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Ricoh Launches The Postscript Driver For Universal Print
Submitted by Jay Rodas on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 14:05West Caldwell, NJ, January 22, 2009 — Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced the release of the Postscript Driver for Universal Print, an expansion to the current universal print driver offering. The Postscript Driver for Universal Print allows users to print to a wide range of Postscript enabled devices without downloading separate drivers for each output device, streamlining driver management for IT administrators.
Ricoh's Postscript Driver for Universal Print provides a single, flexible driver that eliminates the need for product-specific drivers in Postscript environments. Universal drivers reduce time-consuming tasks associated with driver certification for new models and provide end users with a consistent interface across a wide range of supported devices.
Ricoh Introduces The Aficio MP C2030 Color Multifunction Product
Submitted by Jay Rodas on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 14:12West Caldwell, NJ, January 19, 2009 — Ricoh Americas Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced the launch of the Aficio MP C2030 color multifunction product (MFP). Designed for first-time color MFP buyers, the MP C2030 produces outstanding black and white documents while adding affordable, yet eye-catching, color when they need it most. Built off the award-winning MP C2050/ C2550 that was released in December 2008 and received a “Highly Recommended” rating and Certificate of Reliability from Buyers Laboratory, the MP C2030 offers standard TWAIN scanning, Super G3 Faxing, LAN Faxing and Network Printing for Windows Environments.
In addition to saving money by eliminating the need to outsource print jobs, the MP C2030 delivers 20 pages-per-minute (PPM) at 600 dpi resolution with Ricoh’s proprietary Refined Print Command Stream for full-color and black and white documents and has a fast warm-up time of only 25 seconds. The product can be expanded to include PCL6/5c with the Printer Enhance option. Businesses can also save valuable floor space with the Aficio MP C2030’s compact design, which offers one of the smallest footprints in its class. The MP C2030 handles numerous types of paper for a variety of needs, from postcards to posters and can handle paper weights of up to 140 lb. Index through the standard paper trays and the Bypass Tray provides output for newsletters and spreadsheets up to 12” x 18”. Environmentally-conscious customers will benefit from the MP C2030’s standard duplexing feature, which reduces paper usage and also results in reduced filing space for reports and archived documents.
Ricoh Reform PDC Simplifies The Complexities Of Document Management
Submitted by Jay Rodas on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 14:21West Caldwell, N.J., January 06, 2009 — Ricoh Americas Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, announced today the availability of Ricoh® Reform® PDC. Developed by FabSoft exclusively for the Ricoh platform, this print, distribution and capture solution automates mission critical workflow for organizations and offers customizable features, which enable it to fit the processing needs of multiple industries.
Improving document management can be an overwhelming and time consuming task, but Reform PDC allows businesses to easily improve existing workflows as it produces and distributes business forms straight from any host system, application or Ricoh multifunctional product (MFP). Once the system captures print stream data, it places the information into the designated business processing form and automatically distributes it to the user’s selected print, email, fax and archive systems.
Ricoh Enhances Archive Automation With Integrated Document Management Solution
Submitted by Jay Rodas on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 08:57West Caldwell, N.J., January 05, 2009 — Ricoh Americas Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, announced today the availability of an improved Dataworks3 ARCHIVE module for seamless integration with its award-wining DocumentMall solution for on-line document sharing and management.
Combining a variable data printing middleware and a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution provides customers superb automation capabilities and streamlines the collection and storing of important transactional and promotional documents, eliminating time-consuming and error prone manual intervention. Variable data printing projects can involve large volumes of transactional documents such as invoices, statements, and more. Since these documents may be subject to regulations concerning retention and security, archiving is an essential part of the business process as is the ability to retrieve any one document to respond to an inquiry or request.
Ricoh And IBM Form Global Strategic Alliance To Enhance Document Solutions For Enterprise Customers
Submitted by Jay Rodas on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 08:51West Caldwell, N.J., January 05, 2009 — Ricoh Company Ltd., a leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced a Global Strategic Alliance with IBM. The alliance will provide customers with comprehensive document solutions leveraging Ricoh and IBM’s vast capabilities to address customers’ complex business problems.
As part of the alliance, the companies will first launch a new Ricoh offering, Document Security and Management Services (DSMS) in the US. This solution builds upon Ricoh’s expertise in helping customers improve their document workflow, security and compliance, while reducing the total cost of ownership of office equipment investment and advancing environmental sustainability practices. The DSMS offering includes Assessment & Deployment, End User Services, Managed Services, Security, Green Office and Enterprise Content Management services, which will be delivered by Ricoh Document Solutions and Services Division and IBM’s Global Technology Services.
IKON Expands Production Color Portfolio with RICOH Pro C900 Digital Color Printer
Submitted by Jay Rodas on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 10:57MALVERN, Pa. -- IKON Office Solutions, Inc., a Ricoh company, today announced the addition of the RICOH Pro C900 digital color printer to its production portfolio. The RICOH Pro C900 redefines industry standards in the production print marketplace, with consistent 1200 dpi color output coupled with 90 pages per minute speed, along with extensive workflow solutions and finishing options, all at an affordable price point.
Ricoh's New Card Authentication Package Delivers Cost Savings and Document Security
Submitted by Jay Rodas on Thu, 12/04/2008 - 15:35West Caldwell, NJ, December 4, 2008 ? Ricoh Americas Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced the availability of a new Card Authentication Package compatible with various Ricoh multifunction products (MFPs). This convenient card-based software solution improves document security within environments that utilize centralized MFPs by protecting sensitive documents from unauthorized viewers, as well as preventing users from sending electronic files to inappropriate destinations.
Ricoh Launches GlobalScan NX Solutions
Submitted by Corey Smith on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 13:29West Caldwell, N.J., November 25, 2008 — Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced new additions to the Ricoh GlobalScanTM suite of document capture and routing solutions. Designed for businesses of any size, GlobalScan NX Office Edition and GlobalScan NX Serverless allow small-and-medium sized organizations to effectively manage document workflows to fulfill their respective business processes. A complement to the GlobalScan Workflow Suite 3.1, the GlobalScan NX Office Edition offers small-and-medium sized businesses (SMBs) enterprise level document management capabilities.
Ricoh Americas Corporation Names Mark Minshull Chief Technologist
Submitted by Corey Smith on Mon, 11/24/2008 - 13:26West Caldwell, N.J., November 24, 2008 — Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced the promotion of Mark Minshull to vice president and chief technologist. In this newly created role, Minshull will oversee Ricoh’s solution technology vision across all business units. Minshull will also continue to serve as vice president of Ricoh Americas Corporation’s Technology Center, which supports major-account sales activities and software product development in the Americas.
Ricoh and DocSTAR Team to Support New Jersey Public Records Sharing Efforts
Submitted by Corey Smith on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 15:58West Caldwell, N.J., November 17, 2008 — Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and solutions, has partnered with docSTAR to develop a digital imaging and electronic document management solution (EDMS) to preserve government records and historical documents as well as improve citizen’s access to public records for the City of Camden, N.J.