Ricoh Europe brings commercial and corporate production printing environments a fresh approach to profitability
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The Ricoh ‘Just Ask’ experience at Ipex 2010 will take visitors on the full journey of the production printing process from capture to output to finishing. Visitors will have the opportunity to see the latest portfolio from Ricoh and InfoPrint solutions. They can also speak to experts about how their products and services can add value and support their business productivity and profitability into the future.
Organising its presence to reflect the stages of the document lifecycle, the Ricoh visitor’s journey flows through four key zones: Capture, Prepare, Manage and Output. Each zone provides the opportunity to learn more about the offerings from Ricoh, how they can be integrated into workflows and customised to drive business productivity and profitability. Ricoh is also inviting its visitors to the stand to learn more about Ricoh’s world-class service capabilities, partner network and consulting services. Through live demonstrations, Ricoh and InfoPrint Solutions will be showing print service providers how to add value through efficient, productive and flexible hardware and software applications.
Graham Moore, Director, Ricoh Production Printing Business Group, says, “Our intention at Ipex 2010 is to learn as much as we can about the requirements of each individual visitor to the stand, allowing us to personalise their visit and experience with relevant ideas about how to develop their businesses with Ricoh and InfoPrint Solutions’ products and services. By coupling this consultative approach with decades of experience in print innovation, we provide flexibility and scalability to print businesses that want to position themselves for growth. In addition, all Ricoh products are supported by our own extensive local service infrastructure, and backed by global strength in 150 countries to ensure that an investment in Ricoh becomes a profitable addition to any production printing operation.”
Live demonstrations include:
• Integrated Solutions
Ricoh is dedicated to helping print service providers understand how new and emerging applications and solutions can help them boost their bottom line. Ricoh will be demonstrating a wide array of unique applications and solutions. These include Unity Book Publishing’s Print Production Handbook, TransPromo communications and transactional printing, personalised calendars, paperback book printing illustrated manuals, and direct mail. All applications will be shown end-to-end, including finishing.
• Printing Solutions:
o New light production full-colour digital presses, the Ricoh Pro™ C720 and Pro C720S, are designed for lower volume commercial and corporate printing environments that are moving into digital printing. They are available in both printer and copier versions. Printing at 72 full-colour pages per minute, the Pro C720 includes a standard EFI server. The robust digital press is the ideal product for print service providers seeking to add the flexibility of digital printing to their production portfolio.
o For high productivity full colour printing, the Ricoh Pro™ C900 and C900S offer print speeds up to 90 pages per minute in full colour, even when printing on heavy stock. It also includes the latest Ricoh image processing technology combined with the EFI Fiery RIP or Creo C-80 controller for high image quality and productive workflow integration Flexible media options support large format up to SRA3 size and heavy stock up to 300gsm. An extended range of inline finishing devices includes: ring binder, perfect binder, Plockmatic booklet maker and GBC punch unit.
o Ricoh Pro 1357 – This newly launched production print device has been designed to suit the needs of the Data Centre market, offering genuine IPDS printing. It is highly productive (1.9 million impressions per month) and robust whilst providing professional output quality. The Pro 1357 can aso be equipped with a range of versatile finishing options
o Ricoh Pro 1357EX – The market leading Ricoh Pro1357EX is a highly specified production printing device built to accelerate the production workflow at an optimal Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). It produces 135 black and white pages per minute.
o Ricoh’s monochrome Pro range, which also includes the Ricoh Pro 1107 (110 pages per minute) and Ricoh Pro 907 (90 pages per minute), are fast, reliable and durable production systems with high quality professional imaging and the most complete portfolio of inline finishing options on the market.
o Kodak Digimaster EX-300 – The heavy duty, production class black and white digital press prints 300 A4 duplex images per minute with a duty cycle of eight million images per month.
o Kodak NexPress SE2500 delivers exceptional digital colour production for high volume commercial, photo and enterprise printers. The NexPress SE2500 has a fifth imaging unit which can be used to broaden the colour gamut, for intelligent glossing or unique coating applications such as Dimensional Printing, which gives selected images and text a raised, 3D effect.
The following standalone solutions are compatible with all hardware devices on display in the Ricoh stand:
o Ready4Print for Colour Management – The scalable system delivers consistent colour output to a defined standard. It can manage colour across multiple devices in multiple locations.
o NowPrint for Web-to-Print. NowPrint and NowPrint ASAP are hosted Software-as-a-Service platforms built to serve a range of print service provider needs, from a small print on demand outlet with two orders per day to the largest print service providers who may be receiving two orders per second, with no need for an on-site server or a large IT team. The options are scalable and available on a try before you buy basis through the Ricoh business development programme – Ricoh Business Driver.
o Colour Controller C-80, Powered by CREO Colour Server Technology. Meeting the needs of print service providers in the commercial print and professional print markets, the advanced Colour Controller C-80 enables Ricoh customers to increase the productivity of their systems. Its powerful built-in variable data printing (VDP) capabilities make it easy to profit from the fast growing VDP market, and to consistently produce high quality colour output through professional colour management and colour matching tools.
“Ipex 2010 is an important meeting point for commercial and other production printers from across Europe and around the world,” continued Moore. “The Ricoh stand will be an important destination during the Ipex journey for any business owner or manager looking to experience the most innovative ways to grow and prosper in today’s challenging printing marketplace.”
To find out more about Ricoh at Ipex or to book a seminar at the event visit www.ricoh-europe.com/ipex
About Ricoh
Ricoh Company, Ltd (“Ricoh Company”) is a global technology leader, specialising in the office and production printing markets. Ricoh works with organisations around the world to modernise work environments and optimise document efficiency. With over 108,500 employees worldwide, it operates in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, China and Japan.
Ricoh Europe Holdings Plc is a public limited company and the EMEA headquarters of Ricoh Company with operations located in London, United Kingdom and Amstelveen, the Netherlands. The EMEA operations comprise over 35 sales subsidiaries and affiliates.
In the fiscal year ended 31 March 2009, revenues from Ricoh’s EMEA operations totalled over YEN 523.4 billion accounting for 25.0 per cent of Ricoh Company’s global revenues. Ricoh Company’s worldwide sales totalled over YEN 2,091.7 billion during the year ended 31 March 2009.
