| Jul. 1980 |
Toda Technical Center established in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Ricoh UK Ltd. established.
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| Jan. 1981 |
Ricoh begins marketing Ricoh brand dry PPCs in Europe.
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| Mar. 1981 |
Service Parts Center established in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
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| Apr. 1981 |
Ricoh begins marketing Ricoh brand dry PPCs in North America.
Construction of Ricoh Electronics Development Center completed at Osaka Plant, Japan.
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| May 1982 |
Fukui Plant, Japan, founded for production of sensitized paper.
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| Jun. 1982 |
Ricoh introduces the "RICOPY FT4060", the first dry-toner plain-paper copier.
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| Jul. 1982 |
Hatano plant begins operations in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
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| Nov. 1982 |
Ricoh introduces the "RICORE 3000", a digital document processor.
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| Apr. 1983 |
Takeshi Ouye appointed chairman (1st).
Hiroshi Hamada appointed president (1st).
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| Jun. 1983 |
Ricoh launches the "RICOH LP4120" laser printer.
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| Oct. 1983 |
Ricoh launches the "RIFAX 1300", a first
plain-paper facsimile machine.
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| Dec. 1983 |
Ricoh UK Products Ltd. founded.
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| Feb. 1984 |
The "RIFAX 1300HS" awarded Nikkei Product Excellence Prize.
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| Mar. 1984 |
Chairman Takeshi Ouye passes away.
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| Apr. 1984 |
Ricoh Corporation established by Merger of Ricoh of America, Inc. and Rapicom, Inc.
Eleven service subsidiaries merged into two-Ricoh Service Co., Ltd.(Tokyo, Osaka) .
(renamed Ricoh Technonet Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Osaka) in 1988)
Ricoh establishes Manufacturing Technology R&D Center at Atsugi plant, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Imaging Technology Development Center established at Ohmori Office, Tokyo, Japan.(renamed Imaging Technology Center in 1995 and then Imaging Technology Division in 1999)
General
Electronics R&D Center formed at Ohmori Office.
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| Feb. 1985 |
Ricoh introduces the "RICOH COLOR 5000", the first analog color copier.
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| Mar. 1985 |
Ricoh awarded Ohkochi Memorial Production Prize for development of multi-product
production system for plain-paper copiers.
Ricoh developes speech recognition and optical character recognition technology.
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| Oct. 1985 |
Ricoh opens Gotenba Plant, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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| Apr. 1986 |
Ricoh Espana S.A. established.
Ricoh founds Ricoh Research and Development Center in Yokohama in commemoration of 50th year of operations.
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| May 1986 |
Ricoh France S.A. established.
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| Apr. 1987 |
Ricoh Corporation founded in the USA.
Ricoh Industrie France S.A. established.
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| Jun. 1987 |
Ricoh launches the "IMAGIO" series of digital intelligent systems.
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| Oct. 1987 |
The "OHP313R" awarded Good Design Grand Award.
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| Apr. 1988 |
Ricoh Microelectronics Co., Ltd. founded in Tottori Prefecture, Japan, for cutting-edge
FA manufacturing of electronic circuit parts.
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| Apr. 1989 |
Ricoh launches the "RIFAX D7000", the world's first ISDN G4 digital facsimile
machine.
Ricoh opens Yashiro Plant for manufacturing electronic devices in
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
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| Sep. 1989 |
Ricoh signs a contract of the Worldwide Sponsorship in facsimile machine category for 1992
Barcelona Olympic Games.
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