Durham, N.C., Sept. 26, 2014Bell and Howell, a leading provider of solutions and services for paper-based and digital messaging, and RISO, Inc., a leader in digital printing technology, today announced a new North American affiliation. Through their agreement, Bell and Howell will sell and service RISO ComColor® high-speed full-color inkjet printers in North America.

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Bell and Howell will be displaying the RISO ComColor® in booth 3005 at GRAPH EXPO in Chicago, Sept. 28 through Oct. 1.

“This exciting arrangement allows both companies to achieve our mutual goals of delivering the very best technology, expertise and service to the market. Our customers now have access to one of the widest ranges of high-speed full-color inkjet printer solutions available today,” stated Ramesh Ratan, CEO of Bell and Howell. “Our commitment to delivering best-in-class solutions is our first priority, and RISO’s excellent reputation, flexibility and leadership in this important market makes them the perfect partner.”

“I am very excited about our new agreement with Bell and Howell. With their outstanding service organization and their ‘customer-first’ attitude, we will be able to offer the best solutions and service,” said Fumiya Tomiyama, President and CEO of RISO, Inc. “Both companies are totally focused on providing solutions and support that exceed our customers’ needs.”

Bell and Howell will sell and service the RISO ComColor® X1 printer solutions as well as supplies and parts. All are engineered to RISO’s exacting standards, providing customers with the utmost ease of operation, reliability and scalability.

The RISO ComColor® products will be offered immediately via Bell and Howell in North America.

RISO ComColor® Products

RISO high-speed color inkjet printers offer users a combination of speed, economy, durability and flexibility that can increase the effectiveness of an organization’s documents. Whether in a networked office or high-volume production environment, ComColor® inkjet printers get the job done fast.

At 150 pages per minute, the ComColor® high-volume full-color printer speeds through print jobs; and because this production printer is a no-heat, non-impact inkjet device, its reliability and uptime are superior to toner-based devices. With a small footprint, no special power requirements, and very low power consumption, ComColor® is a high-speed color inkjet printer that offers a rich feature set with an incredibly low total cost of ownership.

For additional information, contact marketing@bhemail.com or call 1-800-220-3030. Visit www.bellhowell.net orwww.facebook.com/BellandHowell, or follow @bellandhowell on Twitter. 

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About Bell and Howell

Bell and Howell is a trusted partner to our customers in their critical touch points with their own customers. Our customers include many of the world’s largest providers in banking, insurance, telecommunications, public utilities, postal, freight operators, governments, and print and mail service bureaus. As the pioneer of production mail-inserting and sorting systems, we have evolved our competencies in service, software and hardware technologies to enrich customer communications and commerce in print, mail and parcels operations and information infrastructure. Supporting these solutions is one of the largest technical service organizations in the industry across the United States, Canada, U.K. and Germany. Headquartered with manufacturing in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the company maintains engineering, sales and business presences in Wheeling, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; U.K. and Germany. For further information, please visit www.bellhowell.net.

About RISO, Inc.

RISO, Inc., headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, is a wholly owned subsidiary of RISO Kagaku Corporation, Japan’s leading manufacturer and distributor of high-speed inkjet printers, digital duplicators and supplies. RISO sells high-speed color and monochrome printing solutions throughout the United States and Canada. RISO’s high-speed color printers provide fast and affordable full color digital printing for everyday communications, at speeds of up to 150 pages per minute. Its line of digital duplicators includes one- and two-color systems that reliably produce millions of copies, are environmentally friendly, and are easy and inexpensive to use. Learn more at: http://us.riso.com.

Glenn Gillen, APR

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