KM C253 - "License management error"

[mrwho]

Re: KM C253 - "License management error"

I guess I have the deluxe junk because some of my stuff says made in Japan.

Ah, the old "If it ain't made in the USA then it ain't worth shit" feeling.

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

Re: KM C253 - "License management error"

Not really...depends on what it is. For equipment and industrial stuff I prefer German engineering.

For strawberry preserves I prefer an English brand called Partridges...it's hand made.

For a nice cheap greasy meal, any shithole diner around here will usually do.

For the very rare few beers I enjoy, the Belgium monk made kind.

For pastries and cheeses, French stuff

For American automobiles...I'd say I don't like much of anything after 1972.

I suppose America makes some nice things, handcrafted furniture, cool guns, although there's a really nice british company that does handgraved double barrel shotguns.

Ah, the old "If it ain't made in the USA then it ain't worth shit" feeling.

[diogorui]

[mrwho]

Re: KM C253 - "License management error"

Although you're right that this is not the place (my bad!), there's the Rants & Raves forum section that is appropriate, and, if Kingdb wants to continue this conversation, there's a thread there just begging for this kind of stuff - wink, wink, nudge, nudge!

Gosto da casa...

Yeah, the people are okay, it's the food that's lousy!

[EarthKmTech]

Re: KM C253 - "License management error"

Every day I get nickel and dimed by people wanting to pay $0.005 for a b/w copy and $0.05 for color. And these are the picky people that sell the copies and want perfect quality ALL the time and do like 80% coverage...so I can basically figure on getting like 10% of the rated copies out of each toner and about half life on the drums.

The continous downward pressure on copy costs are unsustainable. Its already at the point now where the machines are barely making a profit at all unless the customer does alot of colour printing in an office environment. Print shops should be made to pay double the rest of the world if they expect perfection, not half, if it were upto me I'd never deal with any of them and save the headaches

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

Re: KM C253 - "License management error"

I've been getting more picky when I can, which is a hard thing to do when you are trying to sell to make a living.

Kodak, Konica Minolta, and Xerox are making things the worse for everybody around here...

Government bids were never that attractive to me but I've ruled them out now because Kodak had been putting bids in for .001 for a b/w print. (production)

Konica Minolta has apparently although more discretely been doing bizhubs direct at .003 b/w.

Xerox has been doing some contracts at .0275 color any sheet size, although they price discriminate a lot. Some people are paying double what others are.

It's about at the point where I might as well say screw it and buy these machines myself or take a commission.

The only way I've been surviving is doing second hand stuff so I can beat out the machine costs...but some people want new.

The continous downward pressure on copy costs are unsustainable. Its already at the point now where the machines are barely making a profit at all unless the customer does alot of colour printing in an office environment. Print shops should be made to pay double the rest of the world if they expect perfection, not half, if it were upto me I'd never deal with any of them and save the headaches

[EarthKmTech]

Re: KM C253 - "License management error"

As a technician I have grave concerns for the future of this industry for that very reason. I've never done anything else since the day i left school, so i'm kinda screwed.

Government contracts there probably much like here are about moving boxes out of the factory and nothing to do with proffit, its never going to be an attractive proposition for dealers, let the direct branches have them as theres no money in it anyway.

There are plenty of dealers now that employ no technical staff at all and simply resell our machines and log the calls through us for their customers.

Again, where the hell am i going to be in 5 years time? A contract worker earning a quarter of what i am now? Unlikley i will leave the industry to flip burgers. Ive paid my house off anyway.