Ricoh MFPs embrace Apple phone, tablet and iPod users in the workplace

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Ricoh MFPs embrace Apple phone, tablet and iPod users in the workplace
AirPrint certification of 10 Ricoh multifunction products helps make mobile printing simple and workers productive in new 'BYOD' culture

PR Newswire
MALVERN, Pa., Dec. 3, 2012
MALVERN, Pa., Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh Americas Corporation today announced that iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® users can print directly to 10 Ricoh multifunction products (MFPs) via Wi-Fi through their local network – no software to download, drivers to install or cables to connect. The capability enables mobile workers, or anyone who has migrated from a PC to an iPad for some or all of their daily work activities, to quickly print hard-copy business letters, presentations, proposals, boarding passes, tickets and more.

Apple® mobile devices – iPad, iPod touch and iPhone, including the recently announced iPhone 5 – automatically locate nearby AirPrint™-enabled devices, which include these Ricoh MFPs recently certified by Apple: MP 301, MP C305, MP C3002, MP C3502, MP C4502, MP C5502, MP C4502A, MP C5502A, MP 4002 and MP 5002.

"AirPrint compatibility, part of Ricoh's new intelligent MFP platform, helps make employees who use Apple mobile devices in their day-to-day work more productive, both inside their companies and on the road," said Dominic Pontrelli, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. "Easy mobile printing relieves IT of the burden of managing software downloads and eliminates the need for mobile employees to send e-mail attachments around an office just so they can be printed from desktops."

This certification deepens Ricoh MFP support for all the standard smart phones and tablets, essential for organizations adapting to the rapidly emerging bring-your-own-device (BYOD) culture, and creates another way to embrace the full potential of cloud-based computing. Seventy-eight percent of U.S. white collar employees use a mobile device for work, and 95 percent of organizations allow employee owned devices in the workplace, with most providing some level of support, according to a recent Cisco study.

AirPrint works with built-in Apple iPhone/iPad/iPod touch apps such as Safari, Mail, Photos, iWork and PDFs in iBooks. Printing occurs in the background, letting users quickly get back to what they were doing. Users can also line up print jobs and manage their queues.

This is part of the broad range of mobility solutions Ricoh offers to help organizations accommodate an increasingly mobile workforce. It complements the new Ricoh Mobile Worker Services portfolio, recently announced, designed to give mobile workers instant access to the information they need to be productive. Firmware update may be required for using the AirPrint function. Please contact your sales representative if you want to learn more about this function and its availability on your Ricoh device.

For more information on Ricoh's full line of products, services and solutions, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com.

| About Ricoh |

Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in more than 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2012, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,903 billion yen (approx. 23 billion USD).

The majority of the company's revenue comes from products, solutions and services that improve the interaction between people and information. Ricoh also produces award-winning digital cameras and specialized industrial products. It is known for the quality of its technology, the exceptional standard of its customer service and sustainability initiatives.

Under its corporate tagline, imagine. change. Ricoh helps companies transform the way they work and harness the collective imagination of their employees.

For further information, please visit
www.ricoh.com/about/

© 2012 Ricoh Americas Corporation. All rights reserved.

iPad, iPhone, iPod, and iPod touch are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. AirPrint and the AirPrint logo are trademarks of Apple Inc.

All other referenced product names are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Contact:

Linda Montefusco
Ricoh Americas Corporation
(973) 882-2172
linda.montefusco@ricoh-usa.com

Jill Searl
Brodeur Partners
(603) 559-5824
jsearl@brodeur.com

SOURCE Ricoh Americas Corporation

12/4/128:20 PM

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montecoreElite P4P'er

Is this standard or an option? If it is an option what is the cost to add this feature?

12/5/126:13 PM

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This is standard feature now, actually most of the accounts I've sold in the last three weeks have been set up for printing from their device.

You know it took awhile for me to realize giving away the feature for free is similar to razor and the razor blades marketing approach. Give them the razor for free and they need to buy the blades, here give them the access and they will print.

Will they print business documents? When we conducted a test in our office and hooked up our devices, none of us opted to print a sales document all of us opted to print pictures that we had taken with our devices. Of course they were all color pictures. I'm thinking this may be true for the vast majority of users, right?

The bad thing about this from the end user or company that allows printing from BYOD's is that there is no control with printing. If I wanted to print 100 pictures of my son playing baseball, I could do this and no one would be the wiser right? Please correct me if I'm wrong on this, color counts could skyrocket.

Thoughts?

12/5/128:14 PM

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