Nov 13 2009
State-of-the-art color production system enables commercial printing company
to better meet customer digital printing needs
IKON Office Solutions, Inc., a Ricoh company, today announced that GAM Printers, Inc of Sterling, Virginia, has installed a RICOH Pro C900 digital color printer, giving them the versatility, superior quality and fast turnaround times needed to meet their customers’ wide range of variable data and creative design and printing needs.
Serving the Washington D.C./Northern Virginia area for 32 years, GAM specializes in creating business-related print materials for medium-to large-sized businesses – everything from stationery and business forms to brochures, newsletters, posters and promotional products. GAM also offers full graphic design, bindery and finishing, and mailing and fulfillment services, making them a true “one-stop shop” for their customers’ visual communication needs.
“At GAM, we understand how critical printed materials are to our customers’ ability to promote their products and services,” explains Nathaniel Grant, President, GAM Printers. “Having provided quality design, printing and mailing services for 32 years, GAM provides our customers with everything they need to move their visual communication projects from concept to delivery.”
As part of their ability to meet customer needs, GAM recently purchased a RICOH Pro C900, which provides them with versatile imaging with exceptional color. “Digital printing produces smaller quantities of high-resolution color, and is an important and ever-growing segment in the commercial print market,” says Grant. “The RICOH Pro C900 gives us the ability to design creative, targeted, customized solutions, including flyers, postcards, and brochures, all at an attractive price point for our customers.”
Engineered to meet the demanding needs of the production print environment, the RICOH Pro C900 represents an advance in efficiency and productivity, combining consistent 1200 dpi output with 90 pages-per-minute speed. It utilizes Ricoh’s new image processing technology for unsurpassed quality and quick turnaround times, and can handle a wide range of media, including weight ranges up to 110 lb. cover. Its modular design enables a number of input and output configurations, and it offers many production tools for advanced page programming requirements, such as tabs, inserts, covers and chapter breaks.
“The color quality of the RICOH Pro C900 is simply outstanding,” says Grant. “We’ve really put the machine through its paces, and it has come through every time. The registration on the RICOH Pro C900 is simply unbelievable. We have never had an image press that can register 100# paper on both sides without a problem. People cannot tell the difference between the quality of its output versus offset print. Our customers have been thrilled with its results.”
The RICOH Pro C900 is designed to have extremely low maintenance requirements, and is backed by IKON’s team of locally based service and support professionals, along with a team of color and production specialists. IKON has many years of experience in meeting and exceeding the demands of corporate print centers and commercial print businesses. In addition, IKON customers can maximize their color solutions by engaging with IKON’s color and production specialists, and its Professional Services team, who can provide customers with a suite of services and application development, including variable data integration for marketing and personalized communications, advanced color management, forms design, data stream conversion and custom workflow solutions to help improve productivity, reduce turnaround time, and increase effectiveness.
It is this kind of support that led GAM to purchase their RICOH Pro C900 through IKON. “We are a first-time IKON customer, and from the beginning, IKON has been with us every step of the way, from our decision to purchase the RICOH Pro C900 through the delivery, set up and training,” says Grant. “The service side of IKON has been impressive as well. Our service technicians are incredibly responsive and they are very knowledgeable about the RICOH Pro C900.”
“With its superior quality, high speeds and state-of-the-art workflow applications, the RICOH Pro C900 sets a new standard in color digital print quality and productivity,” explains Spencer Adamson, Vice President, Production Solutions and Commercial Print, IKON Office Solutions. “It is a terrific solution for customers like GAM, who utilize it for the creative design and efficient production of the materials they create for their customers to communicate and market their businesses.”
“The RICOH Pro C900 has helped our customers utilize color in their visual communications where they only used black and white before,” says Grant. “It gives us more options to fulfill our customers’ printing and marketing solutions needs at more attractive prices than ever before.”
Source: http://www.ikon.com/