Company: ZM Communications, San Diego, CA
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Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Hardware - Peripheral
 Nomination Title: PFU America, Inc's RICOH fi-8950 High-Speed Production Scanner
- Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the nominated new or new-version product or service, OR written answers to the questions for this category? (Choose one):
A video of up to five (5) minutes
- If you are submitting a video of up to five (5) minutes in length, provide the URL of the nominated video here, OR attach it to your entry via the "Add Attachments, Videos, or Links to This Entry" link above, through which you may also upload a copy of your video.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):
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In today's rapidly evolving marketplace, businesses are looking for ways to digitize thousands of documents to drive their digital transformation goals and achieve improved productivity and efficiency. The RICOH fi-8950 high-speed document scanner supports the growing need for document digitization and centralized scanning in business enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions, as well as financial and healthcare organizations.
The RICOH fi-8950 is a high-performance production scanner with scanning advancements that maximize ROI with fast speeds, high-volume output, exceptional capture technology, and protection of documents and data. This enterprise scanner features a next-gen image processing engine and Clear Image Capture that ensures complete, and accurate digitized documents with high-resolution image quality. Improved productivity and efficiency are achieved with the fi-8950’s fast, high-volume scanning speeds of up to 150 pages-per-minute (PPM), 750-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF), and the ability to scan 130,000 documents a day.
Innovative features and engineering advancements in the RICOH fi-8950 include:
- The world’s first automatic skew correction scanning capability that utilizes independently moving right and left rollers to straighten documents before scanning, even those that are significantly skewed. This new feature further prevents paper jams caused by skewed documents and provides stable feeding.
- Stapled documents detection is an industry-first function that prevents stapled documents from being scanned regardless of staple position. A sensor detects abnormal lifting of documents and stops stapled documents before damage occurs—even in batch scanning where staples are easily overlooked.
- A dual path mechanism features versatile high-speed U-turn and straight path scanning for a variety of paper sizes and thicknesses.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
January 11, 2024
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 350 words):
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The RICOH fi-8950 is a high-performance, enterprise scanner that supports the growing need for document digitization and centralized scanning. Ricoh customers have recognized the new advanced technologies in the fi-8950. The fi-8950 improves productivity and efficiency with fast scanning speeds of 150 PPM, the ability to scan 130,000 documents a day, and 750-sheet ADF. The new advanced technologies in the fi-8950 ensure more accurate capture and protection of documents and data, including the world’s first Automatic Skew Correction capability, Stapled Documents Detection, and Intelligent Multi-feed function. A next-gen image processing engine and Clear Image Capture ensures complete and accurate digitized documents with high-resolution image quality. The scanner features a modest footprint and easy set-up, operation, and maintenance.
The innovative engineering advancements, speed, and durability of the fi-8950 are helping businesses achieve significant cost savings of up to $31,000 each year compared to standard industry performance. The fi-8950’s 150 ppm (pages per minute) saves 48 minutes a day, equating to nearly $6,000 per year and the 750-sheet hopper saves over three hours per day in batch changing time, or $25,000 per year. These estimates are based on 100,000 pages scanned per day, 312 days of scanning per year, $50k scanner operator salary, and each batch change taking 3 minutes.
- You have the option to answer this final question: Reference any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 250 words):
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The following videos and documents outline and demonstrate how the innovative engineering advancements, speed, and durability of the fi-8950 are helping businesses achieve significant cost savings:
Video demonstrating the new engineering advancements, speed, and durability of the RICOH fi-8950: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylNicpOd7fE
RICOH fi-8950 data sheet: https://www.pfu-us.ricoh.com/-/media/project/scanners/files/products/datasheets/r_datasheet_fi8950.pdf
Press release announcing RICOH fi-8950: : https://www.pfu-us.ricoh.com/about-us/press-releases/2024/01/pfu-america-inc-announces-new-feature-rich-high-speed-production-scanners
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