RICOH INTRODUCES SOCIAL NETWORKING COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT GLOBALSCAN NX SOLUTION

GlobalScan NX Users Have Forum to Share Document Workflow Templates and Communicate with Ricoh and the IT Community for the Enhancement of Business Processes

West Caldwell, NJ, November 10, 2010 — Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment, today introduced its first online interactive community focused solely on a single product and its advanced capabilities to share best business practices. The social networking Web site – www.globalscannx.com – is designed to provide Ricoh GlobalScan NX users the opportunity to share and distribute custom business process templates and communicate best practices with other departments in their organization as well as other companies around the world.

The GlobalScan NX interactive community requires users to register in order to access its robust library of workflow process templates provided by Ricoh and other community members. Utilizing the Web site’s advanced search capability, users can identify templates based on various categories and download them for use at no charge. Additionally, another key feature of this online community is its upload functionality, which allows users to share templates they have created for a specific workflow process or industry with other GlobalScan NX users. All submitted templates receive attribution. Understanding that best practices in document development are an important part of business process management, Ricoh’s GlobalScan NX community also offers a forum for users to exchange ideas and tips for workflow design.

“With the era of social networking in full swing, Ricoh believes this online community will be an effective tool for improving the sharing and distribution of business processes,” said Shun Sato, senior vice president, Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “By creating a platform where users can share workflow management templates and insights, we are helping them to more efficiently exchange information and manage their time. In turn, their respective companies will experience a greater return on investment as employees can use the saved time to focus on core competencies.”

GlobalScan NX is a robust document scanning, distribution and management solution that enables users to control document workflows, improve productivity and spend less on document transmission. Currently, Ricoh offers GlobalScan NX templates for the finance, education, pharmaceutical, and retail industries, etc., as well as for accounting, customer service, human resources, and marketing functions among others to let users begin employing GlobalScan NX family of products straight out-of-the-box.

To retrieve and use the GlobalScan NX community templates, users must have access to GlobalScan NX software and a Ricoh MFP. For more information on the GlobalScan NX community, please visit http://www.globalscannx.com/.
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Our New Ricoh Copier Interposer

For those of you looking for advanced functionality look no further! The Ricoh Interposers are now available all on models with print speed of 55 pages per minute and higher.






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SAVE A TREE, BURN A CD!

According to some estimates, if the United States cut its office paper use by roughly 10 percent, greenhouse gases would fall by 1.6 million tons - the equivalent of taking 280,000 cars off the road for a year.

Instead of copying and storing physical documents, organizations can scan and store electronically. Utilization of electronic documents helps with compliance, efficiency, security, space reduction, and the environment.

We provide onsite and offsite scanning, in addition to microfilm and wide-format scanning. To learn more about the paper and data conversion services Century Office Products offers, please call or email us.

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Century Office Products & NSI AutoStore with Ricoh

Just thought I'd post this nice solution from NSI, for those wanting a simple, inexpensive and seemless scanning into MS Sharepoint, NSI fits the bill. Take a peek at the video:

Print Shop Mail & Century Office Products

When it comes to one to one marketing, Print Shop Mail is of the software packages that we recommend and support. Take a peak at the video and then give me a call and I can tell you how to print 4 postcards in full color for a cost of ONE Penny!

Ring Binding with Century Office Products and Ricoh!

Large law firms will love this new addition from Ricoh and Century Office Products. Our new Ring Binder will eliminate the need for additional finishing equipment, reduces tha chances of operator error and improves overall job productivity!

Perfect Binding with Century Office Products & Ricoh

Here's a fantastic new solution for our higher end Ricoh Systems. Something so simple to produce Professional Binding at a moments notice!

Welcome to Ricoh

Survey Results about Scanning

- Results of a recent survey conducted by AIIM regarding implementation of scanning and document management:
- 40% report a return on investment within 12 months
- 66% report a return on investment within 18 months
- 30% use outsourced services
- 30% have issue with quality of indexing
- 48% have a centralized, in-house scanning service
- 78% have some form of distributed scanning with MFPs
- 32% report that consumption of paper increased after implementing scanning
- 25% of documents are photocopied before they are scanned
- 31% of documents are destroyed after being scanned
- 32% of documents are archived off-site
- 38% of paper originated documents are scanned and archived electronically
- 51% of scanned documents are 100% born digital
- 37% of organizations are scanning over half of their incoming documents
- 6.5% of scanned documents are rejected or require intervention when scanning


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Test Drive Ricoh’s Documentmall Solution

Test Drive Ricoh’s Documentmall Solution

For those who are interested in looking at a SAAS model for document management, Ricoh offers a service called Documentmall. Hosted in a secure data center and based on the EMC Docuentum platform, Documentmall provides a secure off-site document management platform.

Some of the features of this particular application are cabinet and folder based document structure, multiple layer document security on cabinets, groups and user levels. Optional workflow with GUI based workflow creation tools provides the ability to set routes with various options for approval. Ricoh also provides functionality on their MFP devices to securely scan documents directly into a Documentmall account, which can be a good solution for distributed capture solutions.

Another interesting function which I personally like is the various replication features. Ricoh provides a couple of replicator applications which all do basically the same thing. While running the replicator application, you can set mappings from your local file structure into your Documentmall account, and your files are replicated to Documentmall.

Ricoh currently offers a 30 day trial account which anyone can request. If you’re interested in looking into a SAAS model for your document management needs, you might want to sign up for an evaluation account and start to look at Ricoh’s offering. You can sign up at the following link:

http://documentmall.com/products/freetrial/

One thing to be aware of is that not all features are available on the trial account. If you have specific questions or needs, I’m sure your local Ricoh representative would be more than happy to address them, or post your questions here.

Special thanx for this, it was posted on the P4P Hotel and I reposted here.

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Republicans and Democrats

New Jersey & The Two Party System "It Don't Work"

Being a life long resident of the state and now in my 50's, I can look back over the last 30 years and tell ya, the two party system in New Jersey and probably the rest of the country is flawed!! For over the last 30 years we've have a democrat or a republican and where has that gotten New Jerseyans? For starters, we have the highest property taxes in the nation, we are tops in road congestion and the largest employer in the State is the State of New Jersey!

Tell me, why do I have to pay 5 figure property taxes? What am I getting for my money, corruption both state and local, out of control spending, a broken down School Construction Corporation, 203,000 NJEA union members!!

The two party system is broke, and WE NEED to fix it. How, vote for neither the Republicans or the Democrats. Make a stand and vote for a 3rd party!!! Show the politicians that WE WON'T stand for this BS anymore.

Do I think that if a third party gets elected things will change? Well, no but, Republicans and Democrats will be put on notice the New Jerseyans are fed up with the corruption, scandals, spending, favors.

VOTE4NJ is to vote your conscious, vote for a difference, vote for the greatness of the State of New Jersey. It's a great place to live and work as long as the taxes don't kill you.

Here's a few interesting tweats I found:

You'd be surprised how many people are hating the 2 party system, and how much they've hurt all of us.

I can't stand the 2 party system in NJ anymore. Both parties have ruined New Jersey

Democrats Ask New Jersey Secretary of State to Ignore Mismatched Signatures on Absentee-Ballot

New Jersey vote against Corzine- message to Blue Dogs & moderates is: we are disgusted with Politicians!
VOTE4NJ