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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago

 

This Week in Copiers Five Years Ago

Last Week of January 2018

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Check out this interesting link from a poll we conducted 5 years ago.  How Many Copiers Do You Sell Every Month.  There's some awesome threads from our member and one member posted and average of 18 each month!!  That must be Monte @Monte

Enjoy these awesome copier threads from 5 years ago

Konica Minolta Achieves 30 Worldwide Installations for AccurioJet KM-1

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partnerships and branding for patented technology have also been announced as Konica Minolta continues to expand and grow market share in industrial and commercial print markets. Dot Freeze Technology is the new name for a special process for Konica Minolta’sAccurioJetKM-1 B2 press where the ability to “freeze” the inkjet dot enables perfect registration ofcoloursand image stability. Customers confirm a delta Ecolourshift of no more than 1.5, which happens to be a major advantage for new customers to
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Konica Minolta partners with Ryerson University and Belmont Press to augment classroom learning and develop future leaders of the Canadian printing industry

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supported not only by Canada’s leading commercial printers but also by corporate sponsors such as Konica Minolta. Awards, creativity and so much more On October 6, 2017, a team of Konica Minolta experts visited the university and introduced 135 fourth-year GCM students to the latest printing technologies, educating them on how to design specifically for digital embellishment applications. It was an eye-opening experience for students. They were assigned a project to design the front and back
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Canon Wins BLI’s 2018 Copier MFP Line of the Year

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each device supports are the icing on the cake, and the machines will produce high quality printed and copied output that businesses of all types will be ecstatic about.” Canon currently has a total of 13 Copier MFP Pick awards. In addition, all 14 of Canon’s Copier MFP models tested have earned a Highly Recommended rating. “We are honored to receive the BLI award for Copier MFP Line of the Year for the third consecutive year,” said Toyotsugu Kuwamura, Executive Vice President and General Manager
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Konica Minolta Continues to Lead in Loyalty for Eleventh Consecutive Year with Brand Keys Recognition

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assessments, and surpass competitors for surprising and delighting clients. “There is no better testimony to the high qualityof our company’s products and services than when it comes right from our clients,” saidKay Du Fernandez,SeniorVice President, Marketing,KonicaMinolta.“We areveryproudandappreciativeto once again be recognized, and we look forward to continuing to provide the highest qualitysolutions and servicesto our clients.” “Konica Minolta deserves particularly special congratulations
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Konica Minolta Continues to Lead in Loyalty for Eleventh Consecutive Year with Brand Keys Recognition

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surpass competitors for surprising and delighting clients. “There is no better testimony to the high qualityof our company’s products and services than when it comes right from our clients,” saidKay Du Fernandez,SeniorVice President, Marketing,KonicaMinolta.“We areveryproudandappreciativeto once again be recognized, and we look forward to continuing to provide the highest qualitysolutions and servicesto our clients.” “Konica Minolta deserves particularly special congratulations this year,” said
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Ricoh unveils enhancements to Clickable Paper™, further expanding the service that transforms print into an interactive experience

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LAS VEGAS , Jan. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh USA , Inc. today unveiled new gamification and cookies-enablement features for Clickable Paper™, revealing its latest strategic investment for the future of print and augmented reality (AR) applications. Clickable Paper leverages Ricoh Visual Search image recognition technology to enable communications to reach beyond the printed page by linking printed materials to rich online media sources – photos, websites, e-commerce portals, videos
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Cost of the copier/printer is $182.21 per month

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The board also approved leasing a copier and a folder/stuffer to be used primarily for tax bills. The county had previously contracted with the company Manatron for the service, but decided to bring managing tax bills in-house. Cost of the copier/printer is $182.21 per month for 60 months and $244.94 for the folder/stuffer over a five-year contract. Fees the county charges townships for tax billing services will fund the new equipment. Dulcee Ranta, equalization department director, said the
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Sharp weighs bid for Toshiba's struggling PC business

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OSAKA -- Electronics maker Sharp is reportedly considering a bid to purchase Toshiba 's money-losing personal computer business, aiming to get back into the PC market with help from Apple assembler and Taiwanese parent Foxconn. Read the rest here
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Featuring Augmented Reality and Award-winning Solutions, Ricoh showcases its commitment to customers and innovations at EFI Connect 2018

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-focused on enhancing customer experiences, will be on site to discuss how print businesses can benefit from Ricoh's large and growing portfolio to meet their unique needs – demonstrating the company's dedication to holistically assessing and addressing customer pain points, workflows and goals. Visitors to Booth #102 can also learn more about the game-changing five-color RICOH Pro C7100X series, the versatile EFI Pro 16h, and a suite of workflow solutions to meet diverse needs, including those
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EFI Customers Discover New Age of Digital Print at 19th Annual EFI Connect

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Fiery technology Several partners, including Ricoh, Xerox, Konica Minolta® Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. and Riso, will showcase print engines running EFI Fiery® digital front ends (DFEs). The new, scalable Fiery FS300 Pro DFE platform used in several new print engines from EFI partners can handle high-speed sheetfed and ultra-high-speed continuous-feed B1 production and offers new features for superior color, performance, usability and integration. EFI partners’ new Fiery-based DFEs
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Toshiba e-STUDIO3508LP Wins Buyers Lab's Winter 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Innovation Award

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TOKYO--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Toshiba Tec Corporation (TOKYO:6588) announces that its e-STUDIO3508LP has earned Keypoint Intelligence - Buyers Lab's Outstanding Achievement in Innovation award. The e-STUDIO3508LP is Toshiba’s hybrid multifunction peripheral (MFP) which prints regular black prints as well as erasable blue prints within one device. Keypoint Intelligence - Buyers Lab presents its Outstanding Achievement award to acknowledge the products or capabilities that stand out for a
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Recent Canon Bid Pricing for 2017

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Featuring Augmented Reality and Award-Winning Solutions, Ricoh Showcases its Commitment to Customers and Innovations at EFI Connect 2018

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enhancing customer experiences, will be on site to discuss how print businesses can benefit from Ricoh’s large and growing portfolio to meet their unique needs – demonstrating the company’s dedication to holistically assessing and addressing customer pain points, workflows and goals. Visitors to Booth #102 can also learn more about the game-changing five-color RICOH Pro C7100X series, the versatile EFI Pro 16h, and a suite of workflow solutions to meet diverse needs, including those unique to wide
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Xerox Enhances Channel Partner Program for IT Solution Providers

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NORWALK, Conn.--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Xerox has launched a streamlined channel partner program for IT solution providers that rewards partner loyalty. The enhancements are a key component of Xerox’s strategy to target IT solution providers through a program that’s simple to understand, promotes growth and offers robust sales incentives. Selling print devices and services are an untapped revenue source for the tens of thousands of IT solution providers that comprise a large portion of the overall
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Ricoh launches Remlox™ Cloud for efficient, cost-effective and proportionate data collection

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download, install and run Remlox Cloud. Users can then complete their collection, host the data within Ricoh's secured Microsoft® Azure™ Cloud environment, and begin review all in the same day. Remlox Cloud is Ricoh's latest demonstration of their commitment to providing innovative ways that support their customers to securely, yet simply, empower their digital workplace. To learn more about Remlox™ Cloud and other Intelligent eDiscovery solutions from Ricoh, visit https://www.ricoh-use.com/en
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Lead for Digital Colour Copier in Canada

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PRINTING EQUIPMENT AND COPIER Q18-040 SUPPLY, DELIVERY AND INSTALLATION OF A DIGITAL COLOUR PRINTER/SCANNER/PLOTTER DEVICE FOR THE CITY OF VAUGHAN Closing Date: Feb 6, 2018 3:00:00 PM (local time) City of Vaughan Reference: Q18-040 Prequalification required: No Uploaded: Jan 24, 2018
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Capturing a Few Days On & Off The Road with Mike Hellebuyck, Senior Sales Director with DocuWare

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I was fortunate enough to spend some time recently getting to know Mike Hellebuyck, Senior Sales Director – West, at DocuWare and catch a glimpse of what life on the road is like for him. As a sales director at DocuWare, he travels around the country, along with his team of Regional Sales Directors (RSDs), building successful business and personal relationships with Authorized DocuWare Partners and equipping them with the best tools and resources to sell DocuWare’s document management solutions
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Re: How Many Copiers Do You Sell Every Month?

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In your dog-eat-dog market, Art, to post these kind of sales (6-9) consistently every month--nothing short of amazing. What # of these 6-9 are net new?
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Re: How Many Copiers Do You Sell Every Month?

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JeffR posted: In your dog-eat-dog market, Art, to post these kind of sales (6-9) consistently every month--nothing short of amazing. What # of these 6-9 are net new? I would estimate the average at two per month or about 24 per year. Getting tougher and tougher with net new though. Different companies have different ideas about what new is. For instance, if I have one lone MFP and I take down 5 competitive devices in that same account. They do not count the 5 additional knockouts as net new
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Sharp seen posting 270% profit gain for April-December

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OSAKA -- Sharp 's group operating profit for the nine months ended December looks to have soared 270% on the year to around 70 billion yen ($640 million), supported by earnings improvement in the consumer electronics maker's mainstay liquid-crystal display business. Sales for the three quarters probably rose about 20% to roughly 1.8 trillion yen. Osaka-basedSharp saw growth in medium-size LCD panels used for tablet computers, as well as in televisions overseas, particularly in China. The home
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Japanese electronics major arm Ricoh India files for insolvency

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New Delhi, January 29 Press Trust of India Japanese imaging and electronics majors Indian subsidiary Ricoh India has filed for insolvency proceedings as it is unable to meet its liabilities. The company has filed an application under Section 10 of the IBC before the National Company Law Tribunal, it said. “The company has come to a position where it is unable to meet its liabilities and this course of action has been decided in the best interest of the company, its customers, employees and
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The Most Important Sales Appointment You Can Make... It's Not What You Think!

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out of us! Sometimes it can be downright paralyzing! We have so many responsibilities pulling us in every direction.In our sales lives, we have the grind that exists in our day to day job. From family life to our social life through to our work life, most feel like we just don't have enough time to accomplish it all effectively. "There cannot be a stressful crisis next week. My schedule is already full." Henry Kissinger THE PRIORITIZATION OF YOU It's so easy to get caught up in the daily hustle
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Canon Discovery Services Spotlights eDiscovery Strategies and Solutions at the LegalTech 2018 ...

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. Understanding how AI is built, what work it can do and its potential impact on the legal profession and future jobs. Insight on the current growth curve of AI applications and how commercialization in legal and other industries might proceed. To learn more and register for the AI boot camp: http://bit.ly/2zeMhhH Canon will also hold a raffle prize drawing on the last day of the show. Visitors can submit their business card for a chance to win a CanonEOS Rebel T6 DSLR camera package. Canon Business Process
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Re: Recent Canon Bid Pricing for 2017

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SalesServiceGuy posted: Thanks for this very useful info. It is not so much that I care about the pricing in Arkansas but the great detail in these bid response provides helpful insights into my local quotes. Is there a way to search all of these copier proposals for a specific manufacturer or model #? SSG There is a search tool on this site. Please look for this on the dashboard. Once you hover your mouse over that icon you will then see here you want to select the "advanced search". A new
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Re: How Many Copiers Do You Sell Every Month?

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Maintaining the level of 3-5 a month is quite good. These people must have a consistently healthy pipeline and be able to juggle taking care of current customers while prospecting and proposing to new ones. Quite amazing feat.
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Re: How Many Copiers Do You Sell Every Month?

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I agree. I'm 6-9 mark and it's a hell of a lot of work. Especially keeping up with current client demands.

Ricoh MP 2501SP question

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Does this system have apple air print? I'm losing my mind and can't remember

Re: Recent Canon Bid Pricing for 2017

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Thanks for this very useful info. It is not so much that I care about the pricing in Arkansas but the great detail in these bid response provides helpful insights into my local quotes. Is there a way to search all of these copier proposals for a specific manufacturer or model #?
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Scodix to Showcase Money-Making Digital Enhancement in the Americas in Q1

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enhancements or embellishments. In fact, their research also found that 46% of enhanced offset printed material requires two or more enhancements.Accordingly, 89% of the polled print buyers were willing to pay a premium for digitally enhanced projects. For many service providers, digital enhancement offers a client-desirable path to substantial ROI, business and productivity growth. Each industry demonstration will offer printing and packaging professionals the opportunity to investigate, first
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Epson Business Solutions Win Top Accolades from Keypoint Intelligence – Buyers Laboratory

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Yields based on the ISO/IEC 24712 pattern with Epson’s methodology. Actual ink yields will vary considerably for reasons including images printed, print settings, temperature and humidity. Yields may be lower when printing infrequently or predominantly with one ink color. All ink colors are used for printing and printer maintenance, and all colors must be available for printing. For more information, visit www.epson.com/printspeed . 3 About 50 cartridge sets estimate based on print yields of the
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New Home Media Partners with EFI for Advanced MIS/ERP Workflow and VUTEk

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Home Media has come a long way since Owner and lead salesperson Chuck Smith transitioned from selling residential real estate to printing real estate signage with an old screen print press. The 28-year old business has a strong market presence and a growing digital production operation, serving Northern Virginia homebuilders. Smith and his team have a New Year’s resolution to become more efficient to better service existing customers and attract new ones. The technology partnership, where EFI is
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Reece Supply Extends its High-quality Digital Offering by Becoming an EFI Inkjet Distribution Partner

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since 1936, expanded its product offering to meet growing demand for production-class inkjet. Reece Supply Company serves many businesses that do thermoformed graphics using analog methods, and the new partnership with EFI will help many of those customers achieve faster, more cost-effective production with digital technology using EFI VUTEk GS2000x Pro, GS3250x Pro and EFI H1625-SD printers and their deep-draw thermoformable inks. In addition to EFI’s thermoforming printer products, Reece
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Toshiba: the troubles chipping away at its core

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Leo Lewis and Kana Inagaki in Tokyo yesterday Earlier this month, after nearly three straight years of nasty surprises, one of Japan’s top analysts on Toshiba asked the company to explain a basic issue about the planned sale of its key asset, but received a blunt response. “We do not proactively disclose that information,” he was told. The company, a 143-year-old conglomerate at the heart of Japan’s supposedly reforming industrial economy, had apparently learnt nothing from a crisis that was
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Re: Recent Canon Bid Pricing for 2017

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ok, do a right click on the file and then select "save target as", save to desktop. It's an excel file. You may have to right click on the file once it's saved and then select "open with excel"
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Re: Recent Canon Bid Pricing for 2017

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Please inspect this file to see if it properly opens for you.
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checking this, seems the file was corrupt. Going to reload and check
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Re: Compass Sales Solutions Sherpa Users

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what-ifs of having to do it again with something else. I researched all the ones associated with our industry but unfortunately not any others that aren’t directly indistry related. Seems like salesforce may have been a good option since it seems several of our industry software partners use it for their remote people.
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