Ricoh has released a new range of black and white multifunction printers have the ability to scan hardcopy documents and convert them into a selected file format, automate scanning and routing into digital workflows, or can help with fleet management and carbon footprint reporting solutions.

The Aficio SP 5200 series offer a small footprint with printing, copying, colour scanning and optional faxing with the added ability tobe customised with java-embedded solutions. Users can work with Ricoh’s in-house team of developers to design an application specific to an organisation’s workflow and systems.

“The Aficio SP 5200 series can be customised, providing extra features that can change the way businesses use their documents to improve their business,” said David Hampe, Manager of Product Strategy for Ricoh Australia.

The embedded architecture offers the ability to add software that can significantly improve and extend productivity.

One solution, ESA TransFormer, is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) solution, which can be embedded directly in the printer. It takes scanned hard copy documents and converts them into a choice of file formats including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel or PDF.

The Aficio SP 5200S and Aficio SP 5200SR can copy, print, scan, offer double-sided printing as standard with a large 1GB of memory, a short warm up of under 20 seconds with the first print is produced in 10 seconds or less.

The Aficio SP 5200S prints 45 pages per minute. The Aficio SP 5200SR prints at 50 pages per minute and includes an inner finisher that can staple with a tilt function for accessing the touch panel.