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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago

 

This Week in Copiers Fifteen Years Ago

Last Week of April 2008

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Konica Minolta Launches Bizhub 421

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Marketing Bulletin Bulletin #08-GB-019 Date: May 28, 2008 To: All Konica Minolta Sales Channels From: Marketing and Product Development Subject: Introduction of the Konica Minolta bizhub 421 monochrome MFP Konica Minolta is pleased to announce the introduction of the bizhub™ 421 printer/copier/scanner/ fax device. With print/copy speeds of 42 pages per minute (ppm), the bizhub 421 is ideal for mid- to high-volume office environments that require a reliable, monochrome MFP with network
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Global buys BIg Ricoh Dealer!

Art Post (Guest) ·
is made up of regional core companies in the U.S. that sell and service document management systems such as printers, copiers and multifunction devices; network integration services; and electronic presentation systems. As an office technology dealer, Global sells products from various suppliers including Xerox, Sharp and Konica Minolta. Xerox acquired Global Imaging in 2007 and operates it as a wholly owned subsidiary within Xerox's North American operations. -XXX- Media Contacts: Mike
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Ricoh Wins Boys & Girls Clubs of America Account

Art Post (Guest) ·
WEST CALDWELL, N.J., May 28 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh Americas Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced that it has signed a national agreement with Boys & Girls Clubs of America(R) (BGCA). Some 4,300 Clubs are now able to purchase any Ricoh printer, copier, multifunction product or software solution. The use of Ricoh products in Boys & Girls Club facilities will enable them to streamline document workflow from the creation of a document to its distribution and
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The New Push to Get Rid of Paper

Art Post (Guest) ·
doesn't include costs for ink, toner, or running copiers, printers, and fax machines. In the typical office, for every dollar spent on printing documents, companies incur another six dollars in handling and distribution, according to Xerox. Little wonder that the will to go paperless remains strong in parts of Corporate America. It's showing up in ways big and small, from admonitions at the bottom of e-mails to think before pressing the print button, to notes posted alongside printers asking
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Xerox Gel Ink Printer

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Xerox previews digital printer cured gel ink Posted by Dawn Kawamoto Post a commentXerox gave a sneak peak Thursday of its cured gel ink, which is designed to print on a variety of materials from super slick plastic to foil with a digital printer. Xerox's cured gel ink, previewed at the print industry's trade show drupa in Germany, is aiming to capture a larger slice of the estimated $400 billion offset printing market. The cured gel ink, with its peanut butter-like consistency, is heated up
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CANON U.S.A. COLOR imageRUNNER C5185 SOLUTIONS ACHIEVES FIVE STAR-RATING FROM BERTL,

Art Post (Guest) ·
- to high-volume color imaging system with many exceptional features capabilities to recommend it,” said Terry Wirth, director, Research and Analysis, BERTL. “Overall image quality, a hallmark with Canon imaging products, was rock-solid in both black-and-white and color modes, and printer and copier modes.” Designed with versatility in mind, the Canon Color imageRUNNER C5185 model provides reliable productivity across office and professional environments. Additionally, using a variety of print
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WORKFLOW EFFICIENCY IMPROVED WITH RICOH’S GLOBALSCAN 3.1 WORKFLOW SUITE

Art Post (Guest) ·
WORKFLOW EFFICIENCY IMPROVED WITH RICOH’S GLOBALSCAN 3.1 WORKFLOW SUITE Enables Scanning Directly to Back-end Systems, Document Management Systems and Fax Servers West Caldwell, NJ, May 29, 2008 — Ricoh Americas Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, today launched GlobalScan™ 3.1 with Workflow Suite, designed to help document-intensive organizations and companies improve workflow efficiencies by integrating scanning into their mission-critical business processes
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Is anyone else facing this from Xerox?

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We are about to lose our third school district to Xerox who is quoting FREE UNLIMITED COPIES (toner inclusive). This one, we have 7 units there now and are proposing that 4 stay. Xerox has to replace all 7 and they are still beating our hardware cost so they aren't hiding service in the equipment price. The equipment is new and the agreement is for three years. Anyone else seeing this? We have another situation that is a large church with a dozen units. Xerox has put a new color box in AT NO
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Re: Ricoh Rumor!! New Strategy?

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Does the Sammy 6345 have a feature like tihe Ricoh/Savin DOcument Server where you can store documents for walk up access? If I understand right the Sammys are relabeled as Muratec, do you guys see a benefit for being a Muratec dealer vs. Samsung dealer (maybe see less Muratec in Staples)?
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Re: Is anyone else facing this from Xerox?

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Xerox recently placed a color unit in a Print 4 Pay location in Clinton, MS. No charge for the box, just copies billed at .08 each (single click for 11 x 17).
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Re: Features you would like to see on future products

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An ldap scan to email search that doesn't require 5 button pushes (Xerox can in 2). Color scan on everything. Web access from MFP panel. More sophisticated scanning setup (create scan profiles in one application and then push to one or multiple devices simutaneously, Xerox does this). PostScript emulation at a fraction of the cost of the real postscript option (as most of our competitors have). Scan2print. Oh yes, and most important for Ricoh to stop trying to acquire it's already acquired
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Re: Is anyone else facing this from Xerox?

skbens (Guest) ·
In PA, Xerox has been pushing this promo to the school districts for three years now. We have a couple of disctricts that have Riso's and won't even entertain us on the copier side. The only way you are going to beat this is to wait and hope they screw up with servicing the account, other than that, there's no way to beat the price. Most of the schools are very happy with the program, the ones that aren't on it, hate Xerox and refuse to allow them on the RFP. I haven't heard anyone get hit
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Re: Sales Tips

Art Post (Guest) ·
Surround yourself with happy people. It is easy to begin to think negatively when you are surrounded by people who think that way. Conversely, if you are around people who are happy their emotional state will be infectious. You are happy it will shine through, and your sales will show it as well.
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Re: Ricoh Rumor!! New Strategy?

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We just brought in a MFX-4550 for evaluation. I printed off all the comments on this page and gave them to my service manager, and he thanks you for all the good insight. We have a tip to share back, and Ryan and Art will be glad to hear this. That annoying "confirm page size" screen that you get every time you open a paper drawer? You can turn it off. Go into the Machine Set-up/Admin Set-up screens, and poke around and you'll find it. We'll let you know how the rest of the evaluation
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Re: Ricoh Rumor!! New Strategy?

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quote: If I understand right the Sammys are relabeled as Muratec, do you guys see a benefit for being a Muratec dealer vs. Samsung dealer Muratec sent us evaluation equipment, and it came in a Samsung box. They were pretty upfront about relabeling Samsung. Art, you wrote that you've been getting service calls on small printers once you registered as a Samsung service center. Can you share any more about that?
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Re: Ricoh Rumor!! New Strategy?

Art Post (Guest) ·
We also got set up with Sammy as a service center for thier laser printers. here you can have the best of both worlds. A: there are alot of samsung printers out there. B: You can get the support on the 4550N from Muractec
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Re: LAN Fax Instructions

Art Post (Guest) ·
For those who need these files I have created one pdf document with all of the files. They are located on documentmall, under P4P users, Ricoh, then ricoh manuals, it is a 15mb file. log in credentials account: art_post user: p4pusers passcode: goodpals
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Re: Features you would like to see on future products

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The PS3 option for most of the newer models includes PDF Direct Print. You can set up a scan to folder (FTP) using the IP address of the printer you want to output on. This gives you "Scan2Print" capability. And of course, you can choose another folder on the network to scan to in the same operation...
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Re: Global buys BIg Ricoh Dealer!

Mr. Copy (Guest) ·
I am a rep working out of the Jacksonville office. We are very excited about this opportunity to carry one of the premier products lines in the world. Xerox products will give us a distinct advantage in our market.
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Features you would like to see on future products

Art Post (Guest) ·
Please put down your wish list for future features or options for mid range ricoh color mfps
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