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

Jean-Pierre A. Radley appl at jpr.com
Tue Sep 7 16:11:04 PDT 2010


John Esak propounded (on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 06:03:54PM -0400):
| Thanks Bill,
| Boy, I wrote a lot didn't I?  :-)
| Typing is a curse... :-)

And unnecessary quoting of a message that WJC sent personally to you,
regarding a meesage of yours that he forwarded to his client (who
happens to be a client of mine as well, information which is of course
largely irrelevant and quite uninteresting but serves to boost the
byte count of this thread with home-heated air) is what, in that case? :-)


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	Here follows what I will denote as inappropriate
	(not to mention very uninteresting) overquoting. :-)
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| 
| > -----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
| > -- 
| > INTERNET:   bill at celestial.com  Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC
| > URL: http://www.celestial.com/  PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way
| > Voice:          (206) 236-1676  Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820
| > Fax:            (206) 232-9186  Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792
| > 
| > The pinnacle of open systems is: when moving from vendor to 
| > vendor, the
| > design flaws stay the same.
| > 
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