09.30.14
Ricoh Americas has announced its newest continuous-feed platform, the Ricoh Pro VC60000. The 2014 Must See ‘Ems award-winner, which is expected to begin shipping in early 2015, uses Ricoh’s next generation drop-on-demand print heads and high-density pigment inks. These new print heads are capable of physical resolutions up to 1,200 by 1,200 dots per inch. With the optional undercoat unit, commercial printers can run a variety of offset coated gloss stocks with output quality comparable to what they expect from offset devices. An optional inline protector coating unit provides scratch and scuff resistance.
“The Ricoh Pro VC60000 is important for the industry because it’s going to help the offset printing community transition to becoming more efficient. Its print quality will provide customers with the ability to shift jobs to digital that frankly haven’t been profitable on offset,” said Marco Boer, vice president at IT Strategies. “It will help commercial printers, in-plants and service bureaus to compress run lengths and operate more cost-effectively, while maintaining high quality at a throughput that wasn’t viable until today. This will change many printers’ perceptions of inkjet quality for the better.”
Based on open standard architectures, the Ricoh Pro VC60000 uses a new Ricoh Digital Front End (DFE) that provides native support for PDF, PDF/VT and AFP together with JDF and advanced color management support.
“With more than 70 billion impressions to date, Ricoh’s InfoPrint 5000 family, the first continuous feed drop-on-demand inkjet solution for high-volume production, has led the market for six years running,” said Tim Vellek, senior vice president, marketing, Ricoh Americas. “We were the first to deliver AFP, PostScript, and PDF native to the control unit; and the first to provide customers a suite of ink management tools. The Ricoh Pro VC60000, developed by the industry’s most experienced inkjet production team, complements our current portfolio and leads the way into the future of production print. Ricoh’s ongoing commitment to innovation means that commercial print and corporate clients can confidently select from our broad and ever-expanding portfolio of products, services, and solutions to support the profitable growth of their businesses.”
“The Ricoh Pro VC60000 is important for the industry because it’s going to help the offset printing community transition to becoming more efficient. Its print quality will provide customers with the ability to shift jobs to digital that frankly haven’t been profitable on offset,” said Marco Boer, vice president at IT Strategies. “It will help commercial printers, in-plants and service bureaus to compress run lengths and operate more cost-effectively, while maintaining high quality at a throughput that wasn’t viable until today. This will change many printers’ perceptions of inkjet quality for the better.”
Based on open standard architectures, the Ricoh Pro VC60000 uses a new Ricoh Digital Front End (DFE) that provides native support for PDF, PDF/VT and AFP together with JDF and advanced color management support.
“With more than 70 billion impressions to date, Ricoh’s InfoPrint 5000 family, the first continuous feed drop-on-demand inkjet solution for high-volume production, has led the market for six years running,” said Tim Vellek, senior vice president, marketing, Ricoh Americas. “We were the first to deliver AFP, PostScript, and PDF native to the control unit; and the first to provide customers a suite of ink management tools. The Ricoh Pro VC60000, developed by the industry’s most experienced inkjet production team, complements our current portfolio and leads the way into the future of production print. Ricoh’s ongoing commitment to innovation means that commercial print and corporate clients can confidently select from our broad and ever-expanding portfolio of products, services, and solutions to support the profitable growth of their businesses.”