This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago for the Third Week of May 2010

Guest · 5/17/1011:27 PM

design, and reduction of packaging materials. Having excellent eco-functions and featuring Simitri HD polymerized toner with superior image quality, Konica Minolta will provide this feature-rich 3-in-1 model -- printing, copying and scanning -- to middle to small size offices in the emerging markets. [Main features of the bizhub 184/164] 1. Industry's top class energy-saving performance By significantly reducing energy consumption to minimize environmental impact, bizhub 184 realized a TEC value

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Guest · 5/20/1010:41 PM

addition, IC-307 Print Controller will support KONICA MINOLTA BIZHUB PRESS C6000, C7000, and C7000P, to be launched later this year. Geared to support Konica Minolta's continuous strengthening of its foothold in the print production market, the new CREO Color Server is exceptional in its workflow connectivity via built-in JDF capabilities and comprehensive variable data printing (VDP) functionality. Konica Minolta's customers will be able to integrate with a variety of professional workflows with

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Guest · 5/21/1011:14 PM

the best-selling paper-to-electronic document scanning package for use with Multifunction Printers (MFP’s) and such is its popularity, ShareScan is currently being marketed by Canon, Xerox, HP, Océ, Konica Minolta, Ricoh and Toshiba – that’s just about every major name in the reprographics industry. ShareScan Expanded Development Kit (SDK) Since Nuance’s purchase of eCopy, the company has been eagerly seeking to expand the product’s developer base, both with its own customers as well as third

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Guest · 5/19/107:28 PM

Print Services (EPS) contract will bring multiple print budgets and output devices, like printers, copiers and fax machines under Xerox management. Huntington will also meet its sustainability goals by decreasing the number of printers and educating employees on responsible printing. The bank has already seen a 35 percent drop in toner usage, as well as reduced paper and power consumption. "We signed on for MPS for the cost savings opportunity and to help the environment, but working with Xerox is

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Guest · 5/19/107:11 PM

throughout the magazine, generating 256 percent more leads for advertisers. The U.K.-based company produced the magazine, with a circulation of 12,000, on a Xerox 980 Color Continuous Feed Printing System using XMPie software. -- Mexico-based commercial print provider ColorFast created a promotional calendar to highlight its capabilities to customers and prospects. Printed on the Xerox 700 Digital Color Press, it helped the company improve sales by 60 percent over the previous year. -- LaserTryk took

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Guest · 5/19/107:27 PM

of its commitment to using sustainable elements and practices to create a healthier environment at CityCenter. -- The ColorQube 9200 Series is helping businesses in Europe reduce their color printing costs, including Capespan (U.K.), a leading fresh produce company that installed two ColorQube 9200 MFPs at its headquarters earlier this year. The MFPs cut the cost of color pages by up to 62 percent compared to traditional color lasers, without compromising print quality, saving the company

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SalesServiceGuy · 5/16/108:35 PM

Toshiba is now both Meditech and Cerner certified. This helps a lot in Health Care quotes.

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Guest · 5/19/109:04 AM

Printer Industry Called to Action – CBS Follows Up on Copier Security Investigation By: Guest Blogger on: May 18, 2010 in: Office Printing Share– Submitted by Larry Kovnat, product security manager, Xerox Corporation Yesterday, the CBS Evening News aired a follow up story to its April 19 segment discussing copier security, further spotlighting a topic that has been a Xerox focus for many, many years: how to keep data safe on our customers’ printers and MFPs. Information security is priority

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Guest · 5/19/107:13 PM

PLANTATION, FL, May 18, 2010 Equitrac Corporation, a global provider of award-winning intelligent print management and cost recovery solutions, was named a 2009 Alliance Partner of the Year by Xerox Corporation's Global Business Group for its continued contribution to Xerox, its customers and the printing industry. The award was recently presented at Xerox's annual business partner conference. Xerox's Global Business Group, responsible for managing the Xerox business partner portfolio of

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Guest · 5/21/107:25 AM

and IKON are proud of this industry recognition as a leader in delivering managed print services. Our proven expertise, unique management tools, and commitment to change management allow us to remain at the forefront of the MPS market and set ourselves apart from the competition," said Mark Boelhouwer, Vice President Ricoh U.S. Strategic Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. About Ricoh Americas Corporation Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of

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Guest · 5/21/1011:04 PM

Bytes Document Solutions, the distributor of Xerox to 27 African countries, has announced the local availability of the Phaser 6121, a compact, low-cost, colour multifunction printer (MFP). Xerox has brought new flexibility to the entry-level MFP market, with a choice of three configurations to precisely meet user needs. The Xerox MFP desktop enables home offices and small workgroups to affordably consolidate their office equipment into one compact, space-saving device that prints, copies

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JasonR · 5/17/101:47 PM

Interesting, but still overstating the value. As an identity thief (hypothetically), I'd be an idiot to spend a "few hundred bucks" on a copier hard drive on the off chance that someone may have once copied something with their credit card info on it. Even if you did once copy that, the chances I'll be able to recover that data (both the Ricoh and Canon copiers delete immediately after use and those areas are marked as reusable) after thousands of other documents may have overwritten it is

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Guest · 5/20/107:16 PM

BIRMINGHAM, UK, May 20 — French print service provider, SAGIM, is set to become the first printer in Europe to install the new KODAK PROSPER 1000 Press. The Courtry-based company near Paris specializes in the creation of monochrome books with color cover overlays, and will use the KODAK Press to enhance its short-run printing capacity. SAGIM counts large French book publishers among its customer base, including Flammarion, Dunod, Grasset, PUF, Seuil and Odile Jacob, to name a few. The KODAK

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Guest · 5/21/107:23 AM

The Stylish imageFORMULA P-150M Provides Enhanced Functionality and Ease-of-use to Mac-Based Environments LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., May 19, 2010 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital document management and image capture solutions, today addressed the growing need for on-the-go image capture solutions among Mac users with the introduction of the imageFORMULA P-150M "Scan-tini" personal scanner. Utilizing the same precision technology and compact footprint in the original P-150 scanner, the new

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Guest · 5/21/1011:02 PM

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Guest · 5/21/1011:09 PM

Xerox (Rochester, NY) has added new product enhancements and a customization program to its Xerox iGen4 press. The features extend the range of print jobs that generate new business opportunities and profits for print providers. Xerox will showcase these new features at Ipex 2010. New features include: Expanded connectivity with Heidelberg Prinect Print Shop Workflow for hybrid jobs that incorporate digital and offset pages. Xerox will demonstrate how its FreeFlow Digital Workflow Collection

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SalesServiceGuy · 5/23/109:16 AM

Most sales reps do not fully explain to the customer, their end of term lease obligations. It is the customer's obligation and expense to return the equipment to the leasing company. Most dealers will take care of this expense, if they flip one of their own copiers into a new copier. Many dealers will not take care of this expense if a competitor flips one of their machines. Many competitive sales reps will not bring up the topic hoping the incumbent dealer will take care of the removal

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Guest · 5/17/106:35 AM

Affairs is exercising the FAR Clause 52.216-27 "Single or Multiple Awards and Contingent upon availability of funds for next fiscal year, FAR Clause 52.232-119. 1st) Copier will be delivered to RIS/High School Bldg 225, Room 108: Comparable to Savin 9090 Digital Imaging System (copying, printing, scanning, finishing) features include speed of 90 copies per minute, first copy time 3.3 seconds, automatic duplexing, user code capability, standard with 150 sheets automatic reversing document feeder with

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Guest · 5/17/107:52 PM

Océ Technology Propels Continued Growth of World’s First Individualized Newspaper Patented Océ Automated Book Production technology enables colorful customized printing for unique “niiu” newspaper Trumbull, CT -- May 17, 2010 – Océ, an international leader in digital document management and delivery, announced today that the Océ JetStreamâ 2200 system and patented Océ PRISMAâ workflow technology have helped “niiu”, the world’s first individualized newspaper, achieve steady growth through new

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Guest · 5/17/109:26 PM

This is more of a technical question in reference to the fuser unit on this device. 1. Is Ricoh still using a dual roller system in the fuser? Such as upper and lower rollers 2. Can these rollers be purchased as needed or is an entire fuser unit now the norm? Thanx Art

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Guest · 5/19/108:58 AM

I've seen bits and pieces that Congress may get involved with some type of legislation with hard drives and office equipment, is this true? If so, shouldn't it extend to every product with a Hard Drive?Art

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Rdm2317 · 5/19/106:08 PM

Just wanted to see if anyone has any information to help me out against a Konica dealer. They are proposing two Bizhub C650, and three Bizhub 501. Anyone have any price support or any information would be greatly appreciated. Need info asap please. Thanks

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Guest · 5/19/107:23 PM

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Guest · 5/20/107:08 PM

prototype printers. The promise was that Memjet printers could print letter-size output at 60 pages per minute, or one page per second, and 1,600-by-1,600 dots per inch, with printers that were supposed to be available in 2008 for $200 to $300. Really. After 2008 came and went without a Memjet printer, and then 2009 did the same, you might have been forgiven for deciding that Memjet printers were just vaporware that you'd never see in real life. So for all the skeptics out there, this announcement's

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Guest · 5/22/109:18 AM

leases thousands of copiers to local businesses. Owner J.P. King says, "we've got calls from the hospitals, the college has started to worry about it." That is why since this problem came to light, King wipes the hard drive of each copier clean of personal information. But he says there is only one foolproof plan. King says, "take the hard drive out at the end of the life of the machine and smash it. Or I'll hand it to them and they can do whatever they want to." http://www.newschannel10.com/G

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txeagle24 · 5/17/109:45 PM

Here are a few that I have heard in the field: --(Dealer Name) is one of our customers. --Lanier (or Savin) products are made with lower quality parts than the Ricoh product that you get from RBS I think there are probably a few more that just aren't coming to mind right now.

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Larry Levine · 5/17/107:51 PM

It would be great to hear the feedback from you all regarding how RBS salespeople position themsleves within an account. Do they say they are Ricoh direct? My gut tells me this is vague. looking for some interesting comments.

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Guest · 5/19/109:00 AM

Rochester Software Associates Named Xerox Overall Software Partner of the Year Rochester, NY, May 19, 2010 - For the second consecutive year, Rochester Software Associates, Inc. a provider of production print workflow software solutions has been named 2009 Overall Software Partner of the Year by Xerox Corporation. The award was recently presented at Xerox's annual business partner conference. Xerox's Global Business Group, responsible for managing the Xerox business partner portfolio of

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Guest · 5/19/107:05 PM

. 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 industry. In collaboration, we work in partnership

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Guest · 5/19/107:24 PM

IKON Class Action Lawsuit Does your business lease copiers from IKON Office Solutions? Did your lease require you to enter into an Image Management Agreement with GE Capital Information Technology Solutions, Inc.d/b/a IKON Financial Services? If so, IKON may be overcharging you for your copier services. If you or your business entered into one of these leases with IKON, our IKON class action lawsuit lawyers want to hear from you today. You may be eligible for compensation if your Minimum

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Guest · 5/21/1011:07 PM

Lexmark International announced Friday that it will acquire a Kansas company that specializes in helping companies manage information. The $280 million purchase of Perceptive Software gives Lexmark a broader range of services to sell in addition to its printers and services business, in which it manages printing for companies. Perceptive Software does what is called “enterprise content management.” As Lexmark business software executive Glenn Hudson explained, think of a process like travel

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SalesServiceGuy · 5/23/108:58 AM

In Nova Scotia, Canada we are no longer allowed to dispose of copiers by taking them to the landfill. We must pay a local moving company $30.00 per hour (or send our tech to their premises) to disassemble the copier into it glass, metal, plastic & electronic components. These components are then placed in different bins for recycling. It can take approx two hours. The tech does not have to be delicate in the disassembly so wire cutters, crowbars and sledge hammers are now part of our tool kit

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Guest · 5/17/109:24 PM

In NJ they position themselves as Direct, plus it's been stated (not by me) but from customer in the field that why would they want to buy from a dealer when they can buy direct from Ricoh.

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GMAN · 5/18/1010:32 AM

part of Ricoh Co. Ltd., a $22 billion global digital office solutions provider based in Tokyo. http://www.bizjournals.com/phi...10/05/17/daily6.html

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GIntel · 5/19/108:13 PM

In the public sector I see the 501 selling for an average of $4,811 without options. It has a $12,300 MSRP. In contracts with monthly commitments it generally carries a CPC of around $0.0085, but can range from $0.007 to $0.012. In agreements with committed MPVs above 10k, CPCs average $0.0066 - but that includes very high commitments as well. The bizhub C650 has been discontinued since February 09, so who knows how low they can offer this one. In the public sector the C650 sells for an average

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David Broaden · 5/18/103:21 PM

I am looking for published end of life information for Ricoh models. Specifically 2090 and 2105. I have heard it rumored to be between 10-12 million. However, Ricoh is giving the standard response of Monthly Duty Cycle x 60 months. I think i have seen this published, but cant find it. Can anyone help?

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Guest · 5/18/1011:51 PM

results, can be found at NICTD.com. (Go to Info, then Purchasing) Competitive Proposals shall be submitted in a sealed opaque envelope clearly marked: “MFP-Copier”. All competitive proposals are to be submitted within an outer envelope. Proposals shall be submitted on forms contained in the proposal package. Competitive proposals are to be submitted in triplicate. Competitive proposals shall be received at: Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District Attention: Purchasing Manager 33 East U

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Guest · 5/21/1010:54 PM

Could someone email me the parts blowup on the fuser for the new Ricoh MPC 6501. art@p4photel.com Thanx!!

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Guest · 5/21/1011:12 PM

Copy machine bid The board accepted a bid from Ricoh Business Solutions to lease copy machines to the district. Plymouth will be returning the Cascade machine and replacing five others. The lease, which will cost $17,427 for the 2010-11 school year, is $3,000 less than the current year’s lease. Ricoh’s bid, the second-lowest of seven received, is in line with state of Wisconsin contracted prices. Ricoh provides for local repair service providers and received good recommendations from

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M138 · 5/17/106:50 PM

but how much of that is "me too" to protect the base from xerox or someone else offering those solutions... the document solutions might keep the fox out of the hen house for a while. Consider that one of their core beliefs is that business is conducted through documents, so they have an array of document solutions - where IT companies think in terms of managing data not documents. From a resource perspective, imagine how cumbersome erp software would be if it was document driven rather than

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merlin · 5/19/109:09 AM

This is just another marketing sales tool. What there are not showing is the buyout at the lease end. It is always a FMV. KM is using there own leasing arm. If you use a lease factor of .0278 this will show you a 0% interest. We have in state government accounts, what is call a deferred payment lease. This is the state price divided by 36 months. 0 interest, 0 down, 0 buyout at the lease end. But the sell price is fixed.

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txeagle24 · 5/20/1012:10 AM

When we have a client that asks us to dispose of a printer/MFP, I know we have our delivery driver pick up the device to properly dispose of it, but I have no idea what happens from there.

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JasonR · 5/20/109:59 AM

Worth noting... The MOST popular video on CBSnews.com is not the BP oil disaster or the Icelandic volcano, it's the copier security video.