Ricoh Healthcare MFP's & Printers

Not so much designing products, as designing marketing materials to focus standrd fetures to a particular market.

Reading the brochure, there are only two mods; a lockng paper tray (woohoo) and tray side guides that go narrower.

The rest is packsging Locked Print and other features for the med market that is in a rush to implement EHR solutions, and evry vendor wants a piece of that healthcare tech spending bubble.

Did they improve envelope quality? No

I've had great success with envelopes on this product.

"Not so much designing products, as designing marketing materials to focus standrd fetures to a particular market."

Agreed as to "not so much designing products", very similar to the Oki color laser printer that doubles as an envelope press with the right attachments.

It's the sizzle that sells the steak and this product has the sizzle for the healthcare industry.

This does run envelopes very well as long as a customer is okay with having to adjust the fuser pressure prior to running envelopes and then switching it back to run plain paper. That can be a tremendous hassle if they are constantly going back & forth between plain paper and envelopes.

Interesting brochure. Kyocera has done some special pieces on their printers for the Healthcare market including getting certification from some of the key software suppliers, but nothing that is as slick as this is. The key of course is that the unit works as defined once it is sold.

I've seen Konica Minolta producing materials for key Vertical Markets that impressed me.

GMAN:

How abour for a specific device though like what Ricoh did?

Did Ricoh just send this out?

GIntel:

Are you talking about the brochure?

Did any of you catch the mention of tephlon coating of the machines in this info. I looked into it and the tephlon coating is to reduce microbes from getting on the equipment.

I caught the teflon part but when reading the brochure it led me to beleive that the teflon on the paper trays was to decrease the amounts of misfeeds with the narrow media.