"What we really want to do for commercial printers is to give them the ability and knowledge to drive value to their end customers in different ways," said Theresa Lang, Vice President Solutions & Services at Ricoh.
http://www.mpsconnect.com/articles/share/419837/
Theresa was a vital member of the IBM Printer channel staff 'back in the day.' Back when IBM Printers did more than $100M annually in revenue with resellers, the channel had not yet been adjusted and strangled by the Directors and VPs that ultimately killed the channel. InfoPrint later tried to breathe life back into a channel, but the 'grooved swing' and product support alas was long gone.
Back to Ricoh, this article mentions a new technology, and it appears that Ricoh is investing in a company that developed it. "Clickable Paper, a cross-media service that lets consumers access related online content by pointing a smartphone at any printed surface. At Drupa, Ricoh teamed with PTI to demonstrate this technology integrated within PTI's MarcomCentral W2P platform. The Clickable Paper technology—developed by Ricoh Visual Search—is expected to be released next year."
We are very interested in anything that merges mobile computing, 'pocket computers,' traditional and non-traditional output, and the use of today's cloud of available information for the mutual benefit of the user and the generator of that output.
More on that topic in another upcoming blog.
For more details, contact Warren Neeley at www.ChooseGLMgroup.com.
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