High-Speed Full Color

Variable Data Printing

Choosing the appropriate digital device for your customers’ POD applications

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Alternatives for Production Color:Digital copier or digital press?

Half of the quick printers in the US have full-color digital copiers with speeds of 40+ppm, but few have digital presses*

*Source: http://www.inter-quest.com/old/DigitalColour.pdf

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What are the characteristics of a digital press?

• Full-color capability• Cut-sheet or continuous-feed • Electro-photographic (toner) or inkjet • Speeds of 34 to 1000+ ppm • Prices of $200,000 to $5 million

Alternatives for Production Color:Digital copier or digital press?

*Source: http://www.inter-quest.com/old/DigitalColour.pdf

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60+ ppm Digital Process Color Technology

Very HighVolume

Production

High VolumeProduction

Mid-VolumeProduction

Light Production

Source: InfoTrends “Choosing a

Digital Production Color

Device”July 2007

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A New and Disruptive Technology in

High-Speed Color

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Disruption

The Rule of Two:

As soon as you can buy two

remotely comparable devices

at the price of one higher-end device

the market starts to shift.

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Production Color Product Map Equipment Price & Speed

SystemPrice

$600K

$0

0 ppm 150 ppm

Canon IPC7000VP

Xerox iGen3 110

Xerox DocuColor 8000

Kodak NexPress 2500

HP Indigo 5000

RISO HC5500

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Because of the Previously Existing Color Alternatives in the Market…

…RISO introduced a color offering called ComColor and a new printing system called the HC5500

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Print Speed (The Word’s Fastest…)

• Fastest overall– Kodak Versamark: 500 feet per minute

• Fastest cut-sheet– RISO HC5500: 120 pages per minute

Source: InfoTrends “Choosing a Digital Production Color Device”

July 2007

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What is the Market Saying about RISO’s HC5500?

“An amazing cost per page.

The HC has caused quite a stir.”www.ITchat.com

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Personalized Printing Transactional TransPromo

Variable Data Applications

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RISO HC5500 the world’s fastest, cut-sheet full color inkjet printer!

• Productivity – 120 pages per minute– 7200 pages per hour– Reliable - no heat, no toner– Non-impact printing means fewer jams– Simple technology:

print head and ink– Duty Cycle: 500,000

pages per month!– Low energy consumption

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RISO HC5500 the world’s fastest, cut-sheet full color inkjet printer!

• Versatility– Full-color, spot color, black & white – Variety of paper stocks:

• envelopes, • postcards • recycled paper • 3 ½ x 5 ½ x 11” x 17”

– Static or variable

data printing– Print, scan, copy

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RISO HC5500 the world’s fastest, cut-sheet full color inkjet printer!

• Cost Containment – Three cents per page for full-color– Less than one cent per page for monochrome– Lowest TCO– Piezo drop-on-demand – 24 stationary in-line

inkjet heads – Oil-based ink:

benefit resulting in

less dot gain

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BLI's Ink Yield TestApproximate Average Yield Per Four Color Cartridges

RISO HC500038,000 copies

Sharp AR-C 270 9,500 copies

Canon Image Runner

C320013,200 copies Toshiba

e-Studio 3119,500 copies Konica-Minolta

BizHub C3506,200 copies

Xerox WorkCentrePro 32 Color

12,000 copies

0

5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000

25,000

30,000

35,000

40,000

Canon Image RunnerC3200

Toshiba e-Studio 311 Konica-MinoltaBizHub C350

Xerox WorkCentrePro 32 Color

Sharp AR-C 270 RISO HC5000

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RISO: Higher Ink Yields

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Supplies CPC at 40% Image Coverage(As Tested and Reported by BLI, Based on Supplies at MSRP

and Printing an Image with 10% of C,M,Y, & K)

Canon Image Runner

C3200 $0.08580

Toshiba e-Studio 311

$0.08259Konica-Minolta BizHub C350

$0.07486

Xerox WorkCentre

$0.05627Does NOT Included

User-Replaceable

Drums & Other

Consumables

Sharp AR-C 270$0.05495Does NOT Included

User-Replaceable

Drums & Other

Consumables

RISO HC5000 $0.04133

$0.00000

$0.01000

$0.02000

$0.03000

$0.04000

$0.05000

$0.06000

$0.07000

$0.08000

$0.09000

$0.10000

Supplies Cost Per Page at MSRP (Service Cost Excluded)

RISO: Lower Consumables CostRISO: Lower Consumables Cost

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HC Customers

Service Bureaus, Mail Shops, Commercial Printers

In-Plants, Data Centers, CRDs