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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Third Week of January 2003)

 

Pretty cool that this post will be the third installment of our Week in the Copier Industry 15 years ago this week.  Looking back many of us new nothing about networks, nothing about networked printers and scanners.  This site enables many copier sales people to lean on others and to share information that helped us compete.  Many of these founding P4P'ers are still members today. I'd like thank them for all that they did over the years.

2002 Better Buys for Business HV

for 2002 as rated by Better Buys for Business, were just released in their 2002 High Volume Copier Guide. The following copiers were given Editor's Choice Awards. Oce 3165 62 cpm Konica 7165 65 cpm Minolta Di 650 65 cpm Xerox 470DC 65 cpm Ricoh 700 70 cpm Konica 7075 75 cpm Kyocera Mita Vi7360 73 cpm Minolta Di 750 75 cpm Oce 3275 75 cpm Pitney Bowes DL750 75 cpm Xerox DC 480 75 cpm Canon iR 8500 85 cpm Ricoh 1085 85 cpm Xerox Docutech 135 cpm
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Ricoh US

From: Docusultant (Original Message) Sent: 9/11/2002 2:04 PM All you guys who are Gestetner, Savin dealers, God Bless, this should be a God send for you guys. For me having a Savin Direct, Ricoh Direct, Savin Dealer, Gestetner Dealer and another Ricoh dealer in my territory..................bad, bad,, bad,..............guys if I go to Canon can I still be a member here? Ricoh Corporation Announces The Formation Of Ricoh U.S. Major Organizational Change Will Dramatically Increase Efficiencies
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Xerox Docu Share

server and desktop operating systems have made it a popular choice for government organizations. Existing customers can easily upgrade to DocuShare 3.0. The software will be sold through Xerox direct sales representatives, agents, concessionaires, Xerox Business Partners and Teleweb sales channels. Worldwide availability begins Sept. 30.
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XRX no longer manuafacturing copiers

in a statement. Salomon Smith Barney Analyst Jonathan Rosenzweig said the deal will help Xerox cut about $200 million in annual costs. But, he said, with many of its turnaround goals reached, Xerox must now prove it can compete in its core business; selling equipment. ``Now they have most of the key elements out of the way, including the assets sales, the third-party vendor financing in the U.S.,'' he said. ``What everybody is still waiting for is the turnaround on the operating performance
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The Gold Medal goes to..........

about the WEC, please visit http://www.wec.org/ . Previous recipients of the WEC Gold Medal are: CEMEX, The Royal Dutch/Shell Group, International Paper Company, Eastman Kodak Company; Philips Electronics N.V., Compaq Computer Corporation, Alcoa, Ciba-Geigy Limited, S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Xerox Corporation, Procter & Gamble Company, Rohm and Haas Company, IBM Corporation, The Dow Chemical Company, The BP Group, E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company, Exxon Corporation and 3M. SOURCE The World
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BB4B Docutech 135

Prev Discussion Next Discussion Delete Reply Recommend Delete Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: ricohaficio (Original Message) Sent: 11/15/2001 1:23 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday November 15, 9:04 am Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Xerox Corporation Xerox Receives Top Honors From 'Better Buys for Business' and National Print Buyers Survey DocuTech 135 Chosen for Best Performance, Value; Xerox Named Most Favorable Printer
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Xerox 421 PI

1200 dpi resolution, two-sided printing, 12 ppm copying, and color scanning. The WorkCentre Pro 421 has a U.S. list price of $5,495 for the 421DEi and $6,995 for the 421Pi. Both configurations are immediately available in the U.S. and Canada through Xerox authorized dealers and Xerox Omnifax. It will be available through Xerox direct sales representatives and agent channels in January 2003. Customer Contacts: For information about Xerox multifunction systems, visit www.xerox.com or call 800/ASK
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kONICA 7075

"we installed an unconnected Konica 7075 in October 2000. In the six months since we got it, we have run 1.5 million copies or an average of 250,000 per month. Overall we've been satisfied with the machine - especially the booklet maker. In general the copy quality is good and we can start a job and walk away until we need to reload paper. We frequently run pre-printed 11 x 17 covers, although we have not run any coated stock to date. We have found that pre-printed covers will jam when run from
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New Xerox Color Printer

From: Docusultant (Original Message) Sent: 11/4/2002 5:35 PM Ricoh, can we expect a price drop on the 3800C??????? Xerox Delivers Fastest Workgroup Color Printer Monday November 4, 8:01 am ET Xerox Phaser 7300 Is the New Speed Leader in the Office at 30 Pages Per Minute WILSONVILLE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 2002--Xerox Corporation (NYSE:XRX - News) introduces the fastest workgroup color printer available today, leveraging single pass technology that transfers a full-color image to paper
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Sharp AR650

The Sharp AR650 is the same as the Toshiba E-Studio 65. The Sharp offers one controller that is embedded and has the following specs: Controller - Power PC 603e - 64 MB RAM - 200 MgHz processor - PCL5e, PCL XL, PostScript 2 enhanced resolution 600 dpi x 2,400 dpi Hope that helps.
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Re: Print On Demand

works for us now says that the 8500 engine is based on the new 5000/6000 platform. I don't really see the 2 cpm faster speed as an advantage for Canon (if someone does it's negligible). But once again their advantage is in scanning to PC as well as low cost scan to e-mail solution. Not to mention the general "print for pay" world trusts Canon on reliability. Although I'll put ours up against theirs any day. But much to my dismay, some of the folks at the Ricoh booth were still heard to be "disin
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Re: Our Doc Mall Account

At some point in time, we may not be able to keep all of the brochures and information on the web site. It will just be too much information and the cost associated with it. We can also post private pricing, like Sharp, Toshiba, Canon etc. Let me know Art
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Industry Analysts Website

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We were very fotunate this week to have Lou Slawetsky with Industry Analysts attend our sales retreat and gives us a "State of the Industry" address. It was very interesting and enlightening. One example: We've all seen and heard the info about Canon having the number one product share. Did you know that if you deduct the 300,000 or so personal copiers they sell through the retail outlets that the Ricoh Family is actually on top? Be sure to visit the website www.industryanalysts.com and take a
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Xerox 265 Field Report

A printer in Winston-Salem, runs 100K per month on his 265. He also rate the performance as a 9. He does have some concerns with registration especially with two sided copying.
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Xerox Completes Slide to Junk Status

Xerox Completes Slide to Junk Status NEW YORK (Reuters) - Embattled office equipment maker Xerox Corp.(NYSE:XRX - news), whose name became synonymous with photocopiers, watched its credit ratings complete their slide to ``junk'' status on Tuesday, being downgraded by Standard & Poor's after reporting its fifth straight quarterly loss. S&P cut its rating of senior unsecured debt issued by the Stamford, Connecticut-based imaging industry icon two notches to ``BB,'' its second highest junk grade
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Looking for a Ricoh dealer inMadisonville TN

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I have a friend in Tennessee looking for a 1013. Is this in anyones territory please let me know. Thanks, John Carr
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Riso to Ricoh Competitve Trade up

Does anyone have the competitve trade up promotion sheet for replacing Riso with our priports. I have the form you fill out to send in to Ricoh but don't have the actual "promo" to turn in with my deal for 3 JP5500's. I was told by the Product Manager that there is a $400 trade in allowance per riso but you need to send the actual serial number plate from the Riso with the form.
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Canon CLC 1000

Re: pkpetenj (43/M/North Brunswick, NJ) 5/17/01 9:55 pm Also Canon CLC 1000 (31 cpm) for $42,000 with Z90 rip. CPC 0.12. This quote was from Canon direct (MCS)
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Re: Ricoh US

From: Graham Sent: 9/23/2002 10:35 AM Does this mean that we will no longer see the Savin or Gestetner name out there? If so, I am glad that we are still the only Lanier dealer here. If this is the case, that will make 5 RICOH dealers including myself here in Boise. Plus the Lanier that we have as well
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Re: New Xerox Color Printer

, Toshiba Corporation, Hitachi, and Fujitsu. The fires occurred with three types of printer engines made by Fuji Xerox and were a result of certain printer parts becoming overheated. The engines were included in 640,000 printers sold between 1993 and 2001 as part of an original equipment manufacturer agreement. Fuji Xerox estimates that approximately 259,000 printers containing the faulty engine are still in use. Fuji Xerox announced that it will replace the faulty printer parts for free
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Re: XRX no longer manuafacturing copiers

diluted share, compared with net earnings of $49.9 million, or 10 cents, a year ago. The average estimate of 25 brokers surveyed by Thomson Financial/First Call was for earnings of 16 cents, with a range of 15 cents to 17 cents. Revenues totaled $3.2 billion versus $3.1 billion a year ago. Aside from eliminating 10,000 jobs, a cost-saving move, Flextronics will also cut 4 million square feet of manufacturing space, or about 20 percent of its total. The company took a $399 million charge in the
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Re: e-310 Fiery

However, I believe they know they have an issue with the fierys. Awhile ago, Ricoh had the peerless print controllers and no fierys for the black & white. Canon just had the fiery for thier high end (however most of thier placements were in P4P), Canon switching to a regular print controller & still offer the fiery solution to add placements in corporate black & white market. Ricoh did away with the peerless and only has the fiery. Smaller dealers will pay the price for knowledge. I believe
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Re: iR 8500 Field Report

Upgrading from a Xerox 5100 Upgrading from a Xerox 5100 was covered in the following: “I’m looking to upgrade to digital from my current Xerox 5100, we run 270,000 copies per month. We’re looking at either a Xerox 480ST with standard finisher or a Canon iR8500 with booklet maker. Both will be connected. Xerox has offered a purchase price of $32,000 and service and supplies at $817 for 80,000 and then $.0075 for overs. Canon has given me a price of $35,500 and service and supplies at .0065, with
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Re: Print On Demand

looks would sell a system the aficio 850 has them beat. We have a sexy stlyish system, the 8500 is just a box of plasctic. Halftones are exceptional, don't get caught with halftones against the Canon. Our 850/1050 sucks even with the eb fiery controller. Minolta 1501/2001, these units are three different pieces that look like they were patched together. Corporate color only!! 90lb stock is the heaviest and it has to be run thru the single sheet by pass!!!!!!!!! Black & White speed is 15 for
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Re: GEM Program coming to an end?

I believe that Ricoh has created a monster with their purchase og GES, SAV, Lanier, and the formation of Ricoh US. I believe that the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. Look at the guys they put at the top, formed execs of bankrupt companies!! I had the same situation with an account that had a rental agreement under Savin. They would not approve the GEM order. Well we raised enough stink to change it. I had to take $900 hit! Art
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Re: XRX Refinancing debt

can't cut costs forever.'' Xerox trimmed global staffing by 4,300 to 74,600 in the quarter, and cut inventories by $490 million, or 28 percent, from a year ago. Xerox said cost cuts in the quarter will lead to savings of more than $100 million annually. Merrill Lynch analyst Shannon Cross said ``the cost cutting and operational improvements should make the banks feel more comfortable.'' Chairman and Chief Executive Anne Mulcahy said on a conference call that ``a lot of operations'' were not
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Re: XRX Refinancing debt

Reuters Company News Xerox rtgs cut by Moody's on debt, cash flow worry NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - Xerox Corp.'s (NYSE:XRX - news) "junk" ratings were cut as many as four notches by Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday over concern about the copier maker's heavy debt load and "modest" sales growth prospects. "The size of this downgrade is a surprise," said Domenick Fumai, a fixed-income analyst at BNP Paribas, which trades Xerox bonds. "Moody's may be trying to be proactive, but this seems
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xrx 2060

Three compnaies reported on the 2060 (60 cpm). Their monthly copy volumes were 67,000, 90,000 and 125,000. Copies between service calls were 15,000, 30,000 and 40,000. Machine performance ratings (on a scale of 1 - 10 with ten being the highest) were a 7, 8, and 10. The average selling price for the three shops was .67 each. With an average of 94,000 copies at .67 each, the average shop was bringing in $63,000 per month in color copy sales. While these shops are obviously at the high-volume end
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XRX & MicroPress

Xerox & TR/Micro In The News ricohaficio SOURCE: T/R Systems, Inc. Xerox Partners With T/R Systems To Distribute M@estro M@estro Enables Xerox To Provide Customers Superior Document Delivery Options ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 2001--T/R SYSTEMS, INC. (Nasdaq:TRSI - news), a leader in developing innovative solutions for the management and production of digital documents, and Xerox Corporation (NYSE:XRX - news) today announced a relationship whereby Xerox will distribute M@estro, T/R
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XRX @ Print 01

Xerox in The News ricohaficio (43/M/Highlands, NJ) 9/10/01 7:32 pm Friday September 7, 8:02 am Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Xerox Corporation Industry Professionals Agree Digital Color is the Future of Printing, According to Survey Nearly Half of Those Polled Believe Xerox Offers the Most Impressive Printing Technologies at Show CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2001--A Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX - news) survey conducted from the show floor on the opening day of Print 01, this year's
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LightSpeed & XRX

Eclipse not only positions Lightspeed as a major player in enterprise software, but also ensures Chrystal customers further technology development and continuing product maintenance,'' said Thomas Little, Vice President of Business Operations at Xerox Technology Enterprises. The acquisition will provide Lightspeed with an element of critical mass and allow the company to accelerate its domestic sales and marketing operations, as well as develop international business activities. Lightspeed will be
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GEM Program coming to an end?

Tell me what is going on here. We just tried to order a 1035 for a hospital under the GEM program and the order was not approved because it was a "Ricoh US Account". We called Ricoh and were told that someone in the "Ricoh Family Group" had registered this account and would tell us nothing more. My question is How and Why. How do you "register" a GEM account and why would you if they automatically qualify for D3 pricing? We sold two 1035's to this account just two months ago but apparently
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iR 8500

From: ricohaficio (Original Message) Sent: 4/28/2002 6:24 PM The Canon imageRunner 8500 is a high-volume digital production system. With its 85 page per-minute speed and 400,000 page a month duty cycle, the 8500 is designed to meet the demands of high-volume copying and distributed printing. The 105 is nearly identical machine but has a 105 page per minute speed and a duty cycle of 600,000 pages a month. Both the 8500 and the 105 ship standard as digital copiers, but each can be easily
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Docutech 90

now includes 14 digital printing products, ranging from 75 to180 pages per minute and served by the Xerox DocuSP common controller. The DocuTech 90 and DocuPrint 90 are immediately available in North America through the Xerox sales force and in Europe in the first quarter 2002. The U.S. base list price for the DocuPrint/DocuTech 90 begins at $64,995.
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Document Capture/Global Scan

out their competition." Through strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as Adobe, Kofax, Doculex, Captaris and Equitrac, Ricoh's GlobalScan server will provide flexibility to large organizations already utilizing industry proven document management systems. "This is a one stop solution for the workplace and Doculex is able to be the conveyer belt within Ricoh's GlobalScan process," said David Bailey, VP, Sales and Technical Development, DocuLex. "We monitor and further understand the
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Article

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Re: RMAP/GEM/GSA

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Done! Put it in the Sales Talk category.
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Re: Variable Data Solution in Ausie Land

From: mwyman Sent: 1/3/2002 6:48 AM Is this similar to Canon's Free Form software that can work with Canon CLC's enabling variable Data Printing?
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Re: Copiersusa.com

What are you guys talking about? I just went to the site. The only Ricoh Product listed on the site is the Bizworks analog machine.
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Re: Copiersusa.com

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Click the RICOH logo at the top of the page and you'll see it all!
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Re: Variable Data Solution in Ausie Land

Good Morning- Love the new board I just went to the Ricoh rollout on DOT. Anybody that is familiar with variable data might remember Paris, it still is running in some places, anyhow this is like the upgraded version of that. Ricoh is slowly rolling this out to their dealers starting on the west-coast, we got lucky they were in Chicago and we short stop them. It is about a $10,000 investment to sign up for their program. Our DSM is emailing us the PDF of the rollout this week, I will try and
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Re: Print On Demand

and document solutions that we could not offer to the customer with certain Ricoh boxes. I was over at the BAUM booth and looked at thier BUAM jr. auto folder. This folder will fold up to 11 x 17 sheets in four pre-defined fold modes. V, Z, Bi, along with french (sounds very sexy to me). It will stack 300 sheets in the feeder and the exit tray will fill up every one hundred folds. So, whats the big deal! The price, MSRP of $2,400!!, I've been paying $2,400 wholesale for the MBM version. I'll
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Re: Print On Demand

Re-posting this made me realize I never did tell you all about the color label printer from Canon. It prints @ 1200 dpi (inkjet), variable data printing, and prints full color images onto rolls of adhesive labels. At this time the product was not available in the US ad they were going to release it to Canon USA in the third quarter of 2002. As of yet I have not seen one. Is there anyone out (maybe you IKON guys) that knows more or has this product? Art
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Re: e-310 Fiery

From: Lee Sent: 2/3/2002 10:17 PM There are lot's of issues that need to be addressed on the EB-70 and the B&W Fiery's in general. Things like certain features missing as you mention here, not being able top push the drivers out over the network the way you can other drivers, not being able to print from the AS/400, etc. I've been sort of hacking on Ricoh about it being a step backwards in compatibility, not to mention the price premium to add it to an existing placement. They'll probably just
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Re: Need Help

The toshiba customers who have the unit seem to like it. They like the speed. If the are not producing color critical documents. It is really a business color machine. In a creative environment with the Fiery E810 the A6513 will hands down out perform that unit... TOP | Post | Reply | Reply/Quote | Email Reply | Delete | Edit Previous | Next | Previous Topic | Next Topic Topic: Toshiba e-310 (2 of 2), Read 92 times Conf: COLOR: Competitive Discussion From: Rhonda Stearns ( ) Date: Wednesday
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Re: Punch Unit Question

Buy Pre-Puched Paper or go to one of your printers and set them up with the account for pre-punched paper. Ricoh, does not make the pucnh unit. A call to Jim DeGrutilla at Ricoh might be the answer. He may know the manufacturer, and maybe they have three hole punchers, but they were just never marketed by Ricoh. Art
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Re: Document Capture/Global Scan

From: Ted Sent: 3/10/2002 2:45 PM Art, this would be great if Ricoh offered Scanning on its' high volume machines (i.e. 55, 70, 85, 105) I have a number of clients that only have 55 and above machines that could use this technology, if only. Any news on whether Ricoh will have these options on the next generations of 55-70's? Ted
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Re: Document Capture/Global Scan

able to work without it, (or so they think). Also, you need to know how everything you sell works. There is nothing better than to be able to answer a prospects questions on the spot when other sales reps have to check it out. Knowledge will help your prospect gain confidence in you as a salesman and a person. That is one of the reasons Art put this club together. Hopefully, everyone that is plugged in to this club will gain knowledge that your competition won't have. Regarding getting your
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Re: Sharp Digital (Old RE-POST)

Until recently I was at a Sharp dealer. What models are of specifice interest? The AR-M350/450 weak in the paper capacity area, maximum of 4 500 sheet drawers or 2 500 and 1 2,000. The smaller FN6 finisher they can only sort letter, no letter R or legal, no mix size original sort with small finisher, do not have LAN-Fax Let me know what all you want to know.
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