BOULDER, Colo., February 03, 2009
InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today announced significant enhancements to its monochrome continuous forms print portfolio, offering improved productivity and increased flexibility for monochrome customers of all sizes. These enhancements are to its flagship models: the InfoPrint 4100 and the InfoPrint 100 and InfoPrint 75. This highlights the importance of monochrome as a flexible, cost-effective and sustainable print option, particularly important in current competitive environments as customers look to control costs and increase efficiency.
These latest enhancements have been produced by InfoPrint with ongoing investment and support from parent company Ricoh, particularly in toner development. The InfoPrint 4100 is ideal for customers in TransPromo, direct mail and service bureau environments while the InfoPrint 100 and InfoPrint 75 are aimed at small-to-medium size businesses (SMB), warehouses and datacenters.
"InfoPrint continues to enhance our offerings to match market conditions and to help meet the pain points our customers are feeling. Our high speed monochrome enables a variety of innovative data and image production, while keeping an eye on costs and environmental concerns," said Chris Reid, Director of Production Monochrome Solutions at InfoPrint. "Ricoh’s continued investment highlights the significance of monochrome both for InfoPrint and to the market, as a sustainable, high speed solution that provides a new level of productivity, increased reliability and a variety of data options."
The InfoPrint 4100 continuous forms printer produces high quality monochrome output that is typically only available using cutsheet solutions. "It offers users broader paper selection options, now including mechanical pulp paper to improve its sustainability." The InfoPrint 4100 also delivers some of the highest speeds currently on the market for electrophotographic printers and allows for the production of more output with less operator time increasing productivity.
The feature enhancements for the InfoPrint 75 and InfoPrint are:
- Increased options of support technologies
These new models offer full support of Intelligent Print Data Stream (IPDS) which has become the standard for mission-critical printing. In addition to this, the InfoPrint 100 and InfoPrint 75 support PCL and PostScript - Added language support
The InfoPrint 100 and InfoPrint 75 now support the operator panel and web page languages in Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian and Spanish - Reliable, flexible and productive platform
Ideal for customers such as datacenters, SMBs and warehouses producing client invoices, statements, picking slips, labels and direct marketing mailings
For more information about these solutions please visit:
InfoPrint 4100
InfoPrint 100
InfoPrint 75
About InfoPrint Solutions Company
InfoPrint Solutions Company, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, brings to market the advantages IBM and Ricoh have in the development, manufacturing, marketing and building of strategic solutions for customers, creating a growth-oriented global enterprise that is strategically focused on the output market.
The InfoPrint Solutions Company portfolio includes solutions for production printing for enterprises and commercial printers as well as solutions for office workgroup environments and industrial segments. The company offers customers the highest quality output solutions that optimize productivity by providing efficient workflow and, at the same time, delivering low cost of ownership and high return on investment. The heritage of InfoPrint Solutions Company includes the development of the IBM Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) Architecture – now an industry standard – and Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS), which has since become the standard for mission critical business printing. The company also leads the industry in print management solutions with both InfoPrint Process Director and InfoPrint Manager. Please visit www.infoprint.com for more information.
Media and Industry Analyst ContactTracey Sheehy
Breakaway Communications for InfoPrint Solutions Company
tsheehy@breakawaycom.com212-616-6003
