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Re: A4 Page Volumes
I'm looking at a break point of around 10k/month, at that point, at least at my dealership, a3 is a lower tco. They [the samsung rep]say when you look at total volumes, 11x17 only accounts for like 3% of the global print volume. What I've seen is that its not accurate to extrapolate that only 3% of customers need it, it means that there is a wider group of customers that use it outside AEC, but they do a tiny amount of it. Even so, once you've got a feature that is used, even marginally,...
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Re: A4 Page Volumes
The most important question to ask is "how much do you copy 11x17"? If the answer is none, then the next question is "how often do you print 11x17"? When the answer is quite often, well A3 is then a no brainer, however if the answer is rarely, then I'll bundle an 11x17 laser or ink printer. Based on under 10K per month, A4 will save the customer on the TCO over the term of a 5 year lease.
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Re: Ricoh Ends Relationship with Ratio
OK - this is starting to smell like corporate finger pointing. If Ratio.de is closed, who is operating the US office (financially)? And who is providing plotbase PM? (Still available) There seems to be a cloud of secrecy around this mess. It's as if Ricoh's not satisfied with pricing themselves out of wide format. Now they have to prove what corporate moron clowns they are by playing 3 card monty with a key component. BTW, Graphic Enterprises says they can still order the plotbase controller...
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Re: Ricoh Ends Relationship with Ratio
Here's what I heard. 1. Ricoh is not supporting the ratio controllers anymore, due to the fact that they find that thier embedded controller will meet the needs of the AEC market or something close to that effect (I really had to laugh when I heard that) 2. Ratio America which advertises on the P4P forums is selling and support the ratio controller (http://plotbasepm.com/rip_cube) with the rip cube. 3. Ratio.de website is still up and running http://www.ratio.de/ The truth of the matter is...
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Re: Ikon Cost Per Page for Ricoh 1357 Pro
I sold (3) 1356 Pro back in July 2008 to a Public school system's print shop that the cpc was $0.0029 including staples and fixed for the entire 5 yr term
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Re: Top 9 Blunders that B2B Sales Reps Make
Blunder #3: They ignore the competition. What they do: They never bother to discover who else is trying to sell to that prospect. Why they do it: They’re so excited at the opportunity that they don’t want to look too hard at something that might scuttle the deal. What happens: The competitor gets the inside track because they know what you’re pitching and they position their product to make sure that it’s more attractive to the prospect. Your Action Plan: To avoid this blunder, always ask...
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Re: New Samsung 11 x 17" Colour MFPs due Oct 01 USA
doesnt the sharp frontier series have color cpp right now that is close to a3 color? Seems to me like they're innovating faster and getting new features to market first and getting a share of the margins that come with that. I was really happy when c2050/2550 came to market and we had an edge for a moment, but think about it: print from smart card, free sharp desk seat, a4 color, segment 3's with single pass duplex scanning, pull out usb keyboard... Whats the value in ricoh dragging their...
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Re: New Samsung 11 x 17" Colour MFPs due Oct 01 USA
Seems Ricoh, Canon and Xerox may be the last of the holdouts. When speaking with a rep at Ricoh they were concerned that A4 devices will lower profit (image that,they do make a profit on a box)expectations especially if A4 takes off. With the presence of Sharp, Samsung and KonicaMInolta they needed to make the move. Keep in mind though that neither KM, nor Sharp has come out with an robust A4 monochrome (don't know what they are waiting for here), remember I stated robust A4, something along...
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Re: New Samsung 11 x 17" Colour MFPs due Oct 01 USA
You should check out the Lexmark XS658dme/dfe. 55ppm, single-pass duplex color scanning, open architecture, scan-to/print-from USB. It can handle 20k/month easy.
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Re: First Look New Ricoh MPC2801_3301
Spec sheet for the Lanier LD630c/635c and LD645c/655c attached.
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Re: Ricoh NEW PRODUCT RELEASE - C3001, C3501, C4501, C5501
Just looking for the dollar amounts. Got em now, thanks. Ricoh increases MSRP with every new generation, so maybe this one is justified with the new standard security features. In the end, the new model's 8-10% higher prices will be more like 2-3 on the street level.
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Re: Competitive Copier Vendors
I think the local dealers biggest advantage against the National vendors is flexibility. Dealers naturally have much shorter chains of command due to having far less employees. Therefore, dealers can make quicker decisions. The National Vendors are always going to have the advantage of price and a lesser concern for profitability. If you cant beat them on price, thow in some change-ups on them. 1.Free Pro Services 2 Free HDD Decommissioning 3.Copy Blocks 4. Throw a "bonus" Office Chair,...
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Re: The reason why Ricoh Bought Ikon
There are 3 Canon dealers of size in the Dallas market, & at least one of them is in virtually every deal. One that has a 90 minute response time has been growing like crazy since they came into the market in the mid-2000's. Those 3 dealers probably do $50mm-$65mm per year, & there's also a CBS branch here. Canon does a lot of business in DFW.
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Re: MP201
At one time I would have said this series was the best built tabletop on the market. Three incarnations later this design is way past its prime. We need a completely new tabletop with speed and a touch screen. Ricoh is blowing it on A4. They took a hard line stance against A4 machines a few years back and now its biting them in the bottom. Ricoh is our main line but we are selling another manufacturers A4 probably 3 to 1 because Ricoh's product has fallen behind.
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Re: MP201
The MP1515, 161, 171 are incredible engines, they just run and run without a hicup, I have a few of these that are running 3-5K every month and one was just traded in that had over 200K on the meter. It's not a money maker for the sales person, however it fills the gap when you are replacing a fleet and need a few lv devices that can print, scan, copy and fax. Think of it this way, if you didn't have these devices in the line-up, your customer may look elsewhere to fill the void and alas...
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Re: MP201
They do keep on truckin', I'll give you that. With the big push to MPS, however, customers are looking to move to more of a distributed printing model instead of centralizing on a few big MFP's. Additionally, MPS has forced everyone to learn how to service HP devices if they didn't already, & anyone can pick up faster HP A4 desktops from Tech Data, & the CPP will be very comparable. I love having Lexmark to fill this whole that Ricoh has left. For the same price as the Ricoh, I can...
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Re: Interesting statistics published by the Managed Print Services Association (MPSA):
Would you believe 1-3%? (ok, how about Chuck Norris with a BB gun?)
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Re: How will the earth quake in Japan affect...
I spoke to rep at Ricoh today and he tol me he had a dealer that called and wanted to purchase a 3 month supply of inventory ASAP!
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Re: Should you ever sell something for nothing?
I wasn't really considering the one-and-done deals. However, in this day and age where we have printers and document management as well, even the smaller companies may have additional revenue opportunities in them. But for the most part, I was referring to accounts that have future opportunity beyond just the replacement of the machine you sold 3 years ago.
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Re: Should you ever sell something for nothing?
I am just about....37 yrs young. Started with in 1993, SR year of high school part time servicing printers. After 2yrs of serving printers, married for 1 yr to my high school sweetheart I was envious of all the "copier reps" driving nice BMW's etc...I asked if I could start selling. When I first started selling in 1995 we carried Canon/Mita. I had an uncle who sold copiers and typewriters back in the early 70's and managed a large dealership in CA until his retirement in 1990. When I went to...
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Re: Sales Manager Advice
I don't think you could have a selling sales manager who also (actually) manages 6 people. Selling sales mangers are great in areas that need someone in charge but the number of reps do not justify a manager (usually 2-3 reps). If you want someone to hire, train and actually manage people, don't give them a quota for individual sales. If you want someone to answer a few questions and turn in the month end paperwork without really "managing" anything, go with a selling sales manager.
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Re: JOINT STATEMENT BY SHARP ELECTRONICS CORPORATION AND EDWARD MCLAUGHLIN
Very good points Art. The only print production (as some would call it) would be 85, 95, 110ppm. But these are more large departmental units. Mostly it is the 85ppm that is being pushed. There are only a few major players when you get higher than that. The very low end has always been a issue for them. The only item would be the AR-208 unit but that little Ricoh desktop will blow that away. Then there is the issue that some of these low end units can only be purchased from a distributor that...
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Re: Questions regarding Sharp MFP's
1) Only one fax line...yes it can forward 2) They can choose a tray but only one fax line 3) Yes 4) What do you mean?
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Re: digidocflow
I was thinking that DDF could create searchable pdfs that could be searched using windows search or google search. What I'm really looking for is a solution that would present the user with 3-6 fields that would be tagged to the scanned document and using a search/database documents could be retreived. What are you guys selling for these needs?
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Re: JOINT STATEMENT BY SHARP ELECTRONICS CORPORATION AND EDWARD MCLAUGHLIN
I understand where you're coming from, I believe, you may be talking about the ability to actually delete up to 4 areas per document through the display. What I am speaking about regarding flexibility is to have 1 button on the home screen that does multiple steps like 3 hole punch, saddle stitch and pull covers with a custom watermark, with a picure of the user that requires these functions, or email destinations with the name of the recipieint and their custom file type as a 1 touch...
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Re: JOINT STATEMENT BY SHARP ELECTRONICS CORPORATION AND EDWARD MCLAUGHLIN
Is this really all the fuss about the Sharp GUI??? We've been able to do this for years with the Ricoh GUI (well not on the home screen, but in the program modes).
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Re: JOINT STATEMENT BY SHARP ELECTRONICS CORPORATION AND EDWARD MCLAUGHLIN
Sharp MFP's have been able to do that for years as well, 3 customized buttons on the main screen, the new UI will allow you to put up to 18 customized buttons on each page, with up to 15 pages available on the Home Screen, this can be done from the panel. You can also add buttons for any of the OSA connectors you may need, for example a connection to your Document Managment System, Fax Server or Cost Accounting application. There are 24 loaded languages that can be easily tied to the user's...
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Re: Q. How does your company handle networking charges?
1st 90 days, all inclusive, with no time limit on hours required to get the customer to say they are happy. Thereafter, billable at $95.00 per hour onsite. Dealer, Canada
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Re: Copier Compensation Plans
This was emailed to me from a P4P'er who wishes to remain anonymous. Art, This past April I had the opportunity to leave the industry but I have kept an eye on it since then. This topic definitely perked my interest because I feel like I was both the beneficiary and victim of a Gross Profit Comp Plan at my last gig. I have been on both sides of this topic, Revenue & GP plans, and I never made more than $51K in a given year and yet I was always 100% of plan. My final year under this GP...
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Re: Printing Envelopes Reliably on MPC300
I think Old Glory means A4. Remember, 4 is less than 3 (it's a metric thing). You should be able to create an "envelope printer" by installing a second instance of the printer with the same IP address. In the PCL 6 driver (not universal), you can go into the printer properties, print preferences, detailed settings and rotate the image 180 degrees. When you say the printer "red lights", what is the error? Is it a paper type mismatch? If so, what is it calling for? How may envelopes are they...
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Re: Color Print Control
Hmm. Good point. I guess the question is more how do they click than what the process is. I can't believe after 10 years in the B2C market we're still debating these simple questions and it doesn't seem like anyone (self included) knows the true answer. I thought what happened was when a document contained some color in it the document used processed color to make black...this would allow the machine to run at full speed etc...but it would only click color for the pages containing color and...
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Re: New stuff from Ricoh
I've heard nothing and did'nt realize the 25 ppm was done. We just got updating pricing on the MP2500SPF, lower MSRP and Accessories, however that may be old. Realistically the MP1600 and MP2000 series needs to be refreshed, I think these systems are almost 3 years old!!!! Anyone hear anything else?
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Re: Billing For Banner Length Prints
Thanks Jason, This is a big help. For everyone's enlightenment: Konica Minolta - 11x17=2clicks, 11x18 to 11x27" = 3 clicks, 11x27 to 11x36" = 4 clicks, and 11x36 to 11x47" = 5 clicks. Toshiba - 11x17 = 2 clicks, 11x17.52 - 11x31.49 = 4 clicks, 11x31.3 - 11x47.24 = 6 clicks Best regards, Jake
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Re: What I Want for Christmas....
Instead, it looks like the Dealer channel will be getting a 5% Price Increase on Equipment and a 3% Price Increase on Aftermarket, effective January 1, 2012. I guess it's better than coal. Ho Ho Hos!
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Re: What I Want for Christmas....
I would love to see the following: 1. An update to the KIP C80 Wide Format device 2. Additional Production Print Support, such as Engineers to assist Dealers 3. Continued Television advertising 4. A homegrown (KM manufactured) A4 device that dominates the Industry and compliments MPS 5. Accelerated implementation of Managed Network Services offering through All Covered 6. No Price Increases!
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Re: What's the best way to close on price increase?
Here is the text from the email we got: Dear Dealer Principal Effective January 1, 2012, Ricoh will implement a price increase. Ricoh, Savin and Lanier equipment and accessories will reflect a 5% increase from the current dealer pricing and SRP prices, excluding A4 laser printers and Gel printers which will have no change. All supplies and parts will reflect a 3% increase without exception. This increase is due to the ongoing appreciation of the Japanese Yen. We have been faced with cost...
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Re: Selling is dead. The Customer Community killed it.
Well written blog, however I as agree with many of the points in the blog. For example: 1. Selling is not dead; it has changed and will continue to change. As the author finally arrives at near the end “old selling” is dead. As buyers change, great sales people have to change with them. Selling is alive and well, it has just changed. 2. Buyer communities did not kill selling. If anything, they can help it. If your company is doing a good job and made a name for itself then the buyer...
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Re: Scan to email with Office 365?
can't scan to email after switching to office365 from local exchange server rated by 0 users 4 Followers 12 Replies | This post has 2 verified answers | This question is answered Hubery Posted on 2011-Sep-29 3:05 AM Hi All, we used to have a local exchange server to handle all the emails, we just moved to the online office365. Everything is working fine except scanning stuff to emails ( from our sharp printer ). I've attached a screenshot for the settings. I have also changed the SMTP port...
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Re: It's Official, RICOH US launch of SP5200 Black A4
fisher....thanks for sharing your picture. First impression when I saw this was the way over-sized LCD control panel which is disproportionate from the top of the unit. Another thing was the small not so robust doc feed and how tall that unit is. How much does the doc feed hold? What size in the platen glass? Does the pages come out back to front or right to left? What are those drawer capacities? Looks like they can hold 2 reams, but I doubt that. Are those stabilizers on the bottom so the...
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Re: Up against Minolta with a Rioh MP-C6501/Savin C9065 & MPC5501/Savin C9155
Unfortunately it was lost. The customer wanted 60 per minute for black minimum and was not concerned if color was slower, since their volume would not be very high. The K-M is 60 black and 50 color, and the Ricoh/Savin is 65 black 60 color, and I was more expensive because of that I am sure, although the pricing was not revealed to me. So they used print resolution as the reason but I think it was pricing, they just didn't want to say it, even though he said we were about even, I am thinking...
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Re: SP5200 Series. What's your plan???
Old Glory....do you have matrix you follow for volumes and cpc costs which may or may not include base charges? You mentioned $90/qtr min but how what is the volume band? Wow I am very surprised that they ship with a starter cartridge in a commercial system. The Canon 1700 series comes with 15,100 high yield toner out of the box. The drum yields 116,000. Very tough box to compete against. I have sold 3 in the past 2 weeks.
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Re: Got A Situation! What would ou do?
Joe, keep us updated as to the solution you come up with. You stated "a couple of issues" and they want new machine - there are ALWAYS a "couple of issues" so my thought is can't they be mitigated with deferred service/supplies or free service on their laser printers? Take away's on this are #1 Do RIGHT by the customer #2 Don't try to squeeze more profit out of him - be the GOOD GUY and #3 Whatever your fix, babysit the heck out of them so they know how concerned you are - there'll be a...
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Re: Hard-Drive Shortage Hits Enterprise Drive Shipments Hard
Seems that most of Ricoh's popular models are now in a 3-5 week delay. This stinks!!
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Re: S&P Downgrades Ricoh from A+ to A Credit Rating
Conclusions: 1. The IKON acquisition has not been a Cash Cow, but a 400 lb Gorilla 2. The article hints that Ricoh will move HQ to Malvern, PA 3. The article hints at more layoffs when they mention "restructuring" 4. Ricoh is betting on Managed Document Services and Production Print to sustain them
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Re: is panasonic still selling copiers?
Panasonic has been out of the industry for about 3-4 years now. There is no parts or R&D from them. There are only 3 distributors in the US...one on the west, east and midwest. All of their support people have taken other jobs with the distributors or in other areas. It was very frustrating dealing with the middle man because many times they did not know the answers and there was no other resources. If anyone is selling these boxes they are off lease systems or units that are sitting in...
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Re: New Ricoh 4410SPF "brainshark" review
Just unboxed our first one and set it up. This thing is a winner. Too bad Ricoh didn't have this 3 years ago when they should have. This will really cut into or eliminate my sales of Kyocera tabletops.