Repro 101 Blog Repro PPoP Index – updated for Q3 2014

PPoP = “plans printed on paper”

About the Repro 101 Blog Repro PPoP Index; what we’ve been saying all along about this Index:

 - This index does not attempt to track "total sales" of A/E/C reprographers. It attempts to track only sales of "plans printed on paper”.

 - And, by "plans printed on paper", I mean A/E/C "plans", large-format, b/w and color, unbound or bound, full-size, half-size, whatever large-format size.

If you click on the link that’s immediately below, you’ll find a table that contains all of the Index readings since we first began publishing this Index, including the most recent Index reading for Q3 2014:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81al4kFAU9JcWdFQzhFNTZLOXM/view?usp=sharing

Blog Publisher’s comments:

Based on the Q3 2014 Index reading, large-format plan printing activity dropped off compared to the first two quarters of 2014. Perhaps the Q4 Index, which we hope to be able to post in early January 2015, will show evidence that the Q3 Index decline was an anomaly.

Xerox IJP 2000 (Memjet-enabled printer) Dealer for New England States

I learned today that AIR Graphics, based in Quincy, MA, is the Xerox-appointed dealer for the Xerox IJP 2000 (wide-format, Memjet-powered printer) for the six New England States.  

For those of you who are geographically-challenged, that territory includes:  Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

For information contact Leo Ladas, AIR Graphics, at lladas@airgraphics.com or 617-471-3373, ext 225

I was aware that AIR Graphics had acquired a Xerox IJP 2000 unit, but, before today, I did not know that AIR Graphics was a dealer for the system.

Implosions!

Very cool video… BYOS (bring your own shovel!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK50So-yYRU

National / Azon announces end of diazo blue line paper production

As one of my long-time industry friends put it, “the end of an era”.

I kind of wonder who’s been ordering diazo paper, anyway.

Here’s the announcement from National / Azon:

Diazo Coating came to an abrupt halt  recently at our coating facility in Detroit. 

Our remaining R&K Coater was unable to operate unless major repairs were undertaken.

The time to make these custom repairs and the associated costs combined with diminishing Sales brought about our decision to cease coating blue line.

We bid a nostalgic farewell to a product and a process that served our industry well.

Quantities are limited and are “while quantities last”.

Please contact your salesman if you have any questions.

5 Reasons Why You Should Dump Ricoh Wide Format Business

Art Post, publisher of the popular copier-industry blog / web-site known as p4photel.com, put up a blog post, yesterday, titled:

"5 Reasons Why You Should Dump Ricoh Wide Format Business"

Art Post’s blog-post starts off like this…..

"Let me first state that the current line of Ricoh wide format LED systems are excellent when it comes to reliability and print/copy/scan quality. 

Personally, I would love to see Ricoh stay in the LED wide format business. 

The W3601 press release was on March 20th, 2011 and is still a current  model that I sell.  However, in five months the W3601 will be four years old!!! There's no large screen display, no USB scan or print, no mobile print, no ICE, and I could go on and on.  But, I want to stay on topic for us."

Here’s a link to the full post Art put up on his blog:

http://www.p4photel.com/blog/5-reasons-why-you-should-dump-ricoh-wide-format-business