InfoPrint Next-Generation Monochrome Solutions Help Businesses Control Costs

InfoPrint 4100, InfoPrint 100 and InfoPrint 75 solutions boast improved flexibility, new toner for ultra high speed models and reduced total cost of ownership.

BOULDER, Colo., February 03, 2009

InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today announced significant enhancements to its monochrome continuous forms print portfolio, offering improved productivity and increased flexibility for monochrome customers of all sizes. These enhancements are to its flagship models: the InfoPrint 4100 and the InfoPrint 100 and InfoPrint 75. This highlights the importance of monochrome as a flexible, cost-effective and sustainable print option, particularly important in current competitive environments as customers look to control costs and increase efficiency.

These latest enhancements have been produced by InfoPrint with ongoing investment and support from parent company Ricoh, particularly in toner development. The InfoPrint 4100 is ideal for customers in TransPromo, direct mail and service bureau environments while the InfoPrint 100 and InfoPrint 75 are aimed at small-to-medium size businesses (SMB), warehouses and datacenters.

“InfoPrint continues to enhance our offerings to match market conditions and to help meet the pain points our customers are feeling. Our high speed monochrome enables a variety of innovative data and image production, while keeping an eye on costs and environmental concerns,” said Chris Reid, Director of Production Monochrome Solutions at InfoPrint. “Ricoh’s continued investment highlights the significance of monochrome both for InfoPrint and to the market, as a sustainable, high speed solution that provides a new level of productivity, increased reliability and a variety of data options.”

The InfoPrint 4100 continuous forms printer produces high quality monochrome output that is typically only available using cutsheet solutions. "It offers users broader paper selection options, now including mechanical pulp paper to improve its sustainability." The InfoPrint 4100 also delivers some of the highest speeds currently on the market for electrophotographic printers and allows for the production of more output with less operator time increasing productivity.

The feature enhancements for the InfoPrint 75 and InfoPrint are:

• Increased options of support technologies
  These new models offer full support of Intelligent Print Data Stream (IPDS) which has become the standard for mission-critical printing. In addition to this, the InfoPrint 100 and InfoPrint 75 support PCL and PostScript
• Added language support
  The InfoPrint 100 and InfoPrint 75 now support the operator panel and web page languages in Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian and Spanish
• Reliable, flexible and productive platform
  Ideal for customers such as datacenters, SMBs and warehouses producing client invoices, statements, picking slips, labels and direct marketing mailings

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About InfoPrint Solutions Company

InfoPrint Solutions Company, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, is a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh built on IBM’s nearly 50 years in the production print space and Ricoh’s excellence in technology innovation. Together, the two companies are bringing to market a portfolio that includes solutions for production printing for enterprises and commercial printers, as well as office workgroup environments and industrial segments.

Operating in 36 countries worldwide, InfoPrint holds more than 200 technology patents in the printing and output related industry including the invention of the Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) Architecture, which is a de-facto industry standard for production printing environments. In 2010, InfoPrint will become a fully owned subsidiary of The Ricoh Company, joining an extensive portfolio of innovative technology brands in the Ricoh family. Ricoh Company Ltd., is 72-year-old leading supplier of office automation equipment and electronics, with fiscal year 2007 sales in excess of $22 billion, a 7.3 percent increase over the previous year.

Please visit www.infoprint.com for more information.

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Tracey Sheehy
Breakaway Communications for InfoPrint Solutions Company
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212-616-6003