{"id":1764,"date":"2012-02-03T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweekinimaging.com\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2012-02-03T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T14:34:12","slug":"one-dealers-opinion-al-scibettas-take-on-the-2012-konica-minolta-dealer-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/feature-articles\/2012\/02\/one-dealers-opinion-al-scibettas-take-on-the-2012-konica-minolta-dealer-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"One Dealer\u2019s Opinion: Al Scibetta\u2019s Take on the 2012 Konica Minolta Dealer Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A couple of weeks ago I shared my impressions of the Konica Minolta Dealer meeting. I thought it would be interesting to get another perspective, that of Al Scibetta, president of Copier Fax Business Technologies in Buffalo, New York, and the winner of the 2011 Konica Minolta Dealer Award of Excellence.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll Covered was huge,\u201d states Scibetta. \u201cI loved the 20\/20 Webinar and discussing the millennials and the generation breaks. When you really start to analyze it, it\u2019s very intriguing to see how the workforce is changing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Al Scibetta<\/p><\/div>\n

Scibetta was also impressed by what Konica Minolta is doing with production print, particularly the bizhub PRO 951, which will be compatible with more software and interface with Page Scope Enterprise Suite.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cUp until now production print kind of cut off all of those software features,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s going to mean a lot because in school systems we won\u2019t have to go in with the 751 anymore and put multiples of them in. We\u2019ll be able to go in with the bizhub Pro 951 and have it interface with everything else. That was a nice piece to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also liked the C7800 high production color print system from KIP.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very impressed by it and have four solid opportunities for it right now,\u201d stated Scibetta. \u201cIt does 9 prints a minute in full color. The target audience are people who maybe have six HPs sitting against the wall, but they run all night and make one copy every five minutes at a cost that will choke you. The lease payment on these things might be able to be made on the savings in page print costs alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s equally impressed by Konica Minolta\u2019s EnvisionIT vertical market approach for education, medical and legal as well as their Campaign Builder, a turnkey direct marketing program that provides dealers with a template to create marketing campaigns in their local markets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got some great packages to support their products,\u201d states Scibetta. \u201cThe ability for us to create our own custom pieces is like a plug and play for us. They\u2019re really giving dealers great tools to stand out in the marketplace.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for Scibetta, the networking opportunities remain one of the primary reasons for attending.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest part of these shows is being able to meet with your peers and to talk with your peers and Konica Minolta executives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A couple of weeks ago I shared my impressions of the Konica Minolta Dealer meeting. I thought it would be interesting to get another perspective, that of Al Scibetta, president of Copier Fax Business Technologies in Buffalo, New York, and the winner of the 2011 Konica Minolta Dealer Award of Excellence. \u201cAll Covered was huge,\u201d states Scibetta. \u201cI loved the 20\/20 Webinar and discussing the millennials and the generation breaks. When you really start to analyze it, it\u2019s very intriguing to see how the workforce is changing.\u201d Scibetta was also impressed by what Konica Minolta is doing with production print, particularly the bizhub PRO 951, which will be compatible with more software and interface with Page Scope Enterprise Suite. \u00a0\u201cUp until now production print kind of cut off all of those software features,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s going to mean a lot because in school systems we won\u2019t have to go in with the 751 anymore and put multiples of them in. We\u2019ll be able to go in with the bizhub Pro 951 and have it interface with everything else. That was a nice piece to see.\u201d He also liked the C7800 high production color print system from KIP. \u201cWe\u2019re very impressed by it and have four solid opportunities for it right now,\u201d stated Scibetta. \u201cIt does 9 prints a minute in full color. The target audience are people who maybe have six HPs sitting against the wall, but they run all night and make one copy every five minutes at a cost that will choke you. The lease payment on these things might be able to be made on the savings in page print costs alone.\u201d He\u2019s equally impressed by Konica Minolta\u2019s EnvisionIT vertical market approach for education, medical and legal as well as their Campaign Builder, a turnkey direct marketing program that provides dealers with a template to create marketing campaigns in their local markets. \u201cThey\u2019ve got some great packages to support their products,\u201d states Scibetta. \u201cThe ability for us to create our own custom pieces is like a plug and play for us. They\u2019re really giving dealers great tools to stand out in the marketplace.\u201d But for Scibetta, the networking opportunities remain one of the primary reasons for attending. \u201cThe biggest part of these shows is being able to meet with your peers and to talk with your peers and Konica Minolta executives.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}