EFI (Electronics For Imaging) and Ricoh Americas Corporation have teamed up to unveil the EFI Self-Serve M500 Copy and Print Station and EFI Self-Serve AdminCentral Software, available with select Ricoh devices. Colleges and universities, libraries, retail print shops and other organizations will now be able to offer state-of-the art, efficient and extremely user-friendly walk-up printing services.
“Ricoh users rely on us to provide technologies that simplify their operations and create new possibilities with print,” said John Brophy, Vice President, Product Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “Offering EFI’s renowned self-serve capabilities gives them valuable new revenue opportunities.”
“Ricoh caters to businesses that want to create greater efficiency, productivity and value in their print offerings,” said Micah Kornberg, Vice President, Self-Serve Products, EFI. “We’re enthusiastic about this new partnership opportunity to deliver on these goals as we complement the world-class Ricoh MP and Pro platforms with EFI’s robust self-serve technologies.”
Utilizing EFI’s self-serve copy and print technology, walk-up users can produce documents using anything from PDF and Word files, to images and PowerPoint presentations. The technology accepts files from USB drives, mobile phones, tablets, laptops and email – as well as from cloud-based services such as EFI PrintMe, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive. Users can securely pay for their prints with credit cards, cash and campus cards.
EFI Self-Serve AdminCentral, a cloud-based Web application, lets administrators easily set up M500 stations in minutes and manage multiple stations any where at any time with just a Web browser. Administrators can configure devices, add services without changing hardware and set or adjust prices and tax rates. They can also generate detailed sales and usage reports, monitor real-time device status, and update device software online.
