Ricoh Europe brings easy-to-use colour management to print service providers through new partnership
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The solution offers print service providers automated colour processing capabilities and objective colour measurement to ensure consistent and accurate colour matching. Its easy-to-use Wizard interface automates the colour workflow, helping to take the mystery out of colour management and allowing operators to set up a print-run quickly and efficiently.
“Colour management continues to present challenges for many printers, especially those working in hybrid offset/digital environments,” says Simon Tapley, Workflow Solutions Manager, Ricoh Europe Production Printing Business Group. “Colour must be consistent from run to run, within the run on each and every press and match colours from press to press. It is our goal to make this process as simple and reliable as possible. By offering professional and intelligent colour management capabilities at operator level we can significantly reduce the training and know-how required when compared to other more complex products available in the market. This was a key factor in assessing potential partners in the colour management market.”
By working directly with Ricoh to resolve colour management challenges, professional printing companies are able to focus on adding customer value and generating more profitable digital sales. In its customer-focused approach to serving print service providers, Ricoh draws on its network of experts who will identify reliable and profitable solutions and ensure that they deliver expected results.
ColourServer and the accomplished Ricoh Pro C900 make a powerful combination, enabling print service providers to deliver a faithful, consistent colour reproduction service to their clients. The solution is available immediately as a turnkey hardware/software solution, or a software-only package. It will also be available for demonstration at the Ricoh Product Innovation Centre, UK and in Ricoh demonstration sites across Europe.
”Increasingly, production printers around the world are turning to Ricoh to help them prioritise options, recommend winning solutions and work to implement and support them over the lifetime of the relationship,” says Tapley. “Our partnership with Ready4Print is an important element of our continued expansion of this strategy, ensuring that the best possible colour consistency is delivered with each and every print run.”
To find out more about Ricoh production printing solutions visit www.ricoh-europe.com or visit Ricoh at IPEX in Stand 12-D130.
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 totaled over YEN 2,091.7 billion during the year ended 31 March 2009.
Web: www.ricoh-europe.com
About Ready4print
Ready4print was founded in the early nineties in the last century as full-service bureau for the transition of graphic design productions into “press ready” output data. Ready4Print has gained a wealth of experience in applying innovative software solutions to automate the design to print processes. Since the new century started Ready4Print has fully concentrated on software development only. Today Ready4print Solutions are installed with a variety of satisfied clients and automatically transform thousands of creative designs into flawless print ready documents. Ready4print has effectively bridged the gap between the ‘creator’ and the ‘printer’. For more info www.ready4print.com
