What do you think about the new KM-1815? We have sold 3 and done about 30 demos. Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks.

I haven't sold any yet, but I'd be curious as to your impressions of it so far!

Consider that I initially made my living selling Monroe Calculators, and a good one at the time, the 1815 selling cycle has some similar attributes. We can take it out without a Van, do a quick 15 minute demo, and see where it leads. We are doing up to 5 demo's a day right now. It makes it easy for a customer to understand KM's lower cost per copy for printers since it is already a network printer. My only complaint is that you can only scan to e-mail and that it requires an email server to accomplish this function.

cpc-- I agree with you but it makes me ask the question -- "Is there a way to use a virtual server (if you will) of any kind on a pc or server environment?

I keep selling out of the 1815 so I haven't had a chance to see if this will work or if there is another way around that limitation.

Does anyone have a super savvy network engineer around that can find a way or has?

I haven't ordered any of these in yet. But the scanning issue concerns me. Does this mean you can't even scan to file on a pc?

You can download freeware SMTP server software from many places, do a google search for freeware SMTP server software, Use the client PC as a SMTP server.

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I have spent a whole day learning to scan to email and it works just fine. You don't need a email server per se as on our office network that has a firewall as well (thas another story)
I was able to send to my own email at the office and to other email addresses outside our
office. So it works just fine and I learned a lot by trial and error.
Regards
ED

As long as the email server is accesible to the machine it will work. The only problem with some external mail servers is security(too much). If you look in your email properties of your Outlook or whatever you use, you will notice that you have an SMTP server name that is usually like "mail.xyz.com". Using that name, on high speed connections, will allow the machine to mail out because the ISP will have DNS running to resolve names to IP's. On 2003 server it may be different in that the name of the server where the active directory resides will likely be the SMTP server also. This is true on ALL KMA products.

I think the concern here is installing systems in offices where there essentially is no "network" to speak of, no connection to the outside, you have to almost create the network for them, therefore there essentially is no "server". A client can run server software to create an ad-hoc SMTP server to scan to email within the local network, otherwise you will have to have an SMTP server to connect to somewhere.

http://www.postcastserver.com/ <<<free smtp sever software. Hope this helps everyone out.