InfoPrint Solutions

CHIGAGO – October 27, 2008 (GraphExpo Booth #2276) – InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today announced that direct marketing company A.B. Data has installed the InfoPrint 4100 next-generation digital publishing platform and InfoPrint Manager (IPM) print management solution to produce its transactional, financial and government notification mailings. This enables the company to combine data and information on statements to create TransPromo communications in monochrome.

DATE:  October 27, 2008

WHO: InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, announced today that their Suite of TransPromo Solutions was named a MUST SEE ‘EM® and Productivity Tracker efficiency management software was awarded a Worth a Look® at GraphExpo 2008. The InfoPrint 5000 color inkjet was also honored with an ENCORE Must See ‘Em award, a reminder to visit the company that won a MUST SEE ‘EM at last year’s Graph Expo.  With these honors, InfoPrint Solutions Company reinforces its leadership in providing output solutions for businesses large and small.

Boulder, CO, October 22, 2008 – InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today announced the expansion of its broad portfolio of workgroup solutions. This brings to market several new, lower cost products to provide users more price and performance choices. It spans the entire range of InfoPrint workgroup printers, including monochrome, color and multi-function devices, and emphasizes InfoPrint’s drive to include sustainability at the heart of all new technology development. 

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Boulder, CO – August 19, 2008 – InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today announces another step in its on-going program with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council through the formation of the Corporate and Faculty Leadership Committees, in support of a milestone research initiative. These groups of leading marketers, experts, authors and academics will provide insight to support InfoPrint’s commitment to and continual drive to educate the marketplace on the value of TransPromo. The company has also been working in partnership with the CMO Council to launch several pilot TransPromo projects with blue chip brands across North America.

Boulder, CO – July 8, 2008: InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, announced details today about its Corporate Output Forum (COF), an industry seminar series focused on educating global clients and partners on the latest leading-edge techniques and technologies to help them achieve competitive advantage and return on investment across all of their output solutions.

The Forum is a combination of educational sessions and practical technology demonstrations. It is focused on uniting in-house transaction print service leaders from around the globe, including countries as far afield as Russia, Japan and Latin America. Hosted by InfoPrint’s team of experts, the Forum will enable attendees to learn new techniques and processes first-hand, based on practical experiences with customers and partners.

Dusseldorf, Germany – June 11, 2008 – InfoPrint Solutions Company, the joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today unveiled its latest continuous forms digital output solutions, the InfoPrint 75 and InfoPrint 100.  These new printers bring additional depth to the recently upgraded continuous forms product line.  The InfoPrint 4100, a next-generation digital publishing and production output solution, has been enhanced to include advanced controller technology that will drive the uptake of color across the industry.

The InfoPrint 75 and InfoPrint 100 laser printers are designed with the needs and demands of companies who print client invoices, direct marketing mailings, labels and distribution center picking slips in mind.  As each document is required to remain in page sequence, these continuous forms printers provide high throughput and integrity ideal for these environments. 

Düsseldorf, Germany – June 4, 2008: InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today announced the latest enhancements to its next-generation digital publishing and production output solution, the InfoPrint 4100, including advanced controller technology that will drive the uptake of color across the industry.

The InfoPrint POWER Controller is a state-of-the-art, common, scalable, portable software platform which powers the InfoPrint 4100 printer family. It was developed using best-of-breed InfoPrint control unit technology and designed for portability across production printer families, including the InfoPrint 5000 color printer.

Düsseldorf, Germany – May 29, 2008: InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today celebrates its first anniversary and is announcing a significant expansion of its global workforce. Many hundreds of IBM employees will join InfoPrint’s professional services team around the world, as agreed during the establishment of the joint venture.

The highly skilled IBM printer service specialists who have been providing both warranty and maintenance contract support for IBM and InfoPrint Solutions-branded printers will now become InfoPrint Solutions Company employees and continue to serve InfoPrint customers. This team will be led by John Roope, senior vice president and general manager, Maintenance Support Services. John joins InfoPrint Solutions from IBM, where he managed IBM’s printing services business.

Düsseldorf, Germany – May 29, 2008 InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today announced its line up of solutions for drupa 2008, Hall 9 booth B44.

InfoPrint will demonstrate the power of its solutions for TransPromo, Print On Demand, Direct Marketing, Automated Document Factory and workflow management. These applications will be running on the InfoPrint 5000 continuous forms full color production printer and the recently announced InfoPrint EMP156 cut-sheet printer. InfoPrint will also demonstrate its commitment to the environment with the launch of its Container Collection Program.

Düsseldorf, Germany – May 29, 2008: InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today announced that SAS® Customer Intelligence is part of its suite of TransPromo solutions. This addition enables marketers to create timely and targeted transactional documents for their customers and marries InfoPrint's strengths in document production, color and system integration with SAS expertise in customer and business intelligence, as well as predictive analytics.

The InfoPrint TransPromo Consulting Practice, launched in March, is teaming with SAS, the recognized leader in business intelligence and predictive analytics software, to facilitate this new solution. SAS Customer Intelligence enables organizations to deepen their customer relationships and improve their bottom line. Together, SAS and InfoPrint enable CMOs to optimize marketing returns by delivering targeted messaging to retain, cross-sell and up-sell to customers across marketing and operational channels, such as print production, direct mail, email and other online channels.