What's the Next...

1. Riso is better the ranch on four or three new inkjet machines designed after the HC5500, thoughts....if they don't get better media flexibilty and better color results, they will be doomed. From what I can see, they are in a very precarious situation right now.

2. Ricoh to IKON, never Japanese will never stand for it.

3. Could be, maybe someone's gotta go, Canon has a tremendous amount of Cash, maybe Canon buys HP!

4. Two American icons, never ever will this happen.

5. Yes, Sharp will be the premiere A4 manufacturer, lose all of the dealers and be destined to go VAR's to resell their products.

Please if everyone can vote below, I took GMANS poll and created one for all P4P'ers so they could vote across all of the baords. SEE Below, cast your votes on this poll!

Should have had "none of the above" as an option.

None of these seem very likely to me.

From Weekend Copier Notes:

"IDC announced that in the first quarter of 2009, the new Sharp Frontier series of color laser A4 MFPs were the most popular product in the 31ppm to 44ppm category of color MFPs. Unknown if this means more company were downgrading from A3 (ledger size) to A4 (letter/legal size), or if they were replacing desktop color laser printers and bringing more sales into the MFP market."

Looks as if this surely is having an impact out there, at least for SHARP.

Art stated:

"1. Riso is better the ranch on four or three new inkjet machines designed after the HC5500, thoughts....if they don't get better media flexibilty and better color results, they will be doomed. From what I can see, they are in a very precarious situation right now."

After hiring several talented people from Ricoh (Lanier ide of the house) last year to ramp up their Direct sales efforts, RISO just laid off David Murphy (VP Marketing), Don Michelucci (VP, Direct) and others in the Direct Division.

RISO appears to be in tough shape.

That's too bad, I've always liked the RISO product, even though it only fit a small niche.

I heard about David last week, he emailed me that the 31st was his last day. I didn't know about the other guys.

I changed my thoughs on the ComColor and believe it has a tremeddous "upside" however they may not be able to stop the bleeding.

Riso seems to be in dire straits, heard today that they closed all 13 of their technology portals, laid off all of the direct managers and techs are running the direct opps (is this true?) combined with high level layoffs also... what is to come of them???? Thoughts???

I actually thought that RISO might gain some ground as our Ecomomy soured, over the past two years. Especially with some of the talented individuals they had hired and new Products to market. Something bigger, more devious, and behind closed doors must be going on at RISO that is bringing this organization down rapidly.

I did some research and it seems RISO bought back about a million shares of stock in June of 08. Same thing wnet on with Ikon and 24 months later they were sold.

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Originally posted by Art Post:
I did some research and it seems RISO bought back about a million shares of stock in June of 08. Same thing wnet on with Ikon and 24 months later they were sold.

Perhaps you should start 2 polls: 1 for when Riso will sell, and another for who will purchase them. I think it would make sense for Ricoh to buy them so that they could basically corner the Digital Duplicator market, and we all know Ricoh loves low margin business. Or, perhaps it would make sense for MBM, Duplo, or another outsider to purchase them in an attempt to get into the reprographics space.