Industry Analysts News For 1 18 2012

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Date: Thursday January 19, 2012 08:55:39 am
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    The What’s Happenin’ Report
    Industry Analysts, Inc.
    January 2012

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    Hollywood Actor Sues Kyocera Mita 

     

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    -HP Names New Chief Strategy Officer  

     

    -Ricoh Named ‘Leader’ in IDC MPS Report 

       

    -Congrats to Al Scibetta of Copier Fax Business Technologies & Other Konica Minolta Award Recipients  

     

    -New Year’s Predictions from Canon Europe President   

      

    -New Konica Minolta Products 

     

    -Selling Copiers & MFPs Like a Lion    

      

    -Konica Minolta Launches EnvisionIT Solution Line for Vertical Markets    

     

    -NSi Launches New Security & Document Capture Products  

    -Konica Minolta Unveils New Managed IT and MPS Offering for Dealers 

     

    -New Fujitsu Scanners    

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    Previous Links…

    -Xerox Stock Downgraded  

     

    -EFI Acquires Cretaprint 

       

    -HP Names Executive VP & COO  

     

    -New Web-Based Tool for iGen4 Platform Improves Operations & Productivity Analysis   

      

    -Lexmark Targets Middle East Growth 

     

    -Kodak’s Inkjet Plant is Key to Company Survival   

    Copier MFP LinkedIn Group Passes 2,000 Members

     
     
     
    This Group Currently Has 2,327 Members

    We’ve created a LinkedIn group called Copiers, Printers & MFPs.  Please feel free to join.  We welcome any relevant conversations and will do our best to moderate and keep spam, recruiters and ads from watering things down. 

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    Previous Links…

    -Photizo Group Acquires Lyra Research  

     

    -Xerox Layoffs in North Carolina 

       

    -HP Layoffs in Australia  

     

    -Samsung Smarthphone Printers   

      

    -Xerox Introduces Mobile Scanners 

     

    -Ricoh Innovates with Scan2iPhone App   

     

    -Xerox Names New CIO   

    -Canon Confirms Plans for MFP Plant in Thailand 

    -Another HP Exec Heads to Oracle 

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    Konica Minolta US Dealer Show Review 


    January 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada – I’m just back from the Konica Minolta dealer show in Las Vegas Nevada and wanted to get our coverage out as quickly as possible.  However, this will be an initial review as there was simply too much to write about this quickly.

    Typically, most dealer shows are very much the same.  MPS…solutions…MPS…solutions…and here are the new copiers.  Not the case this time.  While most dealer shows are light on content and programs, this show had a mind-blowing amount of information.  In fact, it was almost overwhelming… 

    Click here to read more…

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    This report is the result of over 300 individual interviews with copier dealer owners and principles and contains data from 2008, 2009 & 2010.  Report look contains information from dealer brands including Canon, Konica Minolta, Kyocera Mita, Ricoh Family, Sharp and Toshiba. 

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    This report is the result of over 300 individual interviews with copier dealer owners and principles and contains data from 2008, 2009 & 2010. 

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    Categories covered by brand:

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    2. Monthly MFP unit placements per sales rep; color and mono
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    Black & White MFP Customer Survey

    We contacted 350 SMB & Enterprise customers and asked them about their black and white multifunctional printers. This 8-page report is published in our publication, The Office Products Analyst.

    Report Highlights
    • Best Overall: Canon
    • Most Affordable: Toshiba
    • Most Reliable: Canon
    • Best Overall Functionality: Ricoh Family
     
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    Dealer Service Manager
    Black & White MFP Survey

    We contacted 139 traditional copier/dealer service managers encompassing 30,000+ MFPs.  Service managers rated their primary brand on a wide variety of topics. This 8-page report is published in our publication, The Office Products Analyst.

    Report Highlights
    • Best Overall: Kyocera Mita/Copystar
    • Service Support: Kyocera Mita/Copystar  
    • Most Reliable: Kyocera Mita/Copystar
    • Parts Availability: Ricoh Family

     

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    Color MFP Customer Survey

    We contacted 352 SMB & Enterprise customers and asked them about their color multifunctional printers. This 9-page report is published in our publication, The Office Products Analyst.


    Report Highlights
    • Best Overall: Xerox
    • Most Affordable: Konica Minolta 
    • Most Reliable: Canon
    • Best Image Quality: Konica Minolta
     
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    Dealer A3 Service Margins Report

    We contacted over 100 copier dealers and asked them about service margins for A3 hardware. This 13 page report contains hardware margins for color and black & white copiers, comparing 2008, 2009 and 2010 figures.

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    • Canon
    • Konica Minolta
    • Kyocera Mita
    • Ricoh Family 
    • Sharp
    • Toshiba 
     
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