Ricoh Corp.

A new Ricoh InfoPrint 5000 MP monochrome continuous-feed inkjet press will be installed at Edwards Brothers Malloy's Lillington, NC, digital print center this month and will be operational in October. The press will be used for both print-on-demand as well as short runs up to 1,500 copies.

IDEAlliance has awarded Ricoh Americas and EFI a Digital Press System Certification for the Ricoh Pro C5100s/C5110s, driven by EFI’s Fiery E-22B and E-42B digital front ends (DFEs). The certification verifies a system’s ability to meet or exceed established industry expectations for excellence.

Ricoh Americas' Ricoh ProcessDirector and Ricoh ProcessDirector Express, the workflow backbones of its Critical Communications solution suite, has been enhanced to archive print jobs and send production updates directly to print MIS systems via the Avanti Slingshot Connect feature.

Ricoh Americas new, industry-first TotalFlow BatchBuilder software solution simplifies and automates the batching and scheduling of short-run digital work for centralized job control. The vendor-neutral offering empowers users seeking better ways to meet production demands from high volumes of short-run and on-demand jobs, while minimizing labor costs, increasing efficiency and throughput, and more effectively managing jobs.

The 2014 Must See 'ems winners have been selected and will be on exhibit at GRAPH EXPO 14 and the co-located CPP EXPO show, slated for Sept. 28 to Oct. 1, at Chicago's McCormick Place. Chosen by a panel of industry experts, these innovative technologies represent advances in 11 categories spanning the entire graphic communications industry.

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ September 2014 edition, featuring Ricoh Americas, Mark Andy, Bobst North America, Fujifilm North America, Graphic Systems Div., Aleyant Systems, RM Machinery, Durst U.S., INX Digital

Xplor at GRAPH EXPO, a complimentary keynote breakfast panel event being held Sept. 30, 2014, during the GRAPH EXPO show in Chicago, will focus on how opportunistic operations are making investments in technology and workflow that are really paying off. The event is free to attend, but registration is required and limited to the first 200 registrants.

RESTON, VA—The 2014 Must See ’ems winners have been selected and will be on exhibit at GRAPH EXPO 14 and the co-located CPP EXPO show, slated for Sept. 28 to Oct. 1, at Chicago’s McCormick Place. Chosen by a panel of industry experts, these innovative technologies represent advances in 11 categories spanning the entire graphic communications industry.

Ricoh Americas' inaugural Interact community event in Boulder, CO, was deemed "highly informative and network worthy" from attendees who benefited from an interactive dialogue with Ricoh specialists with hands-on knowledge of integrating the InfoPrint 5000, Ricoh ProcessDirector and Ricoh ProcessDirector Express software solutions into commercial and transactional print environments.

When it comes to variable data work, digital printers are the ones doing touchdown dances. And on the long-run end of the spectrum, offset printing still reigns supreme. But in the realm of short-run, static work, where digital and offset both frolic, there is harmony in the versatility of being able to use one production process or the other.