The Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago

Art Post (Guest) · 3/10/1111:20 PM

Can't compete in the digital era By Tony Smith • Get more from this author Posted in Peripherals, 19th January 2006 11:25 GMT Konica-Minolta today revealed it is to quit photography business after more than 103 years - with the loss of 3,700 jobs worldwide. The company also said it will move out of the camera market - digital and analogue - beyond the digital SLR systems and lenses it designs for Sony under a development deal forged in July 2005. Under a new deal with Sony, Konica-Minolta will

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/12/119:07 AM

Ramsey, N.J. – March 10, 2011 – Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced that their parent company – Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. – has been awarded with SAM Silver Class for the second consecutive year. The Sustainable Asset Management Group (SAM), based in Switzerland, is an investment boutique focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing. Every

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/15/118:11 PM

-year Xerox Print Services (XPS) contract, Xerox will help city employees spend more time serving the community and less time on print-related activities by making it faster and easier to fax, scan, copy and print. By reducing the number of printers, copiers and fax machines from 459 to 168, and installing 24 Xerox ColorQube® 9200 Series multifunction printers (MFPs) to replace single-function machines, the city will also reduce the cost of everyday color printing and meet its sustainability goals

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/15/1110:38 PM

alleged display screen defect in its Pavillion notebook computers. - IDC reports that the worldwide printer and copier market grew by 7% in last quarter of 2010. - ProSource, a Konica Minolta dealer in Cincinnati, Ohio, announced it acquired docuVision, a local document management systems dealer. - ECi, which makes software used by copier dealers to run their business (OMD, LaCrosse, NexGen, etc.) announced it has acquired FM Audit, which makes managed print services software. Purchase price not

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/15/118:35 AM

materials with metals and plastics, and integrating them with other technologies, Kyocera has become a leading supplier of solar power generating systems, telecommunications equipment, electronic components, printers, copiers, semiconductor packages, cutting tools and industrial ceramics. During the year ended March 31, 2010, the company's net sales totaled 1.07 trillion yen (approximately USD11.5 billion). The company is ranked #554 on Forbes magazine's 2010 "Global 2000" listing of the world's

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/10/117:49 AM

Some 36.5 million printers, copiers and multi-function printers (MFPs) were shipped globally in the fourth quarter of 2010 – a figure which IDC said was up seven per cent year on year and exceeded all quarters since Q4 2007. According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, worldwide sales in the market are continuing to focus increasingly on MFPs at the expense of single-function devices. MFPs had a 67 per cent share of the global hardcopy peripherals market. Phuong Hang

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/15/117:56 PM

Advance C5051 http://www.canoncopiers.co.uk/...opiers/colour-photoc ... photocopier/ MFP offers black and white as well as colour printing, photocopying, scanning and faxing functionality in a neat and compact package, ideally suited to the needs of medium-sized offices and workgroups. Print speed on the C5051, as its model number indicates is 51ppm in both colour and black and white. With outstanding printing quality, the C5051 MFP is able to deliver the crispest, most vibrant prints imaginable

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SalesServiceGuy · 3/8/117:56 AM

A short discussion about copier vs printer yields. The document is a bit old but the main points are still valid.

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/8/117:11 PM

built its long standing success on the ability to provide business solutions, such as copiers, network printers and other business technology tools that allow companies to be as efficient and productive as possible while reducing costs, increasing profitability and maintaining their competitive advantage. Martin Whalen, located in Chicago's Southland, with offices in Tinely Park, Bradley and Channahon, has evolved significantly from selling typewriters to offering a full suite of information

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/9/118:02 PM

. And with Ricoh's WebImageMonitor Utility you can also keep an eye on system functions like paper and toner levels without leaving your work area. Walk-up users are treated to no less of an intuitive interface though. The MP W3601's 8.5 inches wide, high definition LCD control panel makes operating this imaging system a breeze. "We are really excited to be offering the Ricoh Aficio MP W3601 to our customers," said Lisa Vogley, national sales manager, GEI. "This system enhances our already strong

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/10/1111:14 PM

workflow and increase productivity. With this device printing, copying and color-scanning can all be done securely from one's own office, saving significant amounts of time and money." The Ricoh Aficio MP W3601 features various Scan-to options designed to increase efficiency and reduce cost, including: Receive instant document portability with the optional Scan-to-USB option, which makes sharing project documents easier than ever by scanning directly from the USB port on machine to a USB device

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muleyman · 3/11/112:00 AM

Found this info tonight for us Kyocera dealers! Kyocera’s New High-Speed Color A3 Engine Also on the A3 front, to meet the demand of high-volume workgroups and departments, Kyocera will be introducing two high-speed color engines. With rated speeds of 75 ppm black/70 ppm color and 65 ppm black/65 ppm color, these Kyocera-developed devices will feature standard print, scan and copy, as well as optional faxing, along with full-bleed 11 x 17 printing on 12" x 18" paper from the paper trays and 12

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/12/119:01 AM

Enterprise Application driven workflows. For more information about App2Me or any other Ricoh products or services, please visit http://www.ricoh-usa.com . About Ricoh Americas Corporation Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 74-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2009 sales in excess of $21 billion. Ricoh’s fully integrated

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/15/118:16 PM

Ricoh Co. Ltd., meanwhile, reports no injuries at its facilities in a Japanese-language press release. Three facilities have stopped operations and are expected to take some time to return to operations. We understand that these include Ricoh Optical Industries Co. Ltd. in Hanamaki (optical elements, light source, and welding machine ), Hasama Ricoh Inc. in Tome (copiers and data processing equipment), and Tohoku Ricoh Co. Ltd. in Shibata-gun (printers, bar code devices, peripherals). In

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Constanzek · 3/9/114:29 AM

No, UDOCX is not the OEM for Canon. UDOCX is an independent service that works on Ricoh and will work on other vendors like Xerox, Canon and Toshiba in the near future. So if you have a Canon right now and you are changing MFP vendor UDOCX will still work.

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/8/117:14 PM

externally Collaborate with Marketing to ensure that product road map supports a rapid expansion of MPS Act as the Regional MPS ambassador Develop and communicate best practise to maximise the MPS business across the region Provide sales support to Printer Sales such as participation in customer meetings and in developing tenders Support management team on issues related to MPS Other duties as required by the incumbent’s manager as directed from time to time. All Managers are directly responsible

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Deanw · 3/10/111:41 PM

I am looking for a sales manager for copier dealership in Salisbury Maryland. Will be responsible for building & managing team of 4-8 street reps. If you have interest or questions please email: deanw@affordablebusinesssystems.com thanks!

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/13/117:10 PM

Canon Inc. (7751), the world’s largest maker of digital cameras, will suspend operations at eight production and development bases in northern Japan, according to a statement from the company today. The factories are based in prefectures including Ibaraki, Fukushima and Tochigi affected by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and the tsunami it triggered. Canon’s plant in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture, which makes lenses and steppers, and another factory that produces inkjet printer devices in

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/13/117:20 PM

General Information Product: Print Shop Services, Convenience Copiers and Multi-Function Devices Contact: Jay Lansky Phone Number: (615) 862-4273 Description: The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County ("Metro") has issued this RFP for the sole purpose and intent of obtaining Print Shop Services, Convenience Copiers and Multi-Function Devices. Commodity Codes: 4510, 8212, 4321, 4410 Downloads: RFP (MS Word) RFP (PDF) RFP Notice (MS Word) RFP Notice (PDF) Attachment 1 (Cost

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/13/117:24 PM

State Contracting Portal Bid Details Page Help Organization Legislative Management, Office of Bid/RFP Number JCLM11REG0057 Due Date 03/28/2011 Set-Aside NO Summary (2) Color Copiers Lease/Maintenance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact Name CGAPurchasing Department E-Mail CGAPurchasing@cga.ct.gov Phone (860) 240-0100 FAX WebSite www.cga.ct.gov/olm

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/15/118:34 AM

as resellers watched margins on hardware fall through the floor. However, the cost to entering managed print made it difficult for many to take up. Managed print requires technicians with vans, expensive inventories of parts, not to mention the effort of transitioning a business from a transactional sales cycle to the flatter cash flow of an annuity business. Most printer vendors have their own managed print services divisions which target the enterprise and have encouraged resellers to seek out

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/15/117:49 PM

Konica Minolta Konica Minolta has not reported any employee casualties or plant closings, and will donate 50 million yen ($611,000 U.S.) through the Japanese Red Cross Society to aid relief efforts. In order to help conserve electricity, the company has turned off electric signage and says will continue seek to to conserve electricity.

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/15/117:53 PM

Canon Inc. Canon has halted operations at eight of its facilities in Japan, and reports that 15 employees were injured. Some of the most significant damage occurred at an ink-jet printer manufacturing plant in Fukushima, as well as at a plant where EF lens are produced. Canon did not indicate when operations will resume, noting “time will likely be needed before operations resume.” The company says it will consider making use of alternate sites that were not damaged by the earthquake in order

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/15/118:06 PM

Canon expands imageRUNNER ADVANCE colour Canon Australia today announced the launch of its latest imageRUNNER ADVANCE multifunction printers (MFP). - The imageRUNNER ADVANCE C2030 and C2020 series expand on Canon’s successful platform portfolio, offering powerful colour solutions to the office - uniFLOW V5 and iW360 compatibility provide complete print and document workflow management and security controls for businesses Sydney, 15 March 2011: Canon Australia today announced the launch of its

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/8/1110:13 PM

quote: Originally posted by SalesServiceGuy: A short discussion about copier vs printer yields. The document is a bit old but the main points are still valid. This is awesome, thanx for this!

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/9/118:09 AM

Agreed same with Canon, Ricoh, KonicaMinolta and the rest, however none of these companies omitted dividends

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SalesServiceGuy · 3/8/117:53 AM

Toshiba has a better promo in Canada which dealers are very pleased with. We are knocking out a lot of Sharp copiers.

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fisher · 3/8/114:09 PM

I have been selling the Kyocera FS-C2126 for entry level color. I am reluctant to sell anything below that. The 2126 isn't the most user friendly macine on earth but it does have a very low CPC. Really having a hard time selling the value of the Ricoh A4 color. They really shot themselves in the foot with this one. No APS, No Legal Size glass and priced way to high. I think our initial order of these units will be sitting in our pallet racks for a long long time.

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/15/118:35 PM

When I went into work on Monday, I had a conversation with my sales manager in refference to the impact of the situation in Japan. My feeling was that if the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant situation deepened that we may have supply line issues for MFP's, Wide Format, Duplicators (Ricoh). My main concern was not the production in Japan, but where most of the parts come from like the motor's, pcb's and other assorted parts. I kind thought that dealers and direct would make a run on hardware

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/9/117:57 PM

where members share ideas and opinions.” # # # Media contact: Misty Hamel 
 Director of Marketing, Editor 859.846.9830 mhamel@photizogroup.com About Photizo Group Photizo Group is the market’s main source for ongoing business intelligence about the rapidly growing opportunity of managed print services (MPS). MPS involves managing hardcopy device fleets (copiers, printers, multifunction devices, and fax machines) in a unified fashion, often outsourcing this to an external vendor. Photizo Group

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Deanw · 3/10/111:36 PM

I'm interested in tools and processes other dealers use to train a new hire that has never been in business equipment sales before. Any input would be much appreciated! Thanks

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/12/118:53 AM

graphical show in Spain, which takes place in Barcelona from 22–26 May, 2011. Xeikon’s flagship label printer, the Xeikon 3500, will be shown for the first time to the Spanish market at the show. “The appointment of MDP as our distributor for the industrial market is part of our strategy to appoint dedicated sales channels for our focus markets,” says Hans Gerinckx, Sales Director Xeikon Industrial Printing. “We are very pleased to have MDP as our partner in Iberia. They are well respected by their

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/12/118:58 AM

members share ideas and opinions.” About Photizo Group Photizo Group is the market’s main source for ongoing business intelligence about the rapidly growing opportunity of managed print services (MPS). MPS involves managing hardcopy device fleets (copiers, printers, multifunction devices, and fax machines) in a unified fashion, often outsourcing this to an external vendor. Photizo Group provides the most complete body of research on the managed print services market. From its landmark MPS study

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/13/117:12 PM

Bid Document Bid Request Information Bid Type: Concessions and Leases Bid Number: LIB-105 Agency: Library, San Francisco Public Bid Title: Public Access Multi-Functional Copier Devices and Vend Equipment Lease Bid Due: 4/19/2011 Time Due: 3:00 PM Duration: 5 years, with 2 options to extend for 2 years each Estimated Cost: N/A Description The San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) currently offers the public the ability to copy from hard copy material and to print online content from public

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/13/117:28 PM

liaison between the SJCC and the contractor. Background: SJCC contracted with current vendor for three years since May 2008. Current fleet is: 4 units Kyocera 8030 4 units Kyocera KM-2560 1 unit Kyocera KM-C2525E 1 unit Kyocera KM-3060 1 unit TASKalfa 221** **SJCC will require additional one (1) copier equivalent to TASKalfa 221 The contractor will replace the existing copiers with equivalent or better copiers. Current Ave Usages: Monthly Volume B/W: 152,500 copies Monthly Volume Color: 4000 copies

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Old Glory · 3/14/115:11 PM

polyester strip is laminated and recessed into the binding edge of the sheet. This creates a tough and durable sheet that is safe to run in all printers, copiers and offset presses." The prospect is currently running these through a Xerox DucoColor 240 without any problem. Does anyone out there have any experience with this?

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/15/118:39 AM

Other agenda items Monday include consideration of a resolution recognizing April as Fair Housing Month; the purchase of grounds equipment; a request from the Clerk of Courts office for a copier and an upgrade to parking lot access for the Marine Corps League's Ultimate Challenge Mud Run. http://www.thetandd.com/news/l...46-001cc4c03286.html

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/15/117:50 PM

Kyocera Group The Kyocera Group has not reported any employee casualties or damage to its plants, and will donate 100 million yen ($1.22 million U.S.) to relief efforts. It also says that its employees inside and outside of Japan will set up fundraising collections to aid victims.

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Art Post (Guest) · 3/15/117:52 PM

Toshiba Toshiba has not reported any employee casualties or damage to its plants, and states that it will cooperate with Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) request to cut electricity consumption by operating only those of its businesses related to “essential services required for social and economic activities,” and has closed for today all of its premises in those areas with power outages, other than its headquarters and those business operations related to essential services.

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montecore · 3/10/117:29 AM

Thanks Art. I thought about that option but I am not sure if that will work with a copier. Also I have read they are not that reliable if it did work. Has anyone used a print server like this on a copier that is not usually setup as wireless?

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JasonR · 3/10/119:56 AM

Even for machines that have a wireless option, it's generally cheaper to sell them a wireless print server that plugs into the copier's network port. We do it all the time.