Digital print specialist, DTP, has recently invested in a new Ricoh Pro C5100S, taking the number of Ricoh presses in its Edinburgh production house to three.
The new colour press has joined a Pro C751 and Pro C901. Owner and managing director, Alun Joseph cited the new machine’s extended sheet size and high performance production capabilities as the key rational behind the company’s latest investment in Ricoh.
Alun Joseph, said, ‘Our investment in the Pro C5100S, is the latest step in an investment programme that has seen us move exclusively to Ricoh print production machines. The outstanding quality, wide substrate compatibility and intelligent personalisation features offered by the C5100S are already making a real difference to us and our customers, enabling creativity to flourish and adding real value to the finished product.
‘Today, the sectors we work in, like most in the industry, have experienced an overall drop in print volume over the last few years, but demands for print of the highest quality and greatest added value have increased dramatically. In my mind, this actually gives printers a real opportunity to get closer to customers by producing higher value, more dynamic, personalised and targeted print, rather than just relying on the old ‘high volume, small margin’ business model. The end result is a much more targeted and engaging product for customers and a much better return on investment for everyone along the chain. But, critically, you have to have intelligent and robust technology to lead change that enables you to deliver this.’
The Pro C5100S is the first Ricoh digital production printer to feature enhanced toner transfer technology which delivers high quality print results on heavily textured stock. Wide media compatibility is one of the many key benefits of these models. A new fuser assembly uses information from the media library to optimise the fuser temperature and pressure combination for each substrate increasing compatibility and quality of output. This is ideal for printing challenging applications such as envelopes, where the balance of pressure and heat is critical to maintain a flat and perfectly printed product.
