With the eighth largest stand, and a plethora of solutions on display, Ricoh has included several versions of its Pro C 900, and the new Pro C720/720S.
The company announced that its Pro C900 digital colour printer, in combination with the C-80 Colour Controller, powered by Creo Colour Server Technology, has received the FograCert Validation Printing System (VPS) certification.
The Fogra certification process, a two-day evaluation of printer capabilities including substrate colour and gloss, permanence and light-fastness, fading, rub resistance and colour accuracy is based on ISO 12647, which sets measurable process standard criteria for different printing processes including digital printing. The Ricoh Pro C900 had previously achieved the FograCert VPS standard, and now in combination with the C-80 Colour Controller, the integrated digital colour printing system meets all of the required criteria.
Ricoh says its Production Printing Solutions suits large commercial printers; larger design agencies that wish to offer printing services for clients; digital printers/copy shops that are expanding into higher quality colour production work; and mixed offset/digital printers striving to lower production costs and increase efficiency.
Ricoh’s C-80 Color Controller, powered by Creo Color Server Technology, is designed for the commercial print, print-for-pay and inplant markets. Ricoh says the C-80 provides superior image quality, more output options, and greater workflow connectivity for the Pro C900, adding that it enables complex colour jobs to be processed at high speed. It is aimed at commercial printers, creative services shops, quick printers and in-house operations.
At Ipex, Ricoh is using its printers to demonstrate its capabilities. The Ricoh Pro C900 is printing on plastic substrates, by creating polyester plant tags. The tags are UV coated on a Morgana Digicoater 33 and die cut using an Ernst Nagel die cutter for a fully finished product. The new Ricoh Pro C720 is printing A5 desktop calendars, with holes already punched for wire-o binding. The calendars also feature personalised colour images and are produced in seven different languages.
The Ricoh Pro C900 is also producing an 86 page yachting magazine using the solutions from Ricoh’s partner, Ready4Print, that Ricoh says will ensure digitally printed pages are colour compliant compared to the offset samples printed to ISO 12647-2. Sample pages of the magazine are being proofed on multiple devices to the ISO standard. On top of that the C900, with Creo C-80 controller, is also printing on demand personalised sections of the Print Production Handbook, created using NowPrint, a web-to-print solution from Ricoh’s partner, NowDocs. The handbook is then saddle stitched and three edge-trimmed inline.
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