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| Cover Story | Ricoh
Ricoh making major move into inkjet printing
Having carved out a successful market in digital cut-sheet toner systems, the print technology innovator will now be proving new opportunities for local printers,
by bringing inkjet print solutions to ANZ this year.
Ricoh has been a major player in the ANZ commercial print market through its cut-sheet digital print
systems for fifteen years, and this year will see the technology giant build on that platform, by launching into the inkjet print market.
The local company will
be marketing its high-speed continuous-feed printers, the Pro VC60000 and Pro VC70000, and
the soon-to-be-launched Pro Z75 sheetfed B2, inkjet, colour press.
All inkjet print systems developed by Ricoh are characterised by the fact that everything is developed
by Ricoh; specifically the engine, the printheads, the ink, and the controllers, meaning that there
is only one point of contact for all aspects of the print system, and that all parts of the system are developed to operate with all the other parts.
Henryk Kraszewski, product marketing manager at Ricoh says the pedigree is important not only to the provable track record, but also in the choice of company print businesses have to support them when they move into inkjet. He says, “Print businesses which recognise the compelling
logic of digital inkjet presses will be making a significant investment in
a technology that will likely be quite new to them. They need the support of their supplier, and they need the
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