Inkjet & Digital Printing
Ricoh Europe to Showcase Enhanced Production Printing Solutions at digi:media
Friday 08. April 2011 - Heidelberg Partnership and New Options Create Powerful Presence
Ricoh Europe PLC will demonstrate its focus upon offering the most comprehensive production printing solutions at digi:media, in Düsseldorf (Hall 06/ Stand B50), from April 7 to 9. In addition, for the first time, visitors to the show will see the Ricoh ProTM C901 Graphic Arts Edition operating as an integral part of the live production at the Heidelberg stand.
During a joint press conference with Heidelberg, held on the eve of the digi:media exhibition, Simon Sasaki, Ricohs new Director and Corporate Executive Vice President, General Manager, Production Printing Business Group, said: Its a special relationship that we think will transform the market landscape – commercial printers have easier access than ever before to more fully integrated solutions. They can call upon the widest range of software and hardware options to create the optimal mix for todays market.
The exhibition is the first trade event since Ricoh and Heidelberg announced their global strategic partnership. The collaboration will see Heidelberg sell Ricohs latest colour digital press, the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition, which delivers offset-like quality thanks to its PxP chemical toner and oil-less fusing technology. At 90ppm the press is the fastest in its class and comes with a comprehensive media library.
Ricoh will be presenting a range of solutions. Which include transpromo and personalised direct mail for one-to-one marketing campaigns. Visitors will also see mailroom solutions and software tools for digital input and output management. Ricoh will show the production capabilities of the Ricoh Pro C901 Graphic Arts Edition at digi:media through two live demonstrations. The first is driven by the Fiery E-41 print server from EFI and each day will print the Druckspiegel show booklet, while the second will highlight the benefits of the newly launched high-performance Creo C-81 print server. Shown publicly in Germany for the first time, it is ideal for rigorous graphic arts applications. The C-81 features include; Adobe PDF Print Engine 2 (APPE) support; free web-based training and HTML help tools; colour library enhancements; synchronised paper library and SMS and email notifications.
Peter Williams, Executive Vice President, Ricoh Production Printing Business Group Europe says, “digi:media is the ideal platform to underline our commitment to providing production printing solutions for ambitious printing operations that want to harness the latest technology to secure their future success. By identifying complementary partnerships and continually developing our solutions, we can help our customers improve productivity, reduce costs and enhance output quality.”
Black and white choice
Also on show will be the multi-functional Ricoh Pro1357. It offers the widest range of inline finishing options on the market, with several unique solutions – an affordable new multi-folding unit handling six folding patterns, an automatic ring binder, a decurling unit to improve the devices stacking capacity and the SR5020 booklet finisher.
Fast, reliable and durable, the system has been designed to handle peak volume workloads and is equipped with a range of options and effective digital print servers. The 135ppm Ricoh Pro1357 can be customised to high volume users specific needs. Top image quality and user friendliness guarantee complete and cost efficient solutions for complex jobs.
Scalable support
Ricoh will also show how its NowPrint hosted Software-as-a-Service platform enables print service providers to satisfy and retain clients through web-to-print, without the need for an on-site server or a large IT team.
The platform is extremely cost effective and simple to use, and makes it easy for businesses to move into the web-to-print market. The options are scalable and available on a try-before-you-buy basis through the Ricoh Business Driver Programme; an exclusive package of business development services for Ricoh production printing clients in the commercial and corporate sectors.