RISO, no, RICOH, no, RISO

On Friday, PCV received a generous donation from Ifira Trust of a large copier. Before it arrived, there was talk of this Riso (pronounced ree so) machine coming, and several of us said no, it must be a Ricoh (pronounced ree ko). The staff prepared for a presentation of this machine on Thursday afternoon with a big afternoon tea and some gifts to present to the Chief and Elder who were due to arrive at 3pm. 

We waited and waited, and Ps Allen tried calling one of them to see if they were coming but no reply. He had just decided that we would eat the afternoon tea (lots of fruit which would not keep) when he got a phone call to say the Chief couldn't come, the Elder was on his way, but the copier would not arrive until Friday morning. So we eventually had the presentation without the copier.

Some mats and 2 books with a printed insert saying thanks for the Ricoh copier were handed over by Yvonne and me to Elder Kalpovi. 

The copier duly arrived on Friday morning, and we found out that it really is RISO, it's not a Ricoh at all! It is not a normal photocopier, it prints a stencil of each page which can then be used to run many copies, so it is only suited to large runs, ideal for producing their Assembly papers every year. The printing cost of these papers is enormous, so this gift should save a lot of money for PCV. We willingly apologised for our mistake.