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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago

 

This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago

Second Week of June 2007

Fifteen years ago found me still seeking out opportunities for digital duplicators.  For me, I thought the future technology for high-speed and spot color would be digital duplicators.  Man, did I love those duplicators and I did very well because I understood the technology.  Many reps today do not understand the technology that they're trying to sell, and I'm afraid to say that most don't want to learn the technology either.  Those that learn and embrace the technology are and always will be the over achievers in our industry!

Here's Some Great Threads from 15 Years Ago

'Xerox, Ricoh, Konica Minolta Top Color Printers'

Art Post (Guest) ·
June 11, 2007 'Xerox, Ricoh, Konica Minolta Top Color Printers': BLI Buyers Lab (BLI) 'Pick' Winners in Key Growth Market for Color Workgroup Printers. Hackensack, NJ, June 6, 2007 – BLI has announced the winners of its Spring 2007 “Pick” awards in the color printer category, with KONICA MINOLTA Printing Solutions, Ricoh Corporation and Xerox Corporation receiving accolades for their products. Color printers have been a key growth market in the printer industry; as hardware prices continue to
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RICOH CORPORATION INTRODUCES NEW VERSION OF PRINT & COPY

Art Post (Guest) ·
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 software enhances workgroup collaboration and offers secure storage, retrieval and sharing of critical
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Ricoh Americas Corporation Unveils SP C210 Full-Color Laser Printer

Art Post (Guest) ·
West Caldwell, N.J., June 8, 2007 – Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment, today introduced the Ricoh® SP C210 color laser printer. Competitively priced, the SP C210 provides small business and home office users with professional-grade clear, crisp black & white and color prints. An ideal addition to any small office looking for a functional and convenient print device, the SP C210 offers superior speed and output quality. The device speeds through black and
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Canon Introduces Color imageRUNNER C5185 Series

Art Post (Guest) ·
environments, and the "base" model, providing highly customizable features to meet complex document management, the Color imageRUNNER C5185 Series is powered by Canon's imageCHIP system architecture driving all-in-one multifunction capabilities, including simultaneous copying, printing, scanning, sending, and faxing. Sporting Canon's Twin-Belt Fusing Technology, this device provides users with fast print speeds and warm-up times, helping to address companies' needs for greater output in less time. Similar
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Re: 4420L, 4420NF and 3310LE

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Here is the launch letter for the new gear. Note the mention of low avalibility of the NIB on page 2.
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The World's First Duplex Printing Duplicator

Art Post (Guest) ·
WEST CALDWELL, N.J., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment, today introduced the Priport DX 4640PD. As the world's first duplex digital express printer, the Priport DX 4640PD combines high-speed printing with outstanding image quality to improve output efficiency and lower costs for businesses with routinely long print runs. This reliable, user-friendly system sets a new standard for affordable, high-volume productivity. The Priport
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Sharp Expands Direct Operations to San Diego

Art Post (Guest) ·
, contact Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America, Sharp Plaza, Mahwah, N.J. 07430, or call 800-BE-SHARP. For online product information, visit Sharp’s Web site at sharpusa.com or sharpusa.com/documents. # # # Sharp Electronics Corporation is the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Sharp Corporation, a worldwide developer of one-of-a-kind home entertainment products, appliances, networked multifunctional office solutions, solar energy solutions and mobile communication and information tools
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How to Transform Yourself into A Solution Selling Guru!

Art Post (Guest) ·
How to Transform Yourself into A Solution Selling Guru! With the industry rapidly changing and the on-set on Direct Branches just moving boxes to capture clicks, it is essential that we transform to solution selling. So what is Solution Selling? Solution Selling can be a sale that incorporates a piece of hard with a software solution. It could be something as simple as a print driver setting that saves the customer time or something as elaborate as a Document Management Software application
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Re: Important All RFG Dealer Sales Reps & Owners!

5050 (Guest) ·
the solutions for us to engage customers with have nothing to offer from their direct branches, atleast in my region than a bunch of idiots with such horrible salesmanship that they can only sell somthing with the BOX MOVER MENTALITY WHEN THEY ARE BUYING BUSINESS. Good Luck Ricoh and See ya Later, I am leading with my second lines.
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Fiery E-8000 Controller

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We have our first E-8000 Fiery controller in the field on a Ricoh 5560 and when the scanning function is used it locks up the machine and needs to be rebooted. Is anyone experiencing similar problems and does anyone have these in the field that are running with printing and scanning without any problems?
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Re: Sales Tips

Art Post (Guest) ·
Major Shift? Go to the Top If you are selling a service or product that causes a major shift in a corporation, then only sell to the top. A smart day-care center owner we know only markets to the presidents or CEOs of large corporations. Most large organizations don't want the "shift" and overhead of providing an in-house day-care center. Our entrepreneur proves to top management that she can provide them a needed service without a major shift.
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Re: Ricoh Introduction of the FAX1180L

Art Post (Guest) ·
Ricoh (SKU: 413460), the system looks different from the 1170, did a quick search on the web and found nothing pertaining to the 1170 and the 1180 as the same cart, they are both made by samsung.
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Re: The World's First Duplex Printing Duplicator

Art Post (Guest) ·
My thoughts also, I recommended Tohoku,Ricoh manufacturing a 4 color version of the TCII almost four years ago, heck if they can make a TCII, they can make a TC IV. I also though of just having a plate maker (master maker), this would keep the cost down on the hardware. They must be thinking of something else, I beleive ink technology may have put the final nail in the coffin for digital duplicators.
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Re: The World's First Duplex Printing Duplicator

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I agree with Art. Tohoku is never going to listen to good common sense. Ricoh has left digital duplicating technology on the vine to die in the USA. What we have now is what we got. Make the most of it, inkjet technology is on the rise - just take a look at HP's Edgeline and Riso's ComColor......
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Re: Fiery E-8000 Controller

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We have installed one of the patches. Our technician spoke with Ricoh and they said there is no fix for the issue right now and that the other patches will not do any good but that a beta version is circulating and new firware should be out in July. I just have trouble believing that this Fiery has been available for the time that is has and it has this problem still.
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Re: When is the release date for HP Edgeline

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The actual set up went pretty smooth. I think we have a bad black print head though. We're still talking to a real engineer person at HP not somebody from Bangalore. I think we'll have it resolved tomorrow.
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Re: When is the release date for HP Edgeline

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That's interesting, the 8060 I saw had a set of bad printheads as well.
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Re: SR400 w/ Inserter ? ----Please Help

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I think the question was whether it would do a 5.5'x8.5' insert. Obviously wouldn't staple it but will it insert a page that is 5.5"x 8.5. I personally think that a better idea regardless would be to insert a full 8.5x11 sheet with the other portions of the page printed with info that would be appropriate considering the placement of the insert.
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Re: SR400 w/ Inserter ? ----Please Help

5050 (Guest) ·
I thought about that, but then there would be no need for an insert - you could just print the materials that you wanted in the first place and stich the whole document.Don't you think. I think I may be thinking about this to hard and am probably missing someting very basic.
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Office GIS Rebate Program!

Art Post (Guest) ·
Does anyone have a copy of the "Official GIS" Rebate program from Ricoh? If so, please email to me art@p4photel.com
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4420L, 4420NF and 3310LE

Art Post (Guest) ·
We are out of inventory on the three fax models 4420L, 4420NF, and 3310LE. The new models are not due out until sometime next week. This is just an FYI so you know the inventory status on these products in case you have any of these models on order.

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