|  | |  With a tradition of almost seventy years of technological innovation, Ricoh is harnessing the whole range of its optical, imaging and digital technologies to create a 21st-century office environment in which all imaging processes merge and function smoothly. |
1936 - 1945: Starting Out |  | |
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| Ricoh Company, Ltd., was established in 1936 as Riken Kankoshi Co., Ltd. to manufacture and market diazo positive sensitized paper.
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1946 - 1958: Post War Development | | |
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| Ricoh introduces mass production technologies to camera production and markets the best-selling RICOHFLEX III. Building on its optical and sensitized paper technologies, Ricoh introduces its first copier, thus adding a new dimension to the company.
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1959 - 1971: New Technologies and Overseas Expansion | | |
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1972 - 1979: The Birth of Office Automation | | |
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1980 - 1989: The Expansion of OA | | |
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1990 - 1999: Taking up the Environmental Challenge | | |
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2000 - present: The Document Highway | | |
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| With a comprehensive global production and marketing network to support it, Ricoh introduces the Document Highway Concept which champions open architecture and appliance-like operational ease.
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