Cut sheet colour digital presses with new features such as a fifth colour station to enable a wide range of applications with impressive print quality.
Print service providers face a three-pronged challenge: how do they stay competitive, grow revenues and at the same time add value to clients? Clearly, it is essential that they have the right tools in place to deliver innovative applications and to introduce new service lines.
Ricoh’s newly launched Ricoh Pro C7100 series of digital colour cut sheet presses aims to help businesses do exactly that. These presses are ideal for small to medium sized graphic arts business, direct mailers, service bureaux, digital printers and centralised reprographic departments and have been designed with their specific challenges in mind.
The presses’ features are designed to support print service providers that are seeking to increase their current digital printing capacity, enter new markets and explore new digital opportunities by providing capabilities and offerings to clients that were not previously available with this engine class.
By adding a Ricoh Pro C7100 series digital press to their workflows, they can boost return on investment, expand or introduce new digital print services with fast turnaround times, and promise exceptional image quality and impact to clients.
A key feature of the Pro C7100 series is its fifth colour station, which enables the application of spot or flood clear gloss and white, with quick switchover between the two. This feature is unprecedented at this price point and offers print service providers the potential for significant additional revenue opportunities.
The Pro C7100 series makes it easier for print service providers to offer diverse and unique output to their clients, adding new revenue streams to their businesses. Highly productive for its class, the series delivers print speeds up to 90 pages per minute and supports media up to 360 gsm. Optimum image quality up to 1200 x 4800 dpi is achieved with Ricoh’s enhanced Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) technology. It delivers a premium finish, and supports an extensive range of media, including new textured media technology, and enables many different applications such as light packaging, demo packaging, direct mail, books, brochures and business cards.
The expansion of Ricoh’s unique media library allows users to adjust and associate different parameters per substrate to ensure image quality and reliability. In addition to product features, the Operator Replaceable Units (ORUs) enable trained users to replace more than a dozen parts. This is key to reliability and image quality, to help increase uptime and performance. The Pro C7100 series is available with either the EFI E-43A or the faster and more powerful E-83A print server.
In short, theseries offers exceptional features encompassing print speeds up to 80/90 pages per minute, media support up to 360 gsm, optimum image quality up to 1200 x 4800 dpi, a fifth colour station providing clear and white toner, maximum sheet size of SRA3, air assisted simplex banner printing up to 700 mm, maximum monthly volume of 240,000 based on A4, a duty cycle of 700,000, and precise sheet-to-sheet and front-to-back registration achieved with mechanical registration. In addition, reliable throughput of the wide range of supported media is ensured by the use of Ricoh’s new vacuum feed technology and the presses are compatible with either the EFI E-43A or the faster and more powerful E-83A print server.
Ricoh said its continuing commitment to innovation means that commercial and corporate print clients can select the optimum blend from the company’s fast expanding portfolio of production-oriented products and solutions to support the profitable evolution of their businesses. The introduction of the Pro C7100 series enhances the existing portfolio of colour cut sheet presses to offer greater productivity and creativity to commercial and graphic arts users.
Interested customers can see the Pro C7100 in action and judge its benefits for themselves at Ricoh’s Customer Experience Centre. The centre, which opened in November in Telford, is a state-of-the-art, working print production centre of excellence.
It aims to help clients experience, in a highly visual way, exactly how Ricoh can help them add value, increase efficiency, improve operations and take a more proactive approach to sustainability. The new centre will make it even more convenient for existing and potential clients throughout Europe to access these valuable resources, including, for the first time in Europe, Ricoh continuous feed printing solutions.
