Tagged With "A3"
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Re: Who's Afraid of the Epson WorkForce C20590 100ppm MFP?
interesting, I know wonder if Epson demonstrated the device with heavier paper at a few of the events I was at. I didn't see any curl. Not saying that it doesn't, but it wouldn't be the first time peeps did a "controlled" demo
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Re: Who's Afraid of the Epson WorkForce C20590 100ppm MFP?
Ill try to do a video once the machine gets back to my office. It is on a truck back from one of our branch offices now. I just don't think it demo's well in front of the customer.
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Re: 57 Days of Selling "Day 54" The Last Three Days
This is becoming a real suspense thriller! Can't wait for your final 'scenes' Alfred!
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Re: 57 Days of Selling "Day 54" The Last Three Days
TY Martin! I not liking these kind of thrillers
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Re: 57 Days of Selling "Day 54" The Last Three Days
Let's wait and see how it ends! You have 6 more hours left than me to get things done in this year
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Imaging Channel, DEX Imaging and Staples oh, Imagine the Probabilities
Thanks for chatting with Staples. Yes, Sir, we can deliver the New A4 you bought online. How’s Tuesday? Can we bring it with your supply order? Yes, one more question can you pick up and dispose of my old copier? Yes, we can let's discuss that when we come out to perform your managed print assessment. Thanks again for choosing Staples. End of Chat For Now!! 2019 is indeed starting with a bang. The Imaging Channel changed on Friday the 8th of February. Well, that’s what some will say. In...
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New Ricoh MP C501SP "A4 or A3 or a New Hybrid MFP?"
The first time I heard about the new Ricoh MP C501SP was a pic that a Print4Pay Hotel member posted on this site. That pic came from the recent Ricoh Convergence in Las Vegas a few months ago. I took a good long look at the device that's positioned as an 50 page per minute color A4 device. My first thoughts is well, it kinda looks too big, it looks very similar to another Ricoh device, and it looks like the MP C501SP has an A3 style document feeder. Alright, its just a pic, I'll just have to...
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A Halloween Tale of an A3 Copier’s Death
A Halloween Tale of an A3 Copier’s Death As the copier homicide unit arrived, the scene was familiar. The office hallway barely lit the trash can next to the copier was laying on its side, the window was broken from the inside and when looking out one can see an A3 Copier laying smashed on the sidewalk below. Recognizable by the owners manual still taped to the broken 11/17 paper drawer and the rainbow color on the sidewalk created by splattering CMYK toner. Yes, it appears there was another...
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Five Reasons Why Copier Dealers Need to Implement Their Own Flat Rate Program
On Saturday I received an email from a Print4Pay Hotel member stating that one of his largest accounts is under siege with Konica Minolta's new unlimited click program. The KM unlimited click program is hot with the KM sales team because it gives them a different talk track with the client. The KM reps will be pitching unlimited clicks, simplified billing, no overages. The competition will have their old out dated legacy cost per page program. Can you guess who will win the majority of the...
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A Recent Copier Appointment That Went From Bad to Good
My second appointment of the day proved to one of the most enjoyable appointments I've had in recent memory. It was with an existing account that was in the last 3 months of a 36 month lease for an A3 color MFP. The account only has one, but so do most of my accounts. I'd like to say I flourish with onesies and twosies. Just a tip for some of you that may be new in the copier business. When quoting leasing always lead with a 36 month lease. There are two well maybe three reasons for that.
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New Players, New Rules, New Game.
One thing few in the Imaging Channel want to discuss is the innovative processes which will replace much of the old way’s deliverable. The glory days of selling print equipment and its services are just beginning for some innovative thinkers and ending for some others. All things do in-fact change. Even those who refuse, eventually are forced to change. No one can circumvent progress regardless of their marketing strategies or their hopes that current circumstances remain a little longer.
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The Print Equipment and Services Industry must separate their deliverable.
Recently I had an opportunity to speak at ITEX, An Industry event for technology resellers. During that talk, I discussed the three types of deliverables or more importantly the three types of end-user customers within the print equipment and its services industry. This industry is strangling their full profit potential as they continue to deliver these different types of customers with the same processes. Here are the three equipment customer types: 1. High-Volume segments 6,7, and 8...
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A Halloween Tale of an A3 Copier’s Death (Part Two)
Part Two - hashtag # A4’s Murder charges dropped in A3’s death. Well, a few days ago we all heard of the apparent suicide of an A3 copier. The police report outlined that the A3 copier became so distraught over a new A4 its owners had on demo, it jumped from the office window. Today there is an update. It seems that a local judge has thrown out all attempted charges leveled by an A3 manufacturer who believes the unfairness of A4’s capabilities and price points should have caused them to...
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Imaging Channel, Surveys can teach competitors a lot
I recently attended a webinar where the scariest thing was what was not said. The webinar was discussing the Imaging Channel; it included a recap of a survey given to dealer owners. The dealers answered the survey in a most disturbing way which no one is questioning, so I will. The survey determined that only 4% of dealers were concerned about A4 equipment which could easily replace the oversold A3's in 80-85% of the Imaging Channel's Customers. It appears the Imaging Channel is conceding...
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The Consequences of Delivering Out-Side Market Realities Come With Awareness
It seems as more of the same is the mindset for many in the Imaging Channel. Over the last year, as print volumes continue declining, as dealers continue over-specking and over-selling, nothing seems to wake up the channel to the threat of consistently delivering out-side market realities. However, soon the end-users un-awareness will end. "The channel's threat is a new competitor who takes advantage of where the customers are going while the legacy way attempts to keep customers where they...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Forty-Nine of Sales
Yay! It's 4:47pm and I'm getting to write my blog for the day. In order to stay sane with each passing week I'll turn to jibjab and create some ecards for my team members. It's easy to do because you can get their images from facebook, instagram or Linkedin. Today I had some extra time to search for ecards where I could input 5 people. No on is safe from these videos! I had time to cut three of them today. Just a few minutes ago I sent them to our team with the subject line "a little pick me...
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Xerox's MFP "All in Plan" Reveal
A few days ago I was alerted by a Print4Pay Hotel member about the new Xerox "All in Plan". I had some time on my hands and paid a visit to the Xerox site and gleaned everything that I could about this new program. For me "all in" meant that the plan was similar to KonicaMinolta's flat rate program. Pay a monthly payment that includes the MFP along with maintenance/supplies and print as many pages as you want. Since Xerox is a competitor I owed it to myself to learn as much as I could as...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Five of Sales
I'm not sure where to start...., the fact that the tri-state area is closed except for essential businesses, New Jersey is now in the top three of Corona Virus infections, the 8PM-5AM curfew in effect in NJ, the State of New Jersey releasing 1,000 prisoners from jail because they may have been exposed to the virus. I guess my message to everyone is that every day that passes we're getting closer to the day that all of this will be over. The fact that I'm continuing to work and prospect (not...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Thirty-Two of Sales
Yay! Our Governor is opening State and County Parks on May 2nd....with conditions with social distancing. Getting to hate that "social" crap. Many people are furious in New Jersey about the handling of the shut down along with not having the ability to get outside. After pressure the Gov caved to the pressure. However, here's what I think, we'll have such an influx to the parks and beaches from knuckle heads (govs favorite word) and out of state peeps that he will close the parks on Monday.
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Thirty-Three of Sales
Yippee! Tomorrow is Friday woohoo! Seems like Sunday will be the best day of the week and finally a day in the seventies. Can you guess what I'll be doing? Nope, not the beach since Sandy Hook National Recreation Area is still closed. Give up yet? My day will be spent pulling weeds and not the weed you smoke. From about 5PM till about 9PM tonight I was thinking about what the frak am I going to write about tonight? It's not an easy task to write every day let alone find that one thing you...
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas for 2014"
Art... you'd make $1 million a year if you sold Canon! Love the idea of the staple-free stapler though - not sure if it would be worth it because staples are so cheap and most companies would probably charge double over a regular staple finisher.
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas for 2014"
How about an entry level wide format printer based on GelSprinter technology? $3-5K price range. A quality Tabletop B/W with a full sized display and a low cpc.
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas for 2014"
FYI- Fujitsu scanners will be available thru Ricoh very soon. I have a solution for envelopes, message me and i will get you the contact information.
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas for 2014"
Originally Posted by Czech: Art... you'd make $1 million a year if you sold Canon! Love the idea of the staple-free stapler though - not sure if it would be worth it because staples are so cheap and most companies would probably charge double over a regular staple finisher. Staples are not as cheap as you think they are take a read of this.. http://mfpsolutions.blogspot.c...cost-of-staples.html
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas for 2014"
Hi Art, We sell the A4 product in Northern Ireland your talking about,we are a Lexmark Business Solutions Dealer and its a Lexmark XM7100 series, upto 70 page per minute staple, scan, print, fax etc all as part of a standard specification at very low CPC. For the desktop we sell the Lexmark XM3150, 42 page per minute A4 mono. 7 inch colour touchscreen and Low CPC also. Good products that are helping us win deals we couldnt win with Sharp or Konica Minolta products. Have a good Christmas from...
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas for 2014"
Wow, 70ppm A4, I could do some damage with that!
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Re: Advice For Starting An Unauthorized Copier Dealership
Create a mutually beneficial relationship with an authorized dealer. They help you. You help them.
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Re: Black Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
You need to have a "Not Available" option. I just left the question unanswered but that skews the results. For instance, there is no way my company would allow a segment 2 to be placed without a base no matter the cost per image was.
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Re: Black Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
ok, let me see if I can edit
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Re: Black Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
Did it!! Thanx for the help on this
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Re: Twelve Days of Selling "Day One"
Art, First great year, month and quarter! Even after your time in industry it always has to feel good to close out as strongly as you did! I'm a sales manager and have been using your twelve days of selling emails as an example for my sales team. In particular a new rep who's been selling for less than a year really loves these emails. I also have a rep on my team that's been in industry close to 30 years and these emails have helped reinvigorate him. Essentially your emails are the same...
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Re: Twelve Days of Selling "Day One"
Mike Thanx for this!!! Spread the word that the P4P Hotel is awesome. Really thanx again for the kind words and it's replies like yours that gives me the inspiration to keep writing and helping others!! Art
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Re: Twelve Days of Selling "Day One"
Congrats!!! u the Man! > On Dec 23, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Print4Pay Hotel < alerts@hoop.la > wrote: >
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Re: Twelve Days of Selling "Day One"
Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and **** the prom queen! > On Dec 23, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Print4Pay Hotel < alerts@hoop.la > wrote: >
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Re: Ricoh MP 401SPF Spec Review
Drop Out Color Send When scanning in B&W, users can choose to NOT capture a specific color -red, green, or blue - from a scanned page. This is useful when extracting data from forms, or to enhance OCR scanning accuracy by narrowing the range of color characters to be interpreted as editable text.
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Re: Ricoh MP 401SPF Spec Review
Can you expand on Distributed Scan management? I am use to the idea of creating one touch buttons or templates on the copier control panel to enable scanning or workflows. How is this different? Or is it just marketing?
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Ricoh MP W7100 & MP 8140 Spec Review
The waiting for something new from Ricoh Print Production Group for Ricoh Wide Format is officially over! The official launch has not been announced, however the brochure for the Ricoh MP W7100/8140 (was posted on the internet...
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Samsung Copier Million Page Test "A Tree Massacre"
I recently saw caught a google alert in reference to a test that was done on a Samsung Multi-Functional Copier the other day. I thought, wow that's kinda cool, and dismissed it as a link that I didn't need to post on the site. ...
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Ricoh MP 401SPF Spec Review
With out much ballyhoo, Ricoh introduced two new A4 (can't scan, print, copy or fax 11x17) Black MFP's. The Ricoh SP4510SF and the MP 401SPF. It's my understanding that the difference between the two devices is that the SP4510SF...
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Top Ten MFP Copier Industry Predictions for 2015
Looking back 2014 was one of my best years in the business. The fourth quarter of 2014 was the best quarter I've ever had! I can only hope that 2015 will be as good as 2014 if not better. Last years Top Ten MFP Copier Industry Predictions...
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Black Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
It's been a long time coming for the new poll. However yesterday we posted first of six new polls for Cost Per Page for Black A3 MFP's. In the near future (when spring finally comes to NJ), we also be posting four new polls...
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Sharp "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
Back in the mid to late Eighties, I can remember always getting my ass kicked by Sharp systems. Even better, if you owned a Sharp dealership you were in play to be bought by Alco Standard (January 1997 Alco Standard split in to two...
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Twelve Days of Selling "Day One"
I started this series of blogs off with the title, "I Want it All". For those of you that are old enough that was the title of a splendid Queen song in 1988. I grew up with the attitude that I Want it All, and through out the...
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My Top Ten Copy Machines of All Time #3
Think about this, a copy machine that can copy up to A3 (up to 11x17), and only onto A4 size (letter or legal). You don't see that feature with todays digital copiers. I for one believe many of todays copier manufacturers are missing...
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BTA EAST Grand Slam Event Review
It's about the Vendors. Thus, I'd like to focus this blog about the Vendors who support the BTA Channel and the Print4Pay Hotel. The BTA East Grand Slam events is one of my favs!! No need to fly, a short three hour drive and...
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New Vertical Market for A3 Color Printers
Dang, picking up a solid lead on a Saturday is a wonderful thing, right? So, I was out to do my Saturday AM ritual of dropping off and picking up my dry cleaning. By the way, why is it that we sales people can't claim dry cleaning as...
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Advice For Starting An Unauthorized Copier Dealership
I always enjoy answering emails and today I was able to send this reply to a Print4Pay Hotel Member that asked me this: A friend of mine and myself are potentially looking to partner together to start an unauthorized copier dealership. We want to...
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To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas for 2014"
Christmas in Sweden begins with the Saint Lucia ceremony. Before dawn on the morning of 13 December, the youngest daughter from each family puts on a white robe with a red sash. She wears a crown of evergreens with tall-lighted candles attached to it....