Paper Handling Paper Output/Finishing

Paper Handling: Paper Output/Finishing

Ricoh Aficio MP1350

WHAT WE LIKED:

•Extensive finishing options offer front office buyers a wealth of inline finishing capabilities, plus easy one step production ready for offline bindery.

•The inline GBC StreamPunch III option offers a great way to reduce printing footprint and costs versus a dedi- cated offline punch unit.

•The dual 200-sheet cover inserter allows pre-printed ma- terials such as color covers, delicate materials, and other sources into a document. This bypasses the high tem- perature fusing unit. The added ability to incorporate these preprinted stocks anywhere in the document (versus being limited to covers only as found on some rival units) further extends the range of documents that the device offers users, in contrast to rival devices.

•The Z-fold option allows ledger-sized documents to be folded and bound into a letter-sized document in a flush format. This is a useful feature that allows documents that incorporate financial spreadsheets, engineering plans, maps and large scale diagrams, schematics, etc., to be included within a bound letter sized document workflow.

•The ability to create saddle-stitch documents from letter/ legal and ledger paper stocks sets this device apart from some competitors who are limited to letter and ledger and omit legal media sizes, which is a weakness in verti- cal sectors such as education and religious institutions who create a lot of the larger legal-sized booklets rather than pay the double click for ledger.

WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE:

•If the finishing unit was able to independently process printed materials from other printing devices in the office such as color desktop printers (using the post process insertion unit as the input feed source), users would get more mileage out of their investment. This is a feature offered on several rival devices.

•There should be a more versatile folding option that could create tri-fold documents for insertion into C10 mailing envelopes or a gatefold for the production of bro- chures and other marketing materials.

•An inline perfect binding solution allows users to create on-demand manuals, school resource books, govern- ment reports, and other large documents.

13 November 2006

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