IKON Delivers RICOH Pro C900 Digital Color Printer to Colorfx of Des Moines, Iowa

State-of-the-art color production system allows commercial printing company to better meet customer digital printing needs

MALVERN, Pa. – IKON Office Solutions, Inc., a Ricoh company, today announced that Colorfx of Des Moines, Iowa, has installed a RICOH Pro C900 digital color printer, giving them the high-quality and quick turnaround time needed to meet their customers’ wide range of variable data and customized printing needs.

Colorfx is Iowa’s largest privately owned print and marketing services company. Colorfx specializes in creating and executing marketing communications and direct marketing programs for regional and nationally based customers.

“Colorfx is a customer focused, high-quality commercial printing and marketing company, and we help our customers communicate through state-of-the-art web, sheet fed and digital printing, creative services, e-technology, and mailing and fulfillment services,” explains Nathan Kring, Executive Vice President, Colorfx. “With over 240,000 square feet of production capability, we provide customers a uniquely diverse capability mix to create and deliver effective customer marketing campaigns.”

As part of their commitment to their customers, Colorfx recently purchased a RICOH Pro C900, giving them more versatility, faster speeds and superior print quality. “Digital printing is an important capability for our customer base and the RICOH Pro C900 adds to our already robust digital printing services,” says Kring. “The RICOH Pro C900 increases our ability to design creative, targeted customized solutions via variable data technology – all in a much more cost-effective manner than we previously could.”

Engineered to meet the demanding needs of the production print environment, the RICOH Pro C900 represents an advancement 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 fast 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 offers many production tools for advanced page programming requirements like tabs, inserts, covers and chapter breaks.

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 Colorfx to purchase their RICOH Pro C900 through IKON. “We are a long time IKON customer, and we have received a tremendous amount of planning and support from IKON, through the delivery, set up and training,” says Kring.

“We are proud to work with innovative customers like Colorfx that require increased capacity, faster turnaround times, and higher print quality using our world class digital technology,” explains Spencer Adamson, Vice President, Production Solutions and Commercial Print, IKON Office Solutions. “With its superior quality, high performance output and advanced workflow applications, the RICOH Pro C900 truly sets a new standard in color digital print quality and productivity.”