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Re: MPS And Profit
There are a number of factors that impact start-up cost for MPS clients. In the traditional "copier" world, prior to putting machines under contract we would inspect them, perform service to bring it up to spec and bill the client. In MPS, we just put them under contract, so the start up cost can be virtually nothing or cost an arm and a leg depending on the condition of the machines that are being placed under an MPS Agreement. Another factor is how much toner the client has on hand prior...
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Re: print job pricing
Louis: Trying to remember the name of the report, ah yes, Larry Hunt. Kinda pricey for the reports and it's a hot and miss when he publishes the cost per page that printers are charging for color and black. I used to get em for free, however my source dried up for this, he figured that since he buys several production units every three years he can start a subsription when he's ready to buy again, anyway here;s the link: http://www.larryhunt.com/in-the-news Anyone know of any other sources???
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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: KYOCERA MITA ANNOUNCES EXECUTIVE TRANSITION
GMAN Never thought of that with either Ed or Pietrunti, either one may play well for Ricoh. More importantly I think the industry as a whole is struggling to find and identify new ways to make profit with the slow demise of the printed and copied page. Quietly Ricoh has launched a new start up and site for it's eWriter solution. It's an imprtant step for at least one of he manufacturers to identify the loss of clicks, thus the eWriter solution model is based on SAS (Software as a Service).
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Re: Selling Copiers "Got my Ass kicked in Today"
Assuming that this is a municipal account in the state of New Jersey.....this would be the Kyocera 48-month cost per copy program on state contract. You pretty much can't beat it on price unless you also have the state contract cost per page program. Your only hope is to sell yourself and the value of your company and also to get them to get a demonstration of the equipment before signing the contract. The Kyo equipment is not as nice as the Ricoh gear or as user friendly in my humble...
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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: Oxford Hills School District replacing copiers
Old Budget is $101,500. New "total cost" for "lease-purchase of copiers and service" is $92,000. Cost per page is $0.04. Volume is 7 million per year. 7 million x $0.04 = $280,000 per year just for the clicks. I'm going to guess this is simply a case of bad reporting and not a case of the school board being unable to add.
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Re: Color Print Control
Guys, I have seen this happen on a MS Publisher document where they placed what appeared to be a grayscale image but it was saved in an RGB colorspace. And it DID click the color meter for that page. Just because something appears to be black doesn't mean it does not have color data. If the MFD sees color data it clicks the color meter no matter how it "looks" to the end user. Vince
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Re: Huge MPS RFP!!
It is interesting. Based on the figures they provided, their cost per page is ~2 cents. I find this hard to believe. Either a large amount of the 200k prints is done on a very efficient device or they are printing pages with very low coverage. They have more 1102w's than any other device. at 5% coverage, that device costs $0.0425 just for toner. I'm doubtful the total expense can be half that.
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Re: Just an FYI and Thankyou!
October's not over and we've just hit the 150,000th page view for the month. This includes the mfpsolutions blog, this forum and the open forums!! Thanx to all!
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Re: Comments on the Canon 1730/1740/1750 Models
The Ricohs have been slow sellers is not because of end user needs or wants. Basically ours is a quota/revenue driven business from the top to the bottom. The preferred compensation model for commissions is that of a revenue based plan with commissions. Why have a GP driven comp plan for your sales people when your Dealership or Branch has a revenue based quota plan from the manufacturers? It just doesn't make sense. With that A4's from Canon, Sharp, Ricoh, and KonicaMinolta has presented...
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Re: Ricoh SP3410SF toner
Well, since we're all on the same page . I'm thinking it's a Brother engine. Anyone else?
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Re: AMPV Assessments - Can you tell how Ledger pages were billed
shhhhhh!! In most printers I've tested and that's two with 11x17, they count as a single page.
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Re: AMPV Assessments - Can you tell how Ledger pages were billed
hmmm. That makes it hard to get a good idea of historical page volume vs. actual click/impression volume. How are people ensuring that the historical and proposed AMPVs are apples to apples?
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Re: AMPV Assessments - Can you tell how Ledger pages were billed
Many HP models have a counter for each paper size that is shown on the usage page and also show page coverage for the life of the printer. You won't find it on the configuration page.
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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
Rep in my office was up against Canon today and they were beating us up on a 33 per minute A3 so he tried to work it out by proposing the new model. Only one problem, Canon is in at $0.0083 per page on the service. We figure we can go no lower on a cpc on this product than $0.0149. So how's that going to work with mps when I'm seeing mps at below a penny a page?
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Re: It's Official, RICOH US launch of SP5200 Black A4
I understand, we all know going up against direct operations is challenging especially down the street business. We sell both the Canon and the Ricoh. I am at $.01 per page on the Canon 1700 series. If this is a net new client why don't you match the price and see if this gets you the business?
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Re: It's Official, RICOH US launch of SP5200 Black A4
montecore so many questions! Platen glass is letter only doc feeder is 50 sheets "Auto Reversing Feeder" I beleive the docs insert image up, not sure though. 550 sheet paper trays Unit will stand fine with the wheels and lower paper deck unit, most of the new models are coming with these bottom supports now. Finisher only on SR model and can be added to "s or sf" models no punch unit claim to fame on this is going to be workflow, embedded solutions, price, speed, ease of use, color GUI,...
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Re: SP5200 Series. What's your plan???
we offer three plans: * Pay as you go * Cost per page (al inclusive) * maintenance plan (consumables are chargable)
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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: Got A Situation! What would ou do?
Joe.....sounds like Sharp1 is bias on the 453. I agree with sharp1 that the 453 is a nice unit. But doesn't any 45ppm unit run 5000-20,000/mo? That is the norm for that segment. I should know I worked for Sharp and sold these exact systems. But I have to say if you have an customer that is already not happy then you try to sell them a system with all those extra bells and whistles when they don't want or need then....well you are adding fuel to the fire. I sell against Sharp all the time and...
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Re: Why is single clicking an 11×17 on a “copier” legal?
Actually, the real misleading practice is when the machine is set to double-click 11x17. It is one piece of paper, one printed page, one click. Like having a car odometer that registered two miles when you drove the car one mile uphill, or registered two miles when you drove one mile at high speed. The industry simply developed its own conventions with the single/double click convenient for both the end-user and the dealer. Rather than a click rate for each paper size (similar to two...
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Re: Why is single clicking an 11×17 on a “copier” legal?
I thought before the age of the "cost per page" agreements that all systems double clicked for 11x17. I had heard many years ago a that Canon was the first to introduce a system that single clicked for 11x17 and had also heard that the single click was not the intent and it was a mistake. Anyone else hear that? Also with testing on some of my 11x17 laser printers, they all single click for 11x17.
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Re: New Color Cost Per Page Poll for 30-44 ppm COLOR
I don't base my pricing on per page. I base it per click ( click is 8.5x11 or 8.5x14 image 11x17 is 2 clicks). Then my rates are progressive. I charge a base of $50 per month plus .07 per click. If they run 1k then their cost is .12 per click ( $50 divided by 5k equals .05 plus the .07 equals .12). If they run 5k their cost is .08 per click. If they run 10k their cost is .075.
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Re: Custom Page coverage meter
The new series of Kyocera colour MFP's that was introduced last summer provides the means to set three tiers of counter for colour based upon the coverage of colour on the page. This permits setting three price levels based upon the amount of colour coverage. The settings can be adjusted by the dealer to fit their price model. It means you don't have to pay a full colour page price when you print a small colour item, say a logo, if the contract is set up this way. We just won a large...
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Re: New Ricoh 4410SPF "brainshark" review
One of the slides shows a Dell that is obviously the same Lexmark box only the cost per page is lower.
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Re: New Ricoh 4410SPF "brainshark" review
I don't see how this can be an effective product in an MPS strategy beacuse of the high cpp. It has more speed and a much more modern and user-friendly appearing interface than the Savin 920spf but run a comparison of the CPP between the Savin 920spf cost per page and the 4410SPF cost per page and tell me which you would rather support - many times we are charging between .01 and .015 for service and supplies - how can we do that on this product and make a profit? - I just don't see it.
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Re: New Ricoh 4410SPF "brainshark" review
yup, I'm not sure where to position this except for replacing back orders on 201's. very high cpp. Why don't the manufacturers just stop with the AIO and release and A4 printer with the cost per page model of A3.
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Re: New Ricoh 4410SPF "brainshark" review
The manufacturers are trying to transition to a services-based business model in which they make their profit from service rather than hardware. If they were to release an A4 printer/MFP with the low hardware cost of most A4 devices and the CPP of an A3 device, they shoot themselves in the foot. At some point, A4 devices will have close to the same CPP of A3 devices, but it won't be at the beginning of the lifecycle of this product category/niche. Additionally, revenue from A3 devices would...
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Re: Adobe LeanPrint
A single user license costs $99.00 and there is a 30 day free trial. I am not sure why MFP dealers would be trying to promote printing less pages thereby reducing their click revenues while increasing the % Toner coverage on each printed page. I see value in the product and like how it reformats documents before you print them. You could definitely save on your paper costs. It does take up to an extra two minutes per print job to figure how you want to use the software. Toner Save would not...
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Re: Proximity Card Reader
We have had some real good results with UniFLOW. We have used the Canon Prox card readers, as well as a number of different RFIDeas card readers. If you use the Canon \ NTware card reader you don't have to configure the meap app to talk to it, if you use the RFIDeas card reader you will need a CFG file and the proper web page to configure it. Your Canon Support guy (SE) will be able to help you figure out the right card reader. If you need an RFIDeas contact email me. Vince McHugh
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Re: Canon 5050 question
Art, There is a setting under the page options on the Canon Driver that does this. Vince
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Re: Andriod OS for MFP's
Art this is something the independent dealers need to push for. not just Android but a common OS across all manufacturers. Running an Android OS on an MFP would lower manufacturing and development costs for all manufacturers. it would also fall in line to Konica Minolta is working on an Android OS for MFP's See the bottom of Page 11 on this InfoTrends report. http://www.konicaminolta.pt/fi...Future_Proof_vA4.pdf
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Re: Transform Global 2012
Day one has passed and overall, I'm impressed with the event. I actually ran into a couple of P4P members and finally after all of these years got to meet Lee Rummage from RJ Young. On Wednesday evening Oki hosted the evening reception @ Hiltons Signature Island. Food, drinks and networking, at this time I also had to the chance to meet Greg Walters (Death of the Copier) and now the newly elected President of the MPSA. I also ran across many new contacts and believe it or not many readers of...
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Re: Transform Global 2012
"so called"? Curious about this, total printed output declines every year in the US doesn't it?
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Re: Transform Global 2012
Cash Gap: I don't have any scientific clarification of this "so called" declining page volumes", however when I looked at my existing maintenance agreements, I have not seen a drop in page volume, where as one company may drop in volume thus another will increase in volume. I know there are a lot of soothsayers stating print volume is declining, but I'm not seeing it in my neck of the woods. Matter of fact I'm slowing working an account that is producing more than 7 million pages per year in...
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Re: Transform Global 2012
Wow. OK, I've never seen a study that didn't CLEARLY show total US print declining every single year since the 1990's. An account can still grow, of course, and you could be fortunate and have a mix of accounts that grow. But just looking at office paper shipments shows a constant decline every year. I think we're right at the stage where 50%+ of workers will never print until they have to "take something to the old man for approval". They'll just never have developed the habit of printing,...
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Re: New Premium thread posted.......
another new thread is up on the Premium forums, matter of fact it's a hot topic with over 140 page views and 34 replies in four days!
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Re: What I like & Don't like about Adobe Lean print
What I like: In excel I did not have to click to preview the page or change to landscape or potrait, Adobe Lean print actually modified the excel page to print right the first time.
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Re: What I like & Don't like about Adobe Lean print
When printing a two pages in excel, the logo at the top of the pages gets misplaced and moved to the middle of the page.
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Re: What I like & Don't like about Adobe Lean print
Adobe Lean Print is not a product you want to offer to your current customers as it will reduce page counts and therefore cpc revenue. On the other hand, if you are trying to take business away from a competitor, then it is another bullet in your gun belt.
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Re: Use of LinkedIn as a sales tool
Thanks Jon, I attempt to leverage my LinkedIn profile as much as possible. It is on my business cards and email. I try to drive prospects and clients to my profile. My profile is source of education for clients and prospects. By driving them to my page it helps them gain an understanding of how I can help. It hsows the testimonials along with educational white papers. I agree be careful what goes on your page.
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Re: Business inkjet printers could save Australian small businesses more than $45 million
GINTEL: Is Epson correct with this?
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Re: Commissioner calls for copy paper investigation
lets see if we can figure this out. 13% increase of $20,000 dollars for paper. That would mean that the annual cost for paper is around $155,000 thousand before the increase and after the increase the cost would be $175,000 for paper. This was a bid, so I'm guessing paper was....ER...WE'LL LET'S CALL IT $20 PER CASE OF 5000 sheets. That's 87,500 cases of paper, and sheets would be 8,750 x 5,000 for a whopping 43 million sheets of paper! Please double check is this right?? WOW! Thus, if every...
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Re: Sharp Selects Frontier Business Products As An Authorized Dealer And Expands National
Not really check there products page I think its been two months at least not on products. http://www.fbponline.com
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Re: New HP 70ppm Inkjet coming soon.
I don't think so, the "half the cost of color laser is based on color laser MFP's that sell for about $1,000 typically these MFP's will have a color per page cost of 18-21 cents per pages. See the notes below from the HP page: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein...