ADV: Pre-eBay auction for filePro listers. SATO 5900Rve BarCode Printer

John Esak john at valar.com
Tue Sep 7 15:03:54 PDT 2010


Thanks Bill,
Boy, I wrote a lot didn't I?  :-)
Typing is a curse... :-)

John
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Campbell [mailto:bill at celestial.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 4:50 PM
> To: John Esak
> Subject: Re: ADV: Pre-eBay auction for filePro listers. SATO 
> 5900Rve BarCode Printer
> 
> John:
> 
> I forwarded this to one of my clients in Tacoma Washington.
> 
> Rodgers Hemer might also be interested for a joint client we have
> in Seattle that probably has to print lots of bar codes.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010, John Esak wrote:
> >
> >Hello file-Pro-ers,
> >
> >Often it becomes desirable or even necessary to implement 
> some kind of bar
> >code reading and printing with most filePro data base 
> applications.  They
> >just lend themselves to it. Can't help at this moment with the reader
> >aspect, but I can do someone a great favor on the printing 
> side of things.
> >If you need a bar code printer... A really great network 
> ready one.... The
> >BEST... Read on.
> >
> >When Nexus bought all its bar code printers for the huge 
> production of boxes
> >they do daily, monthly and yearly... I thought it would be a 
> good time to
> >get one for The Valar Group as well.  After a good bit of 
> testing way back
> >in the 90's, and then further testing in the early 2000's, 
> yes *after* I
> >lost my sight!  And yes, it was extremely difficult.  But 
> all that aside. I
> >finally ended up choosing the SATA 5900Rve printer.  Things are often
> >described as being a workhorse if they work hard and keep 
> going and going.
> >This then would have to be called a work elephant.  They 
> print single label
> >after label in batches of 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 non-stop 
> for years.  Still
> >I'm not telling you the whole story. They do it in any kind 
> of environment.
> >The plant floor at Nexus is measured at 130 degrees 
> Fahrenheit during any
> >day in the summer. In the winter, the temp goes down to 40 
> degrees in some
> >places and a little hotter in others.  None of this bothers 
> these printers
> >at all. They work continuously, 24 hour a day 365 days a 
> year. They run 3
> >eight hour shifts at Nexus.  Well, I don't know about now 
> with the economy
> >in the shape it's in. But they always had for the 20 years I 
> worked there.
> >Every SATO printer they had printed hundreds of thousands 
> and even millions
> >of labels a year without complaint. Occasionally, we would 
> change a print
> >head through regular PM.
> >
> >Okay, enough bullshit.... True bullshit but enough anyway. 
> The printer I
> >bought for Valar Group had considerably less duties to 
> perform in a nicer
> >atmosphere... My recording studio.  I put out 3 or 4 
> projects, let's see the
> >conference stuff one year, the Survivor Series CD's, the 
> Survivor Accounting
> >and a couple other piddly things.  I would say this printer 
> is  really
> >NEW... But I can't. It has actually printed about 400 
> labels. Little 4 x 4
> >labels.  You may have seen one if you bought anything from 
> me. They had a
> >little outlined Wizard thanks to Jim Asman's help to print 
> the picture. We
> >did lots of miracles on these printers for Nexus. For this 
> printer, it only
> >did some address labels maybe 3 or 4 times and the rest of 
> the time it's
> >just sat there smiling at me.  
> >
> >I'm going to put it up on eBay in a week or so, but I 
> figured I give the
> >group of you a chance to buy it first here. I will help 
> whoever buys it set
> >it up (means plugging it in pretty much) and help you make a 
> couple bar code
> >labels out of filePro.  By using what I show you and the 
> manuals, it is dead
> >easy to make very nice labels from simple to extremely 
> complicated. I have a
> >small roll of the 4" x 4" labels I'll throw in as well.  It 
> will print up to
> >any size label very easily.  Well, the limit may be 7" long? 
>  I'm not sure,
> >I don't remember. I just know that it is as much or more 
> than any other
> >printer in its class.  It is also faster at 6" second.  And 
> it is made out
> >of steel not plastic. Hence, the first two paragraphs above.  
> >
> >You just connect this printer up to a network switch  (or 
> hub, if you're
> >very old-timey) and you can print to it from SCO, *nix, or 
> Windows. If you
> >do a major amount of printing labels, I can tell you where 
> we got our GIANT
> >ROLL holders  both for intake and outflow. I can put you in 
> touch with a guy
> >who has the best label prices in the country and get a 
> conference call going
> >so you can buy direct from his factory.  He is a very nice guy.  
> >
> >There are lots of bennies to buying this thing from me 
> before I have to put
> >it up on eBay.  First of all should be price. So I'll be 
> selling it this
> >way.  If you go to NextTag.com and compare prices for new 
> 5900Rve printers,
> >they will range from $1,100 to $1,700, and then of course 
> there is shipping.
> >
> >
> >I will run this as an auction, start the bidding at $800 and 
> I'll pay the
> >shipping.  If you live in the Pennsylvania area and want to 
> drop by my
> >little studio I'll have it ready to demonstrate and give you 
> a quick lesson
> >or two before you go away happy.
> >
> >If you were to get this printer for $1,100 it would be a 
> great deal.... We
> >paid up to $1,600 for most of the ones at Nexus, and when 
> they get scarce,
> >people pay that for them now, too.  So, jump in and make a 
> bid.  Obviously
> >an auction has no starting time until people get worried 
> they might "miss"
> >it and lose to someone else.  So, the ending time of this bidding is
> >critically IMPORTANT. It will be 12 noon on Friday, 
> September 10th. If
> >things go like they do on eBay, everyone will wait until the 
> last minute to
> >bid.  Don't get burned.  Either place your bid up here... 
> And we can all see
> >who is the highest and what has to be bid to beat it. $5 
> minimum bid okay?
> >If you want to bid by phone, and you can reach me, I'll 
> accept bids at (717)
> >889-4689 any time of the day. Normal hours are obviously 
> better (6am to 12
> >midnight are normal hours). As soon as I get a higher bid, 
> I'll post it in
> >the bidder's name.
> >
> >I think I'm going to turn the phone off at some point a 
> couple hours just
> >before the end of the auction to be fair.  Although, I don't 
> know *why* that
> >would be fair... And actually I would like to entertain 
> OffTopic ideas on
> >how to end the auction a better way. Only through the 
> mailing list... Only
> >on the phone... Only some kind of combo keep both going. 
> Turn off list. All
> >ideas accepted.
> >
> >It might not have a big turnout... And then I'll go to eBay 
> with it, charge
> >for shipping, not offer any training, etc.  Or, it might be only you
> >bidding, and you'll get it on your first $805 try.  You'd be 
> getting a hell
> >of a deal.
> >
> >John
> >(717) 889-4689
> >
> >P.S. Hey did I mention this is a thermal direct printer... 
> No ribbons. You
> >just buy the right kind of label stock on 3" core rolls 
> rolled inward. 
> >
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> 
> -- 
> Bill
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> The pinnacle of open systems is: when moving from vendor to 
> vendor, the
> design flaws stay the same.
> 



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