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| (LtoR) Ricoh's Paul Thompson, Business Dev.Manager; Dean Edelman, Segment Marketing Mgr; Henryk Krajewski, Snr Product Mgr & Yuki Nagatsuka, KJ Project team (Japan), who worked on design of the Pro L5160. |
The 1625mm roll-to-roll sector is the ‘workhorse’ sector of wide format, it’s where most of the production is – and the revenues made for the average sign shop. SAV, polyester and banner vinyls might not be ‘sexy’ but so much meterage is still printed on these humble materials. Add perforated window films, backlits, canvas, textile and vehicle wrapping films and you have probably 80% of what is printed as signage. The Ricoh L5160 eats all this up.
But that’s not all, rarely have I seen such colours that ‘pop.’ I mean pop like Adele hitting the high notes; Banksy decorating a wall. It’s all down to Ricoh’s AR latex inks and the Gen5 MH5441 piezo printheads. Plus a chassis build that will take you back to the days of metal solidity, with panels to match. It’s tough.