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Re: Things to Think About!
So, I'm browsing through the new Readers Digest (okay, old fashioned yes, what can I say?!) this weekend, and lo and behold that very advice about the GPS and remote and the texting and the pin was in it. The story is called "How to Find Anything." This brings up a bigger rant, and if you'll bear with me a second.... I'm getting very tired of Internet foolishness getting passed along as actual truth by legitimate media who no longer bother to take the time to validate their stories. Whatever...
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Re: Scan to folder and Vipre
Montecore, I have spent many years in sales and began networking our systems almost 10 years ago. Currently, I handle all of our connectivity and solutions for our company and I have connected and troubleshot hundreds, maybe thousands of computers. I agree, a technician can and should be able to resolve this problem. However, first it is necessary to identify the problem. This requires ruling out what it is not. Of course, hindsight is 20/20. If I tell you this story, it seems simple.
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Re: Both HP and Lexmark increase prices Jan 01 2012
yeah, seems like dealers again will bear the brunt of this, since so many direct branches have a no increase cap on the cost per page. Stupid is as stupid does......
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Re: RBS Continues to Dump Machines & Make Dealers Look Bad!
I just looked it up: Predatory pricing (also known as destroyer pricing) is the practice of a firm selling a product at very low price with the intent of driving competitors out of the market, or create a barrier to entry into the market for potential new competitors. If the other firms cannot sustain equal or lower prices without losing money, they go out of business. The predatory pricer then has fewer competitors or even a monopoly, allowing it to raise prices above what the market would...
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Re: MFP Wars "Death of the Independent Dealer"
Art I too am an independent dealer and have trouble getting deals with schools or govt. agencies. How can we bargain with the OEMs to get a piece of the pie. I have dealings with schools on rentals but have a hard time getting new equipment in there. Any suggestions? If you want to email me my email is dosystems7@yahoo.com Thanks and God Bless! Leonard Garcia Jr. at Dependable Office Systems
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Re: Greg Brown
Hate to see you go, although I know you are in a better place with everlasting peace. Was hoping we would meet this week, however now I know we'll meet in the future. I will miss your enthusiaum and encouragement, but will remember that you're still smarter than the average bear. May the Lord Bless You and Keep You..
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Re: Ricoh launched a “Canon/Xerox ATTACK!”
I quess it would be more in tune to why you should pay more for the Ricoh devices. It just seems everyone is caught up in price and not caring about support. I'm telling the Ricoh story and new accounts have been a bear. I guess a general overview of how these machines work with network scanning, and network faxing would be a great place to start, and what deficiencies Kyocera has related to network scanning and faxing. Art
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Re: Winter 2009
All kidding aside, we sure wish there was a way we could help you all. Funny though that with all the locations with no electricity, no heat (and for those never having lived through it - it's a bear), and all the other issues going on, at least there's places to go where you can stay in touch. Good wishes going out to you and so many others!
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Re: Toshiba Launches Social Business Network Designed to Connect Sales, Service and Corpo
That's actually how I have the manufacturers boards configured now. If you're a dual line or more you have access to multiple boards. I am still building forums and still have to lock down some of the new boards. However I have left the general boards "open" to all members, as you will see in the catefory markings of "all members". Would like to hear more on this. Maybe I should add a socil site for P4P or would that be too much to bear? Art
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Re: 2238 Color Toner Yields
G'Day all. You will get your yield based on the figures given by Ricoh. However it is important to understand the issues with coverage. Also bear in mind that coverage to useage are not proportional. A square block of colour on a page 100x100=1000, if you double the size of the square you quadruple the coverage 200x200=4000. Also dependant upon what you're printing will make a difference. 5% of text and 5% of graphics are different due to image processing and laying of toner and charge.
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Re: Aficio 401 hard drive
No, but bear in mind it is a SCUZZI. It will cost you a lot to find out. And most of the Ricohs (these days at any rate) wont work with off-the -shelf drives.
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Re: Feature Article for February "BuyerZone.com Friend or Foe"?
"Poking the bear" I realize that most of the users of this site are sales reps who make their living off of commissions. This means what I'm going to say might not go over well, but I don't mean any disrespect. I hope this comes across as what I meant it to be, a "devil's advocate" approach to the issue. I'm not espousing this view as much as trying to explain them. First and foremost, Sales Representatives provide a valuable service for the customer by exploring the needs of a company,...
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Re: 240 scanner counter
Jason...actually I did run an 11 x 17 and it only jumped 1 click. I did a second one and it did the same...a third one, same result, 1 click. 17" x 3 should have resulted in 4 clicks from the start of the test. Need to do some more sampling to get what it's really telling us, although I don't really have much of a problem with my customers paying for linear feet off the Total Counter anyway, so it's not a high priority at this point. It is interesting to see what all is in there, though. Oh...
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Re: 240W...trailing edge of drawing missing on print but not in viewer
New f/w was just posted on the TSC site today. Attached is the readme file....
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Re: New P4P Web Site Launch April 1st 2007!
After many months, we are just about ready to launch, within a few days ost a date and time for turn on, we may have a few glitches so please bear with us. Basically, we developed a new portal that will link the blogs, link all of the other manufacturers message boards and give a more professional appearance. One of my ideas for the future is to remove all of the documents from this site and post them on documentmall, Ricoh users will have rights to ricoh documents, Canon for Canon, Kyo for...
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Re: Around the World w/Ricoh #3
If this email doesn't look like it's displaying properly, click here . ENEWS ::: July 2007 e-News July 2007 Edition arthur Welcome to the latest edition of eNews - with news of the world´s first duplex digital duplicator - plus information on remote MFD monitoring, a new joint venture, the cost of personal printing, green initiatives and another chance for you to win a revolutionary GX3000 GelSprinter colour printer. How to win - as a registered Ricoh eNews reader we automatically enter your...
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Re: Escalating Maintenance Agreements
Personally, I would rather be upfront with the customer (in many cases I am), rather than "hiding the cheese". I will admit that there are many occasions where I do not address the escalating cost of the service agreement, if it is brought up, I will then address it. I just see our industry as a whole "hiding the cheese" in many places. I will strive to tell more clients about the escalating increase, because I don't want to have a irate customer call me after the first year has expired.
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This Week in the Copier Industry 10 Years Ago, The First Week in January 2009
Ten years ago this week and what was on our minds? It was the Great Recession. I remember it all too well. Many of my accounts were in the AEC market, remember losing almost 30% of that business because of bankruptcies, companies closing and companies just buying their device once they came to the end of the lease. Hope I never have to go through that again! Enjoy the threads from ten year ago this week! Weekend Copier Notes from 1/4/09 Neal · 1/5/097:19 AM According to survey of printshops...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago, The First Week in September 2013
Konica Minolta and Komori Debut World's First 23"x29" Digital Inkjet Press at PRINT 13 Art Post · 9/5/137:08 AM today's highly competitive printing marketplace. Delivering a high level in print quality coupled with impressively fast make-ready and open systems architecture, Komori presses help printers achieve the higher productivity and efficiency levels essential for increased margins and business growth. Komori America Corporation headquarters are in Rolling Meadows, IL with sales and...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago, The Fourth Week in June 2003
Fifteen years ago, hard to believe that many of us have seen so much come and go during those years. The Ricoh Aficio 1224 was an A3 color device that printed 12 pages per minute in color and 24 pages per minute in black. We had some horrific problems with speed when the Ricoh 1224 would go into an auto calibration during a print or copy run. It would take up to 5 minutes to calibrate and then restart the print job, and yes we had many frustrated users because we weren't aware of how the...
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NexusTek Acquires Zumasys Cloud Hosting, Infrastructure and Managed Services
Denver, CO; Irvine, CA, July 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NexusTek , a leading provider of IT services including help desk, cloud services, cyber security services, IT consulting, server monitoring, VoIP and Microsoft Dynamics, today announced that it has acquired the cloud hosting, infrastructure and managed services business units from Zumasys, an Orange County-based national provider of cloud computing solutions. Today, tens-of-thousands of users rely on Zumasys Cloud, now NexusTek, to...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago, The Second Week in September 2013
Here they are. Our top threads from five years ago in the Print4Pay Hotel RICOH UNVEILS NEW AWARD-WINNING SOLUTIONS AT PRINT 13, PROVIDING SUPERIOR CONTROL FOR PERSONALIZED DOCUMENTS Art Post · 9/9/138:07 PM shops today and allows operators to easily implement logic-based ticketing, and choose media and finishing options that apply to statements of variable lengths - achieving identical output across Ricoh , Xerox and Kodak devices, saving time and increasing asset utilization in the...
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Canon eyes expansion and partner growth with new platform launch
Imaging tech giant hopes usability and security enhancements will bear fruits for the channel Canon has taken the wraps off of the latest generation of its imageRUNNER ADVANCE platform, which it hopes will ease installation and management for channel partners, resulting in increased business. The third edition supports 26 products across seven series, bringing with it enhanced security, a focus of usability and full standardisation. Canon says the solution represents an opportunity for...
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Ricoh introduces Healthcare Direct Services, providing an interoperable, secure fax alternative for more reliable healthcare communications
MALVERN, Pa. , Nov. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh USA , Inc. today unveiled RICOH Healthcare Direct Services, an interoperable, secured and reliable fax alternative for healthcare organizations that optimizes patient and staff satisfaction by automating and digitizing communications. The service helps reduce clerical errors, improve security and drive cost savings by eliminating the need for fax's paper steps. Leveraging Ricoh's proven technologies and consulting expertise, RICOH Healthcare...
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Managed Print Services Shift Toward Digital Management
Managed print services (MPS) have traditionally included maintaining and managing the multifunction printers (MFPs), copiers, scanners and fax machines a business needs to run their operations — so in-house staff doesn’t have to bear that responsibility. The very devices that were developed to help offices run more efficiently can bring production to a halt when ink or toner runs out or machines malfunction and there aren’t skilled technicians on site. Customers want more to managed print...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of April 2015)
For each of the next few blogs I'll be inserting some tips from what other dealers and sales peeps are doing on a daily basis from around the globe for staying relevant with their clients and prospects. 1. Promote yourselves and our business daily on social media Enjoy these incredible threads from 15 years ago this week! This Week in the Copier/Office Equipment Industry 10 Years Ago Third Week of April 2005 Art Post · 4/12/157:15 PM . Built-in Wi-Fi in printers could make a tech's 4/18/05...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago for the Second Week in April of 2015
For those of you that are new to the industry, there's a cool blog I wrote about making the phone calls. Believe it or not the phone is your friend. You can read that here or below. Fourty Eight Hundred Phone Calls a Year Can Equal a Lot of Dough! Enjoy these awesome threads from 5 years ago this week! Bid Tabulation for Xerox_Sharp_Samsung_Canon_Kyocera.pdf Art Post · 4/14/1512:55 PM Topic Konica Minolta Expands and Enhances Corporate Communications Team at US Headquarters Art Post ·...
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In Turbulent Times, Sales Professionals Give Of Their Hearts And Minds
Can a giver of heart succeed in a sales world riddled with unscrupulous, fake, and disingenuous people? Is giving, the secret to long term sales success? Unfortunately, many within the sales focus on the almighty dollar. Ask a group of salespeople, why they got into sales and often you'll hear "for the money" . For the record, I'm all for making money. It allows us to feed our needs, wants and provides for our family. Making money isn’t evil, nor is being wealthy. The evil happens when you...
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This Week in the Copier Industry 15 Years Ago (Last Week of February 2005)
Why would this week be different than the rest of the weeks in February? Since I depleted by pipeline at the end of the year it's been quite the struggle to rebuild. Thus I'm no where near where I need to be with February coming to an end on Monday for me. To make matters worse I'm off to Aruba the first week of March for our Presidents Club Trip. I was able to add a couple of large opportunities this week, one for MNS and the other for 30 plus devices. At this time both are March or April...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day Thirty-Nine of Sales
For some reason sleeping last night didn't go that well. I worked late and by the time I finished last nights blog my mind was running at full speed as I tried to get to to sleep. Too many deals in my head! Last night my wife mentioned that she wanted to go see our granddaughter today. Am I bad guy? All I thought about was how much I wanted to get done today. I had a 1PM appointment that I moved to 3PM with a net new suspect late yesterday. i made the time because it's what we do. This...
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COVID19 "Remote Working" Day One
Over the years I've spent many days working from my home office. One thing I have going for me is that my office office is much bigger than my cube! Today was a little sobering since I'm not sure when I'll be back in the office, could it be two weeks, two months or the end of the summer? All uncharted territory for most of us in office equipment sales. Today was the first day of our marching orders to work from home. However, I did have to make a trip to the office to get a few addition...
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MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for March 22nd, 2020
MSP & MSSP Industry Notes Sponsored by Arcoa Group ARCOA Group is here to help you successfully manage your IT Asset Disposition process. We help you recover value from retired electronic equipment through responsible methods of reuse and recycling. We ensure proper handling of assets which may contain data, while being environment stewards for assets that have no reuse value and are headed for recycling. We’ve built a robust de-manufacturing process to offer additional options for asset...
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Avon council gets hacked, forced to reschedule meeting
Avon’s first attempt at a public meeting via the Zoom teleconferencing app was hacked on Tuesday, forcing the town council to reschedule the meeting. Mayor Sarah Smith Hymes said the hackers had malicious intent in crashing their meeting. “Thanks to everyone who tried to participate, and deepest apologies for any disturbing content you may have witnessed,” Hymes wrote in a statement. “As we navigate the new reality, we’ll make some missteps; please bear with us as we work out the glitches of...
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Re: RICOH CORPORATION ANNOUNCES
Here's what I posted on my blog today! Ricoh Organizational Changes Ricoh has finally pulled the trigger on the much anticipated merger of Lanier and Ricoh. The new Corporation will be call Ricoh Americas Corporation. The U.S. business unit of Ricoh Americas Corporation will continue to be known as Ricoh U.S. Lanier's Direct Sales Force will be merged with Ricoh Business Systems and thier name will change to Ricoh Business Solutions and they will sell Ricoh branded products. Existing...
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Re: USA Presidential Poll
I met with a business owner today, was with his doctor earlier in the week. The doctor stated that if the democrats win the election. He is going close his business, fire his employees and go to work in a hospital, since the burden of his compliance with the new healthcare law will be too much for him to bear. Why put up with the headaches, regulations he could work for the hospital and have no headaches and regulations that will mandate how much he can earn and how his business is...
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Re: Kate Kingston telemarketing training
no it's not, it's more of vertical market scripts for 12-14 different markets. You should have a script for every market, references for every market and know what documents are required with every vertical market. It's a bear even for me.
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Re: Fiery Free Form with barcodes
Maybe. But I'm not sure where Xerox is going to be with the 3535. What would be the process and or solution? What all do I need on the Micropress to drive either the 3850 or the CL7000? Please bear in mind that the only thing I know about micropress is that you can connect up to 12 systems to it. Thanks!
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Re: Wide Format. I can help
The controller was never updated past AutoCAD 2000 or 2002 and can only run on NT. If a customer wanted to update, they need to upgrade the PC, possibly the Little Bear Card, and also purchase the Ratio version of the software for the 7030D. It's a lot of expense and probably not much return for the customer. May be a good time to get into an Aficio 240W. If you still want to pursue the controller upgrade, there is a company in Ohio that now handles the Repro Fx controller since Visual Edge...
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Re: aficio 240 Scan Problem
OK, try this: On the desktop, set up a new folder, and name it ABC. In scanner settings box, use 215 dpi. select "scanner" for format size. In the main scanner settings box, under settings - options - general tab, select set and file. The path for the scan to file lights up - set for C://desktop/ABC then CLICK APPLY. Open a new set in scantool, and scan a 36 x 24 document. 1. Does it appear on your screen correctly? 2. Does the TIFF / PDF image appear back in the folder ABC on the desktop?
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Re: Commission vs Salary
I believe I did when I was younger, however I always had a draw every two weeks that I needed to pay back. The percentage of commissions were also much higher then and I didn't have the knowledge that I have now. I made it, however that was 25 or more years ago, and the dread of always having to make "x" amount to pay back was a bear. Just curious why you are asking. Art
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Re: Weekend Service
We did have a tech work offset hours (10AM - 7PM) and we had trouble keeping him busy. I think this is best handled on a case by case basis. Where you know what the fleet consists of and you can work out profitable accommodations for the technician(s). I think the case for the pitfalls was made very well in the above posts. The first question that has to be answered is "What is the demand for 24 Hour service?" Then what will the market bear for cost? If there is a market then the market will...
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Re: Sharp 3rd Quarter Results Copiers Dragging
Thanx for taking a look at that. Other copier companies are doing well, in fact KonicaMinolta is doing very well. Ricoh has turned it around also, one of the biggest factors is the yen has devalued against the US dollar. Copiers a core business for Sharp?? I don't think so... Yes, Sharps financial health is better, but isn't it just a matter of time before that massive debt becomes to much to bear? Art
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Scanning, Imaging Key Building Blocks for
Scanning, Imaging Key Building Blocks for OrganizationBusiness and Government End Users Cite Scanning and Imaging as Key Building Blocks for Organization Processes. AIIM Industry Study Reveals High User Satisfaction With ROI from Scanning and Imaging...
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The Lowdown On Longhorn
The Lowdown On Longhorn In sessions at WinHEC and with Microsoft officials, Pipeline Editor Scot Finnie got some fascinating insights on Longhorn. Here's his report. By Scot Finnie Courtesy of TechWeb.com [Editor's Note: The following report was prepared by CMP's Pipeline Editor Scot Finnie, as part of his independent "Scot's Newsletter."] I returned from WinHEC with a recent build (5048) of Windows Longhorn. In sessions at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) and a private...
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Aficio 615C "Gotcha"
I'll have to admit, I have not had a "gotcha" from Ricoh in quite awhile, until a few days ago. I am a big reader of brochures and Ihave read the 615C brochure over and over and over. And now I have just read it again! You would tend to think that...
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4th of July Independance Day
As the Fourth of July draws near..........over 200 hundred years ago America was a colony of the British Empire. Tyranny & Heavy taxation, limited freedoms and colonial censorship were the order of the day. We were able to proclaim our freedom and fight for what we believed in. We had help to win our freedom back then. France gave us ships, money and troops and moral support to stay the course. Let us not forgot that our freedoms and independence does not come with our cost. Lives have been...