The range of black and white copier/printers broadens Ricoh’s product selection in this category, by now offering three devices, the MP 9000 at 90ppm, the MP 1100 at 110ppm and the MP 1350 at 135ppm.
The three Ricoh Production models are designed firstly with the user in mind but also to meet the growing need for the production of complex jobs. As a result the copier/printers are robust but flexible, innovative in design yet simple to use and competitively priced.
While cost effective at monthly volumes ranging from 200,000 up to one million copies, at peak times they are robust enough to increase capacity to cope with peak month copier volumes of up to 1.2m for the MP 9000, 1.5m for the MP 1100 and 1.9m prints for the MP 1350. These machines are ideal for the pay-for-print market because, with duty cycle capacity in reserve, they allow for unpredictable volume surges. Inplant establishments such as university print rooms, where there are usually two to three big volume peaks each year, can also benefit.
Advanced flexible inline production helps minimise offline work and labour costs. It also enables users to produce a more complex document by offering nine media sources. This makes the MP Production range among the most competitive available today with a maximum seven paper draws and two poser fuser inserters. These include six draws and two post inserts with capacity for oversized paper stock up to 330 x 458mm.
Producing quality booklets is also a breeze with the inline booklet maker featuring a square end finish allowing up to 120 pages in either an A4 or A5 folded size or custom sizes.
Reduced programming time for the Ricoh range is achieved through the intuitive design, which allows the paper draws and the inline Plockmatic booklet maker to auto-sense and adjust from A4 to A3.
An efficient colour touch screen control panel is a welcome improvement for the operators and makes the MP range easy to program, eliminating the need for the user to have to rely on a cumbersome mouse and keyboard.
Ricoh’s new Preventative Maintenance (PM) strategy is also attracting attention as it dramatically minimises the inconvenience of long downtime during peak document volume periods. As part of this new PM strategy, designed with input from Ricoh Australia Technicians, the copier/printers themselves have undergone a redesign so that new, modular PM units such as the developer, drum and fusing units, can be replaced by a spare kit quickly and easily. In this way the time consuming refurbishing of these units is taken offline for reinstallation at the next scheduled PM. As a result of this new strategy, PM downtime has been reduced from several hours down to just 20-30 minutes.
Ricoh is also committed to PM training for those production establishments that wish to carry out the simplified preventative maintenance procedure themselves without having to wait for a service technician to arrive.
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