RISO to Introduce ComColor Express RIP

DANVERS, MA—August 29, 2007—RISO, Inc., a leader in digital printing technology, has announced plans to introduce its new ComColor(tm) Express RIP for the HC5500 Full Color Printer at the upcoming Graph Expo, booth 2811.

The new ComColor Express RIP is designed to enhance productivity, output quality and range of applications for RISO’s HC5500 Printer. In addition to its faster ripping speed, the new RIP powers a series of robust, added-value features including:

• Advanced Archive Editing, enabling users to merge multiple jobs and file types (e.g., Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and print them together as one job, merge and print pages from different jobs, change the order of pages, and insert or delete pages. In addition, users can easily revise pages or sections of archived documents without needing to re-archive the entire document.

• Color Profile Upload capability, allowing users to create custom color profiles for even higher print quality while taking advantage of the HC5500’s outstanding reliability, low running cost and throughput.

• Hot Folder feature through which files can be dragged and dropped directly into a “hot folder” for immediate printing.

• New scanning features including “scan to email,” “scan to shared folder” or “scan to FTP.”

• Queue Settings and Codes, allowing users to register print settings for standardized workflows, or set codes to restrict printer access.

• PPML, PCL and RAW printing compatibility that enhances the utility of the HC5500 for variable data, transactional or trans-promotional printing applications.

“Our new ComColor Express RIP significantly expands the power, productivity and benefits of the HC5500, a technology that is creating new opportunities within the expanding full color marketplace because of its high speed, reliability and low running costs,” said David Murphy, Vice President of Marketing for RISO, Inc. “The ComColor Express strengthens the HC5500’s already significant speed advantage, provides a series of added-value features, and expands the range of markets that can benefit from the HC5500’s productivity.”

RISO has created three ComColor Express configurations designed to fit a range of user applications, enabling customers to select a RIP with capabilities that are most relevant to their needs.

RISO’s Standard Package offers users with everyday printing needs the power and processing advantages of the ComColor Express high speed RIP. The Advanced Package adds Archive Editing and Color Profile Upload features, enhancing the HC5500’s productivity and providing high quality or customized color output - capabilities that are important to many in-plant operations and commercial printers. The Professional Package offers all of the features of the Advanced Package in addition to PPML compatibility, making the HC5500 an ideal choice for high-end variable data, transactional or trans-promotional printing applications.

Pricing will be announced at a later date.

To request more information about RISO’s complete suite of digital printing solutions, call 1-800-876-7476, or visit the Web site at http://us.riso.com About RISO, Inc.
RISO, Inc. sells a variety of unique printing solutions throughout the Americas. Its line of digital duplicators includes one-, two- and full color systems that reliably produce millions of copies, are environmentally friendly, and are easy and inexpensive to use. RISO’s HC FORCEJET(tm) ComColorTM printers provide fast and affordable full color digital printing for everyday communications, at speeds up to 120 pages per minute, for as little as 3¢ per page running costs.