Sharjah based Eiffel Printing Press were the first to buy the cut sheet digital press - ProTM C7100X made by Ricoh - introduced in the region by Giffin Graphics for the first time during Gulf Print and Pack.
Explaining the factors which tilted their decision in favour of Ricoh, Arun Das-Eiffel Printing Press said: "The Ricoh press is a high quality production machine 4800 dpi VCSEL laser, with the 5th Station providing printing with clear and white toner, printing on colour and speciality media. Besides that it also has AC transfer and elastic fuser belt to give high quality print in textures media. It can do banner sheet printing up to 700mm Simplex and has high productivity regardless of paper weight (maximum paper weight support up to 360 gsm duplex printing). These features are not available in competing machines."
Talking about application benefits, Das explained: "The printer has a clear toner advantage : spot gloss , flood, surface protection and watermarks . It is also suitable for a variety of media applications like catalogue, postcards, business cards, posters and packaging. Regarding the white toner advantage - it can print on coloured and clear media and is suitable for post card printing, invitation cards, DM and window cling."