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How to Be Successful Selling Light Production & Wide Format

As more dealers delve into the higher end production space, greater numbers are searching for opportunities with light production and wide format devices in not only traditional production environments, but within their traditional accounts as well. That’s because these devices
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Canon Business Systems Pulling a Ricoh

Heard from a friend who is a Canon dealer. That dealer states Canon Business Systems (CBS) is dumping machines to his existing base and selling in most cases for 20 percent less than his cost! He also went on to state that CBS and Canon Dealers have no “Rule of
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Ricoh Announces Availability of RICOH Pro C7100X Series at Graphics of the Americas

Five color production printer series equips customers with capabilities to create new applications, grow businesses, increase revenue streams and cut costs   MALVERN, PA, February 26, 2015 – Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced the availability of the RICOH Pro C7100X
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Technical Tips

Subject: Ricoh MP-5000 Tone Up Question: Hello there guys. Can anyone tell me the proper procedure to tone up an MP-5000 getting very light copies? Customer has put in a new toner cartridge but copies are still light. Thanks.  Answer: SP-2207 will do a forced toner supply, but I
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My Top Ten MFP/Copier Industry Predictions for 2015

  Looking back 2014 was one of my best years in the business. The fourth quarter of 2014 was the best quarter I’ve ever had!  I can only hope that 2015 will be as good as 2014 if not better. Last year’s Top Ten MFP Copier Industry Predictions for 2014 had me wondering
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Copier Makers Continue Assault on Low-End A4 Market with Mixed Results

While the market for digital imaging hardware and supplies is mature and various segments are declining, most copier companies have been reporting improved revenue for the past couple of years. The majority of copier makers are Japanese companies of course, and they’ve benefited
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To Ricoh: What I Want for Christmas

For each of the past three years, I’ve included a small ditty about Christmas traditions.  I’ve also included an awesome picture of man’s best friend with a Santa’s hat.  Enjoy! In Quebec Province, celebrations finish on January 6th, with the “Party of t
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Ricoh Acquires PTI Marketing Technologies, Helping Customers to Expand into Marketing Services

Acquisition Empowers Customers to Capitalize on the Benefits of Vertical Multichannel Marketing, Asset Management and Web-to-Print Solutions   Tokyo and Solana Beach, Calif. —December 9, 2014— Ricoh Company, Ltd. (Ricoh) today announced that it has acquired PTI® Marketing
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2014 Document Imaging Industry Highlights

Every year this time we ask the various players in the office imaging hardware, solutions, services, and supplies space to share with us their top highlight of the year. If you’re a dealer or reseller, this makes for a fascinating and succinct recap of what occurred throughout
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The Top 10 Stories of 2014

If it’s December, it must be time to look back over the past year and reminisce about the year’s Top 10 stories. As is often the case, some of these stories are big ones, some of them are not quite as big, and others are ongoing trends that continue to impact the office imaging
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EFI and Ricoh Partner to Bring Fiery Performance to New Ricoh Digital Presses

FREMONT, California — September 30, 2014 — EFI™ (Nasdaq: EFII), a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, today announced the launch of a new line of Fiery digital print servers driving two new families of Ricoh ® digital presses that were
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Ricoh Defines Production Print at Graph Expo 14

Attendees to experience award-winning new hardware and software solutions throughout Ricoh’s business metropolis CHICAGO (GRAPH EXPO 14, Booth #1931) – September 28, 2014 – Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced its lineup of innovations at GRAPH EXPO 14, featuring its
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Ricoh breaks down barriers for printers seeking high quality and high speeds at low costs with newest cutsheet device

RICOH Pro C9100 series combines feature-rich digital production print with affordability MALVERN, PA – September 28, 2014 – Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced the launch of its newest high speed, heavy segment production color devices – the RICOH Pro C9100 series.  With
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Ricoh Unveils New Workflow Solution to Automate and Streamline Processes for Printers of All Sizes

New RICOH TotalFlow Path provides a hardware-agnostic solution that allows printers to create the workflow direction needed regardless of their current infrastructure MALVERN, PA, September 28, 2014 – Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced its new RICOH TotalFlow Path
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The Cannata Report Awards and Charities Dinner’s Fundraising Legacy

Following up on my editorial last week on the annual Cannata charity awards dinner, The Cannata Report has issued a press release announcing that it has raised a total of nearly $1.4 million for charity since 1997.  Frank G. Cannata, founder, president and
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