RICOH SP C440DN adds support for second network, keeps costs at industry lows

Malvern, PA, September 9, 2015 – Ricoh today unveiled a new version of its market-leading laser printer for workgroups needing all-day affordable, reliable color in higher-than-average volumes. The RICOH SP C440DN prints 42 pages of business documents per minute and in sizes up to 8.5 inches by 14 inches at resolutions up to 1200 x 1200 dpi.

Offering among the industry’s lowest cost per page, the printer also supports today’s newest workstyles. It enables mobile workers to print on demand via the RICOH Smart Device Print&Scan app. The RICOH SP C440DN can serve as many as two networks at once – e.g., a business’s main and guest networks. An optional hard drive adds additional security options and enables printing on demand of commonly used documents.

“The RICOH SP C440DN updates models that led their market for years, helping companies achieve higher levels of information mobility even as they contain costs,” said John Brophy, Vice President, Product Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “The new model preserves what customers liked, adds several new things they asked for such as dual network support, and surprises them with capabilities we know they’ll love.”

The low cost of ownership makes it easy for companies to upgrade from monochrome to cost-effective color printing to make a bigger business impact. The RICOH SP C440DN prints documents in black and white at a cost of 1 cent per page and in color for 5 cents, well under typical costs of 7 cents per page and up.

The printer handles the broadest range of media in its class – up to 140lb stock. This more expansive media handling means organizations can save money by bringing more jobs in house, e.g., postcards, banners and point-of-purchase displays. The printer can easily handle envelopes in every tray without special configuration.

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Orlando, FL, June 16, 2015 – Ricoh Americas Corporation today unveiled the 5th Color Kit, a valuable collection of applications that commercial printers can use to demonstrate eye-catching five-color output to their customers. These practical applications – including tickets, fliers, badges and other documents commercial print customers often shop for – are bundled with step-by-step instructions for users looking to replicate them, along with detailed, need-to-know procedures like switching between white and clear toner. The 5th Color Kit is available for viewing at the Ricoh booth, #300, at IPMA in Orlando, Fla., this week.

The affordability of the RICOH Pro C7100X series gives printers the ability to broaden their portfolios. Now they can produce applications that take full advantage of the vastly expanded creative range a fifth color station affords. Expanded capabilities include the use of a much wider variety of substrates, as well as working with designs that could not be adequately reproduced by a four-color process.

“Commercial printers are seeking to expand into new markets, such as retail and fashion, at an affordable price point,” said John Fulena, Vice President, Production Print Business Group, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “What’s great about the 5th Color Kit is that it’s a practical guide that empowers them to do just that. It highlights the kind of applications commercial printers are looking for to increase revenues and incremental business – while also helping their customers deliver new, value-added services to their end users.”

“We are always open to new opportunities and have been looking to break into high-end retail for a long time but we needed the right technology at the right price to deliver the results these types of clients demand,” said Nathaniel Grant, owner of GAM Graphics and Marketing. “Now, with the 5th Color Kit from Ricoh and the RICOH Pro C7100X, we’re doing the work we’ve always wanted […]

Malvern, PA, June 22, 2015 – Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced its participation in SkillsUSA’s 51st Annual National Leadership and Skills Conference (NLSC). SkillsUSA is a national organization serving teachers and high-school and college students who are preparing for careers in technical, skilled and service occupations. As part of its Graphic Communications sponsorship, Ricoh is providing several RICOH Pro C5100s, one of its leading color digital printing system, offering attendees hands-on technical experience with one of the most popular printing systems operating in businesses today.

SkillsUSA, taking place June 22-26 in Louisville, KY will feature The SkillsUSA Championships, a showcase for the best career and technical students in the nation. It rewards students for excellence, involves industry experts who directly evaluate student performance, and keeps training relevant employers’ needs.

“In an ever-evolving production printing market, we at Ricoh see great value in participating in events like SkillsUSA, where we are given the opportunity to educate students on the latest trends, technologies and industry demands in this space,” said John Fulena, Vice President, Production Printing Business Group for Ricoh Americas Corporation. “In doing so, we are able to help future small business owners and enterprise executives prepare for what to expect in the industry as they begin their careers. We’re excited to be showcasing the RICOH Pro C5100s at this year’s conference and interested to see how students react to the versatility, speed and ease of use of the system.”

This year, participation in the SkillsUSA Championships’ Graphic Communications competition consists of an eight part contest which includes: digital press, digital workflow, electronic prepress, finishing, offset press operations, oral professional assessment, production planning and technical knowledge test. Ricoh will participate in the digital press segment where students will be challenged to set up a Ricoh device for proper file transfer, create a finished product that may consist of variable […]

New RICOH TotalFlow Prep, RICOH TotalFlow Path, and RICOH TotalFlow Print Manager and Production Manager add capabilities

Chicago, IL, September 14, 2015 – Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced enhancements to RICOH TotalFlow Prep, RICOH TotalFlow Path, and RICOH TotalFlow Print Manager and Production Manager, aimed to help customers increase workflow efficiency, decrease turnaround times and avoid errors. These enhancements make leveraging the software’s considerable power easier than ever before, with added features and, in the case of RICOH TotalFlow Prep, an all-new, intuitive interface.

With short-run, on-demand jobs on the rise, printers are taking on more jobs of smaller sizes, making it more difficult than ever before to keep efficiently processing their workload. Repetitive and/or focus-intensive prepress tasks, such as tab management and imposition, can become a major hurdle for printers working hard to keep up. That’s why RICOH TotalFlow Prep, RICOH TotalFlow Path, and RICOH TotalFlow Print Manager and Production Manager help take certain tasks out of overburdened printers’ hands, automating them to help improve overall quality of work – and speeding things along, so more work can be taken on.

These enhancements further Ricoh’s work to leverage its expertise – in the production print, software engineering, and workflow automation spaces – to help customers increase efficiency and quality throughout their operations.

Capabilities new to RICOH TotalFlow Prep include:

• A completely new interface aimed at a vastly improved user experience. Jobs are visually represented within the interface, and adjustments are reflected in this preview, working to eliminate the need for multiple wasteful test prints to ensure accurate settings.
• Imposition features that, in addition to employing a similar visual preview feature to help ensure rapid and confident sheet layout, include templates, so frequent job types become a snap to impose.
• Simple, one-stop tab management that automatically inserts or converts tabs, even from multiple sources, into your document, leveraging clear visual […]
  

The new RICOH MP C306 supports mobile workers and provides easy cloud connectivity

Malvern, PA, October 5, 2015 – Ricoh today unveiled a new color multifunction product (MFP) packing high productivity into one of the smallest footprints in its performance class.

Ideal for small businesses and workgroups, medical offices, real estate offices and other similar settings, the 31ppm RICOH MP C306 produces sharp color documents and paper up to 8.5 inches by 14 inches. It consumes minimal office space at 20.1 inches wide, 23.1 inches deep and 19.9 inches tall.

“This new MFP was designed specifically to support new ways of working,” said John Brophy, Vice President, Product Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “Mobile workers can print and scan from their mobile devices and – with cloud services only a tap away – capture, transform and manage their business information through the tablet-like interface. The experience is the epitome of what we mean by information mobility.”

The first Ricoh device to offer Ricoh’s 10.1-inch Smart Operation Panel as a standard feature, the RICOH MP C306 lets users drag, drop, pinch, flick and swipe to capture, transform and manage business information. The RICOH Smart Device Print and Scan app makes it easy to capture and generate documents from smart phones and tablets. The embedded Web browser connects users to the Internet, including Ricoh’s Integrated Cloud Environment.

The RICOH MP C306 offers standard near field communication (NFC) technology allowing users of smartphones and tablets with NFC capabilities to use the RICOH Smart Device Connector app to control the MFP and send print jobs from their mobile devices. An optional NFC card reader also allows users to simply swipe their company issued NFC-enabled ID card at the MFP for quicker authentication.

The RICOH MP C306 is among the most energy efficient A4 color desktop MFPs in the industry with a faster first print/copy time for reduced […]

Nuance’s AutoStore, eCopy ShareScan and Output Manager software powerfully integrate information into any format with key business processes

Malvern, PA, October 7, 2015 – Building on an enduring partnership, Ricoh today announced it is providing customers new options for achieving higher levels of business productivity with the release of three enhanced information workflow solutions.

As Ricoh consulting professionals assess each customer’s challenge and design a complete business solution, their toolbox will now include new versions of Nuance AutoStore, Nuance eCopy ShareScan and Nuance Output Manager software. These products seamlessly interoperate with Ricoh multifunction print/copy/scan/fax products (MFPs) to increase customers’ information mobility.

“Organizations are determined to swiftly move information to the person or place it’s needed the most, and in the form required, to make important business decisions,” said John Brophy, Vice President, Product Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “To help them with this challenge, we are combining Nuance’s powerful new solutions with our consulting, design, technology, training and support to significantly improve our customers’ performance.”

With only 2 in 5 organizations having automated most/all their workflows*, these new solutions will present new opportunities for many organizations looking to move information more effectively throughout their business.

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AutoStore captures documents from PCs, laptops, smartphones, tablets, MFPs, scanners, email and the Web and seamlessly integrates the information into an organization’s operations. AutoStore is a powerful solution for automating processes like e-discharge in hospitals, order processing in manufacturing companies, and procurement in government agencies.

AutoStore 7, released today, adds a host of new workflow features, including dynamic text redaction for enhanced security and compliance, and automatic image enhancement for photos of documents shot by smartphones and tablets.

eCopy ShareScan is best suited for collaboration work streams where team members, bound by a common goal, such as a project, contribute documents and content to the team for further review and enrichment. The new eCopy ShareScan 5.4 offers enhanced […]