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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago for the First Week of June 2010

 

It's late Friday night. I had a decent week for short week.  In 30 days we'll be halfway through 2020. Continued prospecting in during the summer will fill the pipeline for the 3rd and 4th quarters. It's time to grind!

Enjoy these awesome threads from ten years ago this week!

Konica Minolta releases bizhub 423 series

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color scan-to email, FTP server , SMB, USB or TWAIN scanning to PCs as well as security features such as HDD encryption, HDD job overwrite and network access control across the series. “In many cases, our competitors charge extra for the out-of-the box security features that come standard with our MFPs, giving customers another great reason to count on Konica Minolta for all their printing needs ,” said Kevin Kern, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc
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Konica Minolta Receives Multiple 2010 Editor’s Choice Awards from Better Buys for Bus

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comprehensive product guides. Better Buys for Business recognized Konica Minolta with the following awards: bizhub® C652/C552/C452 Series and bizhub C360/C280 Series of Color MFPs as Editor’s Choice in the 2010 Color Copier Guide magicolor® 4695MF and magicolor 4690MF AIO Printers as Editor’s Choice in the 2010 Color Printer Multifunctional Guide bizhub C20 Series of Printers as Editor’s Choice in the 2010 Color Printer Multifunctional Guide bizhub 40P Series of Printers as Editor’s Choice in the 2010
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Konica Minolta Enhances Workflow Efficiency with Notable Solutions, Inc. AutoStore

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electronic documents from a copier, scanner, or printer, then routes the information into the appropriate business system based on the document type. As a result, business is done faster, with less effort — and with less paper. For more information regarding NSi AutoStore with Konica Minolta MFPs, please visit http://konicaminolta.nsiautostore.com . Konica Minolta Contact Rachel Reed Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. rachel(dot)reed(at)kmbs(dot)konicaminolta(dot)us Konica Minolta is a
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WFISD copier deal breaks down

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awarded bid and make a claim on the bid bond — a career first. The bid bond provides insurance to the district of 5 percent of the contract in case the deal sours. In a school board special session Tuesday, Powell told board members the trust had been breached with Konica Minolta and urged the district to now tap its second-best bid from vendor Benchmark Xerox to provide copiers and maintenance for the next three- to five-year contract. Board members approved the new bid unanimously. Konica Minolta
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Canon Releases Helix v2 - The Latest Web-to-Print and Production Workflow Software So

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available later in the year exclusively from Canon and authorised Canon Business Solutions Partners. This latest workflow software provides Central Reprographics Departments (CRD’s) and print-for-pay businesses with an even more powerful package, delivering superior performance and higher potential revenues. Helix WF v2.0 offers users significant improvements in the job submission, workflow management and large format printing. Designed for use with Canon’s most advanced copiers and office
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Managed Print Services Association

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: Strategy Development Corporate MPS Implementation (End-User): · 1st: Insight Direct by DirectPoint · 2nd: Dow Chemical by Randy Elliott · 3rd: Utah National Guard by DirectPoint Manufacturer: Implementation to Channel or Direct · 1st: Hewlett Packard · 2nd: Ricoh & Canon (tie) · 3rd: Printersdirect MPS Infrastructure Component Provider of MPS Solutions · 1st: Print Audit · 2nd: POG Consulting · 3rd: MWA Intelligence (Enterprise Suite) MPS Infrastructure Logistical Provider of MPS Solutions: · 1st
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Re: Canon to Acquire Lexmark?

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% in 2006 to ~65% in 2009 while A4 share went from 5% to ~35%, many of those being printer-based MFPs. Now that's not to say they were all HP by any means, but do you have data to cite to support what you just said? HP printers are displaced by A3 copier-based vendors, sure. That's the sales strategy for those guys. But the overall trend suggests there's more to the story. No feet on the street? Are you selling to SMB only? HP has an enterprise-focused direct sales force that sells transactional
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County hopes to save money consolidating copiers

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, reported that the potential savings may be $10,421 annually and a projected $52,000 savings in five years. There are currently 89 copiers and printers, which will first be reduced to 85, with a gradual scale back over time. Deputy Auditor Aaron Scharpe stated that research for this project began in August 2009.
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Technifax in Dallas Nominated For Favorite Place to Buy Office Equipment By Addison M

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Office Solutions is dedicated to maintaining its position as a North Texas leader in providing a full range of the highest quality document imaging equipment, including Kyocera multi-function printers, Konica Minolta bizhub copiers, HP printer fleets and more, along with related support services, such as managed print services and networking services to Dallas/Fort Worth businesses through a staff of highly trained professionals sharing a tradition of integrity and service to our clients. Find
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Re: Toshiba TEC releases 2009 Financial Results

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In my little copier world, we lost a lot of big negative margin deals to Xerox "Newly manufactured" copiers at crazy low prices and crazy low cpcs. Although this result created a significant drop in sales, if you are not selling copiers below cost you can only increase operating profit.
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Re: Canon to Acquire Lexmark?

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Hey Art, I think you got it backwards! Hp is about 10 times a large (based on market cap) than Xerox. The conventional wisdom is that printers and toners make them a lot of money. That is no longer true. In fact, printers and toners have the lowest margins of all their divisions, and have been flat in margin growth (even laptops and computers have better margins for HP than printers and toners). Over the past ten years they have lost their highest volume placements to digital copiers. They do
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Print Audit® to Showcase Benefits of Print Audit for Law at LegalTech West Coast Trad

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, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, Canada and the United States. For more information on Print Audit, please contact: Angela Onstine 1.877.412.8348 pr@printaudit.com http://www.printaudit.com Facebook: http://www.printaudit.com/facebook Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/PrintAudit Outside of North America, please contact: Print Audit - Europe +44(0)1483 726206 http://www.printauditeurope.com inquiry@printauditeurope.com Print Audit - Australasia +612 9922-3756 http
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School board committee recommends copier contract

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second-lowest bid, ahead of Ikon’s four-year bid of $1,415,333 and Ricoh’s bid of $1,719,000. “We met several times and gave Oce several opportunities,” DCSS Assistant Director of Purchasing Jason Renfroe said. “We certainly thought it made the most sense to go with a network-based system for the Dougherty County School System because we’re scanning more documents everyday.” Mary Barkley, information technology project specialist, said Automated Business’ copiers wouldn’t require as much training
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Re: Toshiba TEC releases 2009 Financial Results

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I am not talking about one quote but many. I think Xerox "flushed profits" to get sales volume in the "copier" recession. I can understand the need to push out boxes but you still have to live with $0.00690 Toner in on a 45 cpm for three years. Good luck with real profit-ability on that.
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Need MFP Salespeople?

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For the last seven years, I've had the privledge of being able to be the General Manager and Coach of a Summer Collegiate Baseball Team. That's one of the reasons why I don't blog as much in the summer compared to the fall, winter and spring.Over the...
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Print quality issues with Adobe In Design

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downloading with the PCL driver but why do the photos look great? Shouldn't the PS driver be the best for this application? Also on the PS printed newsletter the blue and cyan colors look almost purple as compared to the correct blue using the PCL driver. Anything to look for here that you can think of? I have other MPC5000 units printing from In Design and the output looks fabulous. Again, Please help! John
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Canon U.S.A. Demonstrates Its Leading Document Capture and Check Transport Solutions

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ATLANTA, Jun 07, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Addressing the complex, high-volume needs of municipalities in accounts payable, accounts receivable and payments, as well as document automation, imaging and management, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, will showcase the full lineup of its imageFORMULA digital document scanners and check transports at the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Annual Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center. Canon's exhibit is located in
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Re: Panasonic's A3 Exit

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I believe their copier market went south back in the 80's, the machines never ran like the other brands, You could get a machine like the old 1520 or 1300 to PM to PM but when they came out With the 1530 series and 3030 series they started down hill. What use to make me angry is their technology was state of the art. They were using transfer belts in that first 1530 in the 80's and they developed a lot of other ideas. But their weak spot, is the machines never were consistantly good. I am sure
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Re: Canon to Acquire Lexmark?

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It could be attractive for a vendor like Samsung - has plenty of $ - Wants to build its dealer and IT VAR channel - Wants to have direct/major accounts sales - Lacks a good MPS program - Wants to have a complete imaging portfolio, but still does not have consumer inkjet I still think it would make the most sense for Ricoh if it wasn't still trying to swallow IKON too
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Re: Canon to Acquire Lexmark?

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That whole scenario seems a little ridiculous to me. We are a Lexmark BDS dealer and I could never see anything like that happening. The only company that I could possibly see buying Lexmark would maybe be Xerox and that's it. All Lexmark A3 products are Xerox boxes already. I know Ricoh owns Infoprint but I think that might be as far as Ricoh is going to go with Lexmark. Just my 2 cents!
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Re: Panasonic's A3 Exit

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I ate up a Panasonic A3 deal today. I convinced a current Panasonic A3 customer, they had no where to go one year fron now and flipped them to five Toshiba's worth $68k plus $69k BOP. Don't delay hunt down Panasonic A3 base today!
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Re: WFISD copier deal breaks down

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I've been able to work a few large bids and find it hard to believe that there was a "rogue" sales person. When numbers get this large they need to be checked more than four or five times to make sure you have understood all of the programs. More buyers need to follow the age old rule “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is"
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Re: School board committee recommends copier contract

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"Automated Business had the second-lowest bid, ahead of Ikon’s four-year bid of $1,415,333 and Ricoh’s bid of $1,719,000." As I live and breath, there truly is a "pack of idiots" running Ricoh. Now, I've seen it all
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Re: Canon to Acquire Lexmark?

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As a Canon dealer for over 20 years, I know enough about them to know that Canon will never sell to HP, or anyone else for that matter. Their relationship with HP is strategic and long-term, however, and not to be taken lightly. I can't see what the value of Lexmark would be to them, though, unless it would be simply to elimimate another player that is creeping into the cheap-cpc business model via the dealer channel. That would hardly seem to be enough reason for acquisition-reluctant Canon
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Re: Samsung XOA

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XOA is Samsung's new Java based SDK that will permit software vendors to write interfaces which will show up on the MFP screen. They have work done already with Pharos and Print Audit...looks pretty interesting if it is not too complex. Don't know if they are charging for the SDK or not. Saw some early versions of integrations at a recent dealer's briefing in Toronto.
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Re: Lexmark Pricing

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You can go to CDW.com and they sell HP mfps. Service is like there printers, no cpc's.
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Re: Lexmark Pricing

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Exactly correct. The XS-prefix models are intended to sell in CPC contracts like any copier would. Any of this pricing floating around out there?... I'm willing to trade pricing.
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Re: Canon to Acquire Lexmark?

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I would say that IPG has helped "fund" HP's diversification into services, servers, computers etc and in doing so made printing less of an exclusive focus. But like Brandon said, printing continues to drive revenue and profits for HP and IPG is not going anywhere.
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County to ensure privacy of copied documents

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County to ensure privacy of copied documents Wednesday, June 02, 2010 By Jeff Corcino Staff Writer The Clearfield County Commissioners discussed ways to maintain the confidentiality of sensitive documents in the use of the county's copy machines. At yesterday's workshop meeting, the commissioners approved leasing a copier for the planning department at a cost of $287 a month for 36 months from Ikon. But due to the computerization of copy machines, new copiers make a record of the documents they

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