Pick this if...
- You scan 2,000-10,000 pages a day in a workgroup of 10-25 people and don't need a flatbed.
- You want the fastest letter-size desktop scanner Ricoh sells — 90 ppm / 180 ipm, faster than every Brother, Epson, or Canon ADS desktop in the same price band.
- You scan stacks of mixed-thickness paper — onion skin to card stock to plastic ID — and want the iSOP paper protection that comes from production-class feed mechanics.
- You're replacing an fi-7180 — direct successor with 90 ppm vs 80, plus the new exit stacker that handles 200 sheets without re-jogging.
- You need both USB and Gigabit Ethernet so the scanner can move between a desktop PC and a small workgroup over the network.