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Notebooks - The Course of Evolution of an All-Time Essential

To keep up our dignity, it is often wise to carry with us office tools like a pen or a notebook. The realization of it as an essential has given rise to highly technological forms depending upon its usage. Began with blank papers put together by binding material, notebooks took different directions according to varied specifications.

For instance, toddlers are given notebooks closely ruled to facilitate tidy writing, while artists prefer plain and wider devices for sketching. Moreover, they also take various forms in accordance with professions. To illustrate, press reporters or journalists carry handy and petite notebooks that alleviates jotting whereas researches have devices to log the details and handling of instruments which are preferably long and tabulated.

Evolution of the concept of notebooks:

Keeping pace with the ever increasing demand for comfort and the relative precision technologies has given birth to the novel concept of notebook. With the advent of the computer era, notebooks turned out to be a component of the computer itself that gave way to its effective utilization at enormous work places. Countless features were then added based on the utilities that help carry out many tasks effortlessly today.

They incorporated in the computers being immobile turned out to be the source of further evolution. The need of a portable device involving all or most of the technologies led to today`s exceptional innovations. Laptops without much note-taking features were begun to be called as `notebooks`. And the light-weighted laptops with different qualities, excellent enough to be called a notebook were on a rise in the market, still sustaining their title. They were marketed by brands like Lenovo, Sony hp, Dell, etc.

These then took its vital deviations such as Personal digital assistants (PDA), Tablet PCs, mini-notebooks, digital papers and so on, in relation to their attributes.

Concise abstract on present-day notebooks:

Telephones today are not meant merely to converse with someone far away from you, but capturing videos and photographs, activities like watching movies or enjoying on music are possible as well. Similarly, notebooks on the present day scenario can be just more than a tool to scribble on. The term notebook thus barely reminds of a stack of blank papers whereas it is plainly a portable, smaller and thinner laptop weighing not more than four pounds.

Personal digital assistants:

These are little enough to be called a palm-top, developed with liquid crystal displays allowing touch-sensitivity screens. This feature allows the input via touching the screen that displays a virtual keyboard. This has been highly effective in educational institutes for qualitative interactive sessions where the students can have their notes taken on these instruments having their spell-check and grammar correction done then and there.

Tablet PCs:

These hit the market in 1989 for the first time. Tablet PCs are slate-like notebook computers without keyboard or mouse and inputs are through a digital pen or fingertip, although a movable or removable keyboard may be attached. They are designed to operate at multi-places on the screen at a time and are also insensitive to bright light or sunlight.

Mini-notebooks:

Mini-notebooks feature high resolution larger wide screens and are soon going to be indispensable.

Digital Papers:

With all the advantages of these devices, the best aspect underlying them is that the people with illegible handwriting will no more be embarrassed! However, it is sometimes obligatory to have hand-written signatures or documents. Notebook called Digital papers is the answer to this limitation which possesses a digital pen and a patterned paper to produce hand-written documents in a computer.

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Ricoh Now Plans Rapid Expansion in India After Years of Consistent Growth

 

New Delhi. 4th August 2008. Mr.Tetsuo Okochi, Dy. General Manager, Ricoh Company Limited, the parent company of Ricoh India Limited declared open a new range of office automation products for the Indian market. A global leader in office Automation solutions consolidated revenue of US $22 bn. Ricoh India Ltd is a 73.6% owned subsidiary of Ricoh Co. Ltd. Japan. Ricoh India declared a turnover of Rs 2,194.6 million for the year ended March 2007.

Mr. Tetsuo Okochi said, "With a significant foray into the office A4 segment, just as in other global markets, Ricoh India also has signalled its clear intent to seize leadership in the Indian office automation market," He further emphasized, "After establishing itself as a market leader in the A3 Multi-Functional Printer segment, now the company aims to help small workgroups in today's offices to become more productive".

In a scenario where for every A3 machine over 10 A4 machines are sold, Ricoh India has introduced a wide range of products to address diverse customer needs – from versatile Multi-Function to single function printers, and from affordable colour printers to B/W ones.

The new range includes the revolutionary GelSprinter series – the Aficio GX 3000/ GX 3050N/ GX 5050N. These machines are capable of printing colour virtually at the cost of B/W. In fact, the GelSprinter combines the best of Laser & Inkjet technologies, giving crisp sun-resistant and water-proof prints like the former, and consuming very little power like the latter.

The Aficio SP C420DN is the first A4 printer in the market that operates at a guaranteed cost per page. Made available on a click-charge model by Ricoh India, this colour printer offers fixed running costs for both Colour and B/W, regardless of print coverage. The result is complete peace of mind for the user, who is set free of all toner cost worries and inconsistency inherent in ad hoc service.

The Aficio SP 1000SF/ 1000S is an MFP that helps you bypass the PC. The machine comes with a unique USB port that allows the user to directly print from and scan to a pen drive, without the bother of switching on a PC. This makes it extremely convenient to use, and saves time and effort.

Besides these office champions, the new A4 range comes fully loaded – with features such as network-readiness, robust security features, duplex printing, ergonomic design and appliance-like ease of operation.

With a comprehensive portfolio spanning colour and B/W copiers, printers and MFPs, A4 to A0 size, for personal or workgroup or enterprises usage, along with solution software. Ricoh India will be the sole manufacturer in India who will be able to take care of the complete range of Printing and document management requirement in today's offices.

About Ricoh Company Limited Japan

Ricoh Company Ltd. Japan, the parent company of Ricoh India Limited, is a leading global player in the area of (a) Imaging solutions like Digital Plain Paper Copiers, Colour Plain Paper Copiers, Fax machines, Thermal paper etc., (b) Networking Input / Output systems like Multifunction Printers, Services and Software, Scanners etc, (c) Networking System Solutions like PC's, Servers, Networking equipment, Networking software etc.

It has worldwide operations through 317 subsidiaries and affiliates employing more than 83,400 employees across the globe. This position has been built over the years through its dedication towards technological leadership.

This dedication has seen Ricoh constantly creating new values for the world at the interface of people and information. Ranked by FORTUNE magazine as one of the Global Most Admired Companies for two years in a row. Ricoh, which has won the Deming's award twice, is honoured to be included in the Top 100 listing of the most admired companies worldwide.

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