prices are...
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Re: Quake in Japan
(Updates with Honda, Nissan closures beginning in fifth paragraph. See {EXT2 } for reports on the quake.) March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Companies including Sony Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. halted output at plants after an 8.9- magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, damaging production facilities and causing power outages. Sony halted and evacuated six factories in northeastern Japan, said Yasuhiro Okada, a spokesman at the Tokyo-based company. He said the company was assessing the...
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Re: How will the earth quake in Japan affect...
The earthquake and tsunami that have roiled Japan so far have not caused sizable production or supply chain problems for the Rochester area's major employers. Eastman Kodak Co. has two production facilities in Japan that produce printing plates. The Gumma facility, two hours northwest of Tokyo, sustained minor damage in the disasters "and should be able to go back in production fairly soon," said company spokesman Christopher Veronda. "We believe that any impacts to the supply chain will be...
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Re: Japan Crisis
Fukushima Evacuees to Return to Exclusion Zone to Check Property Story tools print this storyorder a reprintsuggest a storydigg thissave to del.icio.usSept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- About 20,000 families from the exclusion zone around Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will be allowed to return to their homes from Sept. 19 to collect belongings and check their properties. They will be permitted to return in their own cars for the first time, said Masato Kino, spokesman at the Emergency...
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Re: Stuxnet Lives!
A COMPUTER virus created to sabotage Iran's nuclear programme and stop Tehran developing an atomic bomb was designed by American and Israeli experts, it was claimed yesterday. The Stuxnet computer worm, the most sophisticated cyber weapon ever made, crippled uranium enrichment facilities across Iran last year and set the country back five years in the nuclear arms race. US military and intelligence sources have told The New York Times that a simulation of Iran's uranium enrichment facility...
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Re: MOM Sues OSU for $1M over COMDOC Secret...
An office-company filed a lawsuit against Ohio State, saying the university wrongly awarded a potential $24 million printer and copier contract to a competitor. Modern Office Methods filed the lawsuit on Sept. 26 in the Court of Claims, requesting that OSU set aside its recently awarded contract with ComDoc, Inc. and rebid it. According to the documents, Modern Office Methods said a ComDoc employee met with an OSU employee, unknowingly to the other top-two competitors, Modern Office Methods...
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Re: Ricoh adding 70 jobs in Lawrenceville
From Industry Analysts: "220 employees from Ricoh will be officially laid off as of today. Although still unconfirmed, sources that wish to remain anonymous within the organization have told us that an announcement will be made shortly. We’ve been told a mix of 220 IKON and Ricoh employees at the director level and above will be affected. The move does not come as a surprise as earlier this year Ricoh announced massive layoffs. Ricoh is in the midst of a major worldwide restructuring, as...
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Re: SP 5200 Series A4
FAC16 is worse. Interesting tidbit...The UK has a small, medium, and large cabinet for this series. This is my guess... There is no way to put this on a cabinet and protect against it tipping over which of course, Ricoh would be liable for. However, if the dealer community comes up with their own answer, Ricoh has plausible deniability. If that is true, I wonder what the Direct side will do.
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Re: Toshiba TEC (and OCE) partner with Memjet
I just caught this, seems all is well with memjet and silverbrook! Memjet Legal Issues Resolved Friday, May 04, 2012 Press release from the issuing company Memjet today announced a key agreement that clears the way for the continued commercialization of Memjet's revolutionary color printing technology. Under the agreement, Memjet will assume direct ownership and control of the intellectual property portfolio related to the Memjet technology, which includes some 4,000 issued and pending...
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Re: Toshiba hit with $87 million fine over LCD price fixing scandal
I have read that Toshiba will likely not have to pay anything as other co named LCD suppliers have already paid damages equal to the total amount awarded. ... plus Toshiba is appealing the verdict.
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Re: Japan's Sharp Corp plans to sell its copiers and air conditioners businesses
DAIWA HOUSE INDUSTRY CO., LTD. is a Japan-based construction company engaged in eight business segments. The Housing segment is involved in the contract work and sale of houses. The Leasing Housing segment develops, constructs and manages leasing houses, and provides agency services. The Condominium Building segment develops, sells and manages condominium buildings. The Housing Stock segment is engaged in the contract work of building reconstruction and the agency of real estate trading. The...
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Re: Japan's Sharp Corp plans to sell its copiers and air conditioners businesses
Somewhere near last.... However, I just picked up this press release from Rueters also: Sharp seeking over $1.2 bln for plant and other assets -Yomiuri * Sharp also in talks to sell some Tokyo offices -Yomiuri * Sharp will struggle to find buyer for solar business-source By Reiji Murai and Tim Kelly TOKYO, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Cash-strapped Sharp Corp is in talks to sell its key solar panel plant in Japan as part of an asset sale seeking more than $1.2 billion, local media said on Thursday,...
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Re: Samsung Says Offer for Sharp’s Photocopier Unit Rejected
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp rejected an offer by Samsung Electronics Co. to buy its copier and printer unit as part of a deal that will see Samsung invest $110 million in return for a 3 percent stake. "We did get a proposal from Samsung, but we declined," said Sharp spokeswoman Miyuki Nakayama. She would not say how much Samsung offered and why Sharp refused. Sharp needs to repay a $2.1 billion convertible bond due in September and selling the profitable copier business would help raise...
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Re: Samsung Says Offer for Sharp’s Photocopier Unit Rejected
Sharp May Sell Copier Operations to Samsung 03/12/2013| 11:06pm US/Eastern TOKYO--Sharp Corp. (>> Sharp Corporation) is considering selling its copier operations to Samsung Electronics Co. (SSNHY), the Sankei Shimbun reported in its Wednesday morning edition. The paper said that Samsung may be interested in using the operations, currently ranked fifth globally, to complement its smartphone and other information systems operations. Last week Samsung said it signed a deal to buy a 3.0%...
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Re: Samsung Says Offer for Sharp’s Photocopier Unit Rejected
Samsung eyed Sharp copier biz in tieup talks Kyodo Mar 14, 2013 Article history PPRINT ↪SHARE OSAKA – Struggling electronics maker Sharp Corp. rejected an offer from Samsung Electronics Co. to buy its copier business during talks to form a capital tieup, sources said Wednesday. It’s unknown how much Samsung offered. The South Korean company, which sees copiers as the next growth business after smartphones, could make another buyout offer, the sources said. Sharp regards the copier business...
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Re: HP Press Release
From: Ted (Original Message) Sent: 9/26/2002 12:46 PM Business News Slowdown Forces HP to Cut 1,800 More Jobs Thu 3:35pm ET No. 1 personal computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday said it would cut 1,800 more jobs on top of the 15,000 layoffs announced after its merger with Compaq.
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Re: HP Press Release
From: Ted (Original Message) Sent: 10/8/2002 7:07 AM Reuters Business Report CEO Says HP Ready for Dell Competition Tuesday October 8, 9:14 am ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (Reuters) - Carly Fiorina, chief executive of No. 1 PC and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co., said on Tuesday its integration with merger partner Compaq is on track, and that HP is ready to compete with Dell in the lucrative printer market. "We remain either at or ahead of our integration milestones," such as plans to cut...
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Re: Carrier Sheet for the 780
From: Color1 Sent: 1/30/2002 6:31 AM Art, there is no cover available for this machine, however, a large gas grill cover should work. The carrier sheet that is referenced is no more than a sheet of mylar that has been folded in half to accomodate the print. There is also a company known as Design Products Co. that carries this product their phone # is 1-800-322-3263. a 24" x 36" is 25.00 and the 36"x 48" is 35.00. I personally haven't ordered anything from them.
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Re: Minolta (Monica) BETRL gives em 5 *'s
Minolta Co., Ltd. President Yoshikatsu Ota announced that the DiALTA Color series CF3102 and CF2002 copier-printer-scanners each received the "Editor's Choice Award" in the color copier category from Better Buys for Business and the "Five Star Exceptional Rating" from BERTL (Business Equipment Research & Test Laboratories). We are very proud that the CF3102 and CF2002 received the "Editor's Choice Award," matching the success of their predecessor, the CF2001, and the "Five Star...
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Re: Ikon to relabel The Konica 8050 Color System
Here's the Press Release Press Release Source: IKON Office Solutions, Inc. IKON Launches New Color Printing and Copying System to Meet Growing Demand for Color Tuesday October 21, 9:29 am ET IKON CPP(TM) 8050 Enhances IKON's Strong Portfolio of Color Product Offerings VALLEY FORGE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2003-- IKON Office Solutions (NYSE:IKN - News), the world's largest independent distributor of document management products and services, today launched the IKON CPP 8050, a...
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Re: Big Tom Out as Prez at Ricoh
All of Ricoh is restructing with Nrg and Rioch merging in the uk after lanier was merged with NRG a year or so ago. I think they woken up to the fact they were paying for two lots of backroom staff compared to companies of a similar size.
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Re: MFP Wars "Death of the Independent Dealer"
It may be time to develop a CO OP with a central buying group like some of the business you sell to, you get enough dealers (Buying Power) then the OEM may have to listen. Right know and for a few years they still need you. Just a thought.
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Re: TCRU and the MP9000, et.al.
We have a customer in the UK. A 24 hour print room. They love the TCRU. Parts are left on site. The fit them then we go and check the machine and rebulit units. Webs running out marks on fusers etc all dealt with asap. Even pm's Like many print rooms either swap or empty the waste toner everyone wins. The print room opeatives who perform the changes are experienced and do speak to the Engineers for advice. But it has reducded down time and tieing up a engineer to racing over to meet a...
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Re: Gas Price Check
Maybe we can help...I heard this morning that Pilot Oil Co. based here in Knoxville is sending several thousand gallons of gas to NC to keep some of their schools open. Hell! We've got so much that it's pooling up in the streets! Seriously, it's at about $3.50/gal right now.
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Re: Sales Tips
USE YOUR PERSONAL CONTACTS There is so much information that you can email, but the messages should be targeted to the right audience. Consequently, you will need to develop numerous email lists. You will certainly have a "personal" email list with a mixture of family, friends, former co-workers, networking pals and social acquaintances. You can send these people newsy emails about your business. For instance, if your local paper or a trade publication publishes a story about your company,...
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Re: Greg Brown
I am deeply saddened to hear about this. While I never met Greg, he was a valuble contributor to the p4photel.com. He did help many of us on this board. He will be missed by all. My best wishes and prayers go out to his family, co-workers and any one who was touched by his life. May the Lord Bless you and Keep you Greg...
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Re: Greg Brown
My prayers are with Greg's family, co-workers and friends. We were suppose to meet this week (for the first time), I was looking forward to meeting Greg. Greg has been a great contributor to the P4PHotel. He will be missed by us all. I will try to make the Memorial Mass. Art [This message was edited by Docusultant on Mon February 16 2004 at 01:57 PM.]
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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: Supply Price Increase
You guys may be getting off light here in the UK the toner price has just gone up 17% without warning its very hard to swollow in these hard times
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Re: Panasonic Dumps Dealers, Keeps all but a handful!!!!
FWIW, we haven't been a pandealer for many years now, and can still order parts, anything we want.. . . from MSC. What is MSC? I just got off the phone with Scott, my (former) sales rep. Apparently Panasonic cut 15,000 jobs nationwide (last day is end of February), and dumped all but the top handful of dealers. Those employees who lost their jobs can re-apply, but the "new" positions will be far fewer. Here's what I know so far: -If you have an existing Parts account, you'll keep it. Whew.
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Re: What are the disadvantages of wax toner
If you want to see something funny go to this webpage. It is the Xerox Cost Savings Calculator for the colorcube......well sort of. Play with it a little. If you enter numbers that will show a significant cost savings it shows you the savings in dollars and cents. If you enter data that doesn't come out in Xerox's favor the tool directs you to a completely different webpage where it directs you to a sales representative. Very slick.....tricky....deceptive. Something you might want to show a...
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Re: Let's Have Some Fun!
They started off w/ 2 HP 4100's and 2 HP 9000's at the beginning of the term. Then, as they grew (expanded from 1 location to 11), they added hardware on a co-term basis. The problem is that the majority of their growth took place over the final 2 years of the agreement, and they still added hardware co-term. It ended up great for me, because i got all of the hardware at the same time, but it was a horrible decision on their part to lease that equipment for such a short period of time w/ out...
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Re: Duplicator and sorting ideas
I don't know where you got the idea that presses had more down time. I personally don't think I would suggest that in a conversation with a printer. I also wouldn't suggest that your quality is better because it's not. A press also can run any color anytime without a $1,000 cylinder requirement for each color. They also have less registration issues than we do. Keep in mind that a press could be $30,000 or $300,000 or $1,000,000 plus so it kind of depends on what type of press you are being...
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Re: Canon NP Copier (analog)
The NP270 had interchangeable colour, you could take out the black and swap it for Green or blue. It also had on board editing using x y co-ordinates.
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Re: Copier Scams Part Deux "Dude Where's my Copier"?
Art, it's a part of the industry that I doubt you will get rid of. I would like to add my own "observation". I don't think that 99.9% of dealers do a good deal. If 99.9% was the case these instances would not even be noticed because they would be unheard of. I think the reality is that around 60-70% of dealers are OK. Another point is that the leasing companies do not give a damn about the state of the copier at the end of a lease. As long as the customer has made all the payments they're...
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Re: Copier Scams Part Deux "Dude Where's my Copier"?
Even if the contract with the supplying dealer specifically has a clause that says the dealer will NOT buy the kit back, the lease co don't want it. I have never heard of a leasing company actually asking for the kit back at the end of a lease, they aren't interested. It's not part of their business plan. What is required as a condition on every lease is that the lessee is responsible for returning the equipment to a destination of the lease co's choice. If it does come to that it will go to...
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Re: Copier Scams Part Deux "Dude Where's my Copier"?
Again, you are stating as fact things that are only true for you or possibly only true in the UK. Over here, I haven't seen an early settlement discount in years. Many companies actually have a pre-payment penalty. The settlement added to the new lease that you speak of is only a benefit to the lease company when the new deal goes to the incumbent. And if there is no residual, why isn't the equipment free to the dealer at the back end? The price to the dealer whether contracted in advance or...
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Re: Copier Scams Part Deux "Dude Where's my Copier"?
" Many companies actually have a pre-payment penalty". Any clause which is an attempt to penalise a party if they try and terminate a contract early is illegal in the UK. This is not the same as liquidated damages clauses, where the injured party is entitled to compensation. I'm pretty the same legislation applies in the US?
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Re: Copier Scams Part Deux "Dude Where's my Copier"?
I do a lot of "contract disassembling" and am very successful at it - It's kind of like a fun sport or hobby to me. US & UK contract law are almost exactly the same. That would be an unenforceable penalty in both UK & US. Here's a reference to "Penal Damages" on Wikipedia that refers to US law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_damages Most of the people I know who work in the copier industry are of the belief that these clauses are legal and enforceable. That works to my advantage,...
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Re: Copier Scams Part Deux "Dude Where's my Copier"?
I'm not sure if that has an equivalent in the UK. here we have the Consumer Credit Act. However, it only applies to consumers. Business to business isn't covered (except in a small number of cases). "I've almost never seen a disputed copier lease where the lessee wins. I'll admit I'm no expert in leasing however most of these agreements are rock solid." In my experience the reason why they're perceived as rock solid is because they are rarely challenged. If they're not challenged they'll...