This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago
The Second Week in April 2007
Oh the memories, seems it was 15 years ago when Xerox pulled the trigger on the Global purchase. Time really does change everything
Enjoy These Awesome Copier Threads from 15 Year Ago
Konica Minolta Introduces Printgroove – An
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and fits hand-in-glove with our MFPs. Our major emphasis at ON DEMAND this year, Printgroove caters to the needs of bizhub PRO customers in the CRD, in-plant, print for pay, commercial printing and data center environments.” Dealers, customers, and industry analysts who have seen and worked with early versions of Printgroove are already enthusiastic about its capabilities and affordability when compared to competitive offerings. Konica Minolta expects the combination of its bizhub PRO MFPs and
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Konica Minolta Offers the Highest Level of
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central resource for document scanning, in-house printing, copying, faxing and electronic archiving and distribution. From high-quality color and monochrome bizhub systems for workgroups and small offices, to advanced high-volume bizhub PRO production printing systems for large corporations and print-for-pay services, Konica Minolta is leading the industry toward integrated, networked hardware/software solutions that are more simple, reliable, and cost-effective. Complementing its bizhub solutions
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SCOTTI, I NEED MORE SPEED!
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SCOTTI, I NEED MORE SPEED! I can remember Captain Kirk from Star Trek always tell Scotti (Chief Engineer) that they always needed more speed to get out of a jam. Well, believe it or not RAM Logic, Inc., has the technology to increase speeds copy and prints speeds for multi functional copiers for the Ricoh Family Group. Ram Logic offers two chips one that is compatible with Ricoh Aficio 1060, Gestetner 6002, Savin 2560, Lanier LD 160 (including sp versions)and the other is compatible with Ricoh
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Re: Is this True??? Xerox buys Global??
Chuck ·
Frankly I'm amazed at the lack of discussion on this announce here. Xerox and Global Imaging seems like a very powerful influence in most markets. The ramifications of this on Canon's marketing plans going forward as well as RIcoh and Konica-Minolta, Global has come into many markets and gobbled up mid-sized dealers and taken it to many smaller dealers. Where will Canon go to maintain its marketrshare? What about all those CPC Contracts? Discussion?
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Re: Is this True??? Xerox buys Global??
Stop the presses!!!! Canon cancels Global for violating their contract by selling to Xerox.... From now on they can only purchase parts and supplies. Will Ricoh do the same? What about Konica? Although they might not be able to afford to do that. Interesting times we live in, don't you agree?
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Re: hp ready to rock?
think this copier could do well in a school or church enviroment. The copy quality is better than a Riso but not as good as a xerographic color box. The finisher doesn't have a booklet or trifold option. That a big minus for that market. There's a lot of excitement about the product. I guess HP will spend a bit of money to market it....that gets sales people excited about it. If the public buys the marketing it could be a good seller for HP. I work on Ricoh and Konica Minolta boxes and I'm just not
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AFICIO SP 4100N/SP 4110N PRINTERS
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, with fiscal year 2005 sales in excess of $17 billion, a 5.6 percent increase over the previous year. Ricoh Americas 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
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Printing to mpc4500
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I have a couple mpc4500 and the customer has XP, using Microsoft access, and pcl6. I have defaulted the driver to B/W in the printing preference. When they send the job from access, the copier sends the job to the copier the counter increments 1 color. I don't know how to fix this other than changing the driver to pcl5c.Thanks for any help.
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MWA Intelligence and Muratec America Launches
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frustration for many dealerships. At the same time, aftermarket revenue acquisition is streamlined, while end-users benefit from more expedient service and increased device uptime. “Working closely with MWAi, we will be able to improve our affiliated dealers’ customer relations capabilities, which are driven largely by the men and women who support the Muratec end-user on a day-to-day basis,” said Jim D’Emidio, VP of Sales and Marketing, Muratec America, Inc. “Now Muratec employees will have the
Re: Is this True??? Xerox buys Global??
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Same here! Maybe a few of the big "players" that were with Global will start some new dealerships, hire away the global people and attack the new Xerox base. I would have to admit after years of selling against Xerox and then having to sell Xerox would be quit a pill to swallow.
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Re: Plotbase does not seem to accept more than 4-6 jobs at a time
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I saw a client that had a similar issue with a Xerox 8830 and Dodge, what she did was to covert the drawing first and then print, it was awhile ago and I am not sure what the exact workaround was with Dodge.
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Re: Is this True??? Xerox buys Global??
Chuck ·
Hmmmm, maybe Xerox feels a threat from the Edgeline technology of H-P and feels in order to continue to compete it needs a solid entry into that part of the merket. Could H-P be looking at someone to help solidify their position in the Segement 1-2 and build a position in segments 3, 4 and 5? Someone like IKON? H-P will have invested $1.5 BILLION in the Edgeline technology so what's a few more BILLION BUCK to ensure its success? Boy, would Canon go CRAZY then.
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Re: hp ready to rock?
I'm actually trained on these products. It's about two weeks of my life I will never get back. It's 750 pounds of cast aluminum. It's not easy to move. It comes in a wooden "tuff shed". Special shipping kits are required to move the machine without damaging the print heads. It's a variable speed copier. It can do anywhere from 10 to 71 copies a minutes depending on paper, coverage and humidity. It uses two windows based computers to run it. It's about a 3-4 minute "boot" time to warm up
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Re: hp ready to rock?
I'm curious...What makes sales excited about it? Are there SPIFFs for selling it? Did I miss pricing? Everything I've seen have been projections.
Re: Look What I found! Great KIP3000 info
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Question: alright so heres the deal. i got a call from a client. they have some TIFFs that they scanned in. they went to view them and the M$ fax and picture viewer opened the file. the image was shown upside down and so the rotated it to view the image in a more easily recognizable manner. well they then close the P&F viewer without saving the file. when they then attempt to plot the image from request, it gives an error. it says it is an unrecognized file type. i got a copy of the file and
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Re: Need a solution for this....JasonR ·
quote: Originally posted by v-tec: Why can’t you Lanfax the document??? If you can send it to a printer, Lanfax so also work. He could send the print job to the LANFAX, but the job doesn't have the form included (it's a paper form). He's looking for a solution to insert a digital form with the data from their program and fax that digital file out directly.
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OKI Announces CX3641 and CX2032 Color MFPs with High Definition Co
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technology, and robust media handling capabilities including 8.5” x 34.5” banner printing. The CX2032 MFP offers printing, copying, scanning and analog faxing capabilities, in an easy-to-use device that allows businesses to print, high-quality materials in-house while optimizing office space. The product will market at an estimated list price of $3,000. The CX2032 MFP will be available in Summer 2007 and the CX3641 MFP will be available in Fall 2007 exclusively through OKI Printing Solutions authorized
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Can we help Warren beat a KIP 3000?
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Art, I notice you went to the Monster show on wide format. That has not come to the midwest (Minneapolis) yet. I am losing a 240W to the Kip 3000 with enbedded controller. A key point for them that we both can do is the printing without opening and scanning of autocad format files. That is what eliminated the Xerox. They will give me one more chance to show the advantages of the 240W. What would you suggest? Sincerely, Warren Erickson
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Re: Is this True??? Xerox buys Global??
My DSM said she is losing $1.2 Million/month in revenue. I personally feel that there is a reason that those customers aren't with Xerox to begin with and unless Xerox makes major changes in the way they do business, all these customers will eventually leave. If I had the money, I would start a dealership in a current Global hotspot and target the customer-base.
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Re: Is this True??? Xerox buys Global??
I know that Ricoh is already looking at switching RMAP accounts to other RBS or other dealers for service.
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Re: Plotbase does not seem to accept more than 4-6 jobs at a time
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Are they printing from Dodge Viewer??
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Re: Is this True??? Xerox buys Global??
JasonR ·
Personally, of everyone who "could" have bought Global, I'm sure glad it's Xerox. I can't think of anyone who handles the market they are trying to re-penetrate worse than they do.
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Re: scan tool updates
with a registered tech ID and loginon Ricoh TSC website,orfrom your Ricoh Field Technical Manager.
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Re: Ricoh Rumor!! New Strategy?
Deanw ·
How is the print/copy quality? Some of the other sammys don't have great solids.
Re: Fax forwarding, etc. with efi versions of color boxes?
Jay ·
I was told, but haven't confirmed with our own testing, that there is NO fax forwarding capability with the EFI series machines. It's an analog fax. On the bright side I do like the layout of the new driver. I think it's a step up from the blue bar diver of old.
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Re: Savin 2400WD Windows Vista
JasonR ·
quote: Originally posted by wyzguynyuk: I would have never thought that Ricoh couldn't have seen this coming and been a little more prepared. Live and learn. Plotbase isn't made by Ricoh so it isn't totally their fault. They have to rely on Ratio to produce their software. Maybe that is the decision we should be beating them up over .
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Re: Savin 2400WD Windows Vista
O.K., O.K., I rescind my negative comment about Ricoh...after all, it's only Thursday, I'm sure I'll find something else to beat them up over before the week's end!
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Re: Savin 2400WD Windows Vista
there is something you can turn off in Vista to allow printing form clients.... You canload Vista as a 64 bit or a 32 bit OS (nothing to do processors, just OS). If the clients are 32 bit, PC win should work.
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Re: SolidEdge prblm
Could be older PCI cards do not support dual processors or certain ship sets that are common in newer computers but not avaialable back in the day. Starting to see this more... Ask your Ricoh tech to check with Ricoh TSC.
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Plotbase does not seem to accept more than 4-6 jobs at a time
there is a limit of the number of jobs that can hit Plotbase or the PC at one time. When he sends the same set of prints to a small format printer, they all print just fine! Is anyone aware of a limit within PB or the windows PC that would prevent him from printing everything?
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