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| Jul. 1980 | | Established Toda Technical Center in Atsugi, Kanagawa.
Founded overseas subsidiary Ricoh UK Ltd. in U.K. |
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| Jan. 1981 | | Began marketing Ricoh brand dry PPCs in Europe. |
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| Mar. 1981 | | Established Service Parts Center in Atsugi. |
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| Apr. 1981 | | Began marketing Ricoh brand dry PPCs in North America.
Completed construction of Ricoh Electronics Development Center at Osaka Plant. |
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| 1982 | | Starts selling the world's first 32k CMOS EPROM.
Introduces the RICOPY FT4060, the Company's first dry-toner plain-paper copier, and the RICORE 3000, a digital document processor. |
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| May 1982 | | Founded Fukui Plant for production of sensitized paper. | | 
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| Jul. 1982 | | Hatano plant began operations. |
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| 1983 | | Launches the RICOH LP4120 laser printer and the RIFAX 1300, the first plain-paper facsimile machine.
The FT4060 wins an award at the Hannover Messe for outstanding industrial design. |
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| Apr. 1, 1983 | | Takeshi Ouye appointed chairman (until Mar. 31, 1984)
Hiroshi Hamada appointed president (until Mar. 31, 1996) | | 
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| Dec. 1983 | | Founded overseas subsidiary Ricoh UK Products Ltd. |
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| Feb. 1984 | | RIFAX 1300HS awarded Nikkei Product Excellence Prize. |
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| Mar. 1984 | | Chairman Takeshi Ouye passed away. |
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| Apr. 1984 | | Merged Ricoh of America, Inc. and Rapicom, Inc. to establish overseas subsidiary Ricoh Corporation.
Eleven service subsidiaries merged into two--Ricoh Service Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) and Ricoh Service Co., Ltd. (Osaka) (names later changed to Ricoh Technonet Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) and Ricoh Technonet Co., Ltd. (Osaka) in Apr. 1988)
Established Manufacturing Technology R&D Center at Atsugi plant, and Imaging Technology Development Center (name changed to Imaging Technology Center in Mar. 1995 and Imaging Technology Division in Apr. 1999) and General Electronics R&D Center at Ohmori Office. |
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| Mar. 1985 | | Awarded Ohkochi Memorial Production Prize for development of multi-product production system for plain-paper copiers.
Developed speech recognition and optical character recognition technology. |
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| Oct. 1985 | | Opens the world's most automated OA equipment plant in Gotenba, to manufacture office equipment.
Introduces the RICOH COLOR 5000, the Company's first analog color copier. | | 
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| Apr. 1986 | | Founded overseas subsidiary Ricoh Espana S.A. in Spain.
Founded Ricoh Research and Development Center in Yokohama in commemoration of 50th year of operations.
Launches the IMAGIO series of digital intelligent systems. |
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| May 1986 | | Founded overseas subsidiary Ricoh France S.A. |
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| Apr. 1987 | | Integrated administration of three American subsidiaries under centralized control of Ricoh Corporation.
Founded overseas subsidiary Ricoh Industrie France S.A. |
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| Oct. 1987 | | OHP313R awarded 1987 Good Design Grand Award. |
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| Sept. 1988 | | Founded Ricoh Microelectronics Co., Ltd. in Tottori for cutting-edge FA manufacturing of electronic circuit parts. |
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| 1989 | | Launches the RIFAX 7000D, the world's first ISDN G4 digital facsimile machine. |
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| Apr. 1989 | | Opened Yashiro Plant for manufacturing electronic devices in Yashiro, Hyogo Prefecture. |
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| Sept. 1989 | | Worldwide Sponsorship contract in facsimile machine category for 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. |
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