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London, UK, 10 May, 2010 – Ricoh Europe PLC, a digital office solution and production printing specialist company, today launched HotSpot Printing for Mobile Devices, enabling secure and simple printing when on the go. The technology is ideally suited for service oriented environments, helping businesses provide and additional value service to customers, while increasing revenue.

Finding a convenient place to print e-mails and documents from laptops, smart phones or PDAs has not been easy for the growing number of mobile device users. This is despite more than 75 per cent of users expressing a need for such a service1. Ricoh is providing businesses with an opportunity to resolve this issue for their customers. By installing a HotSpot printer on their premises, businesses make it possible for their customers to send e-mails and documents securely via their mobile devices to a printer and retrieve their documents by simply keying in a password that has been e-mailed back to their mobile device. The HotSpot printer is easy for businesses to set up and doesn’t require installation of software or drivers.

“The demand for HotSpot Printing is apparent in the market place”, said Steven Barnes, Product Manager, Ricoh Europe PLC. “In fact many office workers find themselves missing the ability to print documents and e-mails while away from the office. As a company where innovation is customer-driven, we recognized the need to develop Ricoh HotSpot printing to help service focused businesses such as airports, hotels, and coffee franchises capture the opportunity to add value for their clientele.”

“PrinterOn is excited about expanding our already successful relationship with Ricoh North America to now include Ricoh Europe,” said Ken Noreikis, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, PrinterOn®. “This expansion into the European market is a major milestone towards the eventual worldwide adoption of mobile printing.”

How It Works

Ricoh HotSpot makes printing easy to use, convenient and secure. As a service provider there are two delivery models developed by Ricoh and their partner PrinterOn to choose from:
1. Printing via e-mail
• Forward e-mail to the HotSpot Printer’s e-mail address (on a label affixed to the printer)
• Select e-mail with or without attachments
• Retrieve printed documents by inputting a PIN which is e-mailed to the user’s handheld device

2. Printing via a website
• Upload attachment to print, via webpage
• Retrieve printed documents by inputting a PIN which is e-mailed to the user’s handheld device
• Receive PIN for print job via e-mail

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