Thursday, February 26, 2009

I Got IKON'D


According to Kieth Clarks Blog "New Hamsphire Document Solutions" Keith opines "As the layers of the onion come off - we are finding lease payments that are as much as twice what they would have been if the purchasing people had been doing their job and simply visiting the marketplace every few years".

What Keith is making reference to is the recent take over of Ikon by Ricoh. It seems there are many loyal followers of Canon that are now seeking out dealers only to find out that they've been Ikon'd (call it what you want, but it doesn't seem good).

Keith also suggests that Ikon now wants to replace the entire fleet with Ricoh devices, however during the last four years all they did was replace a few here a a few their to maximize their profit (Hey, there's nothing wrong with making profit right), well it seems that IT at a local University were pretty upset that they were not being kept up to date with the latest copier technology. Well, they got IKON'D

Take a read at Keith's blog, nice little blog about The Mighty Ikonot

1 comment:

Greg_Walters said...

Ummm...er...ummmm...ahem -

as bad as this sounds, it ain't nothing...

I blame the IT guy - period.

Suddenly the "copiers" are a little more important than he had thought, eh?

This "conversion" is going to turn over a great deal of rocks.