Managing A Document's Workflow

Knowing this, vendors are developing imaging systems that give in-plants control over digital storage and distribution, in addition to printing. Two such devices were recently unveiled by Ricoh at a New York press conference, held at the trendy "W" New York Times Square hotel.

The Ricoh Aficio 1060 and Aficio 1075 digital imaging systems not only print black-and-white pages at high speeds (60 and 75 pages per minute respectively), but they enable in-plants to scan documents and then e-mail them to 2,000 different addresses. Pages can be saved as TIFFs, JPEGs or PDFs. By controlling this form of digital distribution, in-plants can avoid losing business when customers opt to e-mail instead of print.