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INTEGRAL TONERS

by on 2 April 2019in Copiers, General, Printers No comment

INTEGRAL, the premium German manufactured toner brand is now being imported into Southern Africa by Maynards Office Technology.

Founded in 1966, INTEGRAL has become one of the world’s largest independent manufacturers of toner for copiers and laser printers. Today INTEGRAL serves thousands of customers in all continents with an extensive range of imaging consumables. INTEGRAL operates state of the art manufacturing facilities in Germany , Ireland and France.

Maynards Office Technology have imported the INTEGRAL brand into Southern Africa for over 20 years and can vouch for the quality of this German manufactured product. The brand has supported our fleet of Olivetti devices over that time but recently we have embarked on an expansion of the Integral range to include toners for the following brands:

  • KYOCERA
  • SHARP
  • TOSHIBA
  • RICOH
  • CANON
  • KONICA
  • OLIVETTI

We are in the process of building up the product offering per brand, but we already have a comprehensive list of toners in stock at extremely competitive price points.

IF you are looking for a high quality, extremely reliable German manufactured toner to run your fleet of copiers at a more affordable rate, give us a call.

 

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Rentals – How tied in are you?

by on 25 January 2018in Copiers, General, Olivetti, Printers No comment

Rentals – How tied in are you?

We at Olivetti Imports, often work very hard at presenting a deal, explaining the pro’s and cons of various options, do test prints, convince junior staff and then senior staff of potential clients to show them how much they can save by procuring our latest Olivetti technology or product .… all the while knowing that they have an existing rental agreement with another brand.

Does this stop us?  NO.  Should it stop you?  NO.

Either it will slow us down – in other words if a device can only be upgraded in 3 years’ time, we can make a few calculations and work out when is a good time to do the upgrade to the new Olivetti – in other words; at what point in time does it become feasible to save money by doing the upgrade and also get better service from a company like Olivetti Imports?  Then wait until that time to re-invest our time in the process.

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We will work out that there is a short enough time and value left on the existing agreement to buy out the contract.  This sometimes can be a little complicated as companies often give skewed settlements.  Our recommendation – when asking for your settlement on your existing product – ask for a BREAKDOWN – how did they get to that figure?  Usually we offer guidance here and have managed to save our clients a good percentage off the settlement by helping the client stay informed.

Example if the rental is R1000 per month and eight months remain then the settlement is R8000 – right?  Sometimes a nominal fee for service may be included or be separate.  The only part of that fee that can possibly be accepted is the basic service fee.  Some companies build in way too many copies into that basic service fee to make it “basic”.    I would say the only fair way of doing this is the rental multiplied by how much time is left and possibly a small amount for service, like R100-R200 per month is possibly acceptable as that’s almost like a “contract fee”.  Telling the client that they usually do 5000 copies so therefore must carry on paying for that until the end of the contract, is just not acceptable.  We recommend arguing this as it means you are paying for toners and parts too, that you will never use and not just a basic contract fee.

If you are ever stuck with trying to work out what a fair settlement should be, please feel free to contact us!

In an ever changing economic climate, rental application approvals become more and more difficult but there are usually options that can help with this.  Eg, supplying all the paperwork in at the beginning, like ID’s of directors, company registration documents and so on are very helpful.  Sometimes depending on the size of the company, directors may or may not be asked to sign surety.

Sometimes, even with all this hard work, it’s not always guaranteed that a rental will be approved.  Although it’s just a rental to some, the actual process it represents explains this.

  1. In the case of a settlement – the rental house is financing money – no asset that can be retained in cases of risk.
  2. The actual device you rent comes at a cost to the company selling it – they sell it to the rental house, the rental house then takes a number of years to recoup the cost of laying out the money to pay for the device. Once the equipment is out the box and on your floor, it’s like driving a new car off a showroom floor.  It loses retail value and if the client reneges on the contract, there is a loss to the finance house, even if the equipment is collected, it’s lost a percentage of it’s original value.

Hopefully this explanation of settlements when renting equipment has been helpful.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us for further advice on how we at Olivetti Imports can help you save and upgrade comfortably.

 

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Written By: Justine Wittels – Olivetti Imports

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What is SEARCHABLE PDF & how can it make your life easier?

by on 6 June 2017in Olivetti, Printers, Scanners No comment

A Searchable PDF is actually a PDF image file.   The data is not static (like a photocopied sheet is) as the document has the ability to contain several layers of information i.e. image layer and text layer.

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However a PDF created by a scanner on your multifunction device is like a photocopy on your screen. It’s not editable or searchable as it’s much like a photocopied piece of paper. You cannot search for a word or a phrase, even if you use a PC. If a PDF was created by typing a Word document and then turned into a PDF with a converter you can effectively press the “search” icon and find a word or the phrase you require. In other words these converted PDF’s usually have layers so the data is searchable.

If you decide to add the Searchable PDF option when deciding on what options to procure for your Olivetti network printer and multifunction device, this allows for a scanned PDF to become searchable! This option is actually a module built into the FIRMWARE of the copier – in other words, it will be in the menu / software built into the Olivetti device itself.

A great feature, when a PDF is searchable, is that you can search using your OS explorer for a phrase and all the documents relating to that phrase will list. This applies to PDF just as it would to Word or Excel. Therefore it gives you the ability to search for files and not solely search for data in a file that is already open.

Searchable PDF is a popular request by government departments and companies where most of their paperwork is scanned, especially on units like the Olivetti MF552.

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Post By: Justine Wittels – Olivetti Imports SA

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Dual Scan vs Reversing Auto Document Feeder

by on 23 May 2017in Olivetti, Printers, Scanners No comment

In the market for a new network printer but all the optional extra’s are slightly overwhelming – let us explain some of the advantages of a Dual Scan Document Feeder – this time saving device from Olivetti is definitely worth a consideration.

You can choose many options and modd-–-Colour-MF222 with Dual Scanules to add onto your Olivetti network printer, one of them being the kind of document feeder you would like.  Sometimes the document feeder comes as standard but most of the time you would need to choose between an automatic document feeder or a flat platen lid. If you choose the document feeder bear in mind that not all document feeders are created equal!

Features to consider are how many pages your document feeder can take through in one feed. It varies from 50 pages to 175 sheets that can be placed into the document feeder.

If you intend to scan numerous DOUBLE SIDED ORIGINALS we would highly recommend you choose an Olivetti Document feeder with DUAL SCAN capability. This means – a double sided page will be read on BOTH sides of the page in one SINGLE PASS through the feeder. Eg. if you want your Olivetti scanner to read a 60 sided document (30 double sided pages) it will only need to scan thirty pages to get 60 sheets of scanned documents – this drastically reduces the time spent on scanning, something every busy professional will appreciate.

A Reversing Automatic Document feeder on your Olivetti MF Printer can also read both sides of the page but the automatic document feeder turns the page over automatically to read the second side of a page. This means scanning takes twice as long.

So in summary both units can read both sides of a page without user intervention but the Dual scan ADF does this on one pass whereas the Reversing ADF automatically turns the page over and takes double the time.

Our Olivetti models in black & white and colour A3, now also some of our A4 models have Dual scan options available. Often clients like to order their 22ppm – 75ppm colour units with this feature Eg. the Olivetti MF362

Article by: Justine Wittels – Sales Manager (Olivetti Imports SA)