3M MPro130 in April 2010?

We travel far and wide through the rumour mill of new Office Products.  We speculate and have heard through the grapevive that the future release of the 3M M Pro130 will have a few new features.  One being that you will see the addition of a SD memory card slot.  Now you will be able to load your presentation on the SD memory card and carry your new 3M M Pro130 projector all in one device.  Yep, no Laptop or Netbook neccessary. How simple is that!  Additional feature number two for the 3M MPro130, longer battery life, a must for those all day trade shows or the road warrior that is doing multiple sales presentations in a day.  We are not too sure about this last feature, but what if the 3M MPro 130 projector could hook up to your Apple iPhone or Google Android phone.  A phone that can do your presentation also?  What's next?

How to Sell Supplies?

Only your boss or piers can teach you how to sell supplies in the office products industry. But we have found a few relevant books on how to sell supplies.

Customer-Centered Design by Kreta Chandler - This is a perfect reading for the reseller that wants to create customer centric website. Kreta was the project manager for the HP supplies link, and she goes into the details of how customers percieve a webstore should work and the types of information that should be presented so the customer can have a good shopping experience. Retail Price $29.00


How to win the Sale and Keep the Customer by Ann Barr - Here's what you'll discover inside in this book.

• How to get past the gatekeeper.
• The Six Steps that must be included in your opening statement.
• Cold call examples.
• The five sales-killer phrases never to use.
• Scripts for your follow-up calls.
• Plus many more tips & templates.
  
• Retail Price $47.50

What do all those letters mean?

Hewlett Packard always puts those funny little letters after a Model number.  But what do they all mean.  Plus there are a few new funny letters that have popped up on some recently announced models.

So we put a cross-reference together of the abbreviations that come after the Hewlett Packard Model Numbers

xm = Duplex, Extra tray, Network and Mailbox

b = Battery

bt = Bluetooth
bm = Book Maker
d = Duplex
dt = Duplex and Extra Tray
dn = Duplex and Network
dtn = Duplex, Extra Tray and Network (Now "x")
× = Duplex, Extra Tray and Network (Formerly dtn)
xh = Duplex, Extra Tray, Network and Hard Disk
xs = Duplex, Extra Tray, Network and Stacker
xsk = Duplex, extra tray, network and stapler/stacker
t = Extra Tray
f = Fax
r = Folder
h = Hard Disk
i = Imaging (Card Slots)
m = Mailbox
n = Network
ps = Postscript
s = Stacker
sk = Stapler and Stacker
tn = Tray and Networking
a = Warranty (for regional use)
wf = Wi­Fi
y = Wildcard (for regional use)
wbt = Wireless & Bluetooth
nw = Wireless Network

Have ever thought of building a website to sell supplies?

Do you have the time to develop a web site and the content for selling imaging supplies? 

Would you be interested in a turnkey website for selling printer supplies with all of these features?

• Over 4,000 Inkjet and Toner cartridges to sell
  
  
• 800 Private labeled compatible Inkjet and Toner cartridges
  
  
• Over 100 categories assigned to Inkjet and Toner cartridges
  
  
• Correct Meta Tags structured for each part number
  
  
• Full cross reference system for printer supplies
  
  
• Over 3,000 pictures of the products you sell
  
  
• Wholesaler’s part numbers identified for easy ordering to your drop-ship supplier.
• Easily Divert your order to your Wholesaler of choice for OEM and Compatible cartridges
  
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  Easily change prices to your margin requirements
• Special Customer Pricing Levels
  
  
• Items all set-up to be SEO friendly, which can get you noticed by the search engine.
  
  
• plus over 200 more features – see full list of features for website that sells inkjet and toner cartridges. 
  
  

This special offer is limited to the first 5 people who need or are looking for a turnkey web store of printer supplies.

If you are a “tire kicker”, don’t even bother to call, this is for someone that is serious about selling supplies online with their own web store and want to sell supplies online right now. 

So how much to get this turnkey website?   

You have to visit the site for selling printer supplies and see this amazing offer.

What's a SkyDrive?

Microsoft Office 2010 has a couple of new features that can be very useful. New "Save As" functions. The first "Save As", now you can save a file as a PDF file. But the best feature is Microsoft's Cloud computing, which is called SkyDrive.

From Microsoft site:

Well, as file sizes have grown, so have the options for file storage. You can use a USB flash drive to store large files, and take them with you, but flash drives can be lost or damaged just like an old floppy. Luckily, Windows Live SkyDrive solves these problems. It's like a flash drive on the Internet. This storage solution is a lot harder to damage than the flash drive lying around your desk or getting crushed in your bag, and you can't forget it at the office or lose it. Plus, it's free!


When you store your files on SkyDrive, you can access them from virtually anywhere. It's a fast and easy way to work on a file both from home and at work, without transporting it back and forth. You can also sign in to SkyDrive from a friend's computer, or at an Internet café or library, and work with your files.


Imagine taking a trip to your mom's house and being able to show her your favorite photos (up to 25 GB). You can save all the photos she wants on her computer for her, or you can set up a special shared folder just for the two of you to swap future photos in. To access the files, she just needs a Windows Live ID.


With SkyDrive, you can create three different types of folders that can be accessed from the Internet (these folders are stored on a server that is managed by Microsoft):


•Personal folders that can be accessed only by you.


•Shared folders that you can set up to be accessed by the people you want to share your files with.


•Public folders that anyone on the Internet can access.


How perfect, special permissions on who can see what files, work from a different computers, and best yet easily transfer large files with out having to zip and send by email.

Send a Frown or a Smile?

Microsoft has come out with Office 2010, their upgrade of Office 2007.  With interesting new features for the Beta Testers, "Send a Frown" or "Send a Smile"

If you are a basic user of Microsoft Office 2007, you probably won't notice much difference in Office 2010.  We will post our top new features from Microsoft Office 2010

Brother International Corporation (Canada) Ltd, a leader in small and home-based office machines, today announced the launch of a new series of cost-effective color printers and all-in-ones, geared towards the Small and Medium sized Business market. The two new color printers (HL-3000 Series, Estimated Street Price from $349.99 - $399.99 Canadian) and the three new color all-in-ones (MFC-9000 Series, from Estimated Street Price $499.99 - $599.99 Canadian), bolster Brother's color line.

Check for the new supplies in the Complete Cross Reference for Brother Supplies

Interesting - Imation Earthwise Cartridges

Hey - Bob!  (Inside poke here)

We found these cartridge across the pond.  Looks like Imation is playing in a someone else's sandbox.  When will these cartridge hit the US distribution channel?  Imation Earthwise compatible cartridges are now going after Kyocera, Lexmark, Panasonic & Samsung laser printers.

Imation 24561 Lexmark Compatible T640 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245619

Imation 24562 Lexmark Compatible E330 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245626

Imation 24563 Lexmark Compatible T610 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245633

Imation 24564 Lexmark Compatible T420 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245640

Imation 24565 Lexmark Compatible T520 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245657

Imation 24566 Lexmark Compatible T620 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245664

Imation 24567 Lexmark Compatible T630 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245671

Imation 24568 Lexmark Compatible T430 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245688

Imation 24569 Kyocera Compatible FS1000 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245695

Imation 24570 Kyocera Compatible FS1020D Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245701

Imation 24571 Kyocera Compatible FS1700 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245718

Imation 24572 Kyocera Compatible FS1920 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245725

Imation 24573 Kyocera Compatible FS3800 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245732

Imation 24574 Kyocera Compatible FS3820N Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245749

Imation 24575 Kyocera Compatible FS720 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245756

Imation 24576 Kyocera Compatible FS1030D Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245763

Imation 24577 Kyocera Compatible FS2000D Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245770

Imation 24578 Kyocera Compatible FS3900DN Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245787

Imation 24579 Kyocera Compatible FS6020 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245794

Imation 24580 Panasonic Compatible UF585 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245800

Imation 24581 Samsung Compatible ML1710 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245817

Imation 24582 Samsung Compatible ML2250 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245824

Imation 24583 Samsung Compatible SCX4216F Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245831

Imation 24584 Samsung Compatible ML1610 Toner Cartridge: UPC: 51122245848

How Fast?

Dell today announced three new commercial workgroup printers to help businesses of all sizes increase productivity and lower their total cost of printing. Printers available today in the United States include the Dell 5130cdn, the world's fastest single function letter-size office color laser printer, the Dell 7130cdn, Dell's first LED color printer with tabloid-size printing capability; and the Dell 3330dn, a single-function monochrome laser printer for high performance black and white printing. 

The Dell 5130cdn can print up to 47 single-sided and up to 37 double-sided letter pages per minute (ppm) in both mono and color (actual print speeds will vary with use), making it the world's fastest letter size single-function office color laser printer. The 5130cdn also premiers ColorbyDell, a total print quality solution that delivers excellent color saturation and image sharpness and outstanding print quality. This is enabled through a combination of a powerful new image enhancement algorithm, advanced toner technology and improvements in print engine design. The Dell 5130cdn is also designed to bring significant energy and cost savings by using a new toner formulation that fuses at a lower temperature, enabling a remarkable Cost Per Page (CPP) of 1.04c for black and white and 7.71c for color print out. With a maximum duty cycle up to 110,000 pages a month, the Dell 5130cdn provides outstanding reliability and is available today in the US from $1,549 including 3 Year Next Business Day.

The Dell 7130cdn is Dell's first LED-based color printer with the ability to print up to tabloid-size, high quality Pantone approved color prints, for accurate color reproduction. With its ability to bring professional quality color printing in-house with low cost and outstanding printing options, the Dell 7130cdn includes a rich feature set, including numerous paper handling options, a powerful processor and robust memory. This allows the printer to print the first page (First Print Out Time) as quickly as 6.5 seconds in both mono and color. The Dell 7130cdn is available today in the US from $2,799.

On the black and white printing front, Dell announced the Dell 3330dn, a single-function black and white performance printer that can print up to 40 letter pages per minute (ppm) (actual print speed will vary with use), with a monthly duty cycle up to 80,000 pages. Built for high performance printing needs, the Dell 3330dn packs work-horse reliability, and has paper drawer and memory expansion options that grow with increasing business demands. The Dell 3330dn is currently available from today in the US from $599 with 1 year Advanced Exchange Service.

Dell Inkjet Printers - Oops

Our guess there were problems getting these printers out in the market - only thing you see on the internet about these machines is problems adn techical support issues.

Don't expect these to hit the market anytime soon.

Dell All-in-One P513W

Dell All-in-One P713W

Dell All-in-One V313

Dell All-in-One V313W

Dell All-in-One V515W
Dell All-in-One V715W

See the Dell Support ticket for these machines.