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11/08/2025 - www.ricoh.com
Since
1936
Company History
Driving digitization
1936 - 1969
1970 - 1984
1985 - 1999
2000 - 2009
2010 - Present
Oct. 1990
Introduces ARTAGE 8000, Ricoh's first digital
color copier
The standard technology adopted for color copiers
around 1990 required repeated imaging processing for
four
colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) loaded on
a single drum to reproduce one color copy. This was a
time-consuming
process, taking about five minutes on
average to make one A4-page copy. Identifying an
opportunity in this limitation,
Ricoh developed a
four-drum photoreceptor system that could process the
four colors in tandem, which was a vital function built
into the new digital color model....