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Re: A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
Art, You and I are from similar professional backgrounds and times. We started in 1980 selling Sharp and Juki typewriters. Everything sold near MSRP. Then the fax boom came and we caught that wave perfectly. We sold Ricoh thermal faxes for full list ($2995.00). The only issue was cash flow; we sold them faster than we could order and purchase them. Copier Maintenance agreements went from .022 up to .035 and did not include drums, developer, toner, fuser rollers or lamps! Also, like your...
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Re: A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
Yup we have the same issues with cash flow. It was a great problem to have. The Hunt for Red October was a great book, even found the movie awesome too! Ty for the comment, we should connect for lunch one day
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Re: MY Top 12 Likes about the New Ricoh MP2501SP
Hmmm, I thought Konica Minolta low end MFD's had all that covered, many months ago.
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Re: MY Top 12 Likes about the New Ricoh MP2501SP
Probably, but then I don't sell the KM products! Would love to see blogs from other members for their equipment, that would be awesome!!
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Re: MY Top 12 Likes about the New Ricoh MP2501SP
Wow. Gonna have to disagree. Thank goodness we have more than one line.
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A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
The picture in the header showed our demo room back in either 1989 or 1990, might have even been 1991. As you can see by the photo Atlantic Office Systems (the first one in NJ) was Authorized for Adler Royal, Brother, and Tele VaxaFax (facsimile). Sometime later Adler Royal was purchased by Mita and the Adler Royal brand was changed to Copystar. I thoroughly hated the name Copystar because there was no brand recognition, at least with Adler Royal, our clients knew about Royal typewriters. We...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Last Week in August 2003
Below is probably one of the most mis-understood printers (well not actually a printer) of our time. The Seri Print 25 was a really cool in-line attachment to the Ricoh duplicators. You would replace the Ricoh ink with Seri Ink, and then you'd be able to print on any gloss coatings. The Seri printer used a UV light to cure the ink on the gloss coat. Alas the Seri is no more and Ricoh is just about out of the duplicator industry now. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week! Konica...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2004)
In the last two blogs and in this blog I used some scene pictures. If anyone can tell me what country these are from we'll comp you a one year Premium/VIP membership at no cost. You need to post your answers in the reply section. Enjoy these threads from 15 years ago this week! Color On Demand from bizhub C350 4/9/044:56 PM punching with the addition of PK-501 Punch Kit. Printing and Scanning Capabilities are Standard The standard configuration for the bizhub C 350 includes color and B&W...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago for the Last Week in April of 2005
15 years, what were the hot topics in the copier industry? Better times for sure, take a peek at what was cool, what stunk. Take a trip back in time to remember some of the good ole days. You'll be glad you did! Most popular threads from 15 years ago this week!\ Konica Minolta Introduces the bizhub(TM) C450 Color Printer/Copier/Scanner Mike Sasso · 4/26/058:25 AM Konica Minolta Introduces the bizhub(TM) C 450 Color Printer / Copier /Scanner Featuring the New bizhub OP Open Platform, the...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Third Week of February 2005)
Finally! A decent day and some movement on some accounts. It's been a six week drought with a few small deals here and there. I will still struggle to hit my monthly budget, but a least there's light at the end of the tunnel. Still no time to waste since I'll be on vacation for the first week in March. Presidents Club one more time for this old dog! Enjoy these cool threads from 15 years ago this week! Look what Canon has Color imageCLASS MF8170c Guest · 2/22/057:59 PM Color imageCLASS...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago for the First Week of May 2010
Years ago I use to burn the late night candle pretty often. In some cases I would still find myself emailing a prospect at 2AM in the morning. In most cases the email was to schedule a meeting for later that week. Those late night emails was just something I was use to. It wasn't until one of my clients made mention of the email that arrived at 2AM. Of course he didn't see it until he arrived at work. But this client went on to tell me that he wished he had more sales people like me, meaning...
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Re: This History of the Fax Machine According to Art
Did that as well or sometimes would take several sheets of paper that I had done a sky shot with a copier and then looped them together...lol
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Re: This History of the Fax Machine According to Art
Loved the reflection on the history of fax. Although this was a relatively low residual product it offered a new way to get in the door. In the 80's, I would follow the fed ex delivery driver who often was delivering some printed pages (agenda's, schedules, documents) that needed to be there next day or sooner. It was an ear opener when you tell them you can them there next minute without the $12.00 fedex charge. Using afterhours timing for reducing long distance charges helped separate...
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Re: This History of the Fax Machine According to Art
@John Saramak now that's a cool plan! Follow the fedex driver, wish I could have thought of that one. Could only image how much more successful we could have been in the eighties if we were able to share information like this. Hope all is well with you!
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Polek & Polek Delivers Excellent Customer Support and Imaging Supplies by Sled
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog this titled, "Polek & Polek Delivers Toner Supplies to Dealers by Sled". With an impending snow storm forecasted for the North East. I thought the snippet below would be appropriate! " I think about back to our early days of being in business when we still operated out of my fathers house. There was a long, steep driveway to get to the house. When heavy snowstorms were forecast, it was impossible to get a car up and...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago 1st Week of November 2005
Kudos to the Kansas City Royals!!! I thought the inexperience of the Mets playing in the World Series would be a strike against them, and it was. After many years of being cellar dwellers, my Mets came around this year to at least gain the...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The Third Week of April 2006
Konica Minolta bizhub C351 4/18/06 9:04 AM Has anyone been up against Konica Minolta bizhub C 351.Looking for some weakness in the bizhub Reply Re: BizHub 4/20/06 6:06 PM Garland: Try chosing a customer who is not in the market right now, and or create a need for your product or feature. There are many features that are different from manufacturer to manufacturer. Try to hone in on a "lock out" feature, a feature which Minolta does not offer and Ricoh does. Then hammer you position. Most of...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Fourth Week of December 2005
Ten years ago, duplicators were still relevant. Today, not so much, I think I sold two of them this year. Enjoy these threads from ten years ago on the p4photel forums! Re: Riso MZ790 info Old Glory · 1/4/06 9:28 AM biggest objection to Ricoh is that they are trying to compete in a multi-color arena with next to no colors available standard and no color chart to show what the output is going to look like. I just sold a JP8500 with TCII and 5 drums and we are having a...
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A Unique MFP Proposal with the Help of Ben Franklin & ESP/SurgeX
Some of us do ROI presentations and some of us don't. For those who don't you're missing opportunities! Do not leave any stone unturned when consulting on current costs for the total cost of operation. Recently, I had the opportunity to quote for two...
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This History of the Fax Machine According to Art
Go ahead, you can do it, no one will see you. It's ok to hug your fax, if you still have one. Funny, just today, I was at an office and they told me about one of their principals that was still using a computer with a 3.5 floppy drive. He...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Second Week of March 2005
Geesh! How funny is the first thread, and what a difference 10 years can make in this industry!! Sharp now on the balls of their A## and 10 years ago they were looking to capture market share from the likes of Canon & Ricoh, would make for a good blog right? Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week! SHARP GUNNING FOR 20% GLOBAL SHARE OF COPIER MARKE... 3/10/05 9:26 PM ...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Second Week of December 2004
When I first posted this last night, I got mixed up with the dates, thinking yesterday was the 7th, Well, it actual was because it was 1AM in the morning. It was good to see that Pearl Harbor has not been forgotten and we owe what we have to the...
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Top Ten Likes of the New Ricoh MP C2003 & MP C2553 MFP's
Just about a month ago I posted New Ricoh MP C2003 & C2503 Sneak Peak , and most of the information I acquired was from a Ricoh Euro brochure for the new MP C2003 and the MP C2503. We were just notified a few days ago that all of the older MP C2051's and MP C2551's are out of stock with Ricoh, thus the new systems are available. As in the past with previous "spec" reviews, I try focus on what's new and different with these new systems. Let's get started because...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of July 2004
Barack Obama gives the Keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention , launching his career on the national stage. I remember that moment and I did think that someday he may become President. Kyocera aims for 2...
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The Harder I work the Luckier I Get
I wrote this just about 11 years ago. This may have been one of my first blogs, but was posted in the forums section of the Print4Pay Hotel. When I wrote this I had 24 years experience in down the street sales. Enjoy! Is a...
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Remember When Everyone Owned a Murata Fax?
While at the Canatta Awards Dinner last week, I had asked a question to Lou Sticklin (Director of Marketing) how Muratec America got started. For those of us that are dinosaurs in the industry, we remember that Muratec America was once...
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Reps: Start using the ‘F-word’
Note from Art : in the past few months, I've been pushing our sponsors to get more involved with blogging on the site with informative information that will help us SELL MORE and understand new technologies. Right now, UDOCX (Fenestra), ...
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4 Sales Tips to Make You Smarter than the Average Bear!
I was reading and older blog post and then caught a thread about selling and with that I thought I would share some ideas about sales in general. You've got to be different and you've got to be smarter than the average bear! Search for...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago (1st Week of January 2004)
First a little of bit of news: On January 3rd 2004 the first of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit, has successfully landed on theMartian surface with a "very strong signal" being received from the lander. It was a tense few minutes as no...
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MY Top 12 Likes about the New Ricoh MP2501SP
How excited can you get about new copiers aka multifunctional copiers that can print, scan in color, copy and fax (LAN Fax, walkup fax)? I for one am pretty exciting about new offering of the MP2501SP. It's been a few years since the...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago (3rd Week of January 2004)
I checked around for a few events and couldn't find much from 2004. Wish Ricoh would have had a Super Bowl Contest this year, well maybe not since the Super Bowl will be in NY and out in the cold. I guess I'm kinda hoping for the mother of...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Last Week of April 2007)
One item that stands out this week is the launch of the Ricoh fax 1180L. Just a few weeks ago, one of my clients wanted a fax machine. No print, no scan, just a fax. Too my surprise, Ricoh is not offering a stand alone fax anymore. I had to sell one of the smaller A4 devices and I was not happy about it, since the client was coming from a high end fax device. Instead of being able to write an order for a few thousand, it was more like $800. GRRRRR! Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of May 2007)
Seems ten years ago this week, I attended Rico Agenda in Dallas. Don't remember much from that trip. Thus it will probably be a decent read to view that thread below. Yikes, I had a bad link in the section for the Ricoh Agenda, working to fix that now. Points of the meeting were acquisition of Global by Xerox, the merge of Lanier & Gestetner brands for a new National Network for Ricoh. Topic Xerox 7665 v Savin 6045 copyme · 5/5/071:18 PM Just had a good account get talked into a free one...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of November 2007)
The one thread below reminded me of a recent appointment with a healthcare account. So, much for FAX is DEAD, right? Seems health care still needs and loves faxing. I'm guessing it's because faxing is still the most secure way of sending a document or maybe it's because it's just easier compliance for HIPAA. What ever the reason, FAX is NOT Dead with healthcare. On a recent healthcare install, I was asked if our Ricoh device could do a fax broadcast with the LAN Fax. I stated yes in can, and...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (Second Week of March 2007)
Wow! Take a look at this old thread from ten years ago this week. The tile of thread is "Fair Commission Plans" and there about 15 responses to the opening title. Much has changed in years and I'm curious if we should revive this thread. Thoughts? Konica Minolta Launches the bizhub 360 3/11/07 9:04 PM Boxes, create public and private User Boxes, assign passwords, and restrict the number of files stored. Pricing and Availability The bizhub 360 is available through Konica Minolta ’s North...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago The Last Week of July 2006
Geesh, it's been ten years since the release of the Ricoh MP C615 MFP! The 615 was Ricoh's first and only foray into liquid ink technology for an A3 MFP. We sold a few and everyone who had em, hated them! I would have bet the ranch that Ricoh would have introduced more ink based products ten years ago. Glad I did not bet the ranch! Enjoy the most popular threads from ten years ago this week in the copier industry! Ricoh 615C dmurrah · 7/27/06 12:02 PM Here they come...... Topic Ricoh AP3800C...
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Selling Copiers in the Eighties with Marian Janes
Marian and I have never met, however it seems we were both selling copiers in New Jersey in the Eighties. We connected on Linkedin about a week ago after I read one of her replies to RJ's comments for "Selling Copiers in the Seventies". While I was hustling copiers in Central Jersey, Marian was doing the same in North Jersey. Selling Copiers in the Eighties with Marian Janes How did you find your way into the copier industry? (feel free to us a story of how that happened) I received a degree...
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Ricoh IM 550F, IM 600F and IM 600SRF Copier aka MFP Specs in Review
Just a note for everyone, these specs are coming from a brochure that sourced on the web for Ricoh Asia Pacific. While the IM 550F has not been released in the United States I would expect that most if not all of the specs will be the same for the US market. It seems there will be three models offered by Ricoh. The IM 550F, IM600F and the IM 600SRF. There was a note on the brochure that stated double feed detection is only available on the IM 600F and the IM 600SR. Double Feed Detection So...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Last Week of January 2004)
This week and last week have been a tough go for me. Packing everything into the end of 2019 and getting the flu right before Christmas has taken it's toll for orders in January. Thank goodness quarters are 3 months! I had a great pipeline for January, however almost I couldn't get much of it to move. Okay so I have an even better pipeline for February thus it's time to make things happen! Enjoy all of these threads from 15 years ago this week! Peerless Systems Announces Everest Family of...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Second Week of March 2008
Ah, 2008 and not one of my favorites years. The economy was tanking. Clients that were at the end of the lease were opting to buy the equipment instead of upgrading. Credit became really tight, especially for start ups, and many companies were closing, declaring bankruptcy or one day they were open and the next day they were not. Some say that the economy really didn't rebound until 2015. Any way you slice it, it was a horrendous seven years. Looking back, I would also tend to think that the...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Fourth Week of March 2008
Interesting thread about "Sales People Ge NO Resect" with a crap load of responses. There are always two sides of each tale, and kudos for those that took the time to point out both sides. Weekend Copier Notes from 3/23/08 Neal · 3/23/089:25 PM Greenville-Spartanburg o Was authorized for Konica Minolta , Canon , HP & Sharp o Purchase price not disclosed - Adobe Corp. reported its worldwide financials for last quarter: o Profits rose 52% to $219.4 million o Revenue up 37% to $890.4...
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This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago, The Second Week of February 2008
Looks like a thread from 1996 appeared and I'm not sure how that happened. But, it's interesting about the time frame that Danka purchased the Kodak copier unit. Danka brings back memories also since the Danka name is now gone also. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Canon bought Danka, right? Enjoy these threads from ten years ago this week on the Print4Pay Hotel. Danka to Buy Kodak Copier Unit for $684 Million 2/11/087:04 PM By DANA CANEDY Published: September 10, 1996 The Eastman Kodak...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Last Week of July 2004)
Egads, it's Friday night almost 10PM and I'm still working. My day started off at 5AM. I arrived at the office about 6:30AM. Had to quotes to prepare before I had two appointments that were an hour away. Closed two of the appointments and then traveled back to office to prepare some material for another appointment around 2PM. Second appointment went okay and sparked some interest in the new PRO5160. Did a few cold calls, nothing to speak of. On my way home, I received an email from a net...
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Memorial Service for Mr. Fax
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Memorial Service for Mr. Fax The alleged deceased didn’t show up. Cousin family members, Freddy FaxMachine, Sally Server and Mabel MFP-Board were present but obviously in ill health. What was truly amazing was the number of business associates that were in attendance, all commiserating on how they hoped a younger, more robust family member would assume the business with more current technology since these businesses still had a need for a fax...
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Re: This Week in the Copier Industry Ten Years Ago, The Second Week of February 2008
KM purchased Danka after Dan Doyle ran danka in the ground and sold his stock while leaving everyone else in the toilet. Jason Habbal Vice President Vision Office Systems, Inc. Office - 704-583-7393 ext. 3230 Mobile - 704-746-1007 Serving North and South Carolina's businesses for 20 years
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Re: Selling Copiers in the Eighties with Marian Janes
MARIAN is upbeat and true to her words. My pleasure to have worked with her as she developed and managed Ricoh University. She is generous in her spirit which seems to repay her beyond Sad to hear about the “ boys club”mentality that treated her poorly. But that proved her toughness under her gentle veneer. chuck parr
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Re: Selling Copiers in the Eighties with Marian Janes
Thank you for your generous comments below Chuck!. Love ya!
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Re: Selling Copiers in the Eighties with Marian Janes
@Marian Janes this was one of the better reads and my hats off to Marian for kicking butt in the eighties in what was traditionally a guys only club. Quite the resume!
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Re: This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of May 2007)
Another story of the 70's After a long series of meetings with a major account opportunity 700-800 copiers my final meeting with prospect , a luncheon meeting , the customer asked for my final proposal!! He said I was last and late. Others had given the company star studded presentations. Leather bonded booklets, etc. there I was having coffee with the customer when he asked when I could deliver my proposal, at that moment I took my pen out of my pocked and wrote on the table napkin a price...