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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago

 

This Week in Copiers Ten Years Ago

Last Week of March 2013

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A fun survival book I've written for prospective customers eying me through the web! Thoughts and opinions welcome. I love these forums and have gained some valuable advice from them that are helping my cold calls and sales.

The Zombie Copier: 10 Survival Tips For Meeting With A Copier Salesman



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Mail-O-Matic Enhances Direct Mail Business with Six Konica Minolta Color Digital Pres

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solutions including production print systems, digital presses, multifunctional products (MFPs), managed print services, vertical application solutions and related services and supplies. Konica Minolta has been recognized as a leading supplier by the Allegra Network, International Center for Entrepreneurial Development (ICED), The UPS Store, Inc., and National Association of Quick Printers (NAQP). Konica Minolta's innovative bizhub PRESS C8000 is the first digital press to receive the G7 Digital
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Enterprise-Class 3D Printers Will Become Affordable by 2016 – Gartner.

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affordable to most enterprises,” added Mr. Basiliere. Identify Improvements The material science behind 3D printing processes and materials will continue to progress, and affordable 3D printers are lowering the cost of entry into manufacturing in the same way that e-commerce lowered the barriers to the sale of goods and services. As a result, the 3D printer market will continue moving from niche adoption to broad acceptance, driven by lower printer prices, the potential for cost and time savings
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Why A Copier Salesman Will Always Be In High Demand

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Hello! I have recently written a post about copier sales people on my blog, copierdirect.ca. I discuss the negative reputation of selling in this industry, as well as the positives of what a modern day copier sales rep can offer businesses. A glimpse into my approach to selling! Here is the link to the article if anyone would like to read it! http://www.copierdirect.ca/why...s-be-in-high-demand/
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The Zombie Copier: 10 Survival Tips For Meeting With A Copier Salesman

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A fun survival book I've written for prospective customers eying me through the web! Thoughts and opinions welcome. http://www.copierdirect.ca/the...h-a-copier-salesman/ PS. If my posts are considered "spamming," please let me know ahead of time! I love these forums and have gained some valuable advice from them that are helping my cold calls and sales.
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Xerox Embraces ‘BYOD’ with New Business Productivity Tools

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Xerox Embraces ‘BYOD’ with New Business Productivity Tools Submitted by Lee Rickwood on March 28, 2013 – 6:00 am Xeroxis now developing mobile apps. The well-known copier, printer and office hardware manufacturer is offering a suite of software tools designed for companies large and small, and the rapidly evolving BYOD (bring your own device) business landscape. The new ConnectKey software is embedded into the company’s multi-function printers (MFPs) and other multi-function electronic (MFE
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Ricoh Expands New Business Creation in Silicon Valley

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) -- Yoshinori Sakaue (Ricoh’s Associate Director, Executive Engineer; Deputy General Manager of Research and Development Group (as of April 1, 2013)) -- Masatsugu Shibuno (President, Ricoh Americas Holdings, Inc. (as of April 1, 2013)) Number of employees: Approximately 70 in the first year (consolidated (RIC and RIPL)) About Ricoh Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in
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Summit Educational Resources Protects Student Information with bizhub MFPs

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located in upstate New York. In 2011, Summit relied on numerous unsecure desktop printers and MFPs with limited capabilities, but needed to modify current document management processes to be in accordance with both Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPA) and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) regulations. Working with the local Konica Minolta dealer, Copier Fax Business Technologies, Inc. in Buffalo, New York, Summit installed 17 centralized MFPs in August 2011
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Ricoh Drops Aficio Name to Build Company Brand for New Initiatives

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. Ricoh Europe said it dropped the Aficio name in February 2013. The brand will n o longer appear on any new MFPs or printers. The company explained, “Aficio is being phased out as Ricoh aligns its naming conventions under the Ricoh ‘imagine.change.’ brand. It aims to make it easier for clients to recognize Ricoh offerings and allows Ricoh to communicate in a more streamlined manner as we expand our software and services portfolio alongside our hardware.” Ricoh announced a restyled logo with the
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Deadline for Hon Hai to invest in Sharp lapses with no deal

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TOKYO (Reuters) - The deadline for Hon Hai Precision Industry Co to buy a stake in Sharp Corp lapsed Tuesday without any deal, ending an agreement forged last year that would have made the Taiwanese firm the No.1 shareholder in the Japanese TV maker. Talks for Hon Hai to purchase as much as a 9.9 percent stake stalled after Sharp balked at its demand for a degree of management control. Hon Hai also sought to lower the $708 million price tag after Sharp's shares slumped in the wake of losses
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Océ Becomes Wholly Owned Canon Subsidiary, Integration Proceeds Apace

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Canon Inc. ("Canon"; Chairman and CEO: Fujio Mitarai; Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan) announced that its consolidated subsidiary Océ N.V. ("Océ" ; President and CEO: Anton Schaaf; Headquarters: Venlo, the Netherlands), which was delisted from NYSE Euronext Amsterdam in February 2012, became a wholly owned Canon subsidiary on March 8, 2013, following the conclusion of formal statutory buyout proceedings under Dutch law ("squeeze out procedure"). Since joining forces, Canon and Océ have jointly
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Canon Business Process Services Shares Accounts Payable Best Practices to Reduce Cost

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organizations to improve operational efficiency while reducing risk and cost. Experts apply quality management principles and tools such as Six Sigma® to advance performance to a higher level. The company offers services including BPO, imaging, records management, print, mail and eDiscovery, and is an IAOP Global Outsourcing 100 Leader in 2013 for the seventh consecutive year. Based in New York City, Canon Business Process Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc. Learn more at
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Toshiba’s First Datacenter in Europe to Open in Lyon

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At the heart of the group’s Cloud Computing strategy, providing hosting for French companies and data for the Lyon Smart Community demonstrator PUTEAUX, France -- Toshiba Cloud & Solutions Division, a pioneering player in the Toshiba Group’s development of Cloud Computing, today announced the opening of Toshiba’s first datacenter in Europe, located in France. Toshiba Cloud & Solutions Division is directed at professional markets, public and private-sector companies, and entities within the
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Re: Sharp "What will Happen"

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Yes, Kyocera could be good, in the same way that Konica Minolta became much more viable than either Konica or Minolta ever were on their own.
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AUXILIO Reports Year-end 2012 Financial Results

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code 4607558. About AUXILIO, Inc. AUXILIO, Inc. is the pioneer of Managed Print Services for the health care industry, working exclusively with hospitals and hospital systems throughout the United States. We are vendor independent and provide intelligent solutions, a risk free program and guaranteed savings. AUXILIO assumes all costs related to print business environments through customized, streamlined and seamless integration of services at predictable fixed rates that are unmatched in the
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Fewer Number of Japan Companies Have Implemented Managed Print Services, But 30.1% Co

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Fewer Number of Japan Companies Have Implemented Managed Print Services, But 30.1% Companies Consider Implementation, According to IDC 26 Mar 2013 TOKYO, March 26, 2013 — International Data Corporation (IDC) has published the results of its Japan Managed Print Services Market User Survey 2012. In the survey, 862 respondents involved in spending-related decisions for the Japan enterprise printing environment were asked about their implementation criteria and vendor selection criteria for
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POLICE: Copier, forged money orders found in Economy Inn

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allegedly put his hands behind his back. Police say they didn't know if he had a weapon, and they quickly had to handcuff him. While there, police say they found a clear baggie containing an unidentified white powder. They also allegedly found nine post office money orders, at least four of which had been "altered with some sort of white-out." Additionally, police say they found a copier, a box of cotton paper, a paint tray, mineral spirits, blue white-out tape, gold foil seals, a paper cutter and paper
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Ricoh Rapid Process Assessment for Healthcare

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Ricoh Products and Solutions for the Healthcare Industry

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Ricoh Dynamic Capture for the Healthcare Industry

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OKI proColor Expands Network with the Addition of New Reseller, Styers Equipment

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Missouri vicinities beginning immediately. The impressive OKI proColor™ Series is a line of high impact digital color printers that serves the graphic arts, production, specialty printing and imaging technologies industries. Part of the OKI proColor™ Series, the OKI pro900DP is a commercial grade, full-color digital envelope printer capable of handling variable data and variable graphics with ease and in a single pass. Boasting an embedded EFI ® Fiery® System 8e Controller with SmartRIP®
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Ricoh MPC3501 & Equitrac

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Having an issue with the Ricoh MPC3501 MFP and Equitrac 4 Express Suite. After loading the card readers onto the MFP and loading Equitrac, when the machine is "awakened" from sleep mode the touch screen goes "white". Only after the customer does a hard shutdown of the MFP does the machine boot up properly. Any ideas of what could be causing this issue?? Getting no help from Ricoh or Equitrac (Nuance).
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IR7095 Canon HDD Wipe

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We just upgraded a Canon IR7095 and we also need to wipe the drive, please how can we do this? Art
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Canon 7055 Help!

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Can this system duplex 120# gloss, I looked at the brochure and could not find the spec.
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Re: Ricoh adds Mandatory Plotworks to LED Wide Formats

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Just want to put in my 2 cents. Obama is not responsible for the decrease in wide format sales. Thank Bush and company for that. They had their dinner (profits) and left the mess for the next administration to clean up. Let's leave politics out of the forum and just talk about the subject at hand, Ricoh's stupid idea to force/include Plotworks on the monochrome wide format units. By the way, Plotworks has almost no scanning utilities. It is primarily plotting software.
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Re: Scan solution for Insurance Company

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Any luck getting the Paperport Virutal scanner to work? I have a similiar situation where the Canon can TWAIN scan to PDF and the Ricoh devices cannot. Thanks, Steve
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Transform

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Dang: Have you seen the exhibitors for the Transform Show? Booth 6 Staples Visit Website Booth 2 Oki Visit Website Booth 5 Ricoh Visit Website Booth 9 Photizo Group Visit Website Booth 10 NDDigital Visit Website Booth 11 MSE Visit Website Booth 13 Ingram Micro Visit Website Booth 15 Office Document Consulting Inc. Visit Website Booth 17 PrintFleet Visit Website Booth 19 Digital Gateway Visit Website Booth 21 Netaphor Visit Website Booth 23 Celstream / Thinxtream Visit Website Tabletop A BEI
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Document Management Company, BMI Imaging, Extends Product Offerings with RagingWire a

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conversion and microfilm scanning solutions. BMI offers industry-leading document management and document scanning products from companies like EMC, Canon and Kodak. In addition, BMI has developed the Digital ReeL microfilm and microfiche scanning solution, which is available nationwide. BMI converts an average of 3 million images per month. BMI serves commercial and government agencies throughout the United States and has developed a customer list of more than 2,000 accounts. BMI is headquartered
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Re: How do you feel about the industry?

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As a new sales rep with no prior outside sales experience this industry is insane. Going door to door cold calling isn't working. I don't know if it is just my approach or buyers have changed but the sellers haven't. My dealer is super old school. I asked for a recommendation on some crm software and they said use you're brain and a rollodex. Technology had dramatically changed the service side of things but the sales side is still in the 1950s.
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Re: Canon 7055 Help!

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Please help, the 7055 has been around for awhile, can anyone please help me with any glaring issues with this system. The prospect will want to print high gloss 120# stock from the by-pass ( I know the system is not rated for this ), how would the quality be? Anything will help me. Art
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Re: How do you feel about the industry?

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Well the month is over and we went through some serious changes. Just kidding not a single rep met their quota. They held a cold call competition. Which led to a bunch of bad calls just to win the prize. Finally the almost sales manager is offering to pay for shipping on mailers but still offer no real plan to increase sales. I know this industry offers its sales reps a chance to earn six figures but it isn't possible at this dealer. What makes a great dealership? Now that I have a years

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