Inkjet & Digital Printing
InfoPrint Solutions Company Unveils drupa 2008 Line Up
Saturday 07. June 2008 - InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today announced its line up of solutions for drupa 2008, Hall 9 booth B44.
InfoPrint will demonstrate the power of its solutions for TransPromo, Print On Demand, Direct Marketing, Automated Document Factory and workflow management. These applications will be running on the InfoPrint 5000 continuous forms full color production printer and the recently announced InfoPrint EMP156 cut-sheet printer. InfoPrint will also demonstrate its commitment to the environment with the launch of its Container Collection Program.
“drupa 2008 will mark the one year anniversary of InfoPrint Solutions Company,” said Dermot O’Loughlin, InfoPrint EMEA general manager. “Our relationship with Ricoh has gone from strong to stronger and we will be using drupa as the platform to show new production offerings that combine Ricohs technical prowess with InfoPrints market expertise.”
Monochrome Cut-Sheet – InfoPrint EMP156
InfoPrint will show its new monochrome cut-sheet solution, the InfoPrint EMP156. This extends the current InfoPrint cut-sheet family at the high end, brings increased productivity, and targets an affordable cost per page for in-house print operations.
The InfoPrint EMP156 boasts speeds of up to 156 pages per minute (ppm). It includes advanced paper handling technology, excellent print quality and a monthly duty cycle of up to 4.5 million impressions.
TransPromo on InfoPrint 5000 Color Continuous Forms
Other solutions at drupa include the AFP-enhanced InfoPrint 5000 continuous forms color production duplex printer with Lasermax Roll Systems pre and post processing equipment including inline hole punching and dynamic perforations. This leading, proven color inkjet technology is already being used by several customers around the world for production, and provides a new competitive value point with the right blend of speed and quality.
With the availability of the AFP controller on the InfoPrint 5000, monochrome transaction customers can take advantage of the latest AFP color technologies for TransPromo marketing opportunities. With TransPromo, businesses can add promotional messages to transactional documents to increase their marketing value and response rates. The system will be running a variety of commercial and TransPromo applications.
InfoPrint will demonstrate examples of TransPromo solutions. This suite enables customers to combine the latest in print and personalization technology with their existing IT infrastructure. It comprises; InfoPrint ProcessDirector (IPPD); the InfoPrint 5000 and other software such as Prinovas messagepoint which connects business users to their customers across all customer touch points; Mapping Suite to change the customer experience by leveraging distributed prints marketing potential; GMC PrintNet Suite for high-impact personalized communications with advanced process automation and web and enterprise integration, and Exstream Dialogue for enterprise document management.
Continuous Forms Printers – InfoPrint 75 and InfoPrint 100
InfoPrint has launched its latest continuous forms monochrome printers, InfoPrint 75 and InfoPrint 100, intended for customers printing client invoices, direct marketing mailings, labels and distribution center picking slips. They provide high levels of throughput with minimal floor space. With speeds of up to 115 pages per minute (ppm) for the InfoPrint 75 and 154 ppm for InfoPrint 100, these entry level printers offer high levels of productivity with the page sequence integrity of a continuous forms printer.
InfoPrint 75 and InfoPrint 100 support both PostScript and PCL data languages and prints in high quality, at 600 dpi. Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) support is planned for 2009. Both are Energy Star compliant and include easy-to-use auto loading and an internally powered output stacker.
Multi-channel Marketing
InfoPrint will be demonstrating the value of a complete direct marketing service with a choice of integrated communications channels across email, mail and SMS depending on customers preferences and previous behavior.
This allows customers to focus their marketing on the cost per respondee rather than the traditional CPM (cost per mailpack). Consumer marketing campaigns can be linked to fully personalized web pages created on-the-fly, generating offers based on customer insight.
Automated Document Factory (ADF)
ADF addresses regulatory compliance, high-postage costs and multi-site management concerns through modules including mailroom integrity, postal optimization and output management to drive out costs and improve the integrity of production operations by leveraging IPPDs modular technology.
Direct Mail
The use of direct mail continues to grow worldwide, and InfoPrint will be demonstrating solutions to allow printers to meet customer demands for the combination of creative, customized, high-quality pieces and higher throughput, all with a focus on cost control.
Print on Demand
InfoPrint’s Print On-Demand (POD) workflow solutions help customers handle challenges such as shorter print runs, faster turnaround times, complex set-ups and manual processes without any compromises in quality, speed or cost It enables customers to leverage their existing PDF tools by automating prepress and print production for applications such as book and manual production, versioned educational course packs or personalized marketing collateral.
InfoPrint’s POD workflow solution ensures all parts of the process run smoothly by linking to InfoPrint’s production print technology, managing each print job through the complete output lifecycle.
It brings together best-of-breed, standards-based solutions developed by its industry technology partners, like IoFlex IoBookmaker, make-ready software for books, PDFs, and scans and award-winning Ultimate Technograhics Impostrip for advanced imposition. Other POD partners are Rochester Software Associates, Inc. WebCRD, for web-based print ordering, and production management; and GMC Printnet T and Objectif Lune Planet Press for variable data and custom publishing.
InfoPrints most recent collaboration with Press-sense will also be on display. Press-sense iWay, Manager and Omnium complement InfoPrint’s production print solutions to provide an end-to-end POD workflow solution from web-to-print to MIS, streamlining POD workflow while increasing capacity.
At drupa, InfoPrint, Press-sense and Ultimate Technographics are providing an automated workflow demonstration including iWay, Impostrip and InfoPrint Manager for printing to the InfoPrint 4100 and InfoPrint 5000 in the booth.
InfoPrints POD demonstration, teaming with Newspaper Direct, the leader in same-day international newspapers, will include live newspaper applications with daily samples from around the globe.
Other Technology on Display
InfoPrint solutions on show at drupa will include the InfoPrint 4100 MD1/2 production printer with the Image Enhancement Feature with Hunkeler pre and post finishing technology, WEKO RFDi damping system, and Argos vacuum system, and the InfoPrint 2235 cut-sheet printer.
The booth will also feature a technology demonstration of a 90 ipm full color cutsheet printer.
The AFP Consortium
InfoPrint is a member of the AFP Consortium, whose goal is to promote the worldwide development and implementation of AFP, especially in new areas of the fast growing digital print market. With strong international multi-vendor support, the AFP Consortium will make sure that all investments InfoPrints customers make in AFP products are well protected for the future.
The AFPC booth will be located in the document management park (booth 7.01), part of the drupa innovation park in exhibition hall 7.
Container Collection Program
Returning InfoPrint 1000 series toner cartridges in bulk is free and easy through the InfoPrint Container Collection Program. Customers participating in this program receive containers that allow the return of multiple cartridges to provide convenience and to help reduce the transportation of used cartridges.