Ricoh C900

[msaeger]

Greasy/oily look on glossy stock - depends on colors used in the print, but some jobs look really bad on glossy (especially jobs with black/gray tones). Yes, we used the approved paper and settings.

How many prints do you have ? When I have seen this rebuilding the fuser has fixed it.

[UberTech]

I believe both companies have decent service. Both sides have customers who love them, and I am sure they have some that hate them. I have some other things I have heard about the Ricoh that I would like to know if they are true. I have been told locally that the Ricoh C900 is Ricohs old black and white machine with color capabilities. I guess this means instead of building this machine from the ground up, they just threw some color technology in a exsisting machine. Thanks for all of your help guys.

Unlikely. I have never seen a machine, particualry tandem that started life as black and white.

[X33]

I have been told locally that the Ricoh C900 is Ricohs old black and white machine with color capabilities. I guess this means instead of building this machine from the ground up, they just threw some color technology in a exsisting machine.

This is an interesting statement. I hope we can confirm this.

A few years ago, when the first digital copiers came out to the market, some companies/brands needed to catch up with the technology from their competitors and because they just didn't have the time or R&D to build a digital copier from scratch, they took their old analog copiers and modified them to make them digital.

I wonder if this is what happened to Ricoh coming in the production market as the last player.

[msaeger]

This place needs a sales free forum. What difference would it make if a machine is based on a different one or not if it does what you want at the cost you want why does anything else matter. What does based on or modified mean even.

[Keith]

This place needs a sales free forum. What difference would it make if a machine is based on a different one or not if it does what you want at the cost you want why does anything else matter. What does based on or modified mean even.

Good point. For the longest time (and it may still be so) but the Corvette has an engine with OHV (OverHead Valves) witch is considered an old technology when compared to engines with DOHC or SOHC (Dual and Single OverHead Camshaft, respectively). And the Corvette will beat the pants off a lot of those cars with overhead cams.

[Rooster]

I work for Ricoh and am closely associated with the Pro C900.

It is NOT a deriative of the Black and White engines. It is a new build and has been developed with the purchase of Hitatchi Printing Systems a few years ago.

The device weighs on 750kg...with the paper deck it is over 1 Tonne. It is a production device not a light production device such as the KM or the Xerox 700.

If you have any questions I am happy to set you straight!!!

[msaeger]

Good point. For the longest time (and it may still be so) but the Corvette has an engine with OHV (OverHead Valves) witch is considered an old technology when compared to engines with DOHC or SOHC (Dual and Single OverHead Camshaft, respectively). And the Corvette will beat the pants off a lot of those cars with overhead cams.

I wanted to make a car analogy but I don't know enough about cars to come up with one

[sccball22]

I've heard fromsome ricoh owners. Are there any happy or unhappy canon imagepress c6000 users out there?

[Craig]

I've heard fromsome ricoh owners. Are there any happy or unhappy canon imagepress c6000 users out there?

Every manufacture, every product made have happy and un-happy customers. It truly is whatever fits your needs.

[PrinterGuy]

VDP - we have PlanetPress and sending a 4 up, 2 sided, 4 color postcard job with address that runs about 6 ppm. Sending the job as FreeForm speeds it up slightly - about 12 ppm. We can't send the images directly to the printer - PP reports there is no memory. All vendors involved want to blame eachother and get more money to troubleshoot.

Free Form 2 won't work - Ricoh was sent info and sample files - no progress reports for weeks.

Hi CMCRhonda,

Interesting. I have run VDP jobs on that device and noticed decreasing speed with complex jobs. However I got around it in using FreeForm. The device runs rated speed from the first page.
I also had huge performance gain by sending jobs down to the RIP as PPML.
The main factor is how intelligently applications send the information to the engine. Optimized PostScript can help a lot when printing huge VDP jobs. The C900 Fiery supports VPS and PPML so you might want to investigate down that track.
I assume you send the jobs from PP as optimized PostScript?
Do you have all the latest firmware and system software (v4) on your Fiery?
How much of your job is variable? Only the address line or do you swap images etc. as well? What does you Fiery tell you regarding free memory? How much does it have to work with? Quite certain you went through the standard switch off - switch on process, just to make sure

Would be happy to hear how you go.

Cheers
PrinterGuy