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.

New capabilities
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 […]

Malvern, PA, February 2, 2016

Ricoh today unveiled its latest solution to help small offices and businesses produce superior quality color prints at an affordable price. The ENERGY STAR® certified and EPEAT® Gold rated* RICOH SP C435DN color laser printer is designed to help ensure business workgroups don’t miss a beat and get more done faster in today’s demanding work environments.

With the RICOH SP C435DN, budget conscious users can produce more marketing collateral print jobs in house, eliminating outsourcing expenses and reducing lead time. In today’s new world of work, companies of all sizes are expected to accomplish more in tight timeframes. To help customers do just that, this document imaging powerhouse produces up to 37 pages per minute and offers up to 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution, allowing for more efficient printing and more attractive color quality.

“In our fast-paced work environments, the need to capture, transform and manage information more quickly is increasingly important to small businesses in particular,” said John Brophy, Vice President, Product Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “This is precisely why we have developed the RICOH SP C435DN – to help customers do more in less time. Moreover, this newest solution enters the market at an incredibly affordable price point and enables mobile printing, which allows companies to help their remote workers stay productive, while not overspending.”

The RICOH SP C435DN can support up to two networks at once for customers that run both a corporate and guest network. Also, Ricoh’s Smart Device Print&Scan app enables workers to seamlessly print from tablets and phones, helping deliver a streamlined workflow throughout all business processes.

An optional 320GB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) provides local secure document storage, print on demand, secure print and data protection with Data Encryption and Data Overwrite capabilities. Plus, you can store jobs on the HDD for quick access to commonly used forms […]