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Art Post (Guest) · 11/16/128:08 PM

Ramsey, NJ (PRWEB) November 15, 2012 Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) today announced Konica Minolta’s placement in the Leaders Quadrant of the “2012 Magic Quadrant for MFPs and Printers, Worldwide” 1 published by Gartner, Inc. “Our continued position in the leaders’ quadrant demonstrates the success of our business strategy to provide customers with comprehensive print solutions that include award-winning bizhub MFP technology, integrated software and IT services

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/18/1210:19 PM

, Germany, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta. Background of acquisition One of the primary growth strategies in the Konica Minolta Group's Medium Term Business Plan "G PLAN 2013" is to reinforce competitiveness in the production print business, including commercial printing and central reproduction department (CRD) as main markets. Konica Minolta has been known for achieving high customer satisfaction with its high quality products and services in the European CRD market. With the aim of

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/16/127:50 PM

Sharp® To Award $100,000 Of Product To One School As Part Of 100th Anniversary Celebration PR Newswire MAHWAH, N.J. , Nov. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation , has announced the company's Centennial School Contest. One lucky K-12 accredited school in the United States will win $100,000 of state of the art Sharp products for their classrooms, such as interactive whiteboards, copier/printers, projectors

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/20/128:21 PM

satisfaction has grown to become one of Ricoh’s largest independent dealers in the U.S. Metro Sales has been Minnesota’s exclusive Ricoh dealer since 1981 and proudly offers their products. | About Ricoh | Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in more than 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2012, Ricoh Group had

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/19/1211:45 PM

Know What it is Costing to Print Each Page! With the complexities of network management often print costs are not followed closely and with a systematic view. This means that they can quickly get out of control and when hard and soft costs are included (toner, equipment, support, help desk calls, driver installs, users' lost prints, reprints, etc.) the overall cost of printing documents can escalate. Overall document processing costs can be a considerable, yet hidden expense. Learn what, where

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/20/128:43 PM

. Qualitative Differences Digital printing has long taken a back seat to offset when it comes to quality. But digital printing has improved a lot in just the past couple of years. The iGen 150 is at least as good as offset. Most people can’t tell the difference in side-by-side comparisons or they prefer the digitally printed version. The new iGen press prints 150 pages per minute with a 2400 x 2400 dpi resolution for excellent quality. It has a maximum sheet size of 14.33 x 26 inches. Using variable

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GMAN · 11/22/1210:48 AM

The new IKON (Sorry, I mean Ricoh, I keep forgetting) may continue to follow this stratgey with certain key Dealers only, or in very rural markets where Direct (RBS / IKON) do not want to travel for service and support. Metro Sales is Ricoh's largest Dealer (either #1 or #2 in revenue), so this makes sense for them. I can more clearly see that Ricoh will focus on Direct and the IKON executives in charge now (down in Malvern, PA) will try to implement the Services-led business. Yet, smaller to

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Jrlz · 11/21/128:39 PM

ground andselling to us? They're billions of dollars of profits IN A FISCAL QTR is terrible. Is oil costly to produce, sure but those costs are passed on to consumers. I was saying to tax their revenue so that when their rev decreases so do the taxes they owe but when they are selling more and more oil products they pay higher and higher taxes. But to allow deductions for sold inventory, its not right - an MFP dealer can't offset his SOLD inventory against his PROFITS can he? By tax cheats I was

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/16/127:57 PM

Auxilio Brings in 15 New Customers By Ken Nagy, CFA On November 15, 2012, Auxilio, Inc. ( AUXO ), the Mission Viejo, California based Managed Print Services (MPS) company for the health care industry, reported financial results for its fiscal 2012 third quarter and nine months, ended September 30, 2012. A strong quarter resulted in a 31.6 percent year over year jump in sales, with revenue expanding $2.108 million to $8.782 million from $6.674 million for the third quarter ended September 30

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/20/128:35 PM

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/20/128:48 PM

provides printing support for both USB and network-connected printers, wired or wireless. The xPrintServer Office Edition from Lantronix enables large workgroups to print directly from iOS mobile devices through the native print menu, eliminating the need to download mobile print applications. The xPrintServer effectively converts existing printers into iOS-compatible devices and addresses the growing demand for cost-effective iOS mobile printing, specifically within the enterprise and education

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/20/128:52 PM

yen in Tokyo trading today, extending its loss this year to 74 percent, the worst performer among more than 1,600 companies in the MSCI World Index (MXWO) of developed nations. The company’s turnaround plan includes seeking voluntary retirements, cutting salaries, selling assets and reducing capital investments, Sharp said Nov. 1. To contact the reporter on this story: Mariko Yasu in Tokyo at myasu@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Tighe at mtighe4

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Chuck · 11/21/124:51 PM

billions of dollars of profits IN A FISCAL QTR is terrible. Is oil costly to produce, sure but those costs are passed on to consumers. I was saying to tax their revenue so that when their rev decreases so do the taxes they owe but when they are selling more and more oil products they pay higher and higher taxes. But to allow deductions for sold inventory, its not right - an MFP dealer can't offset his SOLD inventory against his PROFITS can he? By tax cheats I was referring to those who manipulate

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GMAN · 11/22/1210:50 AM

"According to other sources, Sharp’s turnaround plan includes seeking voluntary retirements, salary cuts, selling assets and reducing capital investments" from Industry Analysts. Ouch...the hits just keep on comin' !

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/16/128:05 PM

OKI Data Receives Outstanding Achievement Awards from BLI Friday, November 16, 2012 Press release from the issuing company The MB461, MB471 and MB491 earn recognition for stellar environmental performances in the A4 mono MFP/small workgroup category Mount Laurel, NJ – OKI Data Americas has been recognized by Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI), receiving Outstanding Achievement Awards for Energy Efficiency for three of its new monochrome multifunction printers (MFPs) – the MB461, MB471 and MB491 – all

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/16/128:16 PM

management solution Eclipse is now available for installation on the customer's hardware. docSTAR Eclipse is a powerful cloud content management system that delivers measurable savings. "Our Eclipse solution allows customers to achieve efficiency through the automation of business processes," said docSTAR CEO Tom Franceski. "In today's economic environment, business process automation is at the forefront of C-level strategies." "docSTAR continues to demonstrate its commitment to innovative software

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/19/1211:29 PM

accumulating in unused color nozzles and clogging these. This obviates the need for laborious manual cleaning of the print heads during the printing process. Environmentally-friendly and economic This form of on-demand production spares the environment, reduces paper consumption and avoids wastage. In only seven years of printing on the system, and assuming 27 million A4 prints per month at an average of two quality checks per roll, this can lead to a saving of up to 120 tons of 80 g/m² paper. Even

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/18/128:44 PM

Sharp Update!! Intel may take a 30 billion yen investment in Sharp by the end of the month, the 30 billion yen is less than 10% of what Sharp expects to lose this year. There was also a report that Qualcom may also do something. In another report Ming the Merciless aka Terry Guo is providing a personal guarantee for HonHai to move foward with his purchase of Sharp's 10th gen LCD plant. It's reported for about 19 billion yen. Keep in mind that Sharp is expected to lose 450 billion yen this year

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/20/128:54 PM

, announced in August, would give staff at the firm and its main subsidies in Japan the option to stop work voluntarily. Sharp's original estimates suggested that roughly 2,000 employees would be induced to take voluntary retirement. However, the company has had to shorten the application deadline by a week as the scheme quickly became oversubscribed. In total, 2,960 Sharp employees have taken the deal, each of whom will retire on December 15 2012. The expense, 25.3 billion yen ($3.11bn) will be

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/20/1210:42 PM

chuck The rich pay taxes period, and yes they can get substanial deductions depending on how they spent or earned that money. But to have that article state they paid zero tax is absurd. We all pay taxes every day and so do they when the buy fuel, clothing, payroll deductions, etc. I do admit that the current IRS thing is hokie and I'm in favor of a National Sales Tax to eliminate the IRS, this way everyone pays their fair share (yes even the people who are in the country illegally). The US has

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Chuck · 11/21/1212:18 AM

Art, there are only 433,000 people making $1,000,000 or more per year in the US in 2011 (321,000 in 2008). This is income that is taxed not net worth which isn't taxed, earnings are taxed. A National Sales Tax is NOT a fair tax as it inordinately places a heavier burden on Middle Income and below since they spend all they make. Wealthy families (say $1,000,000) don't spend 20 times what a family making $50,000 spends. If we'd simply use the taxes rates in effect during Ronald Reagan's first

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/21/126:58 AM

Chuck You're wrong the WSJ reported that there is 3.1 millionaires in the US. I'll believe the WSJ before I believe a rogue web site. I'm middle income and I have no problem with National Sales Tax, you see that's the problem we are in..... x amount of people are NOT paying taxes and that's not the way our tax code was meant to be. EVERYONE would pay their FAIR share and the FAIREST way for EVERYONE to pay taxes is a national sales tax. There could be exemptions for those on disability, but if

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Jrlz · 11/21/1210:11 AM

quote: Originally posted by Chuck: Art, there are only 433,000 people making $1,000,000 or more per year in the US in 2011 (321,000 in 2008). This is income that is taxed not net worth which isn't taxed, earnings are taxed. A National Sales Tax is NOT a fair tax as it inordinately places a heavier burden on Middle Income and below since they spend all they make. Wealthy families (say $1,000,000) don't spend 20 times what a family making $50,000 spends. If we'd simply use the taxes rates in

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SalesServiceGuy · 11/21/124:46 PM

A National Sales Tax is basically a consumption tax. It is not a progressive tax as it impacts lower income people much more than higher income people. Although personal and corporate income taxes provide the bulk of revenue to the federal government, consumption taxes continue to be a primary source of income for state and local governments. Are you proposing a new Federal tax on top of existing State and Municipal taxes in exchange for greatly simplifying the Federal tax code? Although a

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/16/128:12 PM

folder or cabinet (instead of scanning) and the ability to customize security settings. eFileCabinet's Android app is now available for download here. Learn more and request a demo at www.efilecabinet.com/products/mobile-apps . About eFileCabinet, Inc. eFileCabinet, Inc. offers a suite of document management software (DMS) products and services that help businesses and individuals work quicker, smarter and more collaboratively. With more than 11 years in the document management industry

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jswinberlin · 11/21/1211:50 AM

Has anyone heard of this or is anyone selling it? I'm looking for a simple easy to use inexpensive document management software to bundle with our MFPs and open new opportunities and this looks like it might be it.

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Art Post (Guest) · 11/22/129:35 AM

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