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Re: Around the Word with Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta Again Joins the Fight against Childhood Cancer Ramsey, NJ, Aug. 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc . (Konica Minolta) today announced they will again support Tackle Kids Cancer, a philanthropic initiative on behalf of the Children’s Cancer Institute at the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center. As with last year, Konica Minolta is partnering with THE NORTHERN TRUST...
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Re: Should you ever sell something for nothing?
I am just about....37 yrs young. Started with in 1993, SR year of high school part time servicing printers. After 2yrs of serving printers, married for 1 yr to my high school sweetheart I was envious of all the "copier reps" driving nice BMW's etc...I asked if I could start selling. When I first started selling in 1995 we carried Canon/Mita. I had an uncle who sold copiers and typewriters back in the early 70's and managed a large dealership in CA until his retirement in 1990. When I went to...
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Re: Konica Minolta Promises Unrivalled Productivity With the Launch of bizhub PRESS C1100 / C1085
These two units have launched in Canada and I suspect USA. I have attached the Spec sheet and Brochure.
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Freedom is not a pass to be Disrespectful
It’s 2018 two hundred forty-two years since the American Revolution ended and began the greatest government experiment in history. Our political landscape is no calmer today than it was in the beginning or, through the decades since its beginning. Our nation’s political partisanship seems to be the one consistent thing to maintaining our government. One should fear too much agreement over the peaceful diplomatic disagreements. It seems that many have blended protest with disrespect then...
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Sharp doubles M&A budget to sell more printers abroad
OSAKA -- Sharp plans to expand its overseas sales network for printers by doubling funds to acquire vendors. Lagging behind Canon and Fuji Xerox in a saturated market for multifunction printers, the electronics maker has adopted a strategy of purchasing others' sales channels rather than develop them on its own. Sharp will set aside about 12 billion yen ($108 million) for mergers and acquisitions this fiscal year, targeting vendors, especially those strong in corporate sales, in such markets...
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Support BTA & Please Cast Your Ballots!!!
Each year, the Business Technology Association (BTA) sends ballots to office technology dealers asking that they indicate their level of satisfaction with their equipment manufacturers/vendors in various categories. The results are used to determine the annual BTA Channel’s Choice award winners. This year, awards will be presented in the following categories: Primary Product Line, Secondary Product Line, Remanufactured Cartridges Provider, Third-Party Leasing and Wholesale Distributor. BTA...
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The Cannata Report’s 33rd Annual Awards & Charities Dinner is Alive & Kicking
For Immediate Release The Cannata Report’s 33 rd Annual Awards & Charities Dinner is Alive & Kicking Continuum Completes Roster of Sponsorship Partners at Event Benefitting Tackle Kids Cancer and Honoring Print and Business Technology Excellence October 12, 2018 (Hamburg, NJ) – The imaging industry is Alive & Kicking and The Cannata Report, the intelligence resource for business technology and imaging solutions resellers will spotlight its vitality and vigor at its 33 rd Annual...
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The Cannata Report's 33rd Annual Awards Charities Dinner Raises $180,000 for Tackle Kids Cancer
HAMBURG, N.J. , /PRNewswire/ -- Winners of the Frank Awards were announced at The Cannata Report 's 33 rd Annual Awards & Charities Dinner at The Madison Hotel in Morristown, N.J. on Thursday, November 8 . Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America dominated by taking home four trophies and industry icon Tom Johnson , founder of Global Imaging Systems of Tampa, Florida , was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The event raised and pledged $180,000 for Tackle Kids Cancer, a...
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GreatAmerica Wins Cannata Frank Award for Best Leasing Company in 2018
(Cedar Rapids, IA) -- Cannata Report presented GreatAmerica Financial Services with its 2018 Frank Award for “Best Leasing Company” during its 33rd Annual Awards & Charities Dinner at The Madison Hotel in Morristown, New Jersey on Thursday, November 8. The Frank Award winners were chosen by Office Equipment Dealers who responded to The Cannata Report 33 rd Annual Survey. Winners were chosen in nine distinct categories. This year the response to the survey hit an all-time record high of...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (First Week of March 2004)
Seems we're coming to the end of the first quarter already. After dumping everything into the end of 2018. I've had a rough go of it for the past 7 weeks. Last week proved to be better with two orders and one of them was $45K. We're also going see have then end of the fiscal years for most if not all of the copier manufacturers. This time of years scares me because nothing is safe, you need to ask the tough questions up front and try your best to wrap up business either the day you met with...
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Selling Copiers in the Eighties with Roland Tolan
Roland and I found each other about 6 weeks ago on Linkedin. Seems Roland and I have a similar background with selling copiers. We both started in the eighties. While I was on the East Coast and Roland was on the West Coast. We've never met but hoping our paths will cross soon! How did you find your way into the copier industry? In 1985, I was 23 years old. l was ready to join the sheriffs department in Los Angeles CA., my mom begged me not to do it. A friend of mine was a salesman at small...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of February 2005)
Just a little more on the show that I'd like to share from this week. While standing at the end of our booth I was watching the reps from other companies in our section. So many peeps passed their booth and they did not say a word! No greeting, no communication, they waited for someone to speak to them first. Needless to say I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that many warm leads were lost because these reps were never taught the fine art of "hawking" while at a trade show. I was taught many years...
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SolarWinds Report Shows Managed Services Remain Healthy and Profitable
DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today released the findings of its “2019 Trends in Managed Services” report , showing the health of managed services and the forces shaping the market across North America and Europe . SolarWinds MSP partners with The 2112 Group to create the annual report from findings based on data from its benchmarking tool, MSP Pulse , which provides deep insight into potential...
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Cybersecurity News
The average American has had their personal data stolen or exposed at least 4 times in 2019, according to new research published by Interest Research. - The finance vertical is suffering from a 238% increase in cyberattacks during COVID- 19 pandemic according to research published by VMware Carbon Black Security. - Nebraska Medical Center of Omaha, NE notified 1311 patients that their PHI was exposed after an employee illegally accessed - Sophos Security reports following on ransomware: o...
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
I have an active copier service technician in my territory who was just diagnosed with Terminal Cancer. He has very modest financial resources. In Canada, he is able to access almost free medical care and immediately apply for long term disability. Not really knowing the details of "Obamacare", what would happen to this tech in the USA?
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Depends upon the insurance he has, assuming he has any. (Obamacare includes a mandate to buy insurance, which is implemented as a fine (scaling up to $695 a year in 2016) but it doesn't go into effect until 2014). Under most plans, the patient would have a deductible (wildly different on different plans, but probably more than $500 and less than $5,000) that he would have to cover, then the insurance will (probably) cover 70-80% of the charges. In the end, depending upon what treatment was...
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
First, my heart goes out to your friend. My prayers go out to him and his family. Second, Obama care is not actually health insurance, it merely mandates , among other things, that everyone is required to purchase health insurance. What would happen to a person who is diagnosed with terminal cancer under “Obama Care” will then vary according to the insurance that they have. In general terms, there would be co-pays for office visits and perhaps additional out of pocket co-insurance payments.
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One argument I have against Socialized Medicine is that is offers a lower quality of care than the current system in the United States. For example, a study of the 5 year survival rates for Breast, Colon, Rectal and Prostate cancers found that the US had the highest survivability rate at 73.8%. Great Britain, often recognized for their National Health Program, has a 5-year survivability rate of 52%. Canada was a close second at 70.5%. To put this into perspective – for every 10,000 people...
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
Except when it comes to Infant Mortality, in that case, we're 34th. Oh, or overall lifespan, in that one we are 38th. Politifact examined the cancer claims you made and said that while it was true, the US ranked much worse in other areas, so it's a wash. http://www.politifact.com/trut...e-system-best-world/
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I agree! (to disagree) I do not think our health "care" is bad, but I don't think it is the best. The real issue is not the quality of the care for those who can afford it, but being able to afford it in the first place. If you don't have a job that offers insurance (for example, if you are a farmer) then buying insurance is expensive and then when you have a problem (such as cancer since we were discussing it) you can easily wind up with a bill for a million dollars. Old joke: A farmer wins...
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SSG, you back up what I have heard about the Canadian system regarding wait times. Hopefully, you did not need an MRI for a severe issue such as a cancer diagnosis. A three month wait for an MRI could be the differnce between life and death. The reason for the long wait times is that there are a low number of MRIs/capita. THis is becuase the Canadian government needs to ration thier funds and can not afford to support more MRIs or CT scanners. This is what we will see in the US under...
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Unfortunately I have first hand experiense with cancer under the american system. Our accumulated medical bills were over $2,000,000 in a 6-month period. Ultimately our insurance company paid every penny. We were definately afraid we would be on the hook for the bill since the treatment was considered experimental but in the end the insurance paid.
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The technician, I described earlier with terminal cancer passed away today at 52. He lasted six weeks from his initial prognosis. Maybe it is a blessing in disguise for his wife and son. $2M in six months is a mind boggling number.
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Very Sorry, SSG. 52 is way too young. My prayers go out to his wife and son. Stories like this put the trival challenges of daily work, etc.. into perspective.
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same here sorry to hear about such a loss for someone so young, there are two primaries in life health & family they are both equal and everything else really doesn't matter much.
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
No one is saying hurricanes and droughts are the exclusive result of global warming only that the increasing frequency and severity of such weather events appear to be related. 2/3rds of Americans somewhat to strongly believe global warming is effecting the weather in the USA. Skeptics are always free to voice their opinion and can believe what they wish. Just like the tobacco industry wants people to believe that smoking does not cause cancer.
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Re: Thoughts about Healthcare Reform Bill?
a number of years ago the government wasn't happy with the way that private insurers handled flood insurance so they provided a "public" option. Today the ONLY option to purchase flood insurance is throught the government run agency that sells it. Oh, in 2008 it was running a deficit of $18 billion. Also, Oregan has Universal Health Insurance for it's citizens. About three years ago a woman by the name of Barbara Wagner was denied an important cancer drug because it was too much money. They...
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Re: Thoughts about Healthcare Reform Bill?
I believe our system needs fixing, but a government take over will not fix anything. Two points to consider. One I have family that lives in Canada. They complain about long waits to see doctors and specialists. It can take months to get board approval to see an oncologist. Can you imagine being diagnosed with cancer and having to wait months to see an oncologist. It happens. Two People from other countries, providing they can afford it, choose to come to the U.S. for health care. Why would...
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Re: Thoughts about Healthcare Reform Bill?
(Did you get those numbers from FoxNews? By the way, I suggest you take the word "news" with a grain of salt when paired with Fox.)
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Re: Thoughts about Healthcare Reform Bill?
I know we are not talking about the Canadian system, but I believe we should compare systems that have already been operating under a national health system so we know where we are heading. Canada and many Europeon countires have been operating under a national system for many years. The numbers I provided on cancer survival rates are not from Fox News by the way. It is clear you back a government plan, while I clearly do not. One misconception that seems to be out there is that the two can...
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Re: Thoughts about Healthcare Reform Bill?
I know we are not talking about the Canadian system, but I believe we should compare systems that have already been operating under a national health system so we know where we are heading. (Slippery slope argument - scare tactict) Canada and many Europeon countires have been operating under a national system for many years. The numbers I provided on cancer survival rates are not from Fox News by the way. (ok then, where are they from?) It is clear you back a government plan, (Actually, I...
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Re: Thoughts about Healthcare Reform Bill?
First of all, I don't think anyone is saying that the plan calls for "Death Panels" only that the government is going to decide what treatment you will or will not get which could amount to the same thing. Secondly, the $45,000 value for one year of life is real in Great Britain, not misinformation. Don't assume that just because CNN didn't say it, that it is misinformation. With the Orwellian acronym NICE which stands for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence...
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Re: Thoughts about Healthcare Reform Bill?
Again, we only have to look to what is already being done with Oregon's state run health insurance. Because the treatment for cancer was too expensive and the womans prognosis was not favorable, they refered her to the assisted suicide program where the cost to end her life was so much cheaper. Is this really what you want?
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Re: Thoughts about Healthcare Reform Bill?
"It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not. There's a much more complicated story there. For some kinds of care... rescue care. Yes, we're the best in the world. If you need very complex cardiac surgery or very advanced chemotherapy for your cancer or some audacious intervention with organ transplantation, you're pretty lucky to be in America.You'll get it faster and you'll probably get it better than in at...
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Re: Lawmakers Unveil Legislation To Protect Personal Information
You know, it was one thing when this was just some hack-job news report, but when they turn this into legislation, someone needs to speak up. There is absolutely NO WAY they purchased 4 machines at random and wound up with machines owned by those businesses. If I lived in NJ, I'd be contacting my representative and try to educate them on the chances of that. Seems it'd be pretty easy to determine, visit that warehouse and ask how they picked their machines, have a Police Officer standing...
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Re: Around The World with Ricoh
Customer satisfaction survey provides support to charity Ricoh Australia participated in the first of an annual national customer satisfaction survey to support charity. As well as enabling Ricoh to measure and evaluate customer satisfaction levels, in appreciation of customers who participated in the survey Ricoh donated $25 to one of three nominated charities. On behalf of over 1000 customers that responded to the survey from Ricoh's direct and franchise network, Ricoh donated a total of...
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Re: Around The World with Ricoh
Customer satisfaction survey provides support to charity Ricoh Australia participated in the first of an annual national customer satisfaction survey to support charity. As well as enabling Ricoh to measure and evaluate customer satisfaction levels, in appreciation of customers who participated in the survey Ricoh donated $25 to one of three nominated charities. On behalf of over 1000 customers that responded to the survey from Ricoh's direct and franchise network, Ricoh donated a total of...
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Global Imaging Names Mitchell Cohen
Global Imaging Names Mitchell Cohen President of Carr Business SystemsFriday February 25, 10:30 am ET TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Imaging Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: GISX - News) announced today that Mitchell "Mitch" Cohen, 44, has been...
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Hospitals Move Toward Paperless Age
Hospitals Move Toward Paperless Age Hospitals Move Toward Paperless Age Special thanks to Drew for finding this Article By RICK CALLAHAN, Associated Press Writer INDIANAPOLIS - Hospitals are trading their once-scattered medical charts, file folders,...
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MFP Product of the Year
Press ReleasesRICOH RECEIVES INDUSTRY AWARD FOR PRINTER AND MFP LEADERSHIP Cannata Report Awards Ricoh Corporation Printer Manufacturer of the Year and Black and White MFP Product of the Year West Caldwell, NJ, July 27, 2004 — Ricoh Corporation,...
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The hunger site
Thought I'd mention this site to you guys. The Hunger Site Simple idea, you go to the site, and click a button. A sponsor gives free food to the hungry in return.Nothing to sign up for, no identification needed, just clicking a button.I know you've...
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Weekend Copier Notes from 05/24/09
WEEKEND MFP INDUSTRY NOTES5-24-09The following is a quick review of copier/MFP industry news from various trade publications. - Xerox stunned reporters when it announced that its popular CEO, Anne Mulcahy, would step down on 7/1/09. She will replaced...
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John Buonomo jailed for stealing coins from copiers
John Buonomo jailed for stealing coins from copiersPenny for pol’s thoughts?By Laurel J. Sweet Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Updated 10h agoLaurel J. Sweet has been featured in the ABC miniseries "Boston 24/7" and the 9-11 documentary motion...
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Open-source 3-D printers head to a desktop near you
FITCHBURG — A prediction for the near future: We will all have a desktop 3-D “printer” in our homes and be able to create parts for our cars, computer widgets, and toaster knobs, according to Mark A. Leonard at the 10th annual...
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Guy Steals Millions in Printer Toner from Cancer Hospital
Another day, another case of employees embezzling cash from their employers. Though less absurd than the guy who took $3.4 million in a month from Columbia University, the story of Marque Gumbs, who is being accused of stealing many millions of...
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Tidbits
According to Coopers & Lybrand study: o U.S. businesses generate more than 4 trillion paper documents o Documents are proliferating at annual rate of 22 of 880 billion per year o Out of every 100 documents created per week, 7.5 of them will be lost o Average cost to recreate document, primarily payroll cost, is $220 each o Average misfile rate of 3.5% o Average cost per misfiled document of $120 to find them ********************************************************************************* -...
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A Day That Will Never Be Forgotten
Tuesday, Sept. 11, wasn't supposed to be a tragic day. But just like other mournful days in history, many of us will never forget what happened and where we were on Sept. 11.At the time, I was covering the town of Belmont, Mass., for Community...
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Weekend MFP Industry Notes 4-18-2010
Weekend MFP Industry Notes Newsletter- Lehigh University of Pennsylvania announced that it is removing all printers from residence halls, fraternity houses, sorority houses to go greeno The students will now use printers in the library- According to...
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Identity Thieves Can Hit the Jackpot with Digital Copiers
Buffalo, NY: Most Americans are aware of online security and load their computer systems with anti-virus/anti-spyware. But most aren't aware that digital copier hard drives are loaded with information and are a veritable gold mine for identity...