The deal means Ricoh UK will become the first manufacturer of multifunction device (MFD) in Europe to provide full service distribution, installation and support of the Equitrac Professional 5 (EP5) print tracking and cost-recovery solution.

EP5 is available as a software-centric embedded or terminal-based solution, and offers customers of Ricoh MFDs a centralised system for matter-centric tracking of scanned, copied, faxed and printed documents.

The software also provides accounting and disbursement capture for discovery and recovery of client billable expenses.

Ricoh UK director of marketing Chas Moloney welcomed the expansion of the relationship with Equitrac.

"Users of Ricoh products in the legal and professional office environments will experience more efficient and profitable workflow management with EP5, while IT administrators will enjoy the solution's advanced reporting capabilities that simplify document output management across any fleet of networked MFDs," he said.

The embedded Equitrac client for Ricoh ESA-enabled Aficio MFDs provides any user with the ability to easily track copies with colour and other detailed document attributes through a familiar touchscreen user interface and QWERTY soft-keyboard on the Ricoh front panel.

The terminal-based EP5 solution provides users with a personalised cost-recovery user experience in new Equitrac TouchPoint Console, with integrated card reader support, the standard combination of both LCD touch screen and full 101-key keyboard data entry, roaming user profiles, card-based authentication, user-definable favourites and secure document release for confidential print output.