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November 6, 2008 - Recently-inducted NBA hall of famer Pat Riley, who coached teams including the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat to seven NBA World Championships, delivered the keynote speech on the second day of Ricoh’s 2008 dealer conference held recently in Orlando, Florida, explaining how he handled his wins—and more importantly, how he handled his losses. Riley told several other stories that illustrated the feelings of frustration when you think you’re doing a good job but still not breaking through, and then the knowledge, once you have broken through, that the work and the journey was worth it. That was the message he seemed to hope the dealers left the conference with—the willingness to accept challenges and turn them into victories, particularly when circumstances appear most trying. It was an apt message considering the economic climate during which the meeting was held.

MALVERN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2008--IKON Office Solutions (NYSE:IKN), the world's largest independent channel for document management systems and services, today introduced the IKON BusinessPro(R) line of printers. Developed in conjunction with Ricoh, the line consists of three printers, the IKON BusinessPro(R) 31MP, a high-value black and white printer designed for desktop applications; the IKON BusinessPro(R) 3131CP, a color desktop printer that combines superior image quality with quick print speeds; and the IKON BusinessPro(R) 4040CP, a color workgroup printer that produces fast, high-quality results, combining precise color calibration with broad paper handling capabilities.

MALVERN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2008--IKON Office Solutions (NYSE:IKN), the world's largest independent channel for document management systems and services, is pleased to announce that STAPLES Business Depot in Canada recently presented IKON with its Best Category Management for Business Services award at the Staples Global Conference. STAPLES Business Depot honored IKON with the award for IKON WebPrint, a web-based print ordering and workflow solution, which provides the backbone of STAPLES Business Depot online print procurement system.

STAPLES Business Depot utilizes IKON WebPrint in its Canadian operations to provide a tool for customers to submit print requests from their desktops via the STAPLES Canada website to any of the 300 STAPLES Business Depot stores. At the STAPLES Business Depot store, IKON WebPrint is used by employees to retrieve the customer files for printing and to track each print job through production.

Bellevue, WA ─ April 2, 2008 ─ Captaris, Inc. (NASDAQ:CAPA), a leading provider of software products that automate document-centric processes, and IKON Office Solutions (NYSE:IKN), the world’s largest independent channel for document management systems and services, today announced that Hanson Pipe & Precast has selected IKON to integrate and deploy Captaris RightFax as an integral component to its evolution from a paper-based business to a digital enterprise. As a result, Hanson Pipe & Precast has increased its profitability, realized substantial savings in service, supply and postal expenses, while increasing productivity in customer service, management of invoices and contracts. Read the full case study at: http://www.captaris.com/news_and_events/case_studies/index.html

Hanson Pipe & Precast, with 90 plants in the U.S., is North America’s largest supplier and manufacturer of concrete pipe and precast concrete products. Moving from paper to digital with electronic invoices, a digital document management solution and a new Oracle platform, Hanson determined that although existing fax machines didn’t fit into the digital strategy, the firm still needed fax capabilities. “Many of our more than 16,000 vendors and 10,000 customers rely on fax transmissions to conduct their businesses,” said Art Babb, Hanson’s Shared Services controller.