International Data Corporation (IDC) reports that the worldwide hardcopy peripherals market decreased 9.7 percent year-over-year, with 25.8 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2013. In its report, Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, IDC also reports that shipment value experienced a decline of 5.7 percent year-over-year to $14.3 billion. This is the third consecutive quarter of […]
Rioch’s New Accounts Payable Solutions Designed to Help Small and Mid-Size Businesses Make Invoice Processing More Efficient
Ricoh Americas is introducing a new solution designed to help small and mid-size business better manage their invoice processing. Called Accounts Payable Solutions for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses, the solution consists of a suite of services designed to bring paper invoices into a more efficient electronic workflow as soon as the invoices are received. As […]
Sales, Earnings Up for Ricoh’s Full Year; Sales of Office MFPs/Copiers Flat, IT Services Sales Up
Ricoh Group of Japan reported that for its fiscal year ending March 31, 2013, net sales were up 1.1 percent to ¥1,924.4 billion, while net income was up 146.8 percent to ¥32 billion, a sharp improvement from the loss Ricoh had reported for the previous fiscal year. Among factors helping sales were a weakening of the […]
Ricoh Sues Kodak over Printer Patents
Law360 reports that on April 18th, Ricoh Americas Corporation filed a lawsuit against Eastman Kodak Company in a New York bankruptcy court alleging that Kodak infringed on seven patents through the manufacture and sale of its printers. Ricoh contends that Kodak’s sale of the allegedly infringing products is inducing others to infringe the patents as well, […]
Ricoh Americas Unveils Two A4 MFPs, MP C300HW, MP C300HT, Designed Specifically for Healthcare
Ricoh Americas Corporation today launched two new A4 MFPs designed specifically for healthcare environments, the MP C300HW and MP C300HT, both rated at 32 ppm, and complementing the healthcare MFPs and printers Ricoh announced in March at HIMSS 2013. With the MP C300HW and MP C300HT, users can scan records directly to their secure email […]
New Ricoh TotalFlow Intelligent Marketing Solutions Designed to Help Commercial Printers Evolve Beyond Print Services
Ricoh Americas is launching a suite of services for commercial printers, Ricoh TotalFlow Intelligent Marketing Solutions,that enable print-service providers to provide customers with personalized marketing services spanning a broad array of channels, including print, email, Web pages, microsites, and social media. For example, Ricoh TotalFlow Intelligent Marketing Solutions, which is part of Ricoh’s Information Solutions, […]
Ricoh Document Production Services Designed to Make High-Volume Print-and-Mail Workloads More Efficient
Ricoh Americas has introduced a suite of services designed to improve high-volume print-and-mail workflows typically found in the finance, insurance, utilities, and telecom industries, which typically print and distribute high volumes of transactional mail such as invoices, checks, and account statements. These print-and-mail workflows can often be expensive, generate sluggish cash flow, and can result […]
Ricoh Canada Launches Cloud-Based Rcloud Services
Ricoh Canada is launching RCloud Services, a platform for a suite of cloud-based services that it’s offering. The first service that will be available will be Ricoh’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution, which provides customers with a “Software as a Service” (SaaS) model to address their content-management needs. The company is focusing on small to […]
Infinity Computer Products Suing 13 Printer Companies for Fax-Related Patent Infringement
PriorSmart.com, which reports on patent and IP news, reports that Infinity Computer Products has sued 13 printer companies (Toshiba, OKI Data Americas, Samsung, Lexmark, Canon, Konica Minolta, Panasonic, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Epson, Dell, Brother, and Ricoh) for infringement of four patents related to interface circuits for linking a fax machine to a computer, enabling the fax machine to also […]
Intellectual Ventures Files Printer Patent-Infringement Lawsuits Against Ricoh, Canon – Updated
Controversial patent and technology firm Intellectual Ventures has filed printer patent-infringement lawsuits against Canon and Ricoh. According to CNET, Intellectual Ventures filed two complaints in the U.S. District Court of Delaware on March 25th, alleging that Canon infringed on nine of its patents, while Ricoh infringed on seven of its patents relating to printer technology. […]
Ricoh to Set Up New Sales Company in South Korea
Ricoh Company of Japan will be establishing a new sales company, Ricoh Korea Company, Ltd, in South Korea. Ricoh Korea will be a 100-percent Ricoh-owned sales company located in Seoul, South Korea. It will initially sell Ricoh’s production printer line-up, and in the future will expand to also sell Ricoh’s business line-up of office MFPs, […]
Ricoh Sets Sights on Asia: Ricoh Asia Pacific and Ricoh China to Share Resources
Ricoh Company of Japan says it will be seeking to strengthen its business structure in the Asian market. The firm says it’s been expanding its marketing and sales in the Asia Pacific region, as well as in China, after establishing Ricoh Asia Pasific Pte. Ltd in the country of Singapore in 1996, and Ricoh China Company […]
Ricoh Introduces its First Wide-Format MFP, the Inkjet-Based MP CW2200SP
Ricoh Americas is introducing its first full-color MFP, the MP CW2200SP, which uses full-color inkjet-printing, and is designed for low-volume, wide-format workflows and for use in architectural, construction, and engineering firms operating in CAD-centric environments. The system uses Ricoh’s GELJET inkjet-printing. First introduced with Ricoh’s GELJET line of printers, GELJET printing uses a waterproof gel-like pigment-ink […]
Zenji Miura is New CEO for Ricoh Company
Ricoh Company of Japan has announced a new CEO, Zenji Miura, who currently serves as representative director, deputy president, and chief financial officer. Miura will become Ricoh Company’s CEO and president effective April 1st. Miura (pictured above) replaces current CEO and President Shiro Kondo, who, also effective April 1st, will serve as representative director and chairman. Miura, […]
Ricoh Europe: Speed of Change in Information Technology is Healthcare’s Biggest Headache
New data from a study sponsored by Ricoh shows that 92.5 per cent of healthcare, biotech, and pharmaceutical executives have become more reliant on technology during the last three years. The majority of healthcare executives (70 percent) agree it has made their employees more creative in terms of developing new healthcare services, medicines, and products. However, it’s […]
Ricoh Rolls Out 90-ppm Pro C901/901s Graphic Arts + Production Printers
Ricoh Americas has introduced two color production-printing systems, the Pro C901 Graphic Arts + and Pro C901s Graphic Arts +, both of which are positioned in the mid-range of the company production-printing lineup. The color production printers feature new EFI Fiery E42 and E82 print servers, and run on the latest EFI FS-100Pro platform. Other […]
Ricoh Earnings Up for Third Quarter, Raises Outlook for Year
For fiscal third-quarter 2012, Ricoh Group of Japan posted an increase of net income to 17.3 billion yen, up 70.4 billion yen versus a net loss of 53.1 billion yen for the same period a year ago. Sales were essentially flat at -0.7 percent versus the same period a year ago. Consequently, the company, which […]
Metro Sales Acquires Ricoh/IKON Branch
Metro Sales, Inc., the largest Ricoh/IKON independent dealer in the United States, has acquired Ricoh/IKON’s branch in St. Cloud,, Minnesota, for an undisclosed sum. Metro Sales sells MFP/copiers, fax machines, and printers, and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota with nine offices throughout Minnesota and North Dakota, and has been in business for over 30 years. […]










