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Re: Samsung Copier Million Page Test "A Tree Massacre"
Art, I think Samsung needed to do this test to shut the mouths of the critics. Now anyone who wonders or asks if the Samsungs are reliable will get a link to this test. My Service guys tell me that the Samsungs have been working well! And the new MX series with the Android (OS) Tablet has been very cool. That wish list item that you asked Ricoh for has already been delivered by Samsung! I have just worked with a 3rd party tech company to get the first non-Samsung Android App ported to the...
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Re: Samsung Copier Million Page Test "A Tree Massacre"
Seems my Blog about the million page test was not that well received with Samsung. They complained to ENX Magazine who then pulled the blog off their site. Whatever happened to FREE Press? They were not happy that I pointed out that they used "x" amount of tree's for a 1980's type test! Since Samsung spends money with ENX, ENX pulled the blogs and is not posting any of my latest stuff. You know what, as far as I'm concerned we here this finance stuff about Sharp, Toshiba and none of the...
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Re: Samsung Copier Million Page Test "A Tree Massacre"
On average for every tree taken down in US for paper it is replaced by three new ones This is one of the reasons there are more trees in US than in past Dan Schmidt (sent from mobile device) > On Nov 23, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Print4Pay Hotel < alerts@hoop.la > wrote: >
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Re: 6 Reasons Why Flat Rate Service Program Will Change the Copier Industry
Art, a terrific take on the changing forces in the business model of the industry. Moneyball has arrived in the imaging business.
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Re: 6 Reasons Why Flat Rate Service Program Will Change the Copier Industry
Thank you Tom, writing it brought back some awesome memories
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Re: Color Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 3 (produce 31 to 40 pages)
I am out of the office on annual leave until the 26th Jan. In my absence please contact 01983 406522. Thank you
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Re: "MFP Wars" Hi Speed A3 MFP's vs A4 MFP's
Art, one of the problems is dealers servicing a machine for $30.00 a month. however, the reality is the industry has allowed the sales engine to destroy the service model. selling full service on A3 for .006 or less in volumes of 5k a month. Dealers were chasing sales revenue as they sacrificed service profits. As volumes continue declining so will margins. Dealers will begin realizing that all the A3 service they gave away is too costly to manage and the shift will begin. The A4...
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Re: "MFP Wars" Hi Speed A3 MFP's vs A4 MFP's
Hi Ray I agree with the silliness of the low cost per page for A3. However most dealers have escalators that can raise the price as much as 10-15% per year whether it's A4 or A3. AS far as the $30 per month, almost no one will send out and invoice for $30 It's either billed quarterly or annually. One thing the A4 manufacturers won't due is too sacrifice the consumables. I also believe that dealers will always find a way to make their profit, whether it's Daas, flat rate, or seat based. I...
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Re: "MFP Wars" Hi Speed A3 MFP's vs A4 MFP's
Art, another piece of the equation is that monthly units placed are 45% to 74% mono A4 in the segment 3 and segment 4 speed range. Online retail is $170 to $600 where used A3’s are three times that amount. The real question here is what these placements are doing to the service department revenue and eventually to staffing.
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Re: "MFP Wars" Hi Speed A3 MFP's vs A4 MFP's
I've always sold A4 machines where they are a fit. There are very few A4 devices that offer a low CPC. Some carry CPCs that are very high. A bigger issue in many placements is that the Automatic Document Feeders on most A4 machines are not robust enough to meet the copy scan and fax demand. Many are complete garbage. In fact I've seen the quality of the Domument Feeders on A4 units go backwards in the last couple of years as if the document feeder is an afterthought or it is where the...
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Re: "MFP Wars" Hi Speed A3 MFP's vs A4 MFP's
Amen @fisher doc feeders are inept on most A4's
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Re: How One Simple (Smart Phone/Tablet) Print App Can Help You Close More Orders!
sounds like a great tool in the right hands. Thanks looking forward to the meeting,,,
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Re: How One Simple (Smart Phone/Tablet) Print App Can Help You Close More Orders!
Art, once the app is downloaded, how do you get login information. Is this a software as a service? Is there a monthly fee? Thanks!
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Re: How One Simple (Smart Phone/Tablet) Print App Can Help You Close More Orders!
There is a monthly fee, sign up for the webinar for the 9th or the 15th of February please, here is the link https://www.p4photel.com/calendar
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Re: Ten Things You Need To Know Before you Lease or Buy a New Ricoh MP C3004 & MP C3504
Good info as always.
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Re: Ten Things You Need To Know Before you Lease or Buy a New Ricoh MP C3004 & MP C3504
Agreed. Great units.
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Re: Ten Things You Need To Know Before you Lease or Buy a New Ricoh MP C3004 & MP C3504
Good machines, if you need 11x17 size paper, but I would go a different route if the customer does not need it, cheaper and reliable A4 machine like the Kyocera CS356
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6 Reasons Why Flat Rate Service Program Will Change the Copier Industry
I remember when plain paper copiers used rolls of paper and not sheets. I remember when the glass on the copiers had to move back and forth. I remember when copiers used liquid ink (toner) to produce an image. I remember when you used a dial to set how many copies you wanted to make. Yup, it's been a pretty incredible journey to see the industry evolve over the last 38 years! Back in the early eighties their was only one plan for a copier maintenance agreement. We included "x" amount of...
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Re: Copier Color Cost Per Page Poll 1st Quarter 2014
Dear Thank you so kind of you Take Care and Kind Regards Mir Afzal United Engineers Center Jeddah Saudi Arabia Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:45:23 -0700
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Re: Copier Color Cost Per Page Poll 1st Quarter 2014
Are these colour rates toner in or toner out?
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Re: Color Cost Per Page for 2 Cents, Are You Crazy?
Sorry, Art, this will not happen. If you spread the cost by charging more for black and white, some would buy it and only run color. It's already expensive to run black only on a color device, costing 2 to 3 times or more than on a monochrome Production machine. And even at a penny for service and supplies, monochrome margins are low on color production units.
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Re: Color Cost Per Page for 2 Cents, Are You Crazy?
JC: Thanx for the comment! I should have communicated better. This would not be a pricing model for Production systems. You're right, if it was all they would run is color, however, I'm now seeing cost per page for color under 4 cents per page.
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Re: Color Cost Per Page for 2 Cents, Are You Crazy?
I think that while in theory this sounds good, it's not gonna fly. Already we're competing against dealers who have color clicks down to $.039 and black clicks down to $.005-$.006 on moderate speed office color units (35 & 45 ppm units). And these aren't those staggered click prices that Kyocera or Xerox dealers are offering for different forms of color (a splash, a bit, or full color). Even if they double click them, you're then back to industry standard for clicks, but most aren't...
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Re: Color Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
Art...for these click charges of .039 color and .045 black, what segment was this in? Second were these click charges for the same system or was one an award for a color system and the other and award for a monochrome system?
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Re: Color Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
Rogue That document and others are located here
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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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Eliminate Copier Overage Charges Once & For All
Most every company owns and or leases a copy machine. In most cases these copiers are covered under a maintenance/supply agreement. The billing model that is most prevalent is where a company charges a fee for "x" amount of pages for black and color prints/copies. Those contracts are be billed annually, quarterly or monthly. In addition to the base charges (annual, quarterly or month), there is also a charge for prints/copies that were made in excess of the agreement. For example. Annual...
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How One Simple (Smart Phone/Tablet) Print App Can Help You Close More Orders!
In advance of our Print Analyze App (smart phones & tablets) that is scheduled for February 9th & February 15th , I asked Jean Francois LE BRIZE to provide me with the same story that he told me at my first webinar a few months ago. Below is the blog from Jean: Thereis not a lot of software aimed at the salesman in the Imaging business. Among them, PrintAnalyze Full. PrintAnalyze Full is a cloud solution: the Salesman can perform audits, retrieve meters, calculate a...
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Print Audit 6 & "Eric the Office Worker" Keeping it Green
You just bought or leaseda shiny new Color "Green" Copier akaMFP that can print/scan/copy & fax.. You know the system, your salesperson touted the "Green" features such as default auto off, default power save mode, default duplex copying, the small carbon foot print, scan2email, scan2folder, scan2usb, scan2dropbox, scan2googledrive, scan2sdcardand of course it was the end of the month special deal just for you! So, what good is all of this...
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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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5 Reasons Why You Should Dump Ricoh Wide Format Business
Let me first state that the current line of Ricoh wide format LED systems are excellent when it comes to reliability and print/copy/scan quality. Personally, I would love to see Ricoh stay in the LED wide format business. The...
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Color Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 4 (produce 41 to 69 pages)
Do you need to stay ahead of the curve, or just curious what the curve looks like? We've introduced a new color cost per page poll for Segment 4 Color MFP's here . How the heck can you fight the cost per page battle with either your...
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Color Copier Cost Per Page Survey for Segment 3 (Based on 1,500 Pages)
I thought it was time to report on some of our Color Cost Per Page Surveys that we've been running on the Print4Pay Hotel Survey Page. Thus, this is the second band that we surveyed our members for. There will be four additional...
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Color Copier Cost Per Page Survey for Segment 3 (no Minimum)
I thought it was time to report on some of our Color Cost Per Page Surveys that we've been running on the Print4Pay Hotel Survey Page. Not a scientific poll, but, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that are P4P'ers (Print4Pay Hotel members) are right...
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Color Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 2 (produce 21-30 pages) Copier MFP
Recently, I had the chance to view a bid tabulation sheet for a recent copier bid. Color was bundled at .039 and black was at .0045! I was shocked! For me, I eat, sleep and breath this stuff, so I can stay ahead of current trends and...
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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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Color Cost Per Page for 2 Cents, Are You Crazy?
Many years ago while I was on my way to sales call, I would travel south on Broad street in Red Bank, New Jersey. Located on the northbound side was a copy center, and every day when I passed that shop, I eyed a purple neon sign that touted...
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The Who, What, Where, When, Why & How of Print
Did you know that if you where to fill your car gas tank with inkjet ink that it would cost $150,000! What do you think is the average number of pages printed by the average employee each year? Yup, 10,000 pages. One of...
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Color Cost Per Page Poll for Segment 3 (produce 31 to 40 pages)
Do you need to stay ahead of the curve, or just curious what the curve looks like? We've introduced our new color cost per page poll for Segment 3 Color MFP's here. Cost Per Page tactics, and marketing keeps changing,...
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Copier Color Cost Per Page Poll 1st Quarter 2014
We've been running a Color Cost per Page Poll for copiers since the start of the new year. Thus, on April 1st, I'll be resetting the Color Cost per Page Polls and starting a new one for the second quarter of this year. Since, we're only a...
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BTA Grand Slam Event Baltimore (Thursday)
It was a nice an easy drive down the New Jersey Turnpike this afternoon, the wife and I made the drive in about three and a half hours. This year the Grand Slam Event is at the Hyatt Regency in Baltimore inner Harbor. This is my first to...
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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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Ricoh MPC 8002SP with scan2ocr Review
The other day I was able to work with the new Ricoh MPC8002sp today with the optional OCR unit. Well, I was voiced a loud yabadabado and felt like Fred Flintstone when we he was ready to leave the rock quarry at the end of...
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31 Ways to Close More Sales (#11 of 31)
I have a funny story to tell, my wife had to report for jury duty today, and if course she was not happy about it. Thus at dinner tonight I asked how what the jury selection process was like since I've never been called. Questions, questions...
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Ten Things You Need To Know Before you Lease or Buy a New Ricoh MP C3004 & MP C3504
Ever hear of a color multifunctional copier on steroids? Me neither, however if there was such a device it, the Ricoh MP C3004 (prints up to 30 pages per minte in color) & MP C3504 (prints up to 35 pages per minute in color) would be my choice. In fact I would PEC's for Performing Enhancing Copiers. Unheard of in the market place, these two PEC's are outfitted with 220 Sheet Single Pass Document Feeders. Some may as, what the heck is a single pass document feeder? Single Pass is the key,...
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The Death of the Cost Per Page Billing Model
Guess what's coming to your business neighborhood? Did ya give up yet? Yes, the cost per click aka the cost page could become the billing model of the past. Seat Based Billing with Print Audit About a year ago Print Audit released a Seat Based Billing model for MPS engagements, The gist of the billing model is to bill a monthly flat fee per employee in order for the user to have printing rights. The amount billed per employee covers support, parts, software and consumable items for those...
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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...