how-to's and what to know's at advantagecopiers

What is Pagepack?

2008-11-22T16:33:00.000-08:00

I often get asked what is Pageack?

Well Pagepack is a program that was introduced by Xerox a short while ago, select dealers or resellers who prove their worthiness to Xerox become PAgepack authorized. Packpack authorized dealers, have ability to buy service for certain copiers or printers from xerox and resell it to end users.

Why use pagepack? well the short answer is that it creates the ultimate win/win scenario for everyone, Xerox, The dealer , and the reseller. - Xerox gains since they make a small percentage for every click the end user makes, the dealer wins since he does not have to stock any parts or toners, if any of the supplies are needed the end users clicks on the pagepack assistant utility software on the desktop, and clicks on order supplies, and wahtever the customer needs he adds to the shopping cart, as if he is shopping online, and when he is done the total comes to $0.00 and submit - the stuff arives on the customers doorstep the next day with UPS. The customer wins and this is the best part of it, the customer gets a real good price per printed page which includes the supplies toner and anything else. [Everyone knows that Xerox color printers like the phaser 7760 or the phaser 7400 produce the best color in the industry, whoever the toners and supplies might be a bit pricey. quality is superb and Xerox knows it.] So now the customer who bought the 7760DX for example, and is producing 5000 prints per month, instead of paying out of the nose, they get thier supplies service, toners all included, on a cost per print basis. this works out best for the xerox customer.

Billing: the pagepack utility captures the meter each month from the printer, and sends it to the xerox server, xerox then sends a report to the dealer, so the dealer knows how to bill the end users.

in short, the pagepack is the best invention that came out of xerox in the last while, call us at Advantage Business Systems to get a pagepack contract.

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2008-11-20T20:30:00.000-08:00

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What has become of the Copier industry in the past 8 years.

2008-11-20T19:42:00.000-08:00

The past 8 years a lot has happend. i am reffereing the many aquisitions that is consolidating our industry.

10 years ago this is what the copier industry looked like;

canon
toshiba
xerox
konica
sharp
mita
panasonic
oce
pitney bowes
royal copystar
minolta
ricoh
savin
gestetner
lanier

And there may have been a few i missed.

also there were the real big boys,

ikon
danka
global imaging

fast forward to 2008

konica merged with minolta
kyocera now replaced mita which also owned copystar
oce bought imagistics, pitney is out.
owned by richo gestener is gone
lanier which is owned by ricoh is gone
panasonic is with 1 foot out of th ecopier business
sharp is hanging in there since they did not really make too many aquisitions they are no longer in the top 3 marketshare positions they once were.
xerox is making a hugh comback with a new reseller organization, and the aquisition of global imaging.
toshiba barely making a dent
canon

in addition, some other aquisitions took place.

Danka was bought by konica-minolta
Ikon was bought by Ricoh for $1.6 Billion - I am still unsure why Ricoh paid such a large premium to buy 40% of thier machines Ikon sold either Ricoh or Canon. [FYI Canon is really bummed about this.]
Global Imaging by Xerox for $1.5 Billion in Cash - in my opinion the best move of all, since Xerox bought for $1.5 Billion a brand new database, of a lean running well managed small and medium business marketshare xerox was missing, and everything they bought was new business.

in light of all this consolidation, I predict that within 5 years prices of all office equipment will go up by 15-30% reason is i hear from industry insiders, Konic Minolta was giving machines away to buy market share, but cannot continue to do this for much longer.

So getready, why the big boys ikon danka and global are now owned by the manufactures there arent any big players left. Prices will go up and life moves on.

I will keep watching.

What we have and what we offer

2008-11-20T19:02:00.000-08:00

Welcome to our blog. Decitated to Xerox technology, and green office technology fully explained. We will focus on helping you find the right green ditital copier for your office, at www.advantagecopiers.com

The Xerox Phaser Solid ink technology copiers and phaser printers are a real winner. Well they work in the following way, they come in either a printer only or a multi fucntion device, they don't run on toner, rather on non-toxic solid ink sticks, they are shapes all in different sizes to ensure that you don't put a cyan ink stick into a yellow chamber. So that is how the ink is prepared, but best of all, you cant spill toner on thefloor, they don't take up much space, and they are as green as they come, there is no empty catridges that need to get thrown out.

The color output is perfect for business and most graphic needs, they give off a waxy feeling, and most of our customers are happy with thier purchase.

the specs for the phaser 8560mfp is

30 pages per minute color
30 pages per minute in black and white
network printer 10/100 ethernet connection
network scan - you can scan to the hardrive of the machine, and retrieve it by typing in the ip address of the printer, and on the fly you can decide if you want to retrieave the scaned image in pdf, pjeg, or tiff. or you can use the scanner utility and scan directly to your computer.
fax -there is only the traditioanl fax, without all the network fax capabilities, but providing the price point for this great device it is pretty good.
the N version does not include a ADF [auto document feeder] but the next model up comes with a document feeder.

The starting point for this machine retails at about $1500 and goes up to $3900 i feel that the price for copiers have come down, if a client would have asked me 5 years ago for a 30 pages per minute color copier the price would have been somewhere in the ball park of $8,000 - $15,000 so we have come a very long way.

but don;t get too happy, the small "dissposable copiers" as i like to call them will become commodities, whereas the larger office machines will go up in price in the next 5 years. see my post about that.