The next generation in production printing

Ricoh at drupa 2008

drupa 29 May 11, June 2008, Hall 9, Booth A60 – Ricoh is demonstrating the next generation in digital production printing at drupa 2008. It will also show, for the first time in Europe, the Ricoh Pro C900 and C900s, the new colour digital printer offering high-volume printing. In addition drupa 2008 marks the first anniversary of the joint venture between Ricoh and IBM’s printing Systems Division, InfoPrint Solutions Company.

The Ricoh booth is conveniently set-up into two key areas: corporate and commercial printing. Visitors with corporate printing needs are invited to see how Ricoh solutions can help maximise efficiency, minimise costs and manage critical printing applications. Ricoh will demonstrate a range of integrated workflow management tools including native IPDS printing and variable data printing. For commercial printing Ricoh is demonstrating solutions that deliver high-quality, cost-effective printing, including its user-friendly job submission tools.

Visitors to the Ricoh booth can learn more about Ricoh production printing workflows including, web-to-print, personalised printing and transactional printing. In addition Ricoh will also show the latest high-volume printing graphic arts solution, featuring the Ricoh Pro C900s and EFI Fiery RIP.

WEB-TO-PRINT
Ricoh production print devices are fully supported with a range of digital job submission software tools including Web-to-print and digital store front solutions. Demonstrations on the booth include an entry level web-to-print solution, the Infotec PrintTicket™ suite and a sophisticated store front solution, Digital StoreFront™ from EFI.

PrintTicket™ users can submit work from any location, however remote, communicating with the print service provider via the internet or intranet. Client software is not necessary as all features are selectable from a browser interface.

Digital StoreFront™ enables users to send and proof documents from the desktop, wherever they are in the world. End-to-end workflow solutions can be created by seamlessly integrating Digital StoreFront™ into production workflow management solutions.

PRODUCT WORKFLOW
The Production Workflow demonstrations with Ricoh’s Aficio MPC6000, Ricoh Pro 906EX and Ricoh Pro C900s will feature MicroPress™ and Fiery Central™ from EFI, both of which are JDF compatible.

MicroPress is a high-performance, raster based production printing workflow solution. Suitable for high-volume, print on demand environments, enabling the production of complex, short-run documents. Fiery Central is a powerful modular, PDF-based workflow solution for the high-volume printing environment designed to decrease turnaround times and increase job volumes.

Ricoh will also demonstrate an end-to-end workflow management solution with its unique software from Infotec. Infostream is an essential management tool for print rooms and distributed print environments. A complete print management solution, Infostream provides control over every aspect of print production from job submission to print output and cost allocation.

PERSONALIZED PRINTING
Personalised printing demonstrations with the Ricoh Pro C900s, Ricoh’s Aficio MPC6000 and Ricoh Pro 906EX feature the Planet Press and PrintShop mail software from Objectif Lune. PlanetPress Suite enables easy creation and printing of transactional and promotional variable content documents as well as offering advanced automated distribution and workflow management capabilities. PrintShop Mail is a fast and flexible variable data printing solution for the production of simple and complex Variable Data Printing jobs.

TRANSACTIONAL PRINTING
Selected Ricoh printers feature native IPDS support which is unique to Ricoh and delivers output that is 100% accurate. Corporate and commercial printers need not worry about important data being lost in translation between systems. Ricoh’s transactional printing solutions are also compliant with DJDE and Metacode datastreams. The Ricoh Pro 906EX and EMP156 are being demonstrated with the Ricoh IPDS solution and the Mercury software from docuFORM®.

Peter Van der Kaag, Director Corporate Communications, Ricoh Europe, says, "It is the first time Ricoh will exhibit at the drupa show and we welcome the opportunity to demonstrate our production printing technology. We are confident that the efficient and productive solutions from Ricoh mark the next generation in production printing."

Note to editors
Ricoh Europe PLC is the EMEA Headquarters of Ricoh Company Ltd., the leading global manufacturer of office equipment, located in London, United Kingdom and Amstelveen, the Netherlands. Ricoh’s EMEA operations comprise 47 sales subsidiaries and affiliates. In the fiscal year ended 31 March 2007, revenues from Ricoh’s EMEA operations totalled over € 3.3 billion, accounting for 24.5% of the company’s global revenues. Ricoh’s worldwide sales increased by 8.4% totalling ¥ 2,068.9 billion (€ 13.4 billion).