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Re: Managing Print Costs for Wide Format Ink Plotters
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas in 2017"
How abt seg 1 doc feeder that isn't a piece of crap.
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas in 2017"
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas in 2017"
Hello, We are interested in advertising on your website. Could someone send me a media kit? Thank you, Jennifer
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas in 2017"
Hi Thank you, I will send this to you over the weekend Art
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas in 2017"
I TRIPLE-dog-dare ya to deliver WIndows package-aware print drivers for Fiery. Please!
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Re: To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas in 2017"
awesome! So what is Windows package-aware print drivers for Fiery?
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Re: Three Ways to Protect Your Ricoh Wide Format Plotters
Most Ricoh wide format devices have a built in dehumidifier. The switch is on the side.
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Re: Three Ways to Protect Your Ricoh Wide Format Plotters
yup, and I believe it is for the drum. Thanks for the comment!
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Re: This Copier Changed My Sales Life 15 Years Ago this Week!
Those were good times indeed. Big commissions and big points on the Ricoh credit card to boot. Very short lived though. I was doing one or two wide formats a month in addition to all of the mid-volume color machines that customers were buying. By 2008 it was over and the wide format market has never recovered. In the past 12 months I've sold 4 wide formats and only one was a brand new unit.
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Re: This Copier Changed My Sales Life 15 Years Ago this Week!
I agree with you, by 2008 the big Aficio points and the big commissions were gone. All of the other manufacturers caught up with the technology. In addition Ricoh rested on their laurels with the 240W and waited way to long to bring an upgrade to the market place. I average about 1.5 new wide formats per month, GP is significantly down, but it's now a decent revenue generator. The Ricoh MP W6700SP is now three years old and needs a refresh. What does Ricoh have in the works?
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Re: This Copier Changed My Sales Life 15 Years Ago this Week!
Hopefully whatever they replace the 6700 with is another compact machine that can be carried up a flight of stairs like the old 240 was.
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Wide Format Technology Update -The New Canon TM Series Wide Format Technical Series
Wide Format Technology Update -The New Canon TM Series Wide Format Technical Series Having just completed one of our most successful quarters ever, I can confidently say that one of the main reasons for our sales success in Q4 was the new Canon TM Series printers and MFP systems. This series was introduced by Canon to replace the very successful 78x series which had anchored the Canon iPF wide format line for the last number of years. The 78x series was overdue to be replaced and the...
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Wide Format Technology Update- The Canon TX Series printers and MFP Systems
Just about a year ago, Canon USA released their new TX Series of Wide Format inkjet printers and MFP Systems. Canon has positioned the TX Series as a higher volume solution to capture opportunities on the production side of the aqueous inkjet technical documents market. There are two basic TX Series models available, the TX 3000 and TX 4000. The difference in these models is their supported print width, the 3000 being a 36” printer and the 4000 is a 44” printer. Both TX printers are single...
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Re: Me, Sadaaki, Mitsuhrio & Brian
Hi Art, I couldn't agree with you more about the stacking issue. The Tameran is a nice option to have, but it is not the most ideal for creating a "compact" footprint. Glad you were able to give them this feedback.
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Re: 12 Tips to Ricoh to Enhance the Ricoh W3601 Wide Format
Pick up the KIP line. They make it very easy to pick up their line, and they have most of the features you're looking for.
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New Ricoh W6700SP Wide Format Review
It's been more than five years since Ricoh has updated the Ricoh W3601 wide format printer/scanner/copier. I wasn't sure exactly how long, but googled it and found the press release for the MP 3601 that was dated March 10th, 2011. Far too long for me, but at least there is something new and different to offer our W3601 clients an upgrade path. Ricoh's wide digital wide format entry started with the MP W240 (4ppm), then the MP W2400 (4PPM), later came the MP W3600 (6ppm), and the last one of...
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This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Second Week of November 2004
Researchers claim to have found the lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the east Mediterranean, 80 kilometers southeast of Cyprus . The Cypriot government disputes the claim, saying more evidence is needed. Fuji Xerox bets on rising...
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Inkjet CAD Wide Format vs Toner CAD Wide Format "Which Would You Choose"?
I developed a wide format lead just about a week ago from an Engineering Company in my territory. The Engineering company does not have a wide format system and is farming out all of their prints and copies to a local Repro shop....
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Twelve Days of Selling "Day 3"
Seventy Two hours until the close of the month, the quarter and the year. OH bother! My first appointment of the day was with an existing account that had placed a $50k order with me last month. Just as I arrived our company delivery...
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Are you Selling in a Vertical Market?
Today's offering from manufacturers is overwhelming to say the least. I can remember starting out on the business where one of the requirements is that you had to own or have access to a station wagon! One of the basic routines was to load a copier in...
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12 Tips to Ricoh to Enhance the Ricoh W3601 Wide Format
It's awesome to sell 36 month leases, right? Yesterday my CRM software kicked out a current customer that was in the last three months of their wide format lease. Low and behold the system that I had leased them 32 months ago was...
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Why Won't Ricoh Bring the CW 1200SP Color Wide Format to US Market?
Get ready for a rant! I'm so sick and tired of the pitiful job that is being done with Ricoh Wide format group! The Ricoh W3601 which is now three years old plus (with no update in site), the bundling of Plotworks, a way over...
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Managing Print Costs for Wide Format Ink Plotters
Managing Print Costs for Wide Format Ink Plotters Over the weekend I took the time to finish one of my spreadsheets that enables us (Print4Pay Hotel members) to identify the cost per square foot for HP inkjet plotters. Let me tell...
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Me, Sadaaki, Mitsuhrio & Brian
It was the first snow of the season in New Jersey, the snow was short lived and didn't stick to the road surface as I drove to the office. Today's agenda was to meet two Ricoh Product Marketing Reps from Japan along with the Wide Format...
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Managed Print Services in the Wide-Format A/E/C Space
Thought I would share this email from Joel about MPS in the AEC wide format market place. Joel is an active blogger, has more than 40+ years experience in the wide format industry and writes his own blog @ Reprographics 101....
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago (First Week of February 2007)
Just noticed on one of these threads that Ricoh Print Director has been around for ten years now! For those that don't know, Print Director is OEM'd from our friends at Print Audit. I highly recommend them. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week! RICOH SHOWCASES RIGHTS-MANAGED DOCUMENT 2/5/07 5:03 PM individuals and businesses use digital and paper-based information. DSS offers a complete package of products, services and support programs to our all our channels, comprising of direct...
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Kip Wide Format Color- 5 Things to Like
One of the highlights of Graph Expo 2016 was the chance to see the Kip Color Wide Format Series in person. You see, I am a wide format geek through and through. At the beginning of my sales career, the first sales class my dealership sent me to way back in 1995 was for Ricoh Wide Format. Ever since then I have loved the products and the AEC marketplace. We have come a long way since the Ricoh FW760 and FW830 units. Everything is now digital, multifunctional and now color is coming to the...
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Five Reasons to Consider the Contex SD One MF Color Wide Format Scanner
About eighteen months ago, I posted a blog titled “ What I Like about the New Contex SD One Color Scanner” . The SD One Color Scanner was the first true large format color desktop scanner on the market. Not only did the system have a small foot print but with a weight of only 18.6lbs, the Contex SD One was excellent for construction sites. With the recent addition of the Contex SD One MF, Contex has knocked it out of the box again with a portable wide format scanner. The Contex SD one MF...
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To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas in 2016"
The Christmas season in Italy begins on the first Sunday of Advent, which is four Sundays before Christmas. Christmas fairs feature fireworks and bonfires along with holiday music. Families go to the Christmas markets to shop for gifts and new figures for the manger scene. Some families set up a Christmas tree and decorate it. Families set up their presepio, or manger scene, on the first day of the novena. They gather before the presepio each morning or evening of novena to light candles and...
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Five Reasons to Attend Print4Pay Hotels Wide Format Presentation for Sales Reps
Originally I had planned to do the webinar for August 18th at noon, and lasting for one hour. Due to vacations, summer schedules and other conflicts we're moving the event to October 2nd, 2017 at 1PM . Let's figure that this will take about an hour or so. I just finished talking with John Anderson from Sissine's Office Systems, and John's on board to co-host our event. John and I go way back and pretty much we're always kicking wide format questions and issues back and forth with each other.
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What is a Zero Turn Scanning Productivity Center?
Hand feed a wide format sheet of paper to be scanned, baby sit that sheet of paper while it's being scanned, then remove the scanned sheet of paper from the scanner. Wait, we're not done yet, and then place that scanned sheet of paper in the "scanned" area. Imagine having to do this one to three hundred times a day, and five days a week. What an incredible waste of time, right? When it comes to wide format scanners and most wide format multifunctional devices, our clients are doomed to that...
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Wide Format for AEC Market & New Features I Would Like to See
If you've been selling wide format MFP's for some time I think you'll agree that the manufacturers have been slow on refreshing most models from most manufacturers. Aside from KIP with the recent introduction of the KIP 600 toner based color wide format MFP (multi-functional product), the others are just regurgitating the same tired outdated wide formats for the AEC (architect, engineers and construction) market. Five plus years is a long time to wait for a refresh of an existing model or...
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Memoirs of a Copier Sales Person "The Hunt for Wide Format"
I wasn't too excited that "The Hunt for Wide Format" was going to take place on a rainy day in Jersey. I had two choices, one was to start the hunt in the rain or go back to office and make phone calls. I choose to do the hunt because working the phone lately has been terrible. In addition I can't afford to waste time when you can't get DM's on the phone. My day started with a 9:30AM appointment with an existing account that has three separate equipment leases. I placed a courtesy call a few...
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To Ricoh "What I Want for Christmas in 2017"
Every year, I like to put some interesting tidbit about Christmas from other Countries around the world. Austria Christmas Austria shares many Christmas traditions with its neighbor Germany , but also has many special Christmas customs of its own. During Advent , many families will have an Advent Wreath made from evergreen twigs and decorated with ribbons and four candles. On each of the four Sundays in Advent, a candle is lit and a carol or two might be sung! Most towns will have a...
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Three Ways to Protect Your Ricoh Wide Format Plotters
Over the years I’ve had many calls about how my clients can protect their Ricoh Wide Format Plotters. Wide Format plotters aka Ricoh Wide format MFP’s (multi-functional devices) that can copy, scan or print. In most cases what we recommend is not information that is available with the manufacturers user guide. Thus, we thought it would… Read More FYI, this is a link to my jersey plotter site, email me or Jesse if you need more info on how to make this happen
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This Copier Changed My Sales Life 15 Years Ago this Week!
It's late on Friday night, for most their work is over for the week. Me, I need to do updates and frankly I've been lagging in my blogging as of late. It's not because I don't want to write, it's mainly because there hasn't been something that triggered me to write. Nothing unusual in sales, nothing unusual in the field and I've had my nose to the grindstone looking to hit numbers. Until tonight when I needed to post up my series "This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago this Week" .
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Contex Publishes Industry Report on the Four Requirements for Successful Large Format Scanning
Contex Publishes Industry Report on the Four Requirements for Successful Large Format Scanning Chantilly, VA — June 4, 2020 — Contex , the world leader in large format scanning, today announces the availability of a new report, Requirements for Successful Large Format Scanning . The report addresses four must-haves for scanning, which include hardware design, software options, productivity (and flexibility), and image quality. Combined, these essential requirements make it possible to...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Sixty of Sales
While most of the US continues to open the State of New Jersey continues to plod at a snails pace. Our Governor lifted the "stay at home" order however still instructed the masses that it's not time to go back to the office. WTF! A report surfaced last night that stated COVID19 could have been present in China as early as the summer of 2019. Again it's just a theory but sounds reasonable since the article spoke about satellite surveillance of hospitals and the marked increases of vehicles.
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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Sixty of Sales
Keep it going thru your lockdown! Real life even though other states have opened. Shows how you work thru this mess and succeed.
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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Sixty of Sales
Fun Fact: it's easier to move an office downstairs than it is to move a wide format MFP upstairs.
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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Sixty of Sales
Thanx and yes it's real life. Appreciate the reply, you know in some crazy way I do like sharing these
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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Sixty of Sales
Thanx John if I did stop I would just be writing about?? Covered so much with 10 years of writing blogs. That for the reply, giving it a lot of thought to continue the mission!
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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Sixty of Sales
I enjoy reading these posts daily, but totally understand if you want to stop.
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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Sixty of Sales
Keep these coming we look forward to reading each day! Thanks for everything you do!
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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Sixty of Sales
Hey Art! I’d be sad to see your daily posts go away, but I bet it’d be freeing for your time? It’s always interesting to hear what you’ve got cooking and your words motivate me to keep grinding harder. But with all you’ve got going on, I’d imagine a once per day post like you do takes half hour or more? Its crazy how time just slips away from you isn’t it? I had several phone calls today that should have been shorter and usually I would make them shorter, but you can tell the “work from...
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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Sixty of Sales
@TML Thanx for support! Yes, 30-45 minutes for one blog, sometimes easy to write and sometimes it's hard to find the right words. All in all I enjoy writing them and trying to help others. We're all in this together, we all love what we do and sharing with others makes us all stronger. Wide format installs, yup we probably do need to find a rigging company also. Thanx again for the reply and hoping we can meet sometime in the near future. How is the baby?
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Re: COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Sixty of Sales
Thanks for sharing your daily 'Remote Working Adventures'! It is a pleasure and it motivates. However, I fully understand if you end it!.