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December 2011

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today unveiled a new generation of digital imaging systems offering versatile multifunction performance, innovative security and advanced mobility capabilities in an attractive, space-saving design.

The Ricoh Aficio MP 2352/MP 2852/MP 3352 A3 monochrome platform, ranging in speed from 23 to 33 pages per minute, offers a range of scan/copy/print/fax configurations in smaller-than-ever dimensions. The new “I”-style design – cube-shaped in neutral grays with a footprint of 23 inches by 26 inches – helps squeeze big productivity into compact office environments.

To accommodate increasing numbers of mobile workers, the MP 2352/MP 2852/MP 3352 introduces optional walk-up mobility features. Users can Scan-to/Print-from a USB thumb drive or SD card for many file formats, including PDF, JPEG and TIFF. Alternatively, Ricoh’s optional HotSpot printing application can support mobile printing from most Internet-enabled devices.

The MP 2352/MP 2852/MP 3352 system is Ricoh’s first A3 monochrome solution with optional internal finishing, making it capable of auto duplexing, collating and stapling sets of up to 11 inches by 17 inches without increasing the system’s footprint.
To help organizations streamline document workflow, every unit includes a license to Ricoh’s Personal Paperless Document Manager (PPDM) software, an innovative productivity tool that converts scanned paper documents into searchable, editable electronic files.

For improved security of sensitive corporate information, the new platform comes standard with DataOverwriteSecurity System (DOSS) and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) encryption capabilities.

As part of Ricoh’s commitment toward environmental sustainability, the platform improves its TEC values over its predecessor, meeting ENERGY STAR qualification and offers a quick recovery time with less than 10 seconds (SP models).

This new platform is part of a broad array of equipment Ricoh employs in Managed Document Services (MDS) engagements to solve a range of information management challenges. The MP 2352/MP 2852/MP 3352 can be easily integrated with other key components of a cohesive document strategy, such as the GlobalScan™ scan-to-email solution, the DocumentMall™ cloud-based document-sharing platform, and the Ricoh @Remote™ Intelligent Management System for optimizing device fleets.

The MP 2352/MP 2852/MP 3352 starts at $4,780 MSRP. The copy/print/scan configurations include a 50-Sheet ARDF, 1 GB of RAM, a 120 GB hard drive for storage, a Java VM card for developing customized applications, and one PPDM activation license.

For more information on the Aficio MP 2352/MP 2852/MP 3352 and Ricoh’s full line of products, services and solutions, please visit http://www.ricoh-usa.com.

About Ricoh Americas Corporation
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion. Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents. Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America.

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Dec 27 - NEW RICOH AFICIO MP 2352/MP 2852/MP 3352 MFP PLATFORM OFFERS ADVANCES IN SECURITY AND MOBILITY

Dec 22 - NEW RICOH AFICIO 5200S SERIES MFPS OFFER BIG POWER FOR MIDSIZED WORKGROUPS

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, has achieved certification from IDEAlliance for the Ricoh® Pro C901/C901s Graphic Arts Edition, signifying that the color production printing system, coupled with EFI Fiery print servers, meets or exceeds established industry tolerances for excellence in colorimetric accuracy, repeatability, durability and registration. This independent verification, from the leading standards body for production printing and other digital media processes, complements Ricoh’s signature quality, reliability and service on the Pro C901/C901s.

“When customers see the IDEAlliance certification seal next to the EFI and Ricoh names, they know they’re looking at systems that have been put through rigorous testing and evaluation against the real-world quality measures that printing professionals and consumers demand,” said Steven Bonoff, Executive Vice President Marketing at IDEAlliance.

The Ricoh Pro C901/C901s Graphic Arts Edition is engineered to deliver exceptional quality and performance for the most demanding production print environments. It combines consistent 1200 dpi output with 90 pages-per-minute speed, regardless of media type or weight, even when duplexing. It delivers near-offset results with Ricoh’s PxP™ chemical toners and oil-free fusing technology. Smaller, more uniform toner particles deliver sharper images and better fills with a matte finish for commercial-quality output.

The certified system included EFI’s Fiery E-41 and E-81 print servers, which target a wide range of production printing environments from light production to extreme, mission-critical printing environments where advanced color management, high productivity and speed are essential for success. The Fiery E-41 and E-81 servers include advanced hardware and Fiery System 9 Release 2 software.

“The Ricoh Pro C901/901s demonstrates how customers can benefit from Fiery’s versatility, speed and reliable performance,” said John Henze, Vice President of Fiery marketing at EFI. “EFI and Ricoh achieved certification in the areas of color, press sheet properties and print production, giving customers an extra level of assurance when making an investment decision.”

The certification demonstrates Ricoh’s commitment to independently documenting the performance and quality of its production printing systems, which played a significant role earlier this year in Heidelberg’s addition of the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition to its portfolio of production products.

“The Digital Press Certification from IDEAlliance on the Pro C901/C901s Graphic Arts Edition reinforces what the market has already realized, which is that the Pro C901/C901S produces consistent, accurate and predictable color,” said Tim Vellek, Vice President, for Ricoh’s Production Printing Business Group (PPBG). “Our production customers should expect nothing less than that in their Ricoh investment.”
To learn more about Ricoh’s full line of products, services and solutions for production print environments, please visit http://www.ricoh-usa.com/RPP.

About EFI
EFI (www.efi.com) is a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation. EFI

Dec 20 - RICOH AND EFI WIN INDUSTRY CERTIFICATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN COLOR PRODUCTION PRINTING

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today announced that IKON Office Solutions, a Ricoh company, continues to win high marks for serving the legal profession and is the readers’ choice for best document management service provider in three prominent publications: The New York Law Journal, Connecticut Law Tribune and The Recorder of California.

A fourth journal, Philadelphia’s Legal Intelligencer, awarded Ricoh a bronze in this category, as well as a silver in electronic discovery and a gold in office equipment. Connecticut Law Tribune readers also awarded Ricoh the gold in the office equipment category.

“The legal profession is one of the most demanding settings for document management and supporting technology,” said Mark Davey, Vice President, Legal Enterprise Solutions, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “Volume is high, accuracy is mandatory, and time is of the essence. We embrace this challenge, and we’re grateful that readers are affirming our strong performance. That’s why so many legal organizations come to us, including nearly 90 percent of Am Law 200 and NLJ 250 firms, as well as many Fortune 1000 companies.”

Final awards are based on 2011 survey results. Thousands of readers cast votes across the four publications. The voting was conducted via online ballots compiled by the publications. Readers were notified of the ballot through direct emails and online advertisements linking to the ballot across ALM’s network of websites. Each ballot consisted of categories encompassing areas such as technology, research, accounting, insurance, financial services, litigation support, education, recruiting and staffing. Once voting was completed, the ballot was scrubbed of all non-eligible, non-end-user votes. The final totals and rankings reflect only the votes cast by legitimate end-users.

Ricoh’s comprehensive solutions for the legal market combine the people and experience of IKON with the innovation and technology of Ricoh to provide practice support, office administration and IT services including electronic discovery, records management, cost recovery and facilities management. Ricoh’s legal offerings are designed to help law firms and corporate counsel reduce costs, support green initiatives and focus on their core competencies so they can stay ahead of their competition.

For more information about Ricoh’s legal offerings, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com/legal.

About Ricoh Americas Corporation
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion. Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents. Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America. Information about Ricoh’s complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com.

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© 2011 Ricoh Americas Corporation. All rights reserved. All referenced product names are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Dec 6 - LAW JOURNALS’ READERS PRAISE RICOH’S DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICE TWO YEARS RUNNING

Dec 1 - VISOGRAPHIC TAKES DELIVERY OF RICOH PRO C901 GRAPHIC ARTS EDITION DIGITAL PRINTER

November 2011

Nov 24 - IMPACT OF THE THAI FLOODS

October 2011

Ricoh Company, Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, has been named a leader in Gartner, Inc.’s “Magic Quadrant: Managed Print Services Worldwide.”(1)

Managed print services (MPS) is defined as the active management and optimization of document output devices and related business processes.(2) While many MPS offerings focus tightly on devices and print management, Ricoh Managed Document Services™ (Ricoh MDS) addresses all business information, including its input (creation), throughput (workflow) and output (processing for added business value), whether paper-based or electronic. As a result, companies gain access to the right information at the right time in the right form.

According to Gartner, Leaders provide MPS to a wide range of customers, including the largest and most geographically dispersed, so they must demonstrate a truly global reach. They must demonstrate not only the skills to deliver today’s MPS, but also the understanding, initiative and resources to prepare for tomorrow’s MPS. Leaders characteristically augment the full scope of MPS with a wide range of added-value services. As a result, they are frequently shortlisted by large and midsize customers.

“We consider our Leaders quadrant position in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant as confirmation of our strategy to deliver solutions that extend beyond MPS to the entire business information workflow,” said Sergio Kato, Associate Director of Ricoh Company, Ltd. and General Manager of Global MDS Center. “Our services can help customers manage document costs while enabling them to create smart, agile work environments with more rapid, intuitive access to information, giving them a distinct advantage over competitors. This approach, and our ability to deliver Ricoh Managed Document Services consistently across the globe, has given us strong momentum in the MPS market.”

Ricoh is uniquely equipped to help customers achieve their goals through an adaptive, customer-focused approach that includes holistic, vendor-agnostic infrastructure management and a global force of 30,000 professionals reaching 95 percent of the Global Fortune 500. Solutions address a wide variety of challenges around documents, including the growing concern of environmental sustainability.

Ricoh MDS is designed to not only help customers achieve better efficiencies related to document management, but also improve an organization’s ability to serve customers and compete in increasingly global and connected markets. This approach directly addresses the depletion of productivity that comes with employees spending hours each day searching for or recreating information that already exists.

Ricoh helps ensure the success of MDS engagements with a proven Organizational Change Management process based on Procsi’s ADKAR® (Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, Reinforcement) methodology, a goal-oriented framework for managed, properly sequenced change in order to achieve a desired business result. This systematic approach helps make process improvements a permanent part of the culture.

To learn more about Ricoh’s approach to Managed Document Services and for free information and guidance – including case studies, white papers and videos – visit mds.ricoh.com.

(1)Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Managed Print Services, Worldwide, Ken Weilerstein, Cecile Drew, Yulan Li, October 25, 2011.
(2)Managed Print Services Association (MPSA)

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Ricoh Company, Ltd.
Ricoh Company, Ltd. is a company specializing in technology and services that transform high-volume, document-intensive business processes into more efficient ones. This is achieved through Ricoh’s expertise in Managed Document Services, Production Printing, Office Solutions and IT Services. By working with Ricoh, businesses can streamline the way they work, become more efficient and profitable, and share knowledge more effectively within their organizations. Ricoh’s worldwide operation covers more than 180 countries and territories in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, China and Japan.

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Oct 31 - RICOH POSITIONED IN THE ‘LEADERS’ QUADRANT OF THE MAGIC QUADRANT FOR MANAGED PRINT SERVICES WORLDWIDE

Oct 28 - RICOH ESTABLISHES SALES COMPANY IN VIETNAM

Oct 27 - RICOH UNVEILS MANAGED DOCUMENT SERVICES 2.0

Oct 26 - RICOH NAMED AS LEADER IN LEADING ANALYST FIRM’S MAGIC QUADRANT FOR MULTIFUNCTION PRODUCTS AND PRINTERS

Oct 4 - RICOH INTRODUCES PORTABLE DIGITAL PROJECTORS FOR BUSINESS PEOPLE ON THE GO

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions, is spotlighting its range of solutions to better manage healthcare information this week at the AHIMA Convention & Exhibit, a major event in Salt Lake City for health information professionals.

Ricoh offers deep experience in the healthcare vertical, having provided services to over 700 U.S. hospitals in the past two decades. Better focus on document management and information infrastructure has the potential to yield significant financial benefits. In one case, the use of Ricoh Healthcare services saved the University of Louisville Hospital $1.6 million over a five year period.
At AHIMA, Ricoh unveiled its Ricoh Rapid Process Assessment (RPA) business process analysis methodology as part of the Ricoh Healthcare portfolio. Ricoh RPA is designed as a first step for helping clients with disparate technologies and manual paper-based processes to jumpstart their improvement initiatives.

Ricoh RPA uncovers a healthcare organization’s most pressing needs in information management staffing, technology and methods, providing a current state picture and roadmap to help drive measurable improvement. Subsequent process redesign, re-engineering and enabling technologies can help eliminate silos that slow information delivery and burden clinicians and administrators.
“The first step in solving a problem is defining the problem as thoroughly and objectively as possible,” said Jon Elwell, Vice President, Healthcare for Ricoh U.S. “This way, the solution fits the need rather than forcing everyone to adapt to an arbitrary new process enforced by a new technology. Sound methods like Ricoh RPA fills this need for our healthcare customers.”

Uniquely tailored assessments
Just one instrument in the Ricoh Healthcare toolset, Ricoh RPA includes discrete benchmarking for comparison with other hospital systems, predictive modeling, and process analytics that verify findings and identify cost-saving opportunities. Designed specifically for healthcare, Ricoh RPA uniquely tailors assessments for every department and process within a healthcare organization. It also leverages Six Sigma quality management principles.

Solutions include a performance management framework with key performance indicators (KPIs) for continuous improvement. And because assessments often cover processes that cross departmental boundaries, recommendations may include consolidation of operations into shared services infrastructures that create economies of scale.

Ricoh can work with organizations to prescribe customized department-specific and healthcare-enterprise-wide solutions for managed document services and enterprise document management, as well as on-site and off-site managed services, technical services and support, and customized workflow design and implementation. RPA and other Ricoh Healthcare solutions are specifically designed to help organizations:

• Improve operational processes and workflow efficiency
• Share electronic patient records across the healthcare enterprise
• Remotely access patient information
• Improve patient data capture for meaningful use
• Better contain or reduce document management costs
• Establish a more efficient and effective information infrastructure

Visit Ricoh at AHIMA in booth 1831. For more information on Ricoh Healthcare solutions, visit www.ricoh-usa.com/healthcare.

About Ricoh Americas Corporation
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion.

Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents.

Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America.

Information about Ricoh’s complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com.

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© 2011 Ricoh Americas Corporation. All rights reserved. All referenced product names are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Oct 3 - RICOH SHOWCASES HEALTH INFORMATION SOLUTIONS AT AHIMA CONVENTION

Oct 1 - RICOH ESTABLISHES PENTAX RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD.

September 2011

Ricoh Americas Corporation and Heidelberg México today announced they have signed a contract to make Mexico the next market in the Americas to participate in the phased global rollout of the new Heidelberg and Ricoh strategic cooperation.

The relationship enables Heidelberg México to sell Ricoh’s latest color digital press, the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition, as part of Heidelberg’s total print solution. The two parent companies, Ricoh Company, Ltd. (Ricoh) and Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg), entered into a global strategic partnership agreement in February this year. Heidelberg’s and Ricoh’s future plans include integration with Heidelberg’s industry-standard workflow solution in the graphic arts industry, Prinect, as well as joint development activities for future printing applications.

Digital printing continues to grow as commercial printers extend their business models to offer marketing services, short-run color and same-day service. Offset printers are increasingly seeking to complete their portfolios with a flexible digital solution integrated into their existing high-quality offset environment. The Ricoh and Heidelberg relationship supports these customers in growing their core offset business and enables them to offer more flexibility to their clients using Ricoh’s latest digital print technology.

About Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
A technology provider and partner in the print media industry, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) is the world-wide leading provider of solutions and services for the print media industry. The name Heidelberg is internationally associated with leading technology, top quality, and customer focus. The company’s core business starts with its equipment and services the entire process and value chain of the sheetfed offset format classes from 20 inches to 64 inches as well as digital printing solutions.
While Heidelberg’s expertise is rooted in engineering and manufacturing the best presses, it extends to a range of prepress and postpress equipment as well as services and solutions including: Business Consulting, Saphira Consumables, Professional Training, Parts, Service, Remarketed Equipment and Workflow software. www.heidelberg.com.

About Ricoh Americas Corporation
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion. Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents. Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America. Information about Ricoh’s complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com.

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© 2011 Ricoh Americas Corporation. All rights reserved. All referenced product names are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Sep 30 - HEIDELBERG MÉXICO AND RICOH ROLL OUT DIGITAL OFFERING

Sep 29 - RICOH ENDORSES “THE 2°C CHALLENGE COMMUNIQUÉ” JOINT DECLARATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Sep 15 - RICOH INTRODUCES NEW AFICIO SP 4310N BLACK & WHITE LASER PRINTER

Heidelberg USA and Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced that the United States and Brazil have been chosen as the first markets in the Americas in the phased global rollout of the new Heidelberg and Ricoh strategic cooperation. Heidelberg Chairman Bernhard Schreier and Heidelberg USA President Jim Dunn along with Ricoh Company, Ltd. CEO Shiro Kondo and Ricoh Americas Corporation Chairman and CEO Kevin Togashi, formally announced today the contract signing at a press conference during GRAPH EXPO in Chicago, Ill.

The relationship enables Heidelberg to sell Ricoh’s latest color digital press, the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition, as part of Heidelberg’s total print solution.

Jim Dunn of Heidelberg USA commented, “We have worked closely with the Ricoh regional management team in the Americas and have agreed on the best strategy for introducing Ricoh into Heidelberg’s U.S. and Latin American markets. These countries are the first step, and we will continue to introduce Ricoh into Heidelberg operations in other markets through a phased approach.”

The two companies entered into a global strategic partnership agreement in February this year. Heidelberg’s and Ricoh’s future plans include integration with Heidelberg’s industry-standard workflow solution in the graphic arts industry, Prinect, as well as joint development activities for future printing applications.

Kevin Togashi of Ricoh Americas Corporation said, “Heidelberg and Ricoh share an uncompromising commitment to excellence. We are both dedicated to offering a broad and balanced range of solutions that truly embrace the era of digital and offset convergence with uncompromising customer service. Together, we will continue to share our knowledge and expertise in developing the best printing models that meet the needs of our customers.”

Addressing the market need of integrated print production Digital printing continues to grow as commercial printers extend their business models to offer marketing services, short-run color and same-day service. Offset printers are increasingly seeking to complete their portfolios with a flexible digital solution integrated into their existing high-quality offset environment. The Ricoh and Heidelberg relationship supports these customers in growing their core offset business and enables them to offer more flexibility to their clients using Ricoh’s latest digital print technology. Today, offset printers have access to a nearly unlimited range of printing substrates and state-of-the-art coating applications as well as specialty inks through Heidelberg’s market-leading offerings. By adding Ricoh’s digital production printing technology, professional printers will be able to offer the well-known advantages of variable data printing, instant delivery of urgent print jobs, and cost-effective production of shorter run lengths

The combination of offset and digital printing now available from Heidelberg enables print shops to respond with flexibility to customer requirements by offering profitable variable data printing and shorter runs in addition to cost-efficient, high-quality offset printing.

Interplay of Offset and Digital Printing offering additional flexibility The Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition addresses the needs of commercial printers to build a highquality, digital color printing environment. Featuring a production speed of 90 pages per minute (ppm), it is easily the fastest and most productive system in the digital value segment. This segment includes systems providing production speeds between 60 ppm and 90 ppm with an average monthly production volume from 80,000 to 300,000 A4 pages and beyond. Providing high-quality output, the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition is an ideal solution to meet the expanding demand for shorter print-runs, variable data printing and rapid delivery on a wide range of substrates.

By combining Heidelberg’s Prinect workflow and color management solutions with the dual platforms of offset (for example, with the Speedmaster 52 Anicolor press) and digital printing (with the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition), print service providers will be able to derive greater profitability from shortrun jobs and simplify color and job management.

For the global rollout, Heidelberg will follow a sequential approach in order to guarantee the highest available service level to its customer base. In April 2011, customers in Germany and the UK were able to purchase the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition from Heidelberg. Both companies have begun the rollout for other Asian markets and are working on the rollout for China. The Eastern European market is targeted to rollout by drupa 2012, closing the worldwide process.

About Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG A technology provider and partner in the print media industry, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) is the world-wide leading provider of solutions and services for the print media industry. The name Heidelberg is internationally associated with leading technology, top quality, and customer focus. The company’s core business starts with its equipment and services the entire process and value chain of the sheetfed offset format classes from 20 inches to 64 inches as well as digital printing solutions.

While Heidelberg’s expertise is rooted in engineering and manufacturing the best presses, it extends to a range of prepress and postpress equipment as well as services and solutions including: Business Consulting, Saphira Consumables, Professional Training, Parts, Service, Remarketed Equipment and Workflow software.
Visit us at Graph Expo in Booth 1200.

About Ricoh Americas Corporation Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion. Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents. Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America. Information about Ricoh’s complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com.

Visit Ricoh and see the demos at GRAPH EXPO Booth 2600.

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© 2011 Ricoh Americas Corporation. All rights reserved. All referenced product names are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Sep 11 - HEIDELBERG USA AND RICOH ROLL OUT DIGITAL OFFERING IN THE AMERICAS

Sep 8 - NEW YORK GIANTS NAME RICOH OFFICIAL DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS PARTNER

Sep 6 - RICOH UNVEILS FIRST-EVER IPAD APP DESIGNED TO FOCUS ON DRIVING COMMERCIAL PRINTING PROFIT

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, continues to deliver on its promise to develop tightly integrated solutions for production printing and will demonstrate two new software products at GRAPH EXPO 2011, the largest graphic communications exhibition and educational conference, running Sept. 11 - 14, 2011, in McCormick Place South, Chicago.

Adding to Ricoh’s TotalFlow suite of production printing solutions, TotalFlow MR (“Make-Ready”) and TotalFlow PM (“Print Manager”) will provide a full range of capabilities to help owners of Ricoh® Pro production printers increase their productivity and grow their business. These capabilities include print preparation, editing, numbering, watermarking, clean-up, finishing, job management, load balancing, archiving, search and reprinting.

Available in late November 2011, TotalFlow MR and TotalFlow PM emerge from the Ricoh TotalFlow strategy, announced last fall, which offers technology products and professional services for enhanced workflow to help improve the bottom line. The products continue a long-term, systematic rollout of solutions that will add significant value to the Ricoh Pro line of production printing systems.

“We are aggressively leveraging our product knowledge to develop software that takes full advantage of the industry’s most advanced printing engine,” said Tim Vellek, vice president, Production Printing Business Group, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “The software automates the processes that directly enhance the speed, ease, flexibility, accuracy and quality of the Ricoh production printing experience.”

To learn more about Ricoh’s full line of products, services and solutions for production print environments, please visit http://www.ricoh-usa.com/RPP

About Ricoh Americas Corporation
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion. Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents. Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America. Information about Ricoh’s complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com. Visit Ricoh and see the demos at GRAPH EXPO Booth 2600.

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© 2011 Ricoh Americas Corporation. All rights reserved. All referenced product names are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Sep 6 - RICOH DEMOS TWO NEW TOTALFLOW™ PRODUCTION PRINTING SOFTWARE PRODUCTS AT GRAPH EXPO 2011

Sep 6 - RICOH DEMOS NEW COLOR PRODUCTION PRINTING SYSTEM AT GRAPH EXPO 2011

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions, today announced that it will sponsor a photo event, "JAPAN FASHION PHOTO 2011," held by hpgrp GALLERY NEW YORK from September 8 – 24.

"JAPAN FASHION PHOTO 2011" – a first-of-its-kind photo exhibition, designed to showcase premier fashion photographers of Japan – will be held during New York Fashion Week. Influential editors and art directors in the fashion and art industries in Japan have elected nine Japanese photographers whose works will be exhibited at the 16-day event.

During the event, "GRist" – a special exhibition by Ricoh photo gallery RING CUBE, located in Ginza, Tokyo – will also take place, called “GRist12.” "GRist" events feature photographs by famed Japanese photographers and celebrities as shot using a Ricoh GR Digital camera. The stories behind the artists’ photographs were first told on Ricoh’s GR BLOG, the official blog for GR Digital camera users in Japan. In the New York "GRist12" event, the work of 12 fashion photographers will be on display.

A "GRist" photo exhibition will also be held simultaneously in Japan, featuring the work of 34 photographers and celebrities. "GRist34" will be held from September 7 – 18 at RING CUBE.

The photographs exhibited represent the unique talents of the artists and how the Ricoh GR Digital camera allowed them to capture their unique, artistic vision. The event allows visitors to discover that self-expression through photography can be an enjoyable experience, whether you are an amateur or a professional.

JAPAN FASHION PHOTO 2011
Location:
hpgrp GALLERY NEW YORK:
529 West 20th St. 2W New York NY 10011. Tel: 212-727-3030

Opening Events:
9 / 8 (Thu) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Art Performance by PIPI DEER X EEPMON

9 /9 (Fri) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Fashion Presentation by TWOIN

9 /10 (Sat) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Fashion Presentation by CHRIS HABANA

9 /13 (Tue) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Fashion Presentation by JUMA

GRist12
Location:
in SPACE3 at hpgrp GALLERY NEW YORK

Photographers: (names appear in order of the coverage in GRist in GR BLOG.)
Robert Adachi, Taichi Kozawa, Satoru Watanabe, Eiji Yuzawa, Daido Moriyama,
Masato Terauchi, Tomonori “rip” Tanaka, Tetsuro Shimizu, Takayuki Maekawa,
Ryo Ohwada, Kazuyuki Okajima, Youichi Sone

GR Digital
Released in 2005 as a compact premium digital camera by Ricoh, the GR Digital has been well evaluated by professional photographers in its descriptive power for compact cameras just as the film camera "GR" had been. The GR Digital is used as a sub-unit of an SLR camera, or as a camera for snapshots.

GR DIGITAL
http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/gr/gr_digital3/
GR BLOG (Japanese only)
http://www.grblog.jp/

RING CUBE
Located in Ginza, Tokyo, RING CUBE is a place to discover new ways to enjoy photography, centered on the “Candid Photo,” which makes photos feel closer and more familiar – at anytime, lightheartedly. This is a photo gallery that encourages participation by as many people as possible.

RING CUBE
http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/ringcube/
Photo Exhibition "Grist34" (Japanese only) http://www.ricoh.co.jp/dc/ringcube/event/grist34.html

About Ricoh Americas Corporation
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion.

Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents.

Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America.

Information about Ricoh’s complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com.

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Sep 6 - RICOH SPONSORS FIRST "JAPAN FASHION PHOTO 2011" AT HPGRP GALLERY NEW YORK

July 2011

Jul 21 - CONSOLIDATED GRAPHICS, INC. TAKES DELIVERY OF FIVE RICOH PRO C901 DIGITAL PRINTERS

June 2011

Jun 30 - RICOH AFICIO MP C400SR RECEIVES HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AND HIGHLY RELIABLE RATING FROM BUYERS LABORATORY

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions, presented two high school students with the Ricoh Sustainable Development Award. Ricoh presented the award at the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), the world’s largest pre-college science competition showcasing over 1,600 of the world’s leading young talent and their independent scientific research projects. The winning students each received a $12,500 scholarship from Ricoh for their impressive technical innovations in Generating Clean Electrical Tidal Power and Solar Energy.

The two recipients of this year’s Ricoh Sustainable Development Award are Kyle Scott Saleeby, age 16, from Niceville High School in Niceville, FL, and Yinshuo Zhang, age 16, from Mankato West High School in Mankato, MN.

Using an original waterwheel design, Kyle Saleeby produced usable quantities of clean electrical power from tidal water flow. He created his waterwheel out of recycled materials and optimized its operation through years of testing and the creation of a computer program for testing. Even in its prototype design, Kyle’s one meter squared waterwheel is said to be able to produce enough energy to power LED streetlights over a 1,000 meter bridge in his hometown. The waterwheel’s application goes well beyond tidal zones and can be used in areas with flowing water and, due to its small size, has limited interference with the surrounding environment.

Yinshuo Zhang set out to design a low-cost solar energy system suitable to power a typical North American house. His unique design approximates the performance of parabolic concentrators using a series of much less expensive flat mirrors. Based on Yinshuo’s prototype design, a 1.3 x 2.1 meter array could be the first residential concentrator photovoltaic system to achieve the observed levels of economy, versatility and environmental sustainability.

“This award is representative of Ricoh’s continued commitment to education and innovation,” stated Robert F. Whitehouse, Director, Environmental Management and Product Compliance, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “This year, we are proud to present this award to two well-deserving students who have successfully demonstrated the importance and feasibility of environmentally conscious and sustainable technology in today’s society.”

The Intel ISEF provides a forum each May for high school students (grades 9-12) from more than 65 countries, regions and territories to showcase their independent research. Each year, millions of students worldwide compete in local and school-sponsored science fairs. The winners of these events go on to participate in Intel ISEF-affiliated regional and state fairs from which the best win the opportunity to attend the Intel ISEF. A team of judges from academia and business selected the winners of the Ricoh Sustainable Development Award.

2011 marks the seventh consecutive year that Ricoh Americas Corporation has been providing scholarships to students whose projects best reflect the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) values of sustainability for organizational and societal success: economic, social, and environmental.

The awards were presented on May 12, 2011 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California.

About Ricoh Americas Corporation
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion.

Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents.

Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America.

Information about Ricoh’s complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com.

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Jun 9 - RICOH PRESENTS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AWARD TO OUTSTANDING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AT INTEL ISEF 2011 SPECIAL AWARDS CEREMONY

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions, announced today the Ricoh® Pro C651EX/C751EX/C751, a color production system with a clean sheet design that delivers an unprecedented level of productivity and versatility, and establishes a new price point for this class of system. Each system incorporates innovative imaging technology and robust paper handling that results in a maximum resolution of 4800 dpi for outstanding color fidelity and detail rendering, as well as support for a wide range of substrates; all of which bring incredible value to the most challenging and unique production environments.

“The Ricoh® Pro C651EX/C751EX/C751 family is a powerful and versatile digital imaging solutions, ideal for in-plant print centers, and franchise and commercial printers seeking a single economical system that does not compromise on productivity or quality,” said Tim Vellek, Vice President, for Ricoh’s Production Printing Business Group (PPBG). “These new products are well suited for customers making their first step in digital printing, as well as for customers with offset printing capabilities looking to augment their service offering.”

Customers can choose from three heavy-duty systems for fast, high-volume color output. The Pro C651EX/C751EX delivers output speeds of up to 65/75 ppm respectively, and includes printing, scanning and copying functionality. The C751 focuses on printing functionality with output speeds of up to 75ppm. To ensure maximum uptime and productivity, Ricoh offers TCRU Kits, which allow customers to replace key service components without waiting for a trained service technician. Besides having the ability to replenish paper and toner on the fly, these new production systems incorporate a new innovative liquid cooled developer system, the first in its class, which ensures consistent operating temperature to support extended periods of production.

With superior image quality, the Ricoh Pro C651EX/C751EX/C751 ensures exceptionally accurate color output without compromising productivity. To achieve this, the system uses the revolutionary Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) technology. It allows for the highest resolution available (1200 x 4800 dpi) to perform any print job cost-effectively in-house. With an extensive collection of media handling options, users can produce a wide range of jobs, such as direct mail, cards, menus, booklets, manuals, etc.

Users can also employ precision front-to-back registration of +/- 0.5mm sheet to sheet, which is further enhanced by the ability to compensate and program in dimensional changes in the media during duplex printing. Further, these changes can be incorporated as part of the paper library.

Central to the operation of the Ricoh Pro C651EX/C751EX/C751 is a server-based EFI Fiery® E-41A Print Controller. The Fiery E41A is running System 9 R2, and has access to the full suite of Fiery options to increase capability, productivity, and color accuracy.

A range of inline finishing options are available to allow customers to produce professionally finished documents that are ready for distribution with no manual intervention. Customers will have a choice of folding, booklet making, ring binding, and/or basic document stapling.

Ricoh continues its long-standing commitment to developing solutions that are environmentally friendly with superior energy- and supply-saving features, without compromising productivity. The Pro C651EX/C751EX is in compliance with the latest Energy Star specification requirements in Version 1.2.

The Ricoh Pro C651EX/C761EX/C751 will be available worldwide starting in late summer 2011.

To learn more about Ricoh’s full line of products for production print environments, please visit http://www.ricoh-usa.com/ppbg.

About Ricoh’s Production Printing Business Group
The Production Printing Business Group (PPBG) of Ricoh Americas Corporation is dedicated to delivering state-of-the-art, high-speed production systems that provide efficient document workflows with high-volume production printing and finishing. Incorporating superior engineering, service, reliable technology, and extensive software and finishing options, PPBG helps production centers to cost-effectively modernize and streamline their operations to meet today’s rapid turnaround and high-quality demands.

About Ricoh Americas Corporation
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion.

Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents.

Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America.

Information about Ricoh’s complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com.

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Jun 6 - RICOH ANNOUNCES PRO C651EX/C751EX/C751 COLOR PRODUCTION SYSTEM

Jun 2 - RICOH ANNOUNCES MULTI-CITY TOUR TO SHOW COMPANIES HOW TO IMPROVE THEIR BOTTOM LINE

May 2011

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions, today introduced ChaMPS, a Ricoh Managed Document Services (MDS) Program to help its dealers transform their business model to a services-based model to meet customers’ document management needs. The program is comprised of three components – Proven Methodology, Best-in-Class Resources and Ricoh’s Industry Leading Services – which will be offered cafeteria-style. This new program makes it easier for Ricoh, Savin and Lanier dealers to leverage what they need, when they need it, while lowering their document-related capital investment and helping accelerate profit generation opportunities.

“Ricoh’s ChaMPS Program is a quantum leap forward,” said Jon Rashap, President of DocuSource, a Ricoh dealer and a leading provider of enterprise content management systems, services and solutions. “The program does more than just educate dealers about document management services. The ChaMPS Program provides dealers with tools for execution and delivery.”

“The ChaMPS Program is a result of Ricoh’s accelerated shift to a services business model, building on our core hardware foundation,” said Jeffrey Hickling, president and CEO of Ricoh U.S. “We understand, first-hand, that delivering world-class document management services requires a change in business structure, which can be a challenging undertaking for some dealers. The ChaMPS program provides our dealers with the critical flexibility they need, backed by the MDS vision and delivery capabilities of an industry-leading enterprise.”

Proven Methodology
Proven methodology means dealers have Ricoh and industry experts at their service, providing best practices and professional education, including resources and support from Photizo and Print Management Solutions Group.

Best-in-Class Resources
The ChaMPS Program offers dealers best-in-class technology, tools and support that enable dealers to fully manage their customers’ output environments. These resources include a dealer MDS Support Desk staffed with Ricoh personnel who will provide both sales and technical support; access to industry leading tools, including Ricoh’s @Remote USB device discovery tool; sales and marketing resources; and a web portal that takes dealers through the steps for implementing Ricoh MDS and offers choices within each step to allow dealers to customize a document management program that meets their specific needs.

Industry Leading Services
Ricoh will outsource its portfolio of services to its dealers. This includes the ability for dealers to outsource premier off-site monitoring services, access to on-site professional services, including output, security, capture and organizational change management consulting and project management services. And, Ricoh will outsource its commercial imaging services and litigation support services as well as IT services, including remote monitoring services for servers and workstations and a 24/7 customer-facing help desk.

Ricoh announced the new ChaMPS Program to dealers at its Convergence dealer event, held in Orlando, Fla. on May 24-25, 2011. Ricoh has delivered custom MDS services to customers around the world. For customer success stories and testimonials on Ricoh’s MDS approach, click here.

About Ricoh Americas Corporation
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion.

Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents.

Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America.

Information about Ricoh’s complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com.

Ricoh’s Managed Document Services (MDS)
Ricoh’s MDS approach is an extension and evolution of Managed Print Services (MPS), which addresses the three fundamental functions relating to the entire document management ecosystem of input, throughput, and output. Ricoh’s MDS aims to streamline core business processes by focusing on process, people, and technology and innovation to create a state of continuous improvement. Ricoh aims to help organizations better manage and leverage information for improved business outcomes through a flexible, partnership-led approach. Services management is the fundamental pillar to govern the print and document services program, aided with expert consultancy as well as proven project and change management methodologies. Ricoh is recognized today by both IDC and Gartner as a leader in the industry.

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May 31 - RICOH INTRODUCES NEW PROGRAM TO HELP DEALERS TRANSFORM TO A SERVICES-BASED BUSINESS MODEL

May 23 - RICOH TO PARTICIPATE AT THE 2011 ASSOCIATION OF LEGAL ADMINISTRATORS ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION

May 18 - RICOH HONORED WITH 2011 MANAGED PRINT SERVICES ASSOCIATION LEADERSHIP AWARD

May 10 - RESUMPTION OF TONER PRODUCTION AT TOHOKU RICOH

May 3 - KNIGHT MEDIA, INC. TAKES DELIVERY OF RICOH PRO 907 AND RICOH PRO C720S DIGITAL PRINTERS

April 2011

Apr 27 - REGARDING THE SAFETY OF RICOH PRODUCTS FROM RISK OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital production printing equipment and advanced document management solutions, today announced that the C-81 Color Controller, Powered by CREO Color Server Technology, is now available with the Ricoh® Pro C901/C901s Graphic Arts Edition. The new product will provide open connectivity to digital workflows, as well as meet a variety of application needs for corporate In Plant and commercial print customers.

“Having the C-81 Color Controller, Powered by CREO Color Server Technology as an additional controller for the C901 Graphic Arts Edition provides our customers with another option to manage their workflow. There are many customers that rely on the productivity and ease of use of CREO Color Server Technology. When you combine this with the C901 Graphic Arts Edition, Ricoh customers will benefit from unmatched operational efficiency, powerful image processing, and outstanding image quality,” said Mike Dane, Vice President of Marketing for Ricoh U.S.

CREO Color Servers feature color consistency, powerful processing and compatibility across all avenues of printing. The Color Controller C-81, which has built-in features such as SMS and email notification, support for the ADOBE PDF Print Engine 2 and JDF connectivity for integration within Graphic Arts workflows, will help customers increase productivity and improve flexibility while continuing to boost profits.

The functionality of the C-81 expedites the user’s learning curve, allowing them to immediately implement error reduction capabilities, out-of-the-box color and image control, and advanced built-in Variable Data Printing (VDP) capabilities. The C-81 was unveiled as a technology demonstration with the new Ricoh Pro C901/C901S Graphic Arts Edition during GRAPH EXPO in October 2010 in Chicago. This powerful digital color controller is now fully available.

About Ricoh Americas Corporation
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 74-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2009 sales in excess of $21 billion.

Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents.

Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America.

Information about Ricoh’s complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com.

About Kodak’s Print On-Demand Solutions Group
Kodak’s Print On-Demand Solutions Group develops high-performance CREO Color Servers and workflow solutions for a wide range of digital production printers and presses. CREO Color Servers offer the digital printing industry leading workflow connectivity solutions. They utilize intelligent, JDF-enabled automation of all print-production steps to help drive business performance and profit.

This independent unit of Eastman Kodak Company continues to unlock the power of print on-demand to maximize customers

Apr 21 - COLOR CONTROLLER C-81, POWERED BY CREO COLOR SERVER TECHNOLOGY NOW INTEGRATED INTO RICOH PRO C901/C901S GRAPHIC ARTS EDITION

Apr 19 - RICOH INTRODUCES NEW AFICIO SP C431DN-HS COLOR HOTSPOT PRINTER

Apr 13 - RICOH RANKS NUMBER ONE IN U.S. COPIER MARKET

Apr 13 - RICOH IS RECOGNIZED BY FTSE4GOOD INDEX FOR MEETING HIGH STANDARDS

Apr 12 - RICOH MFPS EARN COMMON CRITERIA CERTIFICATION CONFORMING TO IEEE 2600.1

Apr 7 - SITUATION OF OUR PRODUCTION SITES FOLLOWING THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI

Apr 7 - RICOH AND UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ANNOUNCE NEW MANAGED DOCUMENT SERVICES RELATIONSHIP

Ricoh Company, Ltd. announced today the realignment of its production print resources with the formation of Ricoh Production Print
Solutions (RPPS), incorporating InfoPrint Solutions and the Ricoh Production Printing Business Group’s marketing and planning resources from Japan. The organization will provide a more effective and efficient approach to this highly competitive marketplace.

These changes are being implemented with the objective of streamlining processes, operations and organizations within the Ricoh Family Group of Companies, including InfoPrint Solutions which will operate as RPPS. The new business model will deliver greater customer value by bringing together Ricoh resources to develop, market and support industry leading end-to-end solutions for production customers.

RPPS will be headquartered in the United States – the world’s largest production print marketplace – and co-located in West Caldwell, New Jersey, with Ricoh Americas Corporation.

”The decision to locate the headquarters of RPPS in the United States is an indication of how important this market is for future success,” said Shiro Kondo, President & CEO, Ricoh Company, Ltd. “This is a clear indication of our desire to increase our marketplace penetration in the US and around the world. We fully expect to see the positive results of this in the coming months and years,” he said.

A key component of RPPS will be its business line management function which will provide customers with faster marketplace response time, longer-term portfolio management, education and marketing support globally, and tighter communications between geography sales requirements and product and solutions development. Additionally, through the newly combined and streamlined organization, Ricoh will be able to achieve broader and more
seamless sales coverage and maintenance support for existing and prospective customers around the world.

RPPS will report to Ricoh’s Production Printing Business Group (PPBG), Tokyo, Japan.

“One of the most important initiatives in our short and long term business plans is to grow our production print business in a meaningful and valuable way across the globe,” said Shiro(Simon) Sasaki, former Chairman and CEO, Ricoh Europe Plc, and newly appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, RPPS, and Executive Vice President and General Manager of Ricoh’s PPBG. “The realignment of our considerable production print assets around the world means that we now have -- working together in a seamless way -- the most powerful collection of people, production solutions and geographic sales and support coverage in the industry. We are looking forward to bringing the benefits of this realigned organization to our current and future customers.”

Daisuke Segawa has been named President and Chief Operating Officer, RPPS, and
Corporate Vice President, Deputy General Manager, PPBG.

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About Ricoh Company, Ltd.
Ricoh Company, Ltd. is a global technology leader, specializing in the office and production printing markets. Ricoh works with organizations around the world to modernize work environments and optimize document efficiency. With more than 108,500 employees worldwide, Ricoh operates in Europe, the Americas, Asia/Pacific, China, and Japan. Ricoh’s worldwide sales were more than 2,016 billion yen ($21 billion USD) in the year ended March 31, 2010.

Apr 4 - RICOH ANNOUNCES REALIGNMENT OF PRODUCTION PRINT BUSINESS, EMPHASIZING IMPORTANCE OF HIGH-END PRINT MARKET

We fully understand and sympathize with any concerns Ricoh customers and dealers may have at this time.

1. At the present time, we are confident that our products are safe.

2. As an extra protection, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) "is carefully monitoring and assessing the potential for radiological contamination. CBP notes that it uses radiation equipment and operational protocols to resolve any safety risks."

More information is available at http://www.usa.gov/Japan2011.shtml

Apr 1 - REASSURANCE CONCERNING ANY RISK OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION OF RICOH PRODUCTS FROM JAPAN

March 2011

Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today introduced @Remote Enterprise Pro along with the @Remote Connector option, a server-based fleet management software application that extends Ricoh’s Intelligent Remote Management System capabilities to enterprise-level organizations. With the @Remote Connector option added, organizations are able to see their population and utilization of devices through a dedicated online portal, allowing for IT departments to monitor and manage their fleet from within.

@Remote Enterprise Pro is an important tool in Ricoh’s Managed Document Services (MDS) program, which focuses on total cost of ownership, business process improvement, security and compliance, and environmental sustainability. This new addition to the @Remote family is geared toward organizations with hundreds to thousands of networked printer and digital multifunction product (MFP) output devices, enabling these large print fleets to be managed from a single application. @Remote Enterprise Pro compliments an already robust set of MDS tools.

By centralizing fleet management, @Remote Enterprise Pro permits simplified management of print devices across multiple locations. IT Administrators are able to map, monitor and configure Ricoh devices remotely, greatly reducing help desk calls and simplifying the IT support needed to manage large print fleets. The software’s optimized performance improves the process for device discovery and polling, further saving time and reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for devices being managed by the software.

“@Remote Enterprise Pro is Ricoh’s device management solution that enables larger organizations to manage their print devices and have access to secure fleet reporting. This unique blend of onsite print device management and fleet utilization reports provides an enterprise with the necessary tools to improve day-to-day administrative tasks and streamline their bottom line,” said Shun Sato, senior vice president, Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “@Remote provides a means to monitor the ever-changing population and device utilization data to help organizations to optimize their fleet of print devices.”

@Remote Enterprise Pro offers access to detailed fleet population and utilization reports found at Ricoh’s secure Web-based portal. Administrators can scrutinize page counts, page sizes, duplex versus simplex, monochrome versus color and other metrics to better track network activity. Also, @Remote Green Reports allow businesses to monitor, assess and report imaging fleet performance and employee printing trends on Ricoh devices in support of internal sustainability and/or cost reduction goals.

In addition, @Remote Enterprise Pro can automate service alerts, toner alerts and meter submission, reducing labor intensive tasks by permitting devices to communicate directly to the service provider. Remote firmware upgrades can also be made seamlessly by @Remote, which improves uptime by facilitating the installation of upgrades without user intervention.

For more information about @Remote Enterprise Pro or all other Ricoh products and solutions, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com.

About Ricoh Americas Corporation
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 74-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2009 sales in excess of $21 billion.

Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents.

Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America.

Information about Ricoh’s complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com.

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Mar 29 - RICOH INTRODUCES @REMOTE™ ENTERPRISE PRO SERVER-BASED FLEET MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Mar 25 - SITUATION OF OUR PRODUCTION SITES IN JAPAN FOLLOWING THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI

Ricoh Company, Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, announced today that it has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the 2011 World’s Most Ethical Companies. This is the third year in a row that the company is thus honored for going beyond legal minimums, introducing innovative ideas to benefit the public and forcing its competitors to follow suit by consistently upping the ante for what it takes to be an ethical leader. Out of a record number of nominations for the award, Ricoh secured a hard-earned spot on the list by going the extra mile and implementing upright business practices and initiatives that are instrumental to the company’s success, benefit the community, and raise the bar for ethical standards within the industry.

"Ricoh is committed to a corporate and business structure that can responsibly respond to changes in today’s world. This includes evaluating Ricoh’s role and the role of each and every employee in order to provide products and services that truly satisfy our customers’ needs worldwide,” said Mariko Azuma, General Manager, CSR Office. “Being named to Ethisphere’s 2011 World’s Most Ethical Companies list is a testament to the solid foundation we have in place.”

This is the fifth year Ethisphere, a think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability, has published the WME rankings, which appear in Ethisphere Magazine’s Q1 issue.

Ethisphere reviewed thousands of companies and evaluated a record number of applications utilizing its propriety methodology through in-depth research and multi-step analysis, naming 110 companies that surpassed their industry peers to this year

Mar 21 - RICOH NAMED TO ETHISPHERE’S 2011 “WORLD’S MOST ETHICAL COMPANIES” FOR THIRD YEAR IN A ROW

Mar 15 - RICOH INTRODUCES THE AFICIO SP C320DN COLOR LASER PRINTER

Mar 14 - SUPPORT FOR THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI

Mar 10 - RICOH UNVEILS AFICIO MP W3601 WIDE FORMAT DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEM

Mar 9 - RICOH LAUNCHES NEW WIDGETS FOR DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION APP2ME®

Mar 3 - IKON OFFICE SOLUTIONS RECEIVES MULTIPLE AWARDS FOR LEGAL DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES

February 2011

Feb 9 - RICOH ELECTRONICS, INC. ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF SOLAR SYSTEM AT HEADQUARTERS BUILDING

Feb 8 - RICOH INTRODUCES NEW AFICIO MP C2051/MP C2551 COLOR DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEM

Feb 3 - RICOH MAKES "GLOBAL 100" LIST FOR 7TH YEAR IN A ROW

January 2011

$Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions, today announced that IKON Office Solutions, a Ricoh company, has entered into an agreement with Hill Schwartz Spilker Keller LLC (HSSK) to be the exclusive provider of Remlox remote acquisition technology in the United States. Remlox is a patent pending PC data forensics software product developed by HSSK. As the exclusive provider of the Remlox technology in the U.S., IKON leverages HSSK’s broad expertise in collection and data processing along with their innovative technology. Utilizing the Remlox technology allows IKON’s customers to save time and money while acquiring data related to litigation or related investigations in a defensible manner. The Remlox technology is designed to “self-collect” a complete sector-by-sector forensic image of a personal computer hard drive, allowing custodians to gather and transmit evidence without sending computer forensic experts to the client’s premises. IKON has utilized the Remlox technology for two years and now includes it as part of its IKON Litovation Solutions eDiscovery suite of services. Because the Remlox technology is deployed using existing courier services and can be activated by the custodian, acquisitions can be performed quickly in even the most remote locations at a fraction of the cost of more traditional methodologies. The combination of the Remlox software, HSSK’s accredited computer forensics lab and IKON Legal Document Services provides a complete solution for the collection, verification, logging and auditing of electronic data. To gather information from a personal computer, Remlox is couriered to a custodian on an encrypted USB device. The custodian attaches the unit to the computer and Remlox automatically creates a complete physical hard drive image. A Chain of Custody form is then completed and the unit is sent back to HSSK’s forensics lab where certified professionals use the acquired data to perform verification and preliminary electronic data discovery services. IKON professionals manage and integrate the process with other services to provide a total solution. “We have responded to our customer’s collection needs by providing exclusive access to the Remlox remote acquisition technology. It will be a core solution in the IKON Litovation Solutions eDiscovery suite,” said Eric Wangler, Vice President, IKON Legal Enterprise Solutions. ”The collection process is quick, convenient and saves money by reducing travel expenses and expert onsite fees for forensic engineers. Additionally, the acquired data cannot be changed so the collection process is defensible in court.” “The Remlox technology is a forensically sound ‘self-collection’ tool that has been used in more than 18 countries for forensic acquisition of computer systems in support of clients involved in numerous discovery matters,” said David Greetham, Managing Director of the Computer Forensics & E-Discovery Group at HSSK, developers of the Remlox tool. “In one example, the technology was deployed by IKON for a large pharmaceutical company that needed to quickly and inexpensively obtain forensic images from literally hundreds of salespeople in different locations throughout the United States. The result far exceeded everyone’s expectations. Partnering with IKON, the largest provider of legal document services in the U.S., will help us quickly spread the benefits of the Remlox technology to a wide audience.” IKON Litovation Solutions is a suite of best-in-class technologies that provides customers with customized support throughout the entire electronic discovery reference model including data forensics, electronic discovery, document imaging, document coding and web-hosting. These technologies are part of IKON Legal Enterprise Solutions’ comprehensive portfolio of document management products and services designed to help law firms and corporate counsel manage their entire document workflow, from on-site copy and mail centers, to off-site imaging and processing work and other litigation support services. To learn more about Remlox, visit IKON at LegalTech® New York 2011, Booth # 2014. About HSSK HSSK (www.hssk.com) was formed in 2001 through the merger of the practices of Schwartz, Spilker & Company and Hill Valuation Group. HSSK has offices in Houston, Dallas and Washington, D.C. serving clients throughout the United States and internationally. The firm has a reputation of going beyond the routine to provide an extra dimension in quality, effort and service for its clients. About IKON IKON Office Solutions, Inc. (www.ikon.com), a Ricoh company, is a leading provider of innovative document management systems and services, enabling customers to improve document workflow and increase efficiency. IKON integrates copiers, printers and MFP technologies, and document management software and systems, to deliver tailored, high-value solutions, implemented and supported by its team of services professionals. IKON leverages the manufacturing and engineering expertise of Ricoh, a more than $21 billion global technology innovator, with the experience and reach of its locally based sales and services teams, to provide end-to-end solutions and one of the industry’s broadest portfolios of document management services, including on-site and off-site managed services, technical service and support, and customized workflow design and implementation. About Ricoh Americas Corporation Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 74-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2009 sales in excess of $21 billion. Ricoh’s fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents. Ricoh Americas Corporation, directly or through its network of authorized dealers, markets and distributes products in North, Central and South America. Information about Ricoh’s complete range of offerings can be found at www.ricoh-usa.com. # # # The only warranties for IKON products and services are as set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying them. Nothing herein shall be construed as constituting an additional warranty. Ricoh, IKON and the Ricoh and IKON Logos are registered trademarks of Ricoh Company Ltd. REMLOX is a registered trademark of is it HSSK Forensics, Inc. All other referenced product names and other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.$

Jan 31 - IKON OFFICE SOLUTIONS SIGNS AGREEMENT AS EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTOR OF REMLOX

Jan 25 - RICOH INTRODUCES PERSONAL PAPERLESS DOCUMENT MANAGER

In a global event, held in Tokyo, London & New York, Ricoh Company, Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today announced an investment designed to aggressively accelerate its shift to a services business model as a key growth strategy, building upon its core foundation of industry-leading hardware and software technologies and document and IT-related services. To advance this shift, Ricoh plans to invest $300 million USD over three years in its global Managed Document Services (MDS) infrastructure, underscoring the company’s commitment to its continued partnership with its customers, helping them to grow their bottom line through effective document management, improved workflow and increased productivity.

New Research Reveals C-Suite Mistakenly Believes
Document-Related Costs are Insignificant

Based on research from industry analyst firm IDC and Ricoh MDS engagements, a company with annual revenue of $250 million USD can save more than $6 million USD annually* through effective document management, according to Angele Boyd, IDC Group VP, General Manager, Imaging/Output Document Solutions & SMB. This includes savings of observed costs, such as printing, as well as unobserved costs connected to IT support, documents and records management, environmental, regulatory compliance and end-user productivity.

Ricoh also unveiled new research from a series of global focus groups and surveys with C-suite executives and senior IT managers. The research, conducted in partnership with IDC, found that while businesses are aware that they need to gain more insight into their information and document workflows, they continue to have little understanding of the specific amount of money spent in this area. This is largely attributed to the lack of consolidation of both observed and unobserved costs and fragmented distribution of these costs across different departments within the organization.

In addition, there is low awareness among executives of the positive impact a document management strategy could have on the business, including how much could be saved and the overall impact on the bottom line.

Harnessing the power of information contained in documents and processes as a core company asset is critical since the way organizations communicate and conduct business is changing at an unprecedented pace. Ricoh’s accelerated shift to services, with a strong focus on MDS, will help customers to become more responsive to the continual flow of information as they address the changes in their industries.

“Ricoh recognizes that global workforce trends, new technologies and the economy are transforming the way our customers must approach document management. It is now a key priority for CIOs to ensure their organizations are ready to meet the challenges brought by these forces,” said Mr. Shiro Kondo, President and CEO, Ricoh Company, Ltd. “Therefore, we are making additional investments to help lead our customers in the implementation of secure information infrastructure solutions that help them to become more agile, responsive and productive. Through our on-site and off-site support, we help our customers stay focused on revenue-generating activities, while we do what we do best – optimize workflows.”

A Holistic Approach

Ricoh’s investment in its global MDS infrastructure is designed to strengthen its best practices approach and technologies across its global footprint and help the company achieve an annual MDS revenue target of $3.3 billion USD by FY2013.

Investments will focus on reinforcing Ricoh’s key strengths and leadership including:

•Enhancing Ricoh’s adaptive customer-focused approach, in which Ricoh partners with businesses to help them meet their goals. This approach includes development of Ricoh’s global change management professional services offering, based upon Prosci’s ADKAR® change management methodology, which is designed to help employees permanently change costly document-related behaviors. In addition, Ricoh has globally adopted the ITIL® service delivery framework, which is the most widely used approach to IT services management. Ricoh is also increasing the number of services teams professionally certified in the ITIL® and the ADKAR® methodologies.
•Improving Ricoh’s holistic, vendor-agnostic approach to information, infrastructure and process management. This approach allows Ricoh to manage a company’s entire fleet, regardless of manufacturer. This holistic approach will be further enhanced as Ricoh accelerates the delivery of a suite of cloud-type tools for device and print management, optimization and decision support.
•Broadening Ricoh’s global MDS workforce as well as globally standardizing its sales and services training. This is critical to maintaining a globally consistent approach to services delivery, regardless of where the customer’s offices are located. Ricoh has one of the industry’s largest direct sales and services organizations, which currently includes 30,000 services professionals.

Ricoh has delivered custom MDS solutions to customers around the world. For customer success stories and testimonials on Ricoh’s MDS approach, please click here.

*Projected annual savings in document management costs for a typical company of this size based upon IDC research and select Ricoh MDS engagements. Individual company results may vary and actual cost savings are not guaranteed.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.
Ricoh Company, Ltd. is a global technology leader, specializing in the office and production printing markets. Ricoh works with organizations around the world to modernize work environments and optimize document efficiency. With more than 108,500 employees worldwide, Ricoh operates in Europe, the Americas, Asia/Pacific, China, and Japan. Ricoh’s worldwide sales were more than 2,016 billion yen ($21 billion USD) in the year ended March 31, 2010.

Ricoh’s Managed Document Services (MDS)
Ricoh’s MDS approach is an extension and evolution of MPS, which addresses the three fundamental functions relating to the entire document management ecosystem of input, throughput, and output. Ricoh’s MDS aims to streamline core business processes by focusing on process, people, and technology and innovation to create a state of continuous improvement. Ricoh aims to help organizations better manage and leverage information for improved business outcomes through a flexible, partnership-led approach. Services management is the fundamental pillar to govern the print and document services program, aided with expert consultancy as well as proven project and change management methodologies. Ricoh is recognized today by both IDC and Gartner as a leader in the industry.

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Jan 20 - RICOH ACCELERATES BUSINESS SHIFT WITH GLOBAL MANAGED DOCUMENT SERVICES EXPANSION

Jan 12 - RICOH INTRODUCES NEW AFICIO MP C300/MP C300SR/MP C400/MP C400SR COLOR DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEM

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