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Second Week of January 2008
For the past week or so I've been doing some research on splatter burst gun targets. I'm looking for anyone that anyone that may know what substrate is used for those gun targets. I realize the splatter burst target technology is patented however I doubt the substrate is. The patent is more centered around the coatings going onto the substrate. Any help would be appreciated.
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Weekend Copier Notes from 1/13/08
Art Post (Guest) ·
than anticipated (due to slow sales of Canon imagePRESS C7000VP and competition from Creo) - A large Sharp dealer in Chicago area unveiled its own print management program, called ImageFlex.: o Dealer is Des Plaines Office Equipment o Goal is to capture clicks made by desktop printers of various brands o One of the largest independent Sharp dealers in U.S. o Also authorized to sell Kyocera printers and Okidata color printers o Founded in 1955 by Vince Micelli, and run by son Chip - In a recent
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Kyocera Mita Corporation SETS STAGE FOR AGGRESSIVE DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS
Art Post (Guest) ·
markets black & white and color digital copiers, network-ready multifunctional devices and laser printers as well as a range of wide-format imaging products. It also offers a portfolio of software and network solutions. Kyocera’s ECOSYS Technology provides customers with print solutions that incorporate long-life components, which reduce the need to replace the drum and other image forming parts. This technology delivers a number of benefits: improved reliability, reduced environmental impact and
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Ricoh USA " GIANT Changes Ahead"?
Art Post (Guest) ·
looking to cut costs, and maintain or increase profit it makes sense, right? You’ve got the Ricoh Dealer Channel, Savin Dealer Channel, Lanier Dealer Channel, and Ricoh Business Solutions all competing against each other . I believe it would make good sense to drop the Savin brand and move them all to Lanier or the other drop Lanier and make them all Savin (are you guys in Atlanta hearing me). Here’s an excerpt from a Ricoh Press Release last year “Ricoh’s Gestetner dealer network in the U.S. will
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Xerox Unveils Historic Change Company Brand
Art Post (Guest) ·
fortified financial position and expanded global distribution, the new brand makes a bold statement about Xerox's strength as the world's leading document management company. Over the past two years, Xerox has reinstated a dividend, repurchased shares, returned to investment grade, and continued delivering value to shareholders through double-digit earnings growth. "From the outside looking in, I've watched Xerox transition its business from a copier and printer company to a true partner in helping
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RICOH INTRODUCES NEW LINE OF COLOR LASER
Art Post (Guest) ·
enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents. Ricoh’s line of document management devices include, color and black & white digital imaging systems, facsimile products, printers, scanners, digital duplicators, production printing products and wide format engineering systems. Additionally, Ricoh offers a wide variety of document and printing solutions directly and through strategic alliances enhancing office productivity and document workflow. Ricoh’s document management
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Sharp Wins BLI’s 2007 MFP “Line of the Year” Award; Also Wins “Picks” In Segments 5
Art Post (Guest) ·
fill the gap between workgroup/departmental copiers and true production devices, Sharp now stands apart from the rest with two BLI “Picks” in this category—the 95-ppm MX-M950 and the 110-ppm MX-M1100. Like the other MFPs in Sharp’s line, these models separated themselves from the pack with their extraordinary reliability. Together, the two devices completed 1,500,000 impressions with just three misfeeds and one scheduled preventive maintenance. “Regardless of the Segment, each model we tested
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KODAK NEXPRESS Personalizes Canadian Printer
Art Post (Guest) ·
Printer’s VDP cover project. “The KODAK NEXPRESS 2100 Digital Production Color Press allows us to meet the demands of a VDP project, from the integration of specific variable details to production at high quality images,” said Janis Parker, owner Parker Pad and Printing. “Using the NEXPRESS platform helped streamline the production of more than 12,000 glossy personalized full color covers in just four days.” Personalized URLs The latest issue of Canadian Printer also features an ad linking printed
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Ricoh Introduction of the new GX3000S / GX3000SF / GX3050SFN
Art Post (Guest) ·
as standard duplexing. The GX3000S is the base model, allowing users to print, scan and copy. The second model in the Series is the GX3000SF, which adds a faxing feature and an ARDF. The flagship model, the GX3050SFN, includes all four functionalities, an ARDF, PCL5c/6 support and embedded Network capability. The new GelSprinter multifunctional desktop color systems provide high quality printing plus more at affordable costs of SRP $549 (GX3000S), SRP $699 (GX3000SF) and SRP $849 (GX3050SFN).
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Texas School board approves new copier contract
Art Post (Guest) ·
facilities, presented the only item on the special meeting agenda: to award a contract for photocopier leases and rentals to the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Buy Board. Salinas told the board that the current school district photocopier contract expires Jan. 31. He said for the last five years the district has had a contract with Xerox Corp. for a total of 83 copiers throughout the school district. Salinas said that total includes 57 low-volume, seven mid-volume and 19 high-volume copiers
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RICOH INTRODUCES GLOBALSCAN 3.0
Art Post (Guest) ·
year 2006 sales in excess of $17 billion, an 8.4 percent increase over the previous year. Ricoh Americas Corporation directly or through its network of authorized independent dealers markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America. For fiscal year 2006, Ricoh Americas Corporation sales exceeded $3.3 billion, an increase of 7.4 percent over the previous year. Information about Ricoh's complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at www.ricoh
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Word keeping last print settings
mikefio22 (Guest) ·
I have been dealing with an issue with word 2003 and above where if you print a document in color and close out Word, the next time you open word (even a different document) it keeps the last used print settings. I am using the PCL5c driver for the Savin C4540. If it helps, the driver is shared from the server (2003). The customer is using user codes. Also, This is only in Word. Not in Excel, power point word perfect, or anything else. Has anyone ran into this? If so, how did you deal with it
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More Changes @ Ricoh Corp!
Art Post (Guest) ·
contributions throughout his career with the company. Taking his place as Senior Vice President, Ricoh Business Solutions, is Dave Greene, formerly Ricoh VP of Major Account Support and previous leader of direct sales operations for Lanier prior to the one company integration. With respect the Major Account Support organization, the following changes take place immediately: Tom Sullivan, Vice President Commercial and Vertical Major Accounts and his organization will report directly to Alan Nielsen in
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Print Manager Plus
tkern ·
Does anyone use Print Manager Plus for tracking purposes? If so, how does it compare to SMART Accounting or other Ricoh for capture of print and copy billbacks? Thanks, tkern
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Re: New Ricoh SP C220 Color Pinter!
Art Post (Guest) ·
The Ricoh Aficio SP C222SF Series Desktop Color Laser Multifunction Printers (MFPs) are All-In-One devices featuring All-In-One technology. Along with their single function counterparts – the Ricoh Aficio SP C222DN Series Color Laser Printers, these low volume solutions are low-cost, network-ready systems designed to produce sharp color prints at efficient speeds. Extremely easy to operate and maintain, the Aficio SP C222SF Series and SP C222DN Series simplify laser technology ownership and
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Re: New Ricoh SP C220 Color Pinter!
Art Post (Guest) ·
I pulled this from some web site so this is not me writing about the product! Ricoh showed off a new printer this week from it’s new Aficio SP C222DN series. It’s a color laser printer and I while I’ve never used a Ricoh printer, I do use a Ricoh copier and it’s amazing and it gives a perfectly clear image everytime. I, personally, have never had any trouble with Ricoh products. These printers are sleek and compact and made for small workgroups. They are both MAC and PC compatible and easy to
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Sales Comission Survey
Art Post (Guest) ·
Where did you come in with your annaul earningf for fiscal 2007???
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Re: MFP Leasing Companies Crying About Portfolio's
that all copier salespeople are not “hardware slingers” and some of us are in this industry for the long haul. The next point that Art’s blog and Jim’s response touches on is the validity of the FMV lease. My industry training has taught me that the FMV lease is the best way to protect my client base, and my comp plan even rewards me for “locking in” my clients with FMV leases. However, knowing what we know about the leasing industry as well as the document imaging industry, how may of us would
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Re: MFP Leasing Companies Crying About Portfolio's
Art Post (Guest) ·
I am going to move away from FMV, due to the fact that where I work we have no sales manager, and not much help when the end of the term comes for clients leases. What I mean is, I have to calculate the remaining term of payments, especially if we can't get a pay off sheet from the customer of the leasing company. Over the years, I have seen leasing companies not allow for machines to be returned for lates fees of $100, even after the lease termination has been sent. The customer thinks they
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Re: New Ricoh SP C220 Color Pinter!
tkern ·
If you base it off the posted monthly duty cycles, it is 1/5th that of the LP226cn(Lanier)(SP400dn - Ricoh.) I believe the recommended volume for that printer is approx 6k per month. If you just divide then the new model C220 should be around 1,200 per month? I would think more like 2,000 pages. @ 1,200 pages/mo, in a normal working month, that is only about 50 pages per day.
Re: New Ricoh SP C220 Color Pinter!
Jay ·
According to the Ricoh cost fact sheet the targeted volume is between 9000 and 11000 per year. Retail CPC for toner and wastebottle is $0.17 The fuser and transfer unit is designed to last the life of the printer This is a disposable printer.
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Re: Sales Tips
Art Post (Guest) ·
Rehearse the sales pitch Have everyone practice your group's sales pitch at home. Fine tune your two-sentence value proposition and make sure that every seller uses it.
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Re: Print Manager Plus
Art Post (Guest) ·
We've installed one "Print Director" embeded in a MAC Environment (Still trying to get it working properly) and one Smart Accounting. We have not installed Print Manager Plus yet. Has anyone else installed Print Manager Plus??
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Hey Jim, Spun like a true sales manager! (of course, I respect that!) Seriously though, maybe I’m referring to a practice that doesn’t apply to Clune. Most leasing companies I’ve worked against (when trying to help a client that is unhappy with their current vendor/service) do not allow for early payoff and return of equipment. Therefore, the only option to the client for an early termination is a full buyout of the equipment (usually not a very attractive offer). When you speak of Clune
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Re: See attached File
Have you tried to contact anyone within the Solutions Deployment Group? http://www.tscweb.net/SDG/ricohdealerchannel.html If you are in Gainesville, your contact should be: Channel Manager Southeast Bryan Hogan Jarrell, Texas Work: (714) 566-0688 bryan.hogan@ricoh-usa.com
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Re: New Ricoh SP C220 Color Pinter!
jorgen ·
The printers are now officially launched and I will try to answer any questions you may have.
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Re: New Ricoh SP C220 Color Pinter!
jorgen ·
One major selling point is support of Citrix Presentation Server.
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Re: New Ricoh SP C220 Color Pinter!
jorgen ·
quote: Originally posted by tkern: When should dealerships begin getting the information packets? I am sorry, but my workplace is in Ricoh Norway. I do not know anything about the status in the US only that the press release is out in your market.
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Re: New Ricoh SP C220 Color Pinter!
jorgen ·
The recomended volume is around 750 per month. If you place the printer in that kind of environment it will shine. It positioned as a replacement for ink, slow color lasers and bw lasers. Please look at the japanese brochure for complete positioning. Read the headings and look at the pictures. PDF from Japan
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Re: New Ricoh SP C220 Color Pinter!
tkern ·
The old 22ppm color printer was rated at approx 2,500 prints per month, I wonder why other than costs, they decided to produce a "cheaper" printer with less capability?
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Re: New Ricoh SP C220 Color Pinter!
I participated in a Ricoh teleconference on this product yesterday and they said they anticipate the average monthly volume to be 1,500/mo.
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Re: Why are MFP manufacturers not GREEN!
learner ·
In the UK sending the used cartridges has been happening since at least 2000 i think even further back. Ricoh also in the UK have a Green centre in Wellingborough which recycles everything from cardboard to whole machines this has been operating from 2004 i think it was.
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See attached File
John ·
We are working on a Bid for printers and were sent the attached schematic which shows the network map for how jobs are routed to certain printers. Can anyone help me with understanding this a little better. See the attached file and email me or give me a call. 352-665-0168 Thanks, John
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