At drupa 2016, its third presence at the show, Ricoh’s demonstrations will include a fully configured Ricoh Pro VC60000 running a variety of media roll-to-roll and roll-to sheet, and a single engine Pro VC60000 that will allow visitors to take a close look at the technology that powers it. Furthermore, color cut sheet presses including, the Ricoh Pro C9110 and the Ricoh Pro C7100x with its fifth toner station will also be available for demo at the stand.
The Pro VC60000 is the web-fed inkjet press that Ricoh has been building with its own technology since the last drupa where it first privately discussed the idea even while it has continued to sell the web-fed Infoprint Inkjet Series based on a Screen engine. The Pro VC60000 was demonstrated running live and printing high quality color at the Hunkeler Innovationdays in February 2015. At Hunkeler the VC60000 press was shown printing on a variety of substrates with one coater before the print engines and a varnish coater after the printing that added outstanding gloss to color images to offset substrates. Having already installed aVC60000 at Finland based Hansaprint, Ricoh now has a beta testing site.
Benoit Chatelard, vice president, Production Printing, Ricoh Europe, addressing journalists at the media conference in Dusseldorf Said, “Ricoh is providing new ways for any print service provider to transform, optimize and grow their business.”
Print production performance for this broad portfolio of production printers has been strengthened by a number of pre-drupa announcements by Ricoh.Visitors to the show will be able to see live demonstrations of the new aqueous resin (AR) latex inks for the Ricoh ProL4100 large format printer. The increased finishing capabilities with the Watkiss Power Square 224 booklet maker running in-line with the Pro C9100 series, Pro C7100x series, and the Ricoh Pro 8100 series digital presses will be shown.
In addition, being shown for the first time will be the enhanced banner option for the Pro C7100x and Pro C9100 digital presses. Another important addition to the Ricoh portfolio that will be on show at drupa is the Ricoh TotalFlow Cloud Suite, a hosted portfolio of cloud-based services comprising carefully selected Ricoh software and Ricoh-endorsed third-party solutions.
