What did Ricoh do...

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

I was perusing Ricoh's site the other day and I noticed that they don't have any of their scanners on it anymore.

I don't remember any press releases or hearing about them getting out of the scanner business...anybody know what happened?

[wfinn]

Ricoh is no longer selling or servicing and scanners. I used to work for them before i switched to a dealer and had stopped servicing them a couple months ago. They made all the customers find their own companies to fix them until they totally crap out and have to buy a new one.

[Eric1968]

There's little demand for stand-alone scanners. Almost all MFP's have built-in scan units these days.

[KenB]

Scanners are still listed with support files posted on the TSC site.

[nmfaxman]

The whole business is going toward digital.
Why sell scanners when you can sell an MFP with scanning as a option?
15 years from now 90% of tonerheads will be out of a career. If they don't know basic computers they will be flipping burgers or changing oil.
The only people that have faxes are OLD school businesses, because they can't learn to e-mail or operate simple scanners.
Throw color out there as much as possible and make that money while it is there, because tomorrow we could all be out of work.