Inkjet & Digital Printing
IKON Expands Production Color Portfolio with RICOH Pro C900 Digital Color Printer
Monday 29. December 2008 - High-quality color production printer offers affordability, productivity and versatility at speeds up to 90 pages per minute to help businesses gain a competitive edge
IKON Office Solutions, Inc., a Ricoh company, today announced the addition of the RICOH Pro C900 digital color printer to its production portfolio. The RICOH Pro C900 redefines industry standards in the production print marketplace, with consistent 1200 dpi color output coupled with 90 pages-per-minute speed, along with extensive workflow solutions and finishing options, all at an affordable price point.
Engineered to meet the demanding needs of the production print marketplace, the RICOH Pro C900 utilizes Ricohs new image processing technology for unsurpassed quality and fast turnaround times. Its modular design enables a number of input and output configurations, including increased paper input capacity, inline stapling, saddle-stitching, high-capacity stacking, hole-punching, ring binding, z-folding, interposing and perfect binder. In addition, the RICOH Pro C900 offers many production tools for advanced page programming requirements like tabs, inserts, covers, and chapter breaks.
The RICOH Pro C900 contains new and sophisticated features, including intelligent media handling to maximize high volume printing. A wide range of media, including weight ranges up to 110 lb. cover, can be run through the large capacity trays. The RICOH Pro C900 is built to seamlessly manage mission-critical applications, including trans promotional marketing, variable data printing, direct mailings and high volume, on-demand color output with complex finishing.
The RICOH Pro C900 was designed around extremely low maintenance requirements, which is essential in todays production print environment. The RICOH Pro C900 incorporates Trained Customer Replaceable Units (TCRU) into its design that cover almost every major element, enabling customers to replace certain necessary parts as needed, promoting maximum productivity.
Furthermore, the RICOH Pro C900 is backed by IKONs team of more than 6,000 locally based service and support professionals, along with a team of color and production specialists. IKON has many years of experience in meeting and exceeding the demands of commercial print businesses and corporate print centers. IKON customers can maximize their color solutions by engaging with IKONs color and production specialists and its Professional Services team, who can provide customers with a suite of services and application development, including variable data integration for marketing and personalized communications, advanced color management, forms design, data stream conversion and custom workflow solutions to help improve productivity, reduce turnaround time, and improve effectiveness.
In addition, IKONs commercial print customers can take advantage of the IKON Business Booster PackSM, a comprehensive set of resources and services designed to assist commercial printers in making the transition into the digital printing marketplace, providing a sales and marketing roadmap for customers who want to become a profitable, highly competitive provider of digital print solutions.
“The RICOH Pro C900 makes it easier than ever before for commercial print businesses and corporate print centers to enter the digital color marketplace,” explains Mike Dane, Vice President, Product and Services Marketing, IKON Office Solutions. “With its superior quality, high speed and broad workflow applications, the RICOH Pro C900 sets a new industry standard for advanced color printing at an attractive price point.”