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11
Supporting Creativity in the Office
Design policy
Document Highway
Document Highway established to meet the
criteria for products in the broadband era.
1. Integrated architecture for hardware and software
2. Component-based software
3. Adoption of industry standards
4. Establishment, standardization, and
publication of interface
Technology
The Seamless Link between Paper,
Digital Documents, and Terminals
With the advent of the broadband era,
information is now exchanged in the form
of not only text but also images, voices, and
animation. Devices such as PDAs and
cellular phones are now networked, and
access to documents through these devices
is a necessity. Information communication
has improved dramatically in terms of both
speed and quality, and the volume of
information has expanded to levels not
imagined a decade ago, increasing at the
same time the number of bottlenecks in
network communication.
Ricoh does not believe that digital
documents alone will create new values.
Even in this broadband era, paper documents
play an important role as a medium for
information. Paper documents are visually
and physically user-friendly and decrease
stress in the office workflow.
In the future that Ricoh envisions,
people will have quick access to a large
volume of information, whether in paper or
digital formats, to create new values.
The key is the “Document Highway”
concept. This sophisticated platform represents
Ricoh’s unique solution for a truly seamless
combination of paper and digital documents.
This open highway will give more value to
information, which will, in turn, lead to
more profit.
The “Document Highway”
Ricoh has proposed an architecture platform
as the basis for achieving ubiquitous
documentation, which enables the
exchange of necessary information in an
optimal format using various networked
devices at anyplace and anytime.
The Document Highway is a platform
that links office machines and software
flexibly on a network so that documents
can be accessed easily. The highway is
designed to be an open platform for
network appliances and the basis for the
easy operation of diverse devices and
software that are linked on a network.
Networked devices are like service stations
on a highway, and documents are like
vehicles running on that highway.