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17
Review of Operations
Office Equipment
Communications and Information Systems
Ricoh’s Position
Ricoh’s activities in this area encompass printers, scan-
ners, CD-Recordable/CD-ReWritable (CD-R/RW) drives
and media, fax machines, personal computers, and
software and services.
As in other operations, customers in this category
demand solutions to help them use their
hardware more efficiently. Ricoh opti-
mizes its equipment and systems to
match networked office environments.
We are strengthening our proprietary
document solutions capabilities, cen-
tered on networkable printers incorporat-
ing our advanced digital and
image-processing technologies.
0
80
160
240
320
400
1996
287.4
1997
308.3
1998
322.4
1999
344.0
2000
382.8
•Sales of Communications and Information Systems
(Billions of Yen)
Franco Maria Ricci SpA, an international publishing compa-
ny based in Milan, Italy, chose the Aficio Color AP305, which
can output five color or 17 monochrome A4 pages per minute
at 600 dpi, for its quality and accuracy.