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Re: Top Ten "Why Copiers Should Have Warning Labels"
Ty Jason! Had fun with this!! Ty for the email about your rep, that was very humorous sale!! Maybe post in on the forums?
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Re: Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Six, Course One
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Re: Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Three, Course One
Art That industry needs our skills. Terms of understanding and mutually beneficial understanding requires the ART of negotiation. Talk soon. Plan your work , work your plan. Of course we never heard that. Lol.
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Re: Konica Minolta Acquires More Than Just Copier Dealers
Muratec Dealers should also be in a good place. I just spoke to my rep who was in the meeting this afternoon and he said we should now have full access to everything Konica - production print, wide format, IT etc. Im pumped about this
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Re: Konica Minolta Acquires More Than Just Copier Dealers
Attached is the letter I received from Muratec Marketing
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Re: Five Reasons Why Every Manufacturer Needs A Color Label Print Device
ty, for "liking" Larry!
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Nine, Course One
Yes, Since Summer is winding down, I thought I'd get back in the groove with the glossary of terms for Color Label Presses. It was a few months ago when I went cold calling in South Jersey. I was on the lookout for copiers but also wanted to keep my eyes open for companies that could benefit from a label press or a corrugated press. If you're not familiar with a corrugated press that device will allow a user print graphics for use on card board boxes. I was able to find three companies that...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Ten, Course One
In the past I've called my self a hunter of wide format devices. I'm know moving on to call myself a hunter for color labels, which will lead me to placing net new label presses. Over the last month or so, I've noticed multiple rolls of color labels in Wawa's, Quick Chek (both of these are gas station/food markets here in New Jersey). In addition I also scoped multiple rolls of labels in McDonalds and Dunkin Doughnuts (or Dunkin as they have re-branded). See and ye shall find color labels...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Sixteen, Course One
Over the last few years I've blogged about the importance for dealers to diversify to other avenues of print. Especially if they want to stay in the "break and fix" model for servicing and selling devices that print. One of those opportunities is color label printing. The list of the types of color labels is enormous. Bumper stickers, political stickers, custom groceries, branding, safety, food labels, CBD, beer & wine, cannabis, the list goes on and on. Post COVID19 recovery will...
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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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My Top Five FAV Print Devices from Graph Expo in Orlando 2016
After all these years, I finally attended a GraphExpo show! If you're a hardware geek like me, then you owe it to yourself to get to next years Graph Expo event. The information I collected will help me when compete and help me win new deals. Away we go with my Top Fav Devices from Graph Expo: Epson ColorWorks C7500G Color Label Printer The Epson ColorWorks C7500G is an inkjet color label printer. Capable of printing @1200x600 dpi, uses a Wausatch RIP, and can print multiple full color...
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Top Ten "Why Copiers Should Have Warning Labels"
I wrote this back in 2011 and thought it would be a good repost for everyone. Enjoy! Yes sir, 31 years in the business and counting...over those 31 years I've seen and heard some strange things happen in the copier business. Here's some warning labels that I'd like to see on copiers. BTW, most of these threads came from Print4Pay Hotel Members forum. Enjoy! 1. Warning: If you don't insert the toner cartridge carefully you're gonna ruin your clothes and your co-workers are gonna have a good...
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Why Are You Not Selling Niche Printing Systems?
Who wants to make GREAT commissions again? What dealer principal would be interested in creating another revenue stream where the orders of consumables never cease? What would you give up not to have competition with a product that can practically sell itself, once you've demonstrated the product? How did you answer those questions? Just like I did? My first answer is ME, my second response (if I was a dealer principal) is ME, and for the third question, I would give up my....... Recent...
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Five Reasons Why Every Manufacturer Needs A Color Label Print Device
Color labels....., now you seem and now you don't. Over the years I'll admit that I never paid much attention to color labels, yet they are everywhere you look. Regulations and safety compliance in the work place has helped the color label market to explode in recent years. Most small to mid size manufacturing companies are outsourcing their color labels, which means a very long wait time when placing orders and most are ordering way more than they need to bring the cost per label price...
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Six Questions with Andrew Jones of Muratec about Muratec Label University
Friday night, I had the chance to chat with Andrew Jones from Muratec America. Andrew is the Product Marketing Specialist, Precision Label Series at Muratec America, Inc. I though this would be a great interview with the upcoming Muratec Label University event. Art: Is Muratec Label University held the same days as ITEX? Andrew: No, Muratec Label University is April 18, the day before ITEX starts. We’ll start at 1 p.m. in the Palm A room. We’re starting early afternoon so people can arrive...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Six, Course One
In a previous blog from this week titled How Many Labels Did We Count on the Ricoh MP3601SP? I wrote about all of the black & color labels that I found on one of our wide format devices in our showroom. In addition I just noticed that none of the pictures uploaded to the blog! Arrgghh! Thus, I will try to get those pictures uploaded this week. My point is that there are labels everywhere and we're just not paying attention them because we never thought that we could play in that market.
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Fourteen, Course One
A few years ago I took at look at one of my wide format MFPs to see how many color labels were used in the manufacturing process. I believe the final count was 37 labels, they included model number, serial number, safety warnings, logo's, etc. In my opinion it was a heck of a lot of color labels for just one MFP. About a week ago I had a chat with a dealer owner and I was curious about what brands of copiers they sold. I then asked what about Managed IT, and found out that Managed IT is not...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Fifteen, Course One
As I walked in the building the smell of fresh iron, virgin plastic and ozone told me I was in copier heaven! I told David Clearman (Director of Marketing and PLS Sales for Muratec Amercia) that the smell of copiers was in the air! I was excited to take a tour of new KonicaMinolta CEC (Customer Engagement Center) in Ramsey, NJ and get personal with the PLS (Precision Label Series) PKG 675 and the awesome PLS 475i. The PGK 675 is designed for printing onto corrugated material and the PLS 475i...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Thirteen, Course One
I've used the hashtag of #followprintmigration for sometime now. I don't have any facts or statements, I just know what I see. Last weekend the wife and I spent a few days in Wildwood, NJ for a much needed getaway. The main purpose of the trip was to attend the North America Sea Glass festival. Many artists from the east coast were to there to display and sell their creations. So what did I notice? Branding, branding and more branding from the artists with their creations. I noticed three...
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Five Reasons Why I'll Be Attending Muratec Label University While @ ITEX 2017
Just last night I was developing a power point for some rookies to help them sell more wide format MFP's. My opening slide and comment revolves around the how many competitors could be in involved for a copier/MFP opportunity. I counted twelve different manufacturers that could be involved in the opportunity. Thus, that slide showed all twelve potential suppliers. My next slide was to show how many toner based wide format suppliers you could run up against on a wide format opportunity. That...
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ITEX 2017 Muratec America Leads the Way with Color Label Presses
All of theses years in the business and I've never attended an ITEX event, hard to believe right? In the eighties and nineties I was able to attend a few of the NOMDA events and those were some killer events. Just think, all of the manufacturers, suppliers and dealers at one event at the same time. It was one giant party event. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to catch three pre-show events. Muratec America kicked off the day with there four hour Muratec University. Walking in to the event...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Seven, Course One
If you're a follower of this site, then you know that I'm a huge fan of Label Presses. They have sizzle, they have great margins and it's a great ROI sell to companies that are currently out-sourcing their labels. About six months ago I took the time to draw up a business plan to set up a Label Press division in the dealership that I work for. Dedicated reps just focused on that one product means that you could have a team ramped up in just 90 days. Think back to when a copier dealership...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Eight, Course One
Here's a short story for all. About a month ago my wife asked me to go shopping with her because of a recent snow storm here in the East. I don't like food shopping, but at times I do need to do my part. My wife took me to some new fangled market, and I must admit I was floored with the quality and selection of the foods that were offered. However what intrigued me the most is that 25% of all the products for sale had a custom color label. There were hundreds if not a thousand of these...
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Color Label Press University "Where to Find Color Labels" Part One, Course Two
This blog will be an additional addition to our Label Press University. We're going to go in alphabetical order to educate everyone on products & industries that use labels. About two months ago I counted all of the labels that were plastered on a Ricoh W3601 wide format MFP. I believe the total ended up at 36 or so. Labels are everywhere and the opportunities to place label presses are everywhere. Appliances, Apparel, Automotive products, Agricultural products, Aerospace industry,...
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Konica Minolta Acquires More Than Just Copier Dealers
Please pardon any typo's or other stuff. I'm at Newark International Airport getting ready for my departure to Ireland and chillaxing on the first day of my vaca. As always I'm checking my email, because you just never know when something big may come along. Well, one pretty big thing just happpened with the acquisition of Muratec by the Konica Minolta. At first many readers will probably ho-hum the purchase and think that it was inevitable that Muratec would survive on it's own. My first...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Five, Course One
I had a few minutes before I had to get to three appointments on Thursday of last week. Thus, I thought I would visit our Ricoh MP 3601SP demonstrator unit in our showroom (yes, we still have one of those). I was curious how many labels did Ricoh adhere to the MP 3601SP. I was shocked! If you have a Ricoh MP 3601SP, here's a little bit of homework for you. Check all of the outside covers, then the toner hopped and then the roll feeder. Let us know how many labels you find (color or just...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Two, Course One
Funny, I was hoping to post of these each week for the next 12 weeks or so. It's been a month since I posted the first blog for "Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part One, Course One". Color Label Presses can be used as seeding devices in larger Print4Pay opportunities, or help that dealer or rep get a conversation going with an account where they have never had any traction with MFP's or IT services. In addition, the competition is ripe for takeover. Let us not forget about...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Three, Course One
I'm back on a roll! Just a few days ago we posted up the second blog for "Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Two, Course One". We're off and running with Part 3 today. Color Label Presses can be used as seeding devices in larger Print4Pay opportunities, or help that dealer or rep get a conversation going with an account where they have never had any traction with MFP's or IT services. In addition, the competition is ripe for takeover. Let us not forget about the GP!
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Four, Course One
Another three days and we're bringing you Part Four in our blog series for our Color Label Press University. Just and FYI for everyone. At the top of each blog you'll see . Clicking that link which is at the top of each blog will then bring you the collection of blogs for Color Label Press University. It's pretty neat, you'll see all of the blogs that we've posted for an easier read and simple way to toggle from blog to blog. Color Label Presses can be used as seeding devices in larger...
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How Many Labels Did We Count on the Ricoh MP3601SP?
Aight, it's an older Ricoh MP 3601SP, However, we still have one in the show room and I thought it would be cool to count how many color and black labels were adhered to the MP3601SP. I didn't not pop any of the covers, but I did open the roll feeder and the toner hopper. The method for my madness is to bring attention to labels, especially color labels. Color labels are all around us, and most of the time we're not paying attention to how many labels are in our lives on a daily basis. With...
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Color Label Press University "Where to Find Color Packaging"
The turkey, provolone, onions, hot banana peppers and tomatoes sandwich had my full attention. It was lunch time, I was starved since my wife had me doing this points for food thing. Everything was no points except for the bread, and what the heck a little bread now and then isn't going to kill me right? While reaching for my bottle of water I noticed I had no napkins, and being a polite eater I opted to search for the napkins instead of taking that first chunk out of my sandwich. A quick...
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Take Aways From MY Recent Trip to InfoFlex 2018
The next time I go to Indianapolis it's going to be by plane and not by car. It was a last minute decision on whether to make the trip or not. Thus when I looked at the flights and saw that the cost was almost a thousand bucks, I decided the make the drive. On the way out I did two six hour drives and stayed over night in western PA. But, the trip back I had to make in one day. It was fourteen hours from start to finished and I was mentally drained by the time I arrived home in Highlands.
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Twelve, Course One
At my age sometimes it gets interesting to remember where you went on the weekends. What I do remember is that I accompanied my wife to one of our local food stores. I'm thinking it was a Wegmans, could have been something else, but it was one of the higher end food stores. I was not impressed with was the prices! Frak, let me stick to making money so the wife can spend it. Please don't tell me how much that steak cost. If you're a professional in the imaging channel then you're always...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Eleven, Course One
Living and working in New Jersey is no easy task. I've been doing that for the past 39 years in the same territory, some have said "who has it better than me?". Well not me, even at the ripe old age of sixty-two I'm always looking for ways to increase my sales or knowledge of print. What's really excited me the last couple of years is the huge opportunity that's out there for color label presses. At a recent food market, I noticed that every container of prepared food was accompanied by a...
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Re: Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Eight, Course One
Best wishes in Texas. Kindly keep me posted.
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Re: Take Aways From MY Recent Trip to InfoFlex 2018
Art, I constantly have trouble opening bid opportunities. Any suggestions? Sent from my iPad
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Re: Color Label Press University "Where to Find Color Packaging"
Nice review. What is the service component? Run rate. Usual service questions? Reliability? References? Thanks Art.
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Re: ITEX 2017 Muratec America Leads the Way with Color Label Presses
Sounds like your were rather busy. Look forward to hearing more ��
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Seventeen, Course One
What is your Post COVID19 recovery plan? How will you make up the expected loss of clicks? Some are reporting that the click lost could be as much as 12% here in the US. Do you have the time or the financing to move forward with Managed IT Services? For those that would like to stay with Imaging there are options. One of your options to is ride the wave of growth and migration of print. Label Press University At the top of each blog you'll see . Clicking that link which is at the top of each...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Eighteen, Course One
Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Eighteen, Course One On the ballot in New Jersey this year is the public question of legalizing marijuana and if approved the new law would take effect on January 1st, 2021. Since New Jersey is a deep blue state I would tend to think that the public question will pass. I can already see the future and I believe there will be a pot store in almost every town in New Jersey. In addition there will an entire industry that will revolve around...
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Color Label Press University "Glossary of Terms" Part Nineteen, Course One
It was about two weeks prior to Christmas that I visited Peddler's Village in Lahaska, PA. Peddler's Village offers many shops in colonial style buildings along with dining and lodging. Our mission was to shop for some Christmas gifts and we planned for a day of cold rain and raw conditions. As I was forced to go in out of almost every shop on the campus I noticed that almost all of the shops had custom color branding labels for most of their food products. Below is a picture I took from the...
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Top Ten Reasons "Why Copiers Should Have Warning Labels"
I wrote this blog ten years ago. Thought it would be a fun read for us again! Yes sir, 31 years in the business and counting...over those 31 years I've seen and heard some strange things happen in the copier business. Here's some warning labels that I'd like to see on copiers. BTW, most of these threads came from Print4Pay Hotel Members forum. Enjoy! 1. Warning: If you don't insert the toner cartridge carefully you're going ruin your clothes and your co-workers are going to have a good...
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What's Hot With Color Labels!
I'm a huge fan of color label presses and that's because it's about putting ink on paper and it's so simple. Heck we've been putting ink (toner) on paper for the last forty years. Yes, there are some nuances with different substrates and laminates but it still comes down to putting ink on paper. If you can sell digital color presses you can sell digital color label presses with a heck of a lot more GP for each device. The market potential is enormous especially since many states are now...
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What's Hot With Color Labels!
Chat with David Clearman with Muratec AMERICA "What's Hot With Color Labels" I missed the first three minutes, but overall a great session.
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Become an Independent Agent for Color Label Presses
Come and listen about salesperson named Ted A grizzled veteran that always kept his family fed, The one day he was shopping for some food, And into his eyes he saw the glimmering light. Label press that is, color labels presses, high margins Just a little take off from the Beverly Hillbillies lyrics and many of us remember that Jed was out hunting for some food, missed the shot but hit the mark because the bubbling crude spouted from the ground. On June 7th at 4PM EST David Clearman...