EXTON, Pa., April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh USA, Inc. announced today that it has won the 2021 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award for continued leadership and superior contributions to ENERGY STAR. This year marks the sixth consecutive year Ricoh has been named an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year, and the fourth year in a row with the Sustained Excellence distinction.

The Sustained Excellence award is the highest honor bestowed by the ENERGY STAR program. Winners are part of a distinguished group that has made a long-term commitment to fighting climate change and protecting public health through energy efficiency. These accolades acknowledge Ricoh’s notable work to foster environmental sustainability in its own operations and evangelize sustainability to customers, Ricoh colleagues and the larger business community.

“These past 13 months will be remembered for significant changes, not least of which is the way we actually live our lives,” said Donna Venable, Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Deputy General Manager, Shared Services, Ricoh North America. “Against this backdrop, we have found that during these trying times, it is incredibly important to honor our core values, and among those we consider inviolable are our sustainability commitments. Our work with the EPA serves to ensure our portfolio, our business practices – and those of our customers – drive sustainability for a better future; it is an honor to be recognized for that work.”

Ricoh, an ENERGY STAR partner for imaging equipment since its inception, will be honored for numerous initiatives, but chief among them are:

• Establishing, educating and training for ENERGY STAR Version 3.0 – Ricoh worked closely with the EPA to establish Version 3.0 of the ENERGY STAR imaging equipment specification, offering insights from manufacturers’ and customers’ points of view. Ricoh leveraged its deep knowledge of the standards to help customers, partners and dealers better understand how they can meet their requirements and contribute to […]
  

EXTON, Pa., March 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh USA, Inc. has won a BLI 2021-2022 PaceSetter Award for the Connected Multifunction Printer (MFP) Cloud Ecosystem domain. Keypoint Intelligence, the world’s leading independent evaluator of document imaging software, hardware, and services, selected Ricoh as a winner for the second time in this category due to its continued leadership and expansion in MFP-accessible cloud workflow services, delivering increased productivity and significant time savings to customers.

“As organizations look for ways to boost team productivity, MFP-resident apps and MFP-connected cloud services can be an invaluable tool for streamlining workflows, saving time, and freeing teams up to focus on the work that matters most,” said Jamie Bsales, Director of Smart Workplace & Security Analysis at Keypoint Intelligence. “This will be especially important in the post-pandemic workplace, where remote and hybrid home/office employees will rely on ‘smart’ connected MFPs to accomplish critical business functions, often without the benefit of IT support.”

The award recognizes document imaging technology providers with the most extensive and progressive products and offerings when it comes to MFP-accessible cloud services.  Ricoh’s wide range of cloud services and workflow tools that connect to and complement its MFPs help organizations simply and securely execute automated workflows that can streamline document-centric tasks and improve productivity, extending time savings beyond routine document routing and printing.

Keypoint Intelligence noted that Ricoh has made cloud connectivity a cornerstone of its MFP strategy, with its newest devices being compatible with the company’s cloud workflow solutions to provide document capture, routing, and processing options for both general business processes and key markets, including healthcare, finance, education, government, life sciences, legal, retail, insurance, manufacturing, energy, graphic communications and more. These valuable workflows—when combined with Ricoh’s subscription-based services offerings—means organizations require no capital expenditures, onsite servers, or special software for rapid implementation.

“We are humbled that Keypoint Intelligence has recognized our innovation and dedication to providing agile […]

REXTON, Pa., Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh today unveiled a first look at the RICOH Pro Z75, its highly anticipated B2 sheet-fed inkjet system. Recognized as a “game changer”, the state-of-the-art, Ricoh-developed press with future-defining technology is built to help businesses reach new benchmarks for productivity, image quality and operating costs.

“The Ricoh B2 inkjet press is phenomenal. It is going to be a game changer for the commercial print market,” said Bob Dahlke, Jr., Principal, VISOgraphic, Inc. “Ricoh’s approach to bringing new innovation to market is to do it right. They don’t care about being first; they care about delivering what our businesses need. I’ve been through this process with them in the past, and I believe it has helped commercial printers more confidently and effectively migrate to digital.”

Today’s commercial print environment is radically different than it was just a year ago, as companies in this space evolve to be hyper-relevant in today’s constantly changing landscape. While the transition to digital has been progressing for years, printers are now looking to further accelerate that transition while uncovering new opportunities. The RICOH Pro Z75 was developed from the ground up by Ricoh experts to empower printers to confidently pursue those opportunities, building on the company’s 40 plus years of inkjet leadership and culture of transformational innovation, known as Henkaku.

In this new business climate, commercial printers are more than ever seeking to expand their application range and profitably meet the increasing demand for short runs. Media flexibility and competitive operational costs are key. Those seeking exceptional productivity, ease-of-use, and media versatility, across offset coated, uncoated and inkjet treated stocks, with one of the lowest operational costs in its class will benefit from the strategic design of the RICOH Pro Z75.

“The B2 format is fantastic for commercial printers who are looking to run more applications at a more competitive price point.  It’s […]

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — SGIA EXPO, Booth #3601 — Ricoh USA, Inc. today unveiled a new wide-format flatbed printer designed to deliver a broad set of applications for the sign, graphics and décor markets. The RICOH Pro TF6250 puts unmatched productivity within reach for sign shops and commercial printers alike due to its impressive print speeds, one-touch automated daily maintenance and diverse substrate flexibility. At a time when customers expect high quality and fast turnaround, this flatbed delivers both in an intuitive way that allows operators to hit the ground running and produce high impact products for their customers. SGIA EXPO attendees can take a look at the RICOH Pro TF6250 October 18-20 in booth 3601.

“In wide format, the difference between an application that stands out and one that does not often comes down to the inks that deliver the highest quality with adherence to a wide variety of substrates,” said John Fulena, Vice President, Commercial & Industrial Printing Business Group, Ricoh USA, Inc. “With the RICOH Pro TF6250, we developed a technology platform that can handle the wide range of applications our customers’ customers are seeking. Last year, we committed to making the right investments to help customers overcome challenges they face and expand their portfolios, and this printer is our latest example of just that.”

The TF6250 has true flatbed architecture, with a moving carriage and gantry over a 98.8″ x 51.5″ bed. Print providers who make their names on fast turns can benefit from its industry-leading production speeds, up to 1,391 ft2/hr. Furthermore, the TF6250 delivers incredible substrate flexibility to accommodate substrates up to 4.3 inches thick and ink sets available specifically for improved high adhesion to difficult and uncoated media. LED technology keeps power consumption down and cures at lower temperatures, allowing for use of thinner substrates without risk of melting or warping them. Additional ink sets, including one […]

CHICAGO, Oct. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — (PRINT 18, Booth #3011) — Ricoh USA, Inc.today announced a cloud-hosted, vendor-agnostic solution that empowers printers to accurately and quickly gather high-value data from across their operations to increase profitability and productivity. Scalable and secured, RICOH Supervisor collects, sorts and analyzes data from Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints and presents it in visual, intuitive, informative dashboards. These dashboards can be tailored to measure a variety of key performance indicators (KPIs), providing visibility into the most important performance drivers in a shop’s unique production environment.

“If production printers in 2018 understand one thing above all else, it’s the importance of data,” said John Fulena, Vice President, Commercial & Industrial Printing Business Group, Ricoh USA, Inc. “We understand, too. And we know that data delivers more actionable insights – which ultimately lead to more profits and productivity. The combination of Supervisor and our service experts leaves virtually no limit to what we can measure for our valued customers. Ultimately, Supervisor can be tailored any way that best suits customers’ unique business needs.”

Red Hot Technology award-winning Supervisor allows printers to better identify areas where automation can save time and money, and drive increased ROI on existing equipment. This comprehensive, granular information can provide decision makers with key insights into how their business runs day-to-day and moment-to-moment, empowering them to make better-informed decisions to meet their unique needs and requirements. Furthermore, Supervisor enables the comparison of actual throughput with what is scheduled, so users can analyze workflows and individual device and operator statistics to help optimize the performance of their processes and assets.

The solution provides detailed breakdowns of KPIs, both in real time and historically, that can help businesses identify and address bottlenecks, uncover patterns and trends, and more intelligently and accurately estimate jobs. It aggregates and analyzes key data, sourcing information from any device or software, including those not manufactured by Ricoh. From […]

CHICAGO, Oct. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — (PRINT 18, Booth #3011) – Ricoh USA, Inc.today unveiled a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that empowers print service providers (PSPs) to easily control, manage and report on digital and print channels. The scalable and secured RICOH Communications Manager is a standardized platform used to manage, view and report on job status and activity. At a time when PSPs have never had more to keep track of, Communications Manager helps make sense of it all, bringing different communication channels and their underlying technologies and processes under a single, unified monitoring and management umbrella. The platform is designed to augment and replace portions of homegrown workflow and communications delivery systems that have become difficult to maintain, hard to scale, exposed to security and compliance changes, and are traditionally limited in upgradeability. Constantly evolving, Communications Manager will soon become a collaboration tool with end customers, who can have access to their unique portal for up-to-the-minute job information and influence their actual workflows.

In recent years, PSPs, like all businesses, are looking to technology advancements to help them deliver exceptional customer experiences. Meeting diverse customer needs as a single service provider today requires mastery of disparate workflows, software and output devices. To manage it all efficiently and effectively, PSPs need a well-executed, overarching strategy that provides demonstrable results. That can be difficult, especially when collecting data and analytics from multiple sources that often have varied KPIs, or that don’t easily share information among them.

Communications Manager provides PSPs and their customers access to a scalable, configurable infrastructure that can be built on and leveraged to provide end-to-end insight into, and control over, communications. It can integrate, elevate and/or replace today’s communication workflows that may be costly to maintain and can expose systems to unnecessary risk as a result of their disparity. Over time, these risks can significantly impact a business’s ability to […]

CHICAGO, Oct. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — PRINT 18, Booth #3011 — Ricoh USA, Inc.today announced that  it, along with its subsidiary Avanti Systems, has received 12 “RED HOT Technology” and two Vanguard Awards. Spanning the Digital Presses, Marketing & Multi-channel Solutions, Sales & Management Systems and Workflow Automation Solutions categories, Ricoh’s winners are RICOH Supervisor, RICOH Communications Manager, Clickable Paper™, RICOH Pro C9200 Series, RICOH Pro C7200X Series and RICOH Pro VC70000, along with six of Avanti’s Print MIS solutions. The Pro VC70000 and Avanti Slingshot integration with BCC Software were also honored with the prestigious Vanguard Awards. The RED HOT designation, awarded by the Association for Print Technologies (APTechSM), the organizers of PRINT 18, recognizes important product and solution innovations on display at PRINT 18 that are new or significantly updated since last year. The program serves as a roadmap to “what’s new” in the PRINT 18 exhibit marketplace. These Ricoh innovations will be among those on full display at PRINT 18, September 30 to October 2 in booth 3011.

“Every solution or product we launch is aimed to help our customers secure more customers and address business challenges. Each of these RED HOT Technology submissions is the direct outcome of those commitments, and we are proud to see their impact in our market is being recognized,” said John Fulena, Vice President, Commercial & Industrial Printing Business Group, Ricoh USA, Inc. “We submitted six of our newest offerings. And we are bringing home six wins. It was a clean sweep. That doesn’t just feel good; it validates that we’re delivering what our customers need.”

As RED HOT Technologies, these products will have distinctive “RED HOT” signs posted in Ricoh’s booth 3011 for easy identification during the event, and the designation will be included in the onsite event guide directory and pre-event publicity.

From efficiency-minded software and services to disruptively flexible hardware to augmented reality, Ricoh’s six RED HOT Technologies each change the game in different […]