“Wish You Were Here” at The Printerverse Stop by Booth 3867 and enter The Printerverse, presented by the Print Media Centr, a 2,500-square-foot universe of educational and networking events focused on the latest industry trends and technologies. The Printerverse is reprising a feature that debuted at last year’s GRAPH EXPO, the Graffiti Wall with Direct Mail Station. The Graffiti Wall is a photo booth that features a dry-erase board on which visitors can write special messages—such as a Twitter post—and have themselves photographed in front of these messages. Thanks to GPA Specialty Substrates (Booth 3822), the Printerverse’s official substrate provider, these photos can be applied to adhesive-backed postcard stock. “They can affix their photo to a postcard and mail it to people,” says Deborah Corn, Director of the Print Media Centr and creator of The Printerverse. “That was very popular last year.” The Printerverse is also staging a number of special presentations and events, as well as neat giveaways. Enter if you dare! Returning 90,000 Lost Photos from the 311 Earthquake Ricoh (Booth 1231) successfully returned more than Needless to say, Ricoh is happy if this information is used for other purposes, too, not just in the event of a disaster. Some statistics: Areas: Rikuzentakata (Iwate prefecture), Minamisanriku, Onagawa and Watari (Miyagi prefecture), and Minamisoma (Fukushima prefecture) Digitized photos: 418,721 Returned photos: 90,128 (as of March 9, 2015) Total rate of returned photos from all five photo centers: 21.5% (Highest rate of returned photos at a single center: 58.8%) Volunteers: 518 employees from 17 Ricoh Group companies. Employees took part in activities, including cleaning and digitizing photos, in between their work hours, making the most of specialist fields at each company and open spaces in offices. Ricoh continues to carry out recovery support in the disaster affected area on other fronts, too. Activities include providing support for hands-on programs at elementary schools and events in Higashi Matsushima via the Ricoh Science Caravan “Try to be a copier machine!” project; helping to rebuild the fishing industry in Minamisanriku (Miyagi prefecture) by getting around 200 new employees involved every year as part of their training; organizing events showcasing produce from the Tohoku region at group company offices; taking part in the Japan Association of Corporate Executives’ “IPPO IPPO NIPPON” project; and making ongoing donations via Ricoh’s Social Contribution Club “FreeWill,” an employee-led endeavor. The Ricoh Group will keep thinking about ways in which it can help as it continues to make a broad contribution to the development of a more sustainable society in the hope of rebuilding and reconstructing industry in the disaster-affected area. We’ve created the playbook for success in the wide-format business. The FASTSIGNS Co-Brand Program allows you to add a FASTSIGNS center within your existing business footprint for as little as $10,000 down. Visit Us in Booth 4245 Donna Booth decided to enter the wide-format printing market, but after two years, she signed on as a FASTSIGNS® Co-Brand franchisee. What happened? “I quickly realized that I’m a printer, not a sign business expert. FASTSIGNS provided my company with the depth of operational and marketing support needed to scale my wide-format business. Now we have a proven playbook for success, and a deep bench of experts available to help make our aggressive growth plans a reality. Wide-format sales are now driving 20% of revenue and climbing.” - Donna Booth, Owner of Prestige Printing and FASTSIGNS Co-Brand Franchisee For more information, contact Mark Jameson: mark.jameson@fastsigns.com | 214-346-5679 | fastsigns.com 90,000 photos through its “Save the Memory Project,” which it has been carrying since August 2011 as part of its reconstruction support activities after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami with the aim of returning photos lost and damaged in the tsunami to their owners. The project involves collecting precious photos found in the disaster-affected area and cleaning them, with the help of local government and countless volunteers, and then using MFPs to digitize and store photos in the cloud so that people can search them easily. Searches can be carried out on computers at local government photo centers. Once someone has found a photo they lost, the original and all associated data is returned to them via the relevant local government. In total, there are over 400,000 digitized photos on file. In the four years since the earthquake and accompanying tsunami, almost 90,000 of these photos have been returned to their owners through photo centers in five locations. The driving force behind returning photos has been the determination of people affected by the earthquake and tsunami to retrieve valuable properties, irreplaceable photos, to their owners. Through these activities, Ricoh has built up considerable expertise in terms of using its resources, organizational capabilities, technology, and facilities to make a difference in collaboration with local government. In an ideal world, there would be no need to use this expertise again in the wake of a similar disaster. In the event that such a disaster does occur, however, Ricoh is keen to share its expertise as widely as possible in order to be of assistance. With this in mind, the procedure used to return photos, along with notes by staffs involved in the project, was made available to the public on the website from March 9. 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