New Digital Print Alternatives

Then, a week later, IPG traveled to northern New Jersey where Ricoh announced the Aficio 850, an 85-ppm printer. Ricoh designed this product specifically to fill the gap between the DocuTech's 135-ppm speed and the existing 65- and 75-ppm printers currently on the market.

For Low-volume Customers

Last year, in a similar attempt to satisfy printers who could not afford its DocuTech, Xerox introduced the 65-ppm DocuTech 65 Publisher and the 96-ppm DocuTech 6100 Publisher. The latter, for example, has an average monthly print volume of 400,000 impressions, half that of the DocuTech 6135. The Canon imageRUNNER 110, by comparison, offers monthly duty cycle ratings of 200,000 to 1 million impressions.