Well, it's new for those of us that sell the Ricoh product line. We had heard rumors on the Print4Pay Hotel forums for a few months that Ricoh was going to launch and envelope printer. Rumor had it, that the print engine was going to be the same that is used in the Xante Impressia. I had reported many months ago that the Ricoh SP C831dn printer is awesome for producing full color envelopes.
I placed two of these systems into a print4pay environment and had about 7 or 8 demonstrations in total. The major drawbacks was that the SP C831dn did not have a Pre Press Workflow, and there is no option for an envelope feeder and conveyor exit. Thus, we had to work within the existing postscript print driver and jury rig #10 envelopes so they can print from the paper trays. The by-pass tray was not a problem to configure, but a little tough tell someone they could only stack 30 or so envelopes at a time.
On Monday, a fellow Print4Pay Hotel member posted that he was on the Aficio League (Infocenter) and the documentation was posting with the pricing and the brochure. Of course, I was on the site in a flash!!
I'm extremely excited about having this product available to sell. Personally, I believe that having this type of system presents endless opportunities to grow the production print side of the business.
Over the years, I've seen more local type print shops disappear from my territory. The weaker shops have disappeared, and the stronger shops are making investments to upgrade their technology to all digital shops. The Ricoh Color Envelope Printer allows us to place an entry level device that may lead to larger color and black production systems.
Thus, if you have access to the Ricoh infocenter, the information is there for pricing, along with the brochure. If you want to download the brochure you can go here. I'll have many more questions about this product, however, I'll wait for the official launch. Once you've downloaded the brochure, I'm sure you'll have your fair share of questions also. Please post the questions here so our community can give their thoughts!
-=Good Selling=-
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