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Re: A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
Art, You and I are from similar professional backgrounds and times. We started in 1980 selling Sharp and Juki typewriters. Everything sold near MSRP. Then the fax boom came and we caught that wave perfectly. We sold Ricoh thermal faxes for full list ($2995.00). The only issue was cash flow; we sold them faster than we could order and purchase them. Copier Maintenance agreements went from .022 up to .035 and did not include drums, developer, toner, fuser rollers or lamps! Also, like your...
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Re: A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
Yup we have the same issues with cash flow. It was a great problem to have. The Hunt for Red October was a great book, even found the movie awesome too! Ty for the comment, we should connect for lunch one day
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Re: A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Copier Demo/Appointment
I have one!! In downtown Princeton, NJ (right across the street from Princeton University). Had just demo'd a small Adler Royal 209 (boy was that unit a piece of garbage). Well, rolled the copier gurney into the back of the car. Pulled out and into traffic, stopped at the light, and being young and foolish, I gunned the gas pedal with the green light. The car went forward the copier gurney and copier wne backwards and landed on the street, seems like I forgot to close the hatch!! It was a...
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Re: UPDATE 3-Canon buys Dutch Oce for $1.1 bln, fights Ricoh
Konica Minolta Says It Has No Plan to Counter Oce Bid (Update1) By Mariko Yasu Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., the Japanese lens and office-equipment maker, said it has no plan to counter Canon Inc.’s offer to buy Oce NV for 730 million euros ($1.1 billion). “There’s no plan to make an offer to Oce at the moment,” Minoru Ikehara, a spokesman at the Tokyobased company, said by phone today. While Konica Minolta had considered an acquisition of the Venlo, Netherlands-based...
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Re: NEC Corporation of America Announces Closure of Document Solutions Division (DSD)
The NECS is not good and a sign of the times. Years ago if you wanted to start a new dealership or go into business for your self you were able to go to the likes, of Adler Royal, Hitaachi, Towa, Copystar, Selex and probably a few others where you could get "Authorized" to service and support the systems, without the oressure of high quotas. Not having the pressure of the high quotas also allowed you to build the business slowly and remain profitable. Now that NECS is gone, what are the...
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Re: Urgent Need help!!!
Seri Blue M is needed for CYMK, Reflex is the Royal Blue, like our normal inks. I have spare Seri drums in an emergency.
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Re: Can You Name Tha Copier? Image #4
I sold these as Adler Royal version and yes that's a mita! I believe the Adler Royal model number was the 7090. Could be wrong. Congrats on guessing the correct manufacturer!!
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago, The Third Week in January 2014
Enjoy the threads from 5 years a go this week! Topic Five Vendors Earn Winter 2014 BLI “Picks” in the A3 Color Category Art Post · 1/23/145:35 PM buyers. Konica Minolta Business Solutions, U .S.A., Inc. Konica Minolta bizhub C 364e Outstanding 31- to 40-ppm A3 Color MFP Konica Minolta bizhub C 454e Outstanding 41- to 50-ppm A3 Color MFP KYOCERA Document Solutions America, Inc. KYOCERA TASKalfa 5551ci (Also sold under the Copystar brand) Outstanding 51- to 60-ppm A3 Color MFP Ricoh Americas...
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Wrexham copier company 'blessed' with contract for Chester Cathedral
= Rapidly expanding Wrexham firm, Rawson Digital , has struck up a new partnership to provide new Xerox devices to Chester Cathedral. The historic building serves as an architectural treasure, a place of worship, a cultural hub and centre of musical excellence for the Chester community and visitors from all over the world, and recently celebrated the installation of the new Dean of Chester, as well as regularly playing host to high-profile royal events and art and music events. Of course,...
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A Few Copier Vignettes from the Late Eighties & Nineties
The picture in the header showed our demo room back in either 1989 or 1990, might have even been 1991. As you can see by the photo Atlantic Office Systems (the first one in NJ) was Authorized for Adler Royal, Brother, and Tele VaxaFax (facsimile). Sometime later Adler Royal was purchased by Mita and the Adler Royal brand was changed to Copystar. I thoroughly hated the name Copystar because there was no brand recognition, at least with Adler Royal, our clients knew about Royal typewriters. We...
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Around the World with Ricoh
Lee Leads the Way at Lytham August 2, 2018 Australia’s Minjee Lee carded a superb seven under par 65 to claim a slender one-shot lead after the first round of the Ricoh Women’s British Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes. The 22-year-old from Perth raced to the turn in three under par 32 and then fired three birdies and an eagle coming home to go into the second round one shot in front of Japan’s Mamiko Higa and two ahead of England’s Georgia Hall, Koreans Sung Hyun Park and Mi Hyang Lee,...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The Last Week in August 2008
Well it was ten years ago this week that the news broke about Ricoh purchasing Ikon. Ten years later the Ikon purchase was a bust with Ricoh writing off millions in future profit & revenue. That's what happens when you purchase a company that can't spin a profit. Enjoy the threads from ten years ago this week! Weekend Copier Notes from 08/24/08 Neal · 8/28/087:52 AM in the United States: o The current Digital Print Center (DPC) sales & marketing division will be disbanded § This...
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DPCI Announces Partnership with OpenKM for Open Source Document Management
NEW YORK (PRWEB) April 16, 2019 DPCI, a provider of integrated technology solutions for organizations that need to publish content to Web, print, and mobile channels, today announced that it has partnered with OpenKM to deliver open source document and records management solutions. OpenKM is a rapidly emerging leader in robust yet reasonably-priced open source document and records management technology. The company's flagship product, OpenKM, allows customers to scan, index, semantically...
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Selling Copiers in the Eighties with Roland Tolan
Roland and I found each other about 6 weeks ago on Linkedin. Seems Roland and I have a similar background with selling copiers. We both started in the eighties. While I was on the East Coast and Roland was on the West Coast. We've never met but hoping our paths will cross soon! How did you find your way into the copier industry? In 1985, I was 23 years old. l was ready to join the sheriffs department in Los Angeles CA., my mom begged me not to do it. A friend of mine was a salesman at small...
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Re: Does anyone remember these models?
How about these copier names: Yorktown Genie, Van Dyke 4000 (aka 3M 6740), IBM Copier I, Pitney Bowes PBC, Royal RBC, Saxon 301, SCM 200, and of course the old liquid favorite, the Canon NP-L7
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Re: Please help with Vintage Copier article!
Royal was liquid based copiers. Olivetti was crappy ZnO machines 3M: i remember thw 209 and the 251 and of course the Termofax. Toshiba BD25, or even the 25s? those were the days! Rex Rotary did sell copiers developed and produced in Denmark, among others the "mailbox" (sort of) that could be wall mounted! Also the attached 1001 fro Eskofot was danish. I think I have some brochures from those days somewhere...
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Re: Please help with Vintage Copier article!
Hi Art, I have been selling copiers since the 70's. I started with Royal Bond units which were the size of a chest freezer and you could royal the dial up to 20 copies at 10 cpm. We took on a Camera Companies systems with their liquid units. (Canon). Canon introduced the Selex line as a bid machine category. They were basically just stripped down Canon units. Mita's big claim to fame was that they only made copiers so they were the experts. No company money going into R&D for camera's...
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Re: Ricoh to purchase IKON Office Solutions
"Ikon, Unisource have similar growth plans" - 1997 Has it really been 11 years? I ran across this article today, "Ikon, Unisource have similar growth plans" from the Philadelphia Business Journal - by Bob Brooke. "When Alco Standard Corp. of Valley Forge split in two to form Ikon Office Solutions Inc. and Unisource Worldwide Inc. on New Year's Eve, the move culminated a long-planned move to give its two main business units much needed freedom. And in some respects, the spinoff can be seen as...
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Re: Around The World with Ricoh
Ricoh Coliseum Underway Ricoh Canada is expanding its visibility by becoming the proud sponsor of a Toronto Coliseum, now known as the Ricoh Coliseum. In November, Toronto city council gave final approval on a $38 million facelift to the building, which will be home to the American League Hockey franchise, the Toronto Roadrunners. The Toronto Roadrunners will be made up of pro prospects belonging to the Edmonton Oilers. When renovations are complete, the Roadrunners will commence playing at...
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Re: Around The World with Ricoh
Ricoh Canada Inc. Announces the Opening of Toronto’s Ricoh Coliseum Toronto, Canada, November 06, 2003 — Ricoh Canada Inc., Canada’s leading provider of high quality document and content management solutions, today announced that the Ricoh Coliseum is now open. The facility, which seats 9700 for hockey and 11,000 for concerts, officially opened its doors with the home debut of their resident AHL hockey team, the Toronto Roadrunners. The Ricoh Coliseum represents a total investment of $38...
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Re: Oh my, when selling copiers door to door was so simple?
Well, I had dumped an Adler Royal 209 in the middle of the street in Princeton, NJ once and had another copier that was on the gurney come out of the back of my hatch back at a traffic light.
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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: Old Copier Brochures & Ads Preserved @ Print4Pay Hotel
Your Blog was forwarded to me and it was very interesting. I started my Office Equipment carrier January 1958 with Anderson Office Equipment in Great Falls, Mt. At that time we had the Franchise for Friden Calculators, Royal Typewriters and Verifax (Kodak) Copiers. At that time our main competitor was 3M Thermo-faxes. Montana did not see the Xerox 914 until the early 60's and it pretty well spelled the end to the Verifax and Thermo-fax. I started my own business in Helena, Mt. January 1,...
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Conference on office machines as profit machines
Conference on office machines as profit machinesBy DAVID GURLIACCI Computers, software and office machines such as copiers, faxes and printers aren't just expenses - they can also be ways to make or save money for a business, according to the...
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WEekend Copier Notes from 07/19/09
Weekend MFP Industry Notes Newsletter7-19-09Color LED Printer and MFP maker, Okidata’s history: - 1874 - Mr. Kibataro Oki enters Telegraph Bureau School of Technology - 1881 - Mr. Oki establishes Meikosha, Ltd. to create telephones based on...
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Razor Sharp -- The Art of Shaving
Among the daunting spectors for the young grad entering adulthood is the first stroke of a razor's cols steel on his face. Start him off right with the shaving products and services of The Art of Shaving. Combining such tradtional accoutrements as...
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Weekend Industry Notes from 11/01/09
Weekend MFP Industry Notes Newsletter11-1-09- Hewlett Packard loses one of its largest distributors in Australia, Phoenix Toner. The general manager, Don Bentley, stated; “The business didn’t want to have that amount of cash tied up in...
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Konica Minolta and Nuance launch eCopy document imaging software for integrated MFPs
Gerrards Cross, 18 November 2009 - Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd and Nuance Communications today announced the launch of Nuance's eCopy ShareScan and eCopy Business Automation Services on integrated Konica Minolta multi function...
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MFP Industry Notes from 2/21/10
- Hewlett Packard announced its last quarter’s financials:- Worldwide revenue up 8% to $31.2 billion- Americas revenue up 9% to $13.6 billion- GAAP operating profit up 20% to $3 billion- Enterprise storage and server revenue up 11% to $4.4...
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Weekend MFP Notes from 10/17/10
Weekend MFP Industry Notes Newsletter10-17-2010- Lexmark launched a new A3 color MFP, the X925de featuring:o Actually made by Fuji of China (which makes most products sold by Xerox)o Base MSRP of $5849 (print only version has base MSRP of $2399)o Uses...
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Around the World with Xerox
The third qualifying round of the 2011 Xerox Corporate Golf Challenge ‘Tees up’ at the Els Club in Dubai Xerox, the leading enterprise for business process and document management launches the third qualifying round of the Xerox Corporate Golf Challenge at the Els Golf Club in Dubai on Thursday 8 th December 2011. The third qualifying round will host 50 teams and 100 players where the winners of the qualifying rounds will participate in the Grand Finale with the opportunity to attend the...
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Kyocera shines a green light on managed print services
Kyocera shines a green light on managed print services24 Jun 2011 Many organisations are reducing the complexity, cost and risk of operating an unmanaged print environment by adopting a managed print service (MPS).However, while cost reduction has...
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Adobe Reveals Winners of 2011 Design Achievement Awards
Adobe Reveals Winners of 2011 Design Achievement AwardsWorld’s Most Prestigious Student Design Competition Honors Creativity and Celebrates Teaching ExcellenceOct 24, 2011 TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today...
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Toshiba Grants Canon Exclusive Rights for Medical Equipment Bid
Toshiba Corp. granted exclusive negotiation rights to Canon Inc. to buy its medical equipment unit as the Japanese industrial giant restructures its operations after an accounting scandal. The proposal from Canon is superior to others and the exclusive rights will last until March 18 as the companies work toward reaching a final agreement, Tokyo-based Toshiba said in a statement Wednesday. Suitors for the business, Japan's largest medical equipment company, were told they needed to offer...
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Top 19 Old Copier Manufacturers that FADED Away
Did you sell these copiers, did you ever see one, or maybe you weren't even a twinkle in your Mom's eye when these copier manufacturers were the King of the Road! "Tell Us About Some Old Copier Companies", was a question we posed to our...
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Please help with Vintage Copier article!
Please I could use some help in finishing this blog, please hit the reply with what you know about the all of the systems listed. I have some of the info filled but would like to see this as a joint blog from different members as to what they recall...
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Weekend MFP Industry Notes for 8/15/10
Weekend MFP Industry Notes8-15-2010- The U.S. Commerce Department stated that businesses have boosted their spending on equipment and software by 21.9% in the second quarter of 2010. Related:o KPMG stated its survey showed that 35% of manufacturing...
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Worldwide launch of the DesignJet Z6200 at the PrintWorks/VIIE show
HP used the PrintWorks/VIIE show to launch their new high speed DesignJet Z6200 printer.With a top speed of 140 square metres per hour, HP have announced a new benchmark for quality and speed in the photo printing world.HP claim that the end products...
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Océ ColorStream 10000 Flex Press Exceeds Expectations at Royal Printing
Océ ColorStream 10000 Flex Press Exceeds Expectations at Royal PrintingProductivity soars at ballot printing company after purchase of Océ digital pressTrumbull, CT – July 25, 2012 – Océ, a Canon Group company and an...
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Print4Pay Hotel Enjoys a Day @ Ethos Technologies
It's not often that I have the chance to bring the Print4Pay Hotel on the road. My first road show stop of this year was with Ethos Technologies aka Blue Ridge Copiers in Salem, Virginia. Many years ago, I had traveled the...
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Enterprise Document Management Discover a New Approach to Document Management
The Business Process Management BPM model requires a profound change in the way documents are managed, since it is not possible to accept a Document Management System that is independent from the processes that shape all company activity. Woburn, MA, November 04, 2014 – AURA ( www.auraportal.com ), a global provider of AuraPortal Business Process Management (BPM) software, has announced that AuraPortal Helium integrates ECM (Enterprise Content Management) that offers one of the most complete...
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Test Your Knowledge of the Copier Industry
Here's quiz questions that will bring back the memories of the good ole days! Have fun and enjoy!!
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Norfolk printer and regional publisher blaze technology trail with Ricoh’s Clickable Paper
Ricoh customer, Barnwell Print, based in Aylsham, Norfolk and independent publisher, Just Regional, have been pioneering the new concept for the past nine months. Introduced to the market at drupa 2012, Clickable Paper brings publications to life by providing readers of magazines and newspapers and advertisers a chance to interact through the published word. Consumers wishing to use the Clickable Paper solution simply download a free Ricoh app from the App Store or Google Play. Users then...
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KONICA MINOLTA SPONSORS CNN HEROES
KONICA MINOLTA SPONSORS CNN HEROES The sponsorship covers weekly segment , online and special tribute show through the end of 2013 CNN International today announced that Konica Minolta will sponsor its long-running ‘CNN Heroes' initiative, beginning this month until the end of the year. The agreement includes the sponsorship of a weekly segment that profiles individual heroes from around the world within its primetime news programs across the regions including ‘News Stream' and...
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Way Back When "We Did it Our Way" Selling Copiers
Today, I had to get some tires replaced and when you're on the road as much as I am, well.......I have a tendency to not clean my car as often as I'd like to. But, today was one of those days to find old faded toll receipts, a dried up banana...