Ricoh C900

[SirPrintsAlot]

Let me guess Deckm.. You are going to tell me that I can't duplex 100lb cover either huh? Because I can send you the samples that I did duplexed on Friday on it.

[GregNac19]

Let me guess Deckm.. You are going to tell me that I can't duplex 100lb cover either huh? Because I can send you the samples that I did duplexed on Friday on it.

Are you sure you printed on the Ricoh 900? Might have been a Xerox 5000!

[SirPrintsAlot]

Yep Im sure it was done on the C900. I am not here to talk bad about other machines. Just make sure that people are comparing apples to apples. If you doubt me on what it can do then all I can say is go get a demo on it and run some of your jobs on it. If I wanted to get in a fight I would go wear a SD Charger jersey to a Raider game. You don't buy a car without a test drive so go do one if you are looking for a machine.

[SirPrintsAlot]

This is straight out of Printweek.com.

I am not making it up.

The C900 runs at its rated speed of 90 A4 ppm across the entire range of stocks both coated and uncoated, at all sizes, including 2up on SRA3 and on its entire rated stock range of 60-300gsm. Before we started development we asked printers about their pain points and included the feedback in the specification, says Moloney. One of the biggest gripes was the speed reduction of other digital presses on coated, duplexed and heavy stocks. The C900 is 90ppm whatever you throw at it, he says. One of the biggest headaches printers identified with machines that slow down was in trying to schedule and plan around variable speeds.

In the past three years Ricoh has expanded on its roots in office imaging, adding production print products with the acquisition of Hitachi’s printer business and the distribution company Infotec. It has also taken a stake in Infoprint Solutions, IBM’s high-volume print division, which Ricoh will eventually wholly own.

[UberTech]

I do know my specs. What % coverage are you talking about with those specs? What kind of paper type are you using? Coated, uncoated? Thick1, Thick 2, Thick 3, Thin? All these have to answered to get the exact speed. For those that don't believe I am telling you to go down and check one out. I am not trying to sell anyone on here anything. Why do you buy a nice car? Because of its top speed or because if its reliability? Its easy of use? The Price? The added features? There is more to life than speeds and feeds. I have a question for the product manager. Where can I get paper tested and put on the approved paper list?

Coverage governs print speed? Wow keep em coming printsalot, your doing wonders for the rest of us.

[UberTech]

Wow after all that, thats all you can say to defend KM? So if coverage doesn't change anything then why should a sheet size? You also probably think that if you drop two objects of different size off a building that the larger object falls faster.

This is a piss take right? Seriously come on who is this? Is this some xerox rep trying undermine Ricoh or something?

[X33]

Coverage governs print speed? Wow keep em coming printsalot, your doing wonders for the rest of us.

that's a good one !

this guy (sirprintsalot) just doesn't get it.

[CSimpson]

The coverage comment has me lost

However, the specs he gave on the Ricoh are very close to what I witnessed at a demo if not exact. The machine is fast, that said the demo runs I got had toner flaking problems and streak marks that look like they were from rollers about a .5" from the top and bottom edge of the sheet. Could have probably been somthing easliy fixed, but it doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence when someone gives you sample that have real noticable issues.

[UberTech]

The coverage comment has me lost

However, the specs he gave on the Ricoh are very close to what I witnessed at a demo if not exact. The machine is fast, that said the demo runs I got had toner flaking problems and streak marks that look like they were from rollers about a .5" from the top and bottom edge of the sheet. Could have probably been somthing easliy fixed, but it doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence when someone gives you sample that have real noticable issues.

I concur with this. They were handing out samples with pride at Pacprint (Aussie trade show) that were streaky, blurry, jagged text and basically abismal. How can a tech fix something he can't see or understand.

[GregNac19]

I concur with this. They were handing out samples with pride at Pacprint (Aussie trade show) that were streaky, blurry, jagged text and basically abismal. How can a tech fix something he can't see or understand.

I am happily going to agree with Uber on this one. There were samples at Drupa this year and the samples of the Red in Ricoh were drifting over a few pages. Also, the color text looked jagged.
Great speeds and feeds from a company that does not have any "production experience".