Tagged With "Cost"
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Re: WSCA contracts
Hey Art, Been selling WSCA for years and frankly only do it because I have to. it is a lot of work for extremely little pay. Even the service is not that great for the dealer end. So when I can I find a way around it.
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Re: WSCA contracts
Its a nightmare for dealers. Ricoh can't get their act together on the paperwork. Its a loser. Also you don't get rewards points on machines when you use this program. Avoid it unless its the only way possible.
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Re: Cost Per Copy and Rate Lock
We've offered locked in rates for years (Ricoh equipment.) It takes a little explaining on the front end as to why your rate is slightly higher but I think people like the idea of not having to watch over their bill for increases. However most of my leases are only 36 months.
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Re: Cost Per Copy and Rate Lock
Well do rate locks also, but there has to be some GP in the deal, since it will come out of the sales person "skin". You should be looking at the T's & C's of the agreement because they may charge excessive dollars to ship supplies. (charging $20 per shipment per month can be quite the upcharge). Also be on the look out for verbiage in the maintenance supply agreement that states something to the effect, "that we can cancel or charge you more if you use too much toner aka fill) Hope this...
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Recent Meeting with an IT person
I had a recent meeting with one of my existing clients that has a lot of Brother printers. Slowly been taking the Brothers out with Ricoh A4's. We had a recent email exchange in reference to spreadsheets that I developed for cost per page on my A4's. That IT person was stating my CPC was wrong and then emailed me thier file. That IT person had also figured in the cost of the Ricoh A4 in his cost per page analysis. I couldn't argue with them but its a reminder that the total cost should...
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Epson Expands Business Printing Portfolio with A3 Multifunction Color Printers and Printer Fleet Management Service
New Epson WorkForce Pro WF-C879R and WF-C878R with Replaceable Ink Pack Systems Offer Lowest Total Printing Cost in Class LONG BEACH, Calif. – Feb. 19, 2020 – Epson today announced two new A3 multifunction color printers, the WorkForce® Pro WF-C879R and WF-C878R , strengthening its lineup of business printing offerings to meet the needs of the commercial office market. Powered by Epson’s PrecisionCore Heat-Free Technology ™, the new WF-C879R and WF-C878R offer the lowest total printing costs...
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Re: Ricoh unveils A3 color printer with industry's lowest cost of ownership and ultra-compact footprint
We just found out that the C730DN LED Color A3 Printer has been pulled from the market. They won't tell us why. We have had no problems with the ones we have out. Anyone out there have any additional information about this?
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Re: Ricoh unveils A3 color printer with industry's lowest cost of ownership and ultra-compact footprint
Hope its not a sign, Ricoh plans to launch many other LED printers next year.
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Re: Ricoh unveils A3 color printer with industry's lowest cost of ownership and ultra-compact footprint
Finally got a response from Ricoh regarding the SP C730DN: The product has been suspended. There were reports of poor image quality and failure of the PCUs to reach published yield in other regions so RCL decided to suspend shipments. There is a fix planned but we were not happy with the schedule. We want to minimize the disruption to our end-users and to our business. We have been working with Service, Supply Chain and Finance to manage the issue. Service is contacting Dealers who purchased...
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Re: Ricoh unveils A3 color printer with industry's lowest cost of ownership and ultra-compact footprint
WOW, that's terrible, I don;t think I can ever remember them pulling a product from the market before!
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Re: Ricoh unveils A3 color printer with industry's lowest cost of ownership and ultra-compact footprint
Originally Posted by Art Post: WOW, that's terrible, I don;t think I can ever remember them pulling a product from the market before! Me either and its not like you and I don't go back aways...think of all the products that maybe should have been pulled like the 1224C and what was that interchangeable color machine from about 25 years ago...was it the 460?
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Re: Ricoh unveils A3 color printer with industry's lowest cost of ownership and ultra-compact footprint
I wasn't selling Ricoh 25 years ago, bit you're right the 1224 was a pig, but guess they had nothing else to replace it that's why they did not pull the unit.
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Re: Curious about how everyone verfies Cost Per Page
If you can sit with accounts, or get invoices, best way to go. However, if they push back on that, I fall back to "industry standards" from a TCO site like FM audit or LDI. When they question my numbers, I then use that to ask for their actual invoices so we can verify.
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Re: Curious about how everyone verfies Cost Per Page
Jus an FYI - on low volume devices, or on local connected devices, we go with a flat rate per month. Much easier on all, and several years worth of history doing this in many marketplaces shows we are making money on flat rate deals.
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How to qualify and engage a Managed Document & Business
This came from a Ricoh brochure, great questions for all of us to ask. How to qualify and engage a Managed Document & Business Process Services opportunity Ask your customers the following questions: • Do you have an accurate understanding of your total document-related costs? How much are you spending on device maintenance, paper, supplies and energy usage? • Are there any core business processes that involve documents that you would like to make faster or more cost-efficient? What are...
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BTA's FIX: Cost Management for Service 2.0 Scheduled for Aug. 5-6
For Immediate Release For More Information Contact: July 8, 2015 Brent Hoskins Executive Director Business Technology Association (816) 303-4040 BTA’s FIX: Cost Management for Service 2.0 Scheduled for Aug. 5-6 Attendees receive free registration to BTA’s Capture the Magic event Kansas City, MO — On Aug. 5-6 in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Business Technology Association (BTA, www.bta.org ) will present FIX: Cost Management for Service 2.0 ( www.bta.org/FIX ) as a front-runner to the association’s...
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How Could One Word Cost $6,000?
How Could One Word Cost $6,000? by Print Audit This is a simple blog about monochrome vs. color printing. There are no pictures. Nothing fancy. Just one color word that could cost $6,000. Read more of this post
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Need Four P4P Members to Test Andriod/Apple Cost Per Page App
Here's the deal, need four members to step up and receive a FREE app for your smart phone and then attend a short 30 minute webinar on how the app works. I would then like to get your feed back on the app via email. It's my understanding that you would have the app for a period of one year at no charge. I've seen the app, I like it, it even has some wide format systems (woo hoo). Email me if you're interested. Art
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What solutions would you sell if you were King of the Sales Department?
If you had control over what solutions to sell, and you had the support people behind you, what would be your core solutions? For me, here's what I would want: Document Management Software Middleware for Browse to folder MFP Solution to...
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The board also discussed a bid for a copier at the copy center.
The board also discussed a bid for a copier at the copy center. Brian Drennon, technology director, said the district sent out four bid requests for a 60-month lease, unlimited copies and copier supplies. "A lot of companies don't want to do that,"...
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The “New Math” For Managed Print Services
The “New Math” For Managed Print Services by Print Audit One of the difficulties I’ve always had with MPS as it is marketed today, is the apparent conflict of interest that exists between MPS providers and their customers, under the Cost-Per-Page (CPP) billing model. Let me first point out that CPP is not a requisite of MPS. In the Managed Services space generally, Cost-Per-User or per Seat billing is more common. Nevertheless, most of the businesses I encounter who provide MPS in North...
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Ricoh unveils A3 color printer with industry's lowest cost of ownership and ultra-compact footprint
MALVERN, Pa., July 17, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Responding directly to customers asking for an affordable A3 color printer, Ricoh Americas Corporation today unveiled the RICOH Aficio SP C730DN , which immediately becomes the A3 color printer with the lowest cost of ownership and one of the smallest footprints in the industry. It also introduces LED printing technology to Ricoh's robust line of industry-leading printers and multifunction products (MFPs) that give users from corporate...
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The Unseen Costs of Document Workflows Are Opportunities
Every business experiences document workflows. They are the way information moves between employees internally and suppliers and clients externally. They have a direct impact on business revenues and results. They are unseen since...
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Curious about how everyone verfies Cost Per Page
Today, I was in a new medical account that had 5 different A4 devices Low and behold the volume across all of the devices was about 20K per month. Lately, on other cpp analysis I got burned because I took the meter reads, and then looked...
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WSCA contracts
Is anyone else out there selling WSCA Cost Per Page contract? Are you making any money on placing systems under the WSCA contract?
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Your Colour Print Service Invoice Was A Shock | What To Do
Colour printers and mfp devices are much more common in offices. I find that we are placing as many colour capable devices as mono only especially in offices with only one print device. The reasons are fairly obvious since we live in a...
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BTA’s Newly Revamped FIX: Cost Management for Service 2.0 Scheduled for Feb. 13
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release For More Information Contact: Jan. 9, 2014 Brent Hoskins Executive Director Business Technology Association (816) 303-4040 BTA’s Newly Revamped FIX: Cost Management for Service 2.0 Scheduled for Feb. 13 Attendees receive free registration to BTA’s Winter Break district event Kansas City, MO — On Feb. 13 in Orlando, Fla., the Business Technology Association (BTA) will present FIX: Cost Management for Service 2.0 as a front-runner to the Winter Break district...
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Archive Systems Launches FileBRIDGE, an Adaptive Document Management Solution That Manages, Automates and Governs the Most Cost Effective Transition from Paper to Digital
Fairfield, NJ (PRWEB) November 06, 2013 Archive Systems, Inc., a leading provider of document management solutions, announced today the release of FileBRIDGE, a complete platform to manage, automate and govern paper and digital business documents. As business processes evolve companies need to bridge from paper-based processes to more efficient automated paperless processes. FileBRIDGE delivers a comprehensive path to paperless that is grounded in sound records management and information...
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Convergence Radio Episode 2: SBB, Fact or Fiction?
Convergence Radio Episode 2: SBB, Fact or Fiction? By West McDonald, Nov 29, 2016 8:44:42 AM Print Audit is proud to announce the release of episode 2 of Convergence Radio, “SBB, Fact or Fiction?” What is Seat Based Billing for Managed Print? Could it be the answer we’ve been looking for to rejuvenate the office equipment channel? Why is it better than Cost Per Page, or is that statement even true? Read more »
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Ricoh MPF Cost Fact Sheets?
Can anyone supply me with the Ricoh MPC 6004SP manufacturers cost fact sheet for the MP C6004SP??
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CW2201SP Cost of Print Heads
Can anyone tell me the MSRP of the color and black print heads for the CW2201, along with the yield. Trying to finish up a cost per square foot analysis for us.
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SBB (Seat Based Billing) Road Show Locations and Dates Announced
Calgary, Alberta – March 6, 2017 – Clover Imaging Group, GreatAmerica Financial Services, Office Document Consulting, Print Audit and Supplies Network have partnered with the Business Technology Association (BTA) to deliver the world’s first SBB (Seat Based Billing) Road Show. The event is a full day of executive level training that covers all aspects of a provider’s managed print offering. The SBB Road Show ( www.SBBRoadshow.com ) will be held the day prior to three of BTA’s 2017 events.
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Help with Ink Conversion to Cost Per Square foot
We have an ink cartridge that holds 100ml he cost for the cartridge is $65. $65/100 = .65 per milliliter of ink I'm told that the amount of ink used in a standard wide format drawing would be under .1 milliliter per square foot. Let's call it .1ml for one square foot. The cost would then be .065 per square foot. Is this correct?
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JFK Health Treats Printing Security, Costs and Usage with Nuance Solutions
Burlington, MA, June 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced JFK Health has deployed Nuance solutions to increase printing security and reduce printing costs. Nuance solutions helped JFK Health, a healthcare network based in Edison, N.J., to achieve printing process improvements, cost containment and flexibility to provide secure printing options to staffers. JFK Health has a comprehensive print management solution, which includes Nuance Equitrac , Nuance...
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Pequot Lakes: Council enter 5 year copier lease
• Entered into another five-year lease agreement with Marco for the city hall copy machine. The lease is $133.22 per month plus the cost of copies. Malecha said this cost is lower than the previous lease.
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Cost Per Copy and Rate Lock
I've bumped in to this a few times in the last few weeks and wanted some input. Lately we've been up against a plethora of lower tier devices (Kyocera/Sharp/Toshiba boxes). In 3/4 of these situations, several of the competitors have been able to lock clicks for the term of the lease. They're coming in at $.0069 - $.0074 / $.04-$.05. Is this the new normal or has this always been an acceptable locked click rate?
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Canon Issues Insurance Best Practices Whitepaper on “Three Steps to Enable Automation and Cost Savings”
NEW YORK, Aug. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Canon Business Process Services (Canon) has published the first whitepaper in its new Insurance Best Practices Series. The whitepaper spotlights how some insurers have been slow to embrace digital transformation, potentially putting them at a competitive disadvantage. To remedy this, some companies need to move quickly to integrate digital technology into their operations. The first step involves standardizing and optimizing insurance processes,...
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Re: Help with Ink Conversion to Cost Per Square foot
According to my cost sheet from Canon, the IPF (5-ink) models average 0.012 to 0.029 per sq. ft. in ink costs when printing monochrome cad drawings.
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Epson Launches New Low-Cost, High-Volume Industrial Labeling Solutions
Epson Launches New Low-Cost, High-Volume Industrial Labeling Solutions SOMERSET, Wis. , Oct. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Epson LabelWorks, the US-based sales office for Seiko Epson Corporation, has announced the availability of two new industrial label printers explicitly designed to address the need to quickly print high-volume batches of industrial labels of up to 2-inches (50mm) wide. The Epson LW-Z5000PX and the Epson LW-Z5010PX printers offer innovative features to simplify the creation of...
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Kyocera answers top 10 questions on enterprise content management
1. What is the ROI of an ECM solution? By implementing an ECM solution, companies gain a shortcut to greater profitability without the complications and costs of other approaches. Identifying clear workflows enables organisations to reap the rewards of ECM (content services). These technologies allow companies to automate workflows, leaving the most laborious, time-consuming and monotonous tasks to be carried out almost instantaneously and automatically, while enabling employees to better...
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Brother MFC L8900 Consumables cost per page
black toner $80.90 yield of 3,000 pages (I use 75% because of coverage), true yield more like 2,250 = .0359 color toner $80.90 yield of 1,800 pages ( I use 85% because of coverage, true yield more like 1,350 = .06 * 3 = .18 Fuser $299.95 yield of 60K (correct me if I'm wrong), (I use 75% because of coverage and page cycles) 45,000 yield. Cost per page .0066665 Drums $152.00 yield of 30,000, ( I use 75% because of coverage and page yields), 22,500 page yield. Cost per page .00675 Transfer...
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Re: Brother MFC L8900 Consumables cost per page
Thank you Art! People just don't know how much those smaller machines really cost to operate!
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Re: Brother MFC L8900 Consumables cost per page
@copyme I agree, I hope do more of these as I run across them
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Interesting HP Document Cost Per Square Foot
see attached Makes it much easier to get the cost per square foot for ink. Since most of the HP plotters use a combo on dye based ink (color) and pigment (black) I did a combo pricing for the ink . Thoughts?
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Methods to disable devices REMOTELY (delinquent payers)
P4P team, just wondering how the rest of you deal with delinquent papers on a technical level? Can and do you remotely disable devices when they are on stop credit? Many suppliers in my local area stop service but the customer can wind down the consumables until they run out (defeating the purpose of really accruing more debt while they are on stop credit). Any tips for Toshiba devices as i've heard polices can be applied via Ebridge Cloud Connect (ECC) that could potentially turn off a...
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Re: Methods to disable devices REMOTELY (delinquent payers)
I know that with Ricoh and HP equipment I could remotely do things to disable the device or make the user experience a nightmare if I were so inclined but I have never done anything like that. Its better to work with the customer within reason and simply withhold toner or service until you get payment.
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Re: Methods to disable devices REMOTELY (delinquent payers)
wish I could help with this. We have a really awesome collections person that keeps accounts in line. We will cut off supplies and service as needed for later payers