This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2005)

business out of the red," Konica Minolta President Fumio Iwai told a briefing held to unveil a new medium-term business plan. Konica Minolta, the world‘s number four copier maker after Canon Inc., Xerox and Ricoh Co. Ltd., now expects a group operating profit of 90 billion yen in 2005/06, down from its prior estimate of 145 billion yen. The Tokyo-based company also lowered its sales outlook for the next financial year starting April 1 to 1.13 trillion yen from 1.23 trillion yen. Konica Minolta first

America, to be the sole provider of document management solutions. This three-year contract makes Ricoh the “Official Copier and Facsimile Supplier for Vail Resorts” as well as a member of Vail Resorts’ Strategic Alliance Program. Vail Resorts is comprised of five premier U.S. ski resorts, including Vail, Beaver Creek Breckenridge, Keystone, and Heavenly. The company has called on Ricoh to overhaul its existing fleet of copiers and facsimiles and replace them with more efficient systems. Ricoh has

office automation equipment and electronics, with fiscal year 2003 sales in excess of $17.1 billion. Ricoh Corporation is a leading provider of document solutions. Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and software products help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by 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

accurately predict a color’s appearance, saving them the time and money necessary to correct a print job for color accuracy. The PANTONE digital chips books show a three-way comparison of how 1,089 PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® Colors look when printed on a Xerox digital press or an offset press using CYMK process printing. Like a paint or fabric swatch, these colors are presented in a tear-out “chip” format on coated paper that can be easily attached to artwork so designers, printers and clients have

April 13, 2005 - Kyocera Mita America Expands Line of Full-Color Printing Solutions The FS-C5020N and the FS-C5030N full color printers provide superior performance and professional color output at an affordable price. Fairfield, New Jersey – April 13, 2005 – Kyocera Mita America, one of the world’s leading document imaging companies, today introduced the FS-C5020N and the FS-C5030N full color printers. These powerful solutions possess all the needs of a reliable workgroup printer, including

Image Refinement (KIR). The KM-8030 and KM-6030 also offers 300 x 300 dpi for toner-saving quick printing of e-mail and internal communications. “In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations demand document imaging solutions that simplify their day-to-day activities, while supporting IT strategies of efficiency and network integration,” said Bill Cassidy, Product Marketing Manager, Monochrome MFPs, of Kyocera Mita America. “Kyocera advanced utilities software solutions support

, N.J., is a leading provider of computer-connectable peripherals, including network-ready digital copiers/printers, laser printers, color copiers/printers, digital laser facsimiles, and multifunctional and wide format imaging solutions. Kyocera Mita America, Inc. is a group company of Kyocera Corporation, the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of advanced ceramics and associated products, including telecommunications equipment, semiconductor packages and electronic components. Kyocera

has introduced the KM-6030 (60ppm) and the KM-8030 (80ppm), as well as the KM-1820 (18ppm). Adding to its line of full color printers, Kyocera has also introduced the FS-C5020N (17ppm) and the FS-C5030N (26ppm). KYOcapture – Kyocera Mita America will unveil its newest addition to the KYOsolutions offering. KYOcapture allows companies to optimize their workflow by enabling select Kyocera multi-functional devices to seamlessly capture, process and route paper documents to multiple locations and

Have a customer with 35 pppm digital copier. They are ready to upgrade because their lease is ending. Current volume 10k per month not connected. Want to connnect - volume will increase to about 15k - what would you guys recommend condsidering they do mail merge envelope printing of 2900 envelopes at a time?

Tangoe, Inc. http://www.tangoe.com WHAT IT DOES It provides software and consulting services for managing enterprise telecommunications spending. EVENT 03-31-2005-$4.9 million in financing led by Edison Venture Partners and Comerica Bank OPPORTUNITIES company expected to make purchases to support... - working capital - accelerating sales and marketing in North America and Europe potential opportunity to provide... - sales training programs - software and systems specific to the sales function

ACE*COMM Corporation http://www.acecomm.com WHAT IT DOES It develops advanced operations support systems (OSS) solutions for telecom service providers and enterprises. EVENT 04-01-2005-$2.5 million in a private placement OPPORTUNITIES company expected to make purchases to support... - growth potential opportunity to provide... - software and systems specific to the sales function - products and services to support a field sales force - sales training programs - recruiting for sales

I have no problem with sales people making money, however charging 2 too 3 times list price is what I'm talking about. You can sell a customer many more times at a fair price. Ar

Make a copy in reduction/ enalrgement and see if the light area moves. If so then is optics. Throughly clean around the optics, make sure you clean the lens and CCD well. Don't disassemble them though....

alone to selling capture technologies. For a full copy of the survey results, go to: http://www.aiim.org/article-docrep.asp?ID=29594 AIIM - the international authority on Enterprise Content Management (ECM), is leading the way to the understanding, adoption and use of ECM technologies. These technologies, tools, and methods are used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content across an enterprise in support of business processes. As a non-profit association for more than 60 years, AIIM

Trouble shooting this printer the other day I ran the SMC report and it listed the last 10 Jam codes in SP7507. The service manual not only doesnt list the meaning of the codes but doesnt even mention the SP. It goes from 7003 to 7801. The codes were 020 and 024 which have to do with the exit switch as that is the part I replaced and so far has fixed the problem. I called RDC and they had no info of the codes either. Anybody have any additonal info on this?

On the 2232 when you go into print mode the bypass picture on the display has a picture of a key. The key picture doesn't show up in copy mode just print mode. Customer wants to know what it means. Anyone know?

Poll Question: Would you like to see Ricoh add the SR series Plockmatic Bookletmaker to the new 2051/2060 and 2075 series! Results (13 votes counted): 11 (85%) Yes 2 (15%) No

Does anyone know the Ricoh policy for paymeny / chargebacks on Rentals that have completed the original term, and continue month-to-month indefinately?

OrganicID Inc. http://www.organicid.com WHAT IT DOES It is developing low-cost, printable, plastic-based radio frequency identification (RFID) tags for item-level supply chain applications. (number of employees: 10) EVENT 03-28-2005-Announced the appointment of a new Vice President, Engineering OPPORTUNITIES potential opportunity to provide... - equipment and services for research and development activities - products and services to support its technical infrastructure - tools and services

Thanks all, does anyone have a hard copy of the print outs?

You want to print 3,000 envelopes a month with the 35PPM?

Seriously, unless Ricoh has improved the feeding of envelopes I would not reccomend. Are you going to propose the 35PPM B & W MFP? Art

Probably, I have an old HP5si with 100 sheet envelope feeder I took in trade in. I might refurb that and through it in with the 35bw MFP and tell them to do their envelopes on the HP. Open to ideas - the 35ppm bw Savin is only spec at 1 envelope at a time throught the bypass

increased business development activities Tony Formichelli is the new Senior Vice President of Sales, MediaSpan Online Services. In this newly created position, he will be responsible for driving sales of online products and services to local media properties and guiding business development efforts for the MediaSpan Online Services unit. Mr. Formichelli will be based in the New York City office. PARTNERS none stated PEOPLE F. R. (Frank) Campagnoni, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer William (Bud) H

Linux NetworX http://www.linuxnetworx.com WHAT IT DOES It designs and builds cluster computing systems for high-performance technical computing. (number of employees: 55) EVENT 03-30-2005-Announced the appointment of a new Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing OPPORTUNITIES potential opportunity to provide... - sales training programs - software and systems specific to the sales function - products and services to support a field sales force - recruiting for sales professionals