Pro C9100 / 9200

Pro C9200: Printed.com

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Business Challenges & Objectives

To fulfil a very wide range of orders that come in through its online catalogue portal, mostly from small businesses were getting shorter run and more complex

Printed.com were looking for a long term partnership with a company that could support their needs to develop their ever growing business

Solution & Benefits

X5 Pro C9200 cut sheet presses running varied applications on short run requirements

The media flexibility means that they are able to offer a greater range to their customers

Extended sheet capability means that they can offer different sheet sizes to customers

Since installing, they have seen a significant saving in their energy costs

The biggest benefit to us of our partnership with Ricoh has been the access to talent...
We need a production partner that can work with us long term developing our business and Ricoh certainly fitted that bill.

Nick Green , Founder, Printed.com

Ricoh’s response to us have been absolutely excellent, the level of service and sales support is second to none…better than any previous suppliers I’ve worked with.

David Duncan, Production Director, Printed.com

Pro C9100: Imprimus

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Business Challenges & Objectives

Imprimus is a leading customer communications specialist based in South West England.

Imprimus uses technology-driven solutions to produce complex transactional, regulatory and direct customer communication for large organisations and local government.

Imprimus was looking for class-leading technology and attentive support.

Solution & Benefits

Imprimus is very pleased with the platform. The print quality is excellent and the flexible media handling allows it to offer clients a wider choice

The platform is proving to be very efficient: productivity has increased by 50%, and as print quality is consistently excellent, waste is down

Imprimus is saving £30,000 a year on energy costs

We are very really pleased with the Ricoh technology and the efficiency. It has saved us £30K per year on energy cost and 25% saving on the total cost of ownership.

Tony Plummer, Managing Director, Imprimus

Pro C9110: Gilmex

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Business Challenges & Objectives

Were looking into upgrading their Xerox digital fleet as well as looking at wide format

Solution & Benefits

Significantly increased productivity (running three shifts a day) and more competitive

Supreme versatility for different mailer formats and different stock weights up to 470 gsm

Rapid setup, minimum maintenance and user friendly operation

Accelerated transition of output from in house offset capability to digital production

Much faster turn around times and far better quality of work that we are producing.

Terry Mills, Operations Director, Gilmex

Pro C9110 : Print Evolved (Workflow)

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Business Challenges & Objectives

Capability of the workforce within the business

Review of workflow in the factory and managing in a seamless way to keep growing the business in a sustainable way

Solution & Benefits

Looked at end to end solutions to improve workflow

Ricoh delivered an improvement programme

A positive change of process

More organised, working smarter and not harder

Increased workflow, to meet customer demands

Pre press – Dispatch is organised, lean manufacturing in place

Continuing to look at improvements and potential growth for the business

After working with Ricoh, we’ve found that we can increase the work going through the factory, we are now working smarter not harder.

Elio Prati, Print Manager, Evolved

Pro C9200 : Melter

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Business Challenges & Objectives

Major direct mail operation near Stuttgart looking to enhance its digital production capability

Aiming to migrate offset production to digital

Required a flexible press to handle personalised self-mailers, postcards & letters with many layout versions

Wanted to replace a competitor device with a superior product

Solution & Benefits

Significantly increased productivity (running three shifts a day) and more competitive

Supreme versatility for different mailer formats and different stock weights up to 470 gsm

Rapid setup, minimum maintenance and user friendly operation

Accelerated transition of output from in house offset capability to digital production

We are very satisfied with the productivity of the machine, especially in contrast to the sheetfed digital press it replaced.

Daniel Melter, CEO, Melter

Pro C9200 : Forretningstrykk

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Business Challenges & Objectives

Printing wide range of applications from book printing to simple business cards

More shorter run requirements from customers

Quality of the prints

More shorter run requirements from customers

Benefits

Business has been able to go 100% digital

Longsheet capabilities

Being able to print on textured paper and wide range of media options

Operators are happy with the ease of use of the Pro C9200

Low running costs

Been able to move from offset completely as the digital equipment is reliable

Solution

Ricoh put an improvement programme
Looked at end to end solutions to improve workflow

Pro C9200 delivers high quality and high productivity with low running costs.

Andre Lillegard, Owner, Forretningstrykk

Pro C9200 : Allkopi

Business Challenges & Objectives

Allkopi NetPrint is Norway’s largest graphic agency.

Services encompass design, print and digital media and it has branches throughout Norway as well as a round the clock click and collect print service via its web shop.

Allkopi NetPrint was looking for a digital print solution that would produce output to offset standard.

Benefits

Allkopi NetPrint reports three million impressions per month across all three production lines

Real estate brochures produced on the Ricoh presses are used by architects, property developers and estate agents to sell high value properties

Service support is excellent and the presses are proving to be highly reliable

Solution

Following exhaustive application tests, three Pro C9110 presses were introduced for high end brochure work.
They were selected for outstanding image quality

We were looking for a digital solution that would produce output of offset standard. The Ricoh Pro C9110 presses deliver exceptional quality at very high speed.

Espen Olsen, Production Director, Allkopi NetPrint