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out 80 pages per minute in both colour and black-and-white, while
its big brother ups that to 100. Both Versants are toner-based, can handle paper from 52gsm to 350gsm, and print at 2400dpi fine resolution.
The presses have inbuilt sensors that perform high-tech management of registration and colour quality, ensuring alignment (including both one-sided and two-sided printing) and even distribution of toner across the page, and are capable of fully calibrating within ten sheets.
These automation features serve to dramatically reduce setup times.
Ricoh
The sub-$150,000 Ricoh Pro C7200 and C7200x series, and the Ricoh Pro C9200 are aimed at commercial printers, graphic arts and print service providers.
The five-colour Ricoh Pro C7200x series, Graphic Arts Edition, has been designed and engineered for graphic arts applications.
According to Ricoh, print quality is comparable to offset, with it says repeatable output, vivid lifelike colours, smooth tonal gradations, and fine lines and text.
in its latest toner presses aimed
at the graphic arts world: the Pro C7200 series and Pro C9200. These machines can run a wide range
of stock types, weights, and size. Ricoh says printers can run an almost unlimited range of stocks on our machines, including coated, uncoated, textured, synthetic, coloured, envelopes.
Both the Pro C7200 series and Pro C9200 will run long sheet sizes of up to 1260mm simplex. The Pro C7200 series can handle 700mm duplex with stock weights to 360gsm, allowing it to create A4 landscape or six-panel A4 jobs.
The Pro C9200 series will take it
a little bit further, with auto duplex up to 1030mm – for eight-panel jobs – and will run stock up to 470gsm or 600 microns.
Printing is up to either 95ppm or
85ppm (Pro C7200 series) or 115 ppm (Pro C9200). An extensive array of inline finishing options streamline production, enabling automated manufacture of high-quality saddle- stitched booklets, ring-bound booklets, stapled sets, or folded documents.
The new Plockmatic PBM5000 series Production Booklet Maker System – combined with the Plockmatic Long Sheet LCT3500 – takes full advantage of the longer sheet size capability of the Pro C7200 series and Pro C9200, producing professional, square-back, fully- trimmed A4-landscape booklets inline with up to three different stocks plus a pre-printed cover.
Canon
From imaging giant Canon is a new technology-packed digital colour print system, the imagePress C910, aimed at small commercial printers, copyshops and franchises.
The C910 comes in three versions defined by speed, with the 70ppm C710, the 80ppm C810, and the 90ppm C910. It succeeds the C850 series, which Canon defined as its workhorse colour printer. Canon says the C910 incorporates advanced technologies in a compact footprint, and can be used for a wide variety of applications from business cards to brochures to banners to 6pp A4 auto duplex prints.
The updated series includes a range of new finishing options and extended media support to further increase application flexibility. Finishing options include double punching on tabloid size sheets to help maximise productivity, and a new inline booklet maker. 21
The Pro C7200x series introduces Invisible Red toner for security applications. The Neon Pink toner, as well as White, Clear and Neon Yellow toners complete a range of colour options. These options allow designers to add impact to printed artwork with embellishing touches, gamut extension and eye catching colour for various prints such as point of sale material and signage. The Pro C7200x series can run white toner in a single pass.
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Investing: Kuhn Corp bought a new Ricoh Pro C7200 at PrintEx
Case Study – Top Print buys digital colour printer
Kylie and Jason are looking to upgrade their productivity and output options for their suburban print business with a new digital colour print engine that comes with inline finishing, identified as the key unit to take them forward.
They check out the options and are pleased to find they have several. They settle on a $150,000 top-
of-the-range system that prints, folds and stitches inline.
The business has had a reasonable year, they are expecting net profit after their own salaries to come in at $180,000 for the year.
Tax on that net profit would be $180,000 x 27.5% = $49,500.
However, the new instant asset write-down means Kyle and Danny can take $150,000 off that net profit figure as the cost of their new digital print engine.
$180,000 - $150,000 = $30,000.
Tax on net profit of $30,000 is $30,000 x 27.5 per cent = $8250.
Therefore, Kylie and Jason have reduced their tax bill by 80 per cent, saving themselves a very handy $41,250.
Of course, they cannot claim any depreciation for the next tax years as they would usually have done.