RISO, Inc. Announces Partnership with Blanks/USA

DANVERS, MA— January 4, 2008— RISO, Inc. announced a new partnership with Blanks/USA today, offering yet another value-added support tool to North American RISO dealers. A competitive new price structure represents great value in the Blanks/USA products frequently utilized by RISO’s customer base. RISO digital duplicators and full color inkjet printers are well known for their ability to reliably feed and print a wide variety of paper stocks and sizes. Blanks/USA provides affordable die-cut papers, including business cards, door hangers, tab dividers, report covers, tickets, table tents, and tags.

“RISO duplicators have a unique capability of printing on paper stocks of up to 220 lb. card stock, which is much heavier than most toner-based MFPs can handle. Blanks/USA’s die-cut paper products provide an excellent match for the needs of RISO users,” said David Murphy, Vice President of Marketing for RISO, Inc. “By combining the depth and breadth of the Blanks/USA product line with the reliable printing power of RISO, RISO dealers can now offer their customers turnkey creative solutions to address their most difficult printing challenges.”

As part of this partnership, Blanks/USA launched a new website specially customized for end users of RISO high-speed printers and duplicators. This website, www.RISO.BlanksUSA.com, provides RISO resellers with a no-touch supply chain of over 50,000 product options to offer their customers. “This is a valuable service for both our dealer network and their customers as it further enables them to find more print applications for RISO’s full color printers and digital duplicators,” added Murphy.

Blanks/USA is continually adding to their product offerings. New product lines introduced by Blanks/USA this year include:

1. Kan’t Kopy™ Prescription Paper – K2 Paper offer extra security features to guard against forgery and unauthorized duplication.

2. Dry Lift Laminate Card Mailers – traditional club card mailer with a printable front side and laminate back for increased durability.

3. Economy Easels – Deliver up to 50% savings over traditional easel product.

About RISO, Inc.
RISO, Inc., headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts, is a wholly owned subsidiary of RISO Kagaku Corporation, Japan’s leading manufacturer and distributor of digital duplicators and supplies. RISO, Inc. (http://us.riso.com) sells a variety of unique printing solutions throughout the Americas. RISO’s HC FORCEJET ComColor™ printers provide fast and affordable full color digital printing for everyday communications, at speeds up to 120 pages per minute. Its line of digital duplicators includes one-, two- and full color systems that reliably produce millions of copies, are environmentally friendly, and are easy and inexpensive to use.