Pro VC40000

The RICOH Pro VC40000 Continuous Feed Inkjet Printer supports paper weights from 40 to 250 gsm and sizes from 165 to 520 mm with a maximum repeatable printing area of 20.5" x 54". This gives you more options to print applications like calendars, lightweight books, high-coverage postcards, statement mailers and more on media including uncoated, inkjet treated and inkjet coated stocks.

The Pro VC40000 offers a compelling set of capabilities for insurance companies, healthcare organizations and financial institutions to get exactly the output they need. From billing statements, policy documents, financial prospectuses, provider directories and more, the power to personalize and add vibrant color or print in cost-effective monochrome or MICR offers new opportunities to set your business apart.

Outstanding colour and image quality produced at blazing speeds help your organization compete more effectively for a share of the growing volume of direct mail that marketers are relying on to cut through the clutter and reach customers. From catalogs to postcards and self-enclosed mailers, the Pro VC40000 prints with the impact and clarity to help you stand apart from the competition.

Variable data printing (VDP) is a powerful tool that offset simply cannot offer. The Pro VC40000 gives you the ability to produce the precision marketing materials, from customized catalogs to geo-personalized sales offers, helping marketers drive higher response levels. With the ability to personalize text and images, versioning every page is possible without slowing down the job, or shrinking your margins.

Ricoh Consulting Services bring practical, real-world expertise to bear for your inkjet investment. From finding hidden efficiencies to helping to identify new and profitable applications, our focus is on delivering exceptional assessment and implementation for workflow automation, colour management, strategic business systems and beyond. Explore our complete portfolio to see how we can help your business.

With print speeds up to 180 meters per minute, the Pro VC40000 drives the pace of your operations to a new level of productivity. Easily produce 100,000 letter images per hour at quality levels that are just as quick to impress customers.

Configuration options, including compatibility with a number of workflow monitoring and management software tools, are designed to give you the best implementation possible. Your Ricoh expert can help you determine the right selection for your business and workspace needs for today, and you can have confidence knowing that the Pro VC40000 was designed with future enhancements and onsite upgrades in mind to help you adapt as your business needs evolve.

The Pro VC40000 inkjet printer’s digital front end (DFE) has been optimized to deliver advanced workflow management and to make the production of dynamic, data-driven direct mail and transactional output even easier than before. The included RICOH TotalFlow Print Server R600A provides a user-friendly interface for operators and advanced workflow management capabilities that benefit from Ricoh's extensive experience in mission-critical variable data processing. Native support for common file types include PDF, PDF/VT and AFP along with JDF and advanced colour management.

Drive even greater quality with the addition of RICOH ProcessDirector and RICOH TotalFlow BatchBuilder software. ProcessDirector uses a single web-based dashboard to capture, transform and manage information to streamline operations, improve process integrity, enhance operator productivity, reduce errors and lower costs. TotalFlow BatchBuilder improves efficiency by enabling you to batch jobs based on criteria you define, including media type.

The intuitive graphical user interface makes learning and mastering production workflows on the Pro VC40000 easier for you and your operators. Preset printing parameters can be saved and easily recalled to make setting up jobs fast and seamless, reducing errors — and wasted ink and media.

Uptime is everything when it comes to your operations. Ricoh's service and support organization includes more than 1,000 production-dedicated technicians and a nationwide parts distribution system that makes service and repair fast and reliable. The ability to diagnose and resolve issues quickly ensures that disruptions to your workflows are minimized and customer deadlines are protected.

The implementation of your continuous feed inkjet system determines how quickly and how well you can generate revenue.  The RICOH Core Inkjet Services team follows a step-by-step process that covers solution design, paper profiling, color gamut, ink estimating and pre/post components. Go to market with fully tested applications, confident in your ability to maximize uptime, reduce errors and maintain productivity.

To produce high-quality results, the Pro VC40000 Continuous Feed Inkjet Printers offers a unique combination of technologies. The long-life printheads, which have a 30-year track record of proven performance, support both monochrome and full-colour printing with drop on demand technology. An optional fifth printhead array can be engaged for fluid or security inks.

Unlike technologies that apply a fixed drop size, the Pro VC40000 uses variable drop sizes that result in higher perceived resolution, boosting the effect of the system’s 600 x 600 dpi. A tight web and advanced steering control enable precise registration within pages and front to back. The internal drum dryer and low-temperature drying minimize paper distortion, further protecting image integrity.

The Pro VC40000 utilizes the latest dye inks, providing consistent, high-contrast quality and uniformity. With a wide color gamut you can easily match more brand, corporate and university colors and create rich, vivid imagery. Fast-drying, these dye inks offer an economical way to meet and exceed customer expectations without slowing finishing processes.

The Pro VC40000 helps you produce the colour results your customers require every time, even matching materials produced on multiple devices. Colour management resources can be created, installed and managed for use in your workflow to enhance halftones, along with fonts and data objects. The robust control unit, ICC profiles, interface color settings and automatic colour adjustments all contribute to effortless colour management.

Ricoh has the expertise to help you identify and implement a colour management strategy built around your goals. Learn how to achieve the highest level of colour consistency and discover how Ricoh's Ink Savvy program can offer significant savings on ink without sacrificing quality. We can help you work to achieve your G7 Master Printer Qualification for an even sharper competitive edge.