The vendor – the digital printing joint venture between IBM and Ricoh – is targeting its drop-on-demand technology at the high-speed cutsheet and continuous market, with applications for print-on-demand and transpromo.

InfoPrint Solutions Company, which is set for full Ricoh ownership in mid-2010, opened its Shanghai Print Innovation Centre to Australian graphics journalists, including ProPrint, a few days ago.

Three Australian companies, including Salmat, are said to have spoken to the vendor about its high-speed inkjet InfoPrint 5000, pointing toward an Australian installation in the near future.

InfoPrint’s Asia Pacific general manager, Christopher Reid, gave a briefing on the company’s mailing toolkit, Automated Document Factory, delivered through its InfoPrint Process Director product, which has 30 customer sites in the region.

“We’re talking to several Australian companies about IPPD implementation,” he said.

Centre manager David Ye told ProPrint that while manufacturing of Ricoh’s production printers is in Japan and the US, InfoPrint Solutions Company decided to locate its regional customer centre in Shanghai.

The facility is similar to its centre at IBM’s US headquarters in Boulder, Colorado – the company’s only other such facility.

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