Demo Originals

Yikes, I do not even carry a set of copy originals anymore!

When doing a demonstration I am always using the customers documents or the customers files (to print).

When needed, I will go to the Ricoh launches at times. The idea of keeping orignal files on the site may be a good idea.

I would like to hear from others if this would be of help to them in the field. We could keep them on our pitcure page.

We just had to upgrade our storage capacity, we are almost upto 400MB of space. I have always thought that this site should also be an ongoing library of reference material.

Please give us your thoughts for the originals!!

I guess part of it for me is developing success stories for vertical markets....instead of reinventing the wheel..

Personally, I'm very uncomfortable having the first output the customer sees being something that isn't tried and true (and predictable) which means...I use Ricoh Originals. That first impression is so important and some originals show better output than others. Besides that, I'm lucky to have people's attention for 10 minutes and I don't want to waste any of my available time with PostScript errors, incompatible software or font substitutions. After I've had my say, we'll run whatever they want.

Also, let us not forget that 9 out 10 times, there are people involved in the decision that we may never meet. Ricoh originals often do some selling in our absense and ensure that our quality doesn't get attributed to a competitive machine.

I use Savin supplied demo originals that came on CD with hard copy. They are all PDF

What about Canon reps out there? What are you using? Or high end color reps?

I only use client supplied files, many file formats ie. PDF, Photoshop, Quark, Illustrator, Word etc.
This works well client gets to see what their files are going to print like. In my showroom I have Ricoh, Canon and Konica production color devices

Use the customer’s print, after all, their not buying a color copier to make DEMO SHEETS. Let them see their own work in color.

I haven't used demo originals in years. The reason I stopped using pre-printed originals was a customer to whom I was demonstrating a new Ricoh 5535 to asked me, "If you want to sell me this machine, you need to show me how MY orginals look, not YOURS!" That did it for me. It also freed up space in the briefcase for other essential forms, like sales orders.