Ricoh Corp. is offering the IS100e flatbed scanner as a printer option that’s capable of copying or scanning documents and images in both color and black-and-white. The scanner was built to support Ricoh’s Aficio CL3000, Aficio CL5000 and Aficio AP2610 laser printers.
With the IS100e in place you can copy or scan documents at speeds of up to 9 pages per minute and output them at your printer’s rated speed. Documents can be scanned directly to files or folders in such file formats as JPEG and TIFF. The IS100e scans resolutions of up to 600 dpi and 24 bits/pixels.
The IS100e integrates with networks and the Internet by plugging it in. for example, it connects to a 10/100BaseTX network through a standard RJ45 Ethernet jack. It works with such mail and LDAP servers as the Apple Macintosh Mail Server, according to Ricoh. The IS100e is offered with its respective Aficio products at a suggested list price of US$1,499.