IBM and Ricoh come up with a new printer

InfoPrint, a joint venture of IBM and Ricoh, launched a new series of color printer with enhanced sustainability features. The new series of printers features standard duplex printing meant to reduce the amount of paper waste.

The new ColorCare technology used in the printers will help control color access and per-copy costs. Run in eco-mode, energy consumption is reduced while the printers are in standby. The printers are designed to be used by small companies and middle work groups.

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Ricoh to launch new laser printers

Ricoh launched its newest range of functional and innovative laser printers, including the Aficio SP C821DN , one of the fastest laser printers in its class.

The new Aficio SP C821DN boasts of an unprecedented 50ppm speed and can handle a whopping 200,000 prints per month.
The new printers launched are:
Aficio SP C821DN: A3 colour laser, 50ppm
Aficio SP C820DN: A3 colour laser, 40ppm
Aficio SP 4210N: A4 mono laser, 36ppm
Aficio SP 4100NL: A4 mono laser, 31ppm

Source: www.computerworld.com.au

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IBM and Ricoh entered into a sales agreement

Last week IBM and Ricoh announced the two companies would start sharing each other's sales network in 2009 and promote their servers and printers together. The alliance will enable them to offer corporate clients International Business Machines Corp's servers and Ricoh's copiers and printers as a, comprehensive office information technology system. Ricoh expects the new business ties with IBM to help boost its sales by 1.10 billion in two to three years.

Ricoh, competing with Canon, Xerox and Konica Minolta in copiers and printers, forecast 2.15 trillion yen in sales for the current business year ending March. IBM and Ricoh will start handling each other's products in their U.S. sales channels in spring 2009, with the cooperation set to expand to other regions including Europe and Asia.

Ricoh bought IBM's digital commercial printer business for $725 million in 2007. Digital commercial printers are used to print big documents such as product manuals and direct mail quickly and in large volumes, and are one of the fastest-growing segments of the office equipment market.

Source: www.reuters.com

New Wi-Fi printers from Ricoh

Ricoh launched a new series of Wi-Fi printers The new HotSpot series of printers includes SP C410DN-KP (color printer) and SP 4100N-KP (monochrome printer). These two printers can print documents transmitted via Wi-Fi from any working station.



Ricoh follows the new trend of equipping printers with Wi-Fi introduced by Lexmark and HP.

Source: www.ricoh.com