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18
Fiscal 2000 Performance
Sales in this category climbed 11.3%, to ¥382.8 billion
($3,716 million), and represented 26.5% of net sales.
Printer operations in Japan drove this growth and
also boosted sales from our solutions business.
Printers
Ricoh makes color and medium- and high-speed mono-
chrome laser printers for office networks. In the less than
two years since concentrating on this business area in
Japan, we have built a solid range and sales structure.
This effort has been massively successful. In the first quar-
ter of calendar 2000, we seized the No. 1 spot in Japan in
the color laser printer category.
One particularly popular new model in the year
under review was the IPSiO Color 5000 series. This
machine can output six color or 24 monochrome A4
pages per minute at 600 dpi and can also print out A3-
sized documents. Another strong seller was the compact
and affordable IPSiO Color 2100 series. This A4 model
outputs four color or 16 monochrome pages per minute.
During the year, we introduced the IPSiO NX900 and
IPSiO NX800. These monochrome laser printers output
up to 45 and 28 pages per minute, respectively. They also
perform several key finishing functions, such as stapling
and punching.
Most of these models are also sold overseas under the
Aficio brand.
Review of Operations
Pelikan Hardcopy International AG, an Italian
subsidiary of Europe’s leading maker of inks for
inkjet printers, values the Aficio AP204 highly for its
speed, precision, and durability. This A4 model out-
puts four color or 16 monochrome pages per
minute.
Modis Professional Services, a large temporary staffing agency in
Jacksonville, North Carolina, bought the Aficio AP4500, a mono-
chrome laser printer that outputs up to 45 pages per minute and
performs key finishing functions like stapling and punching.
The Aficio AP2700, a 27-page-per-minute printer, is a favorite at
Florida Windstorm Underwriting Association, a major insurer in
Jacksonville, North Carolina, that uses only Ricoh-made office
equipment.