RICOH ProcessDirector™

Efficiency and automation at every stage in your workflow.

Achieve greater control and visibility in your print operations

RICOH ProcessDirector gives you an automated, vendor-neutral, and scalable end-to-end production print workflow management solution. Capture, transform, and manage your data, information, and processes in ways that can help you achieve 100% output integrity. As you do, you'll also empower your production team to minimize errors, reduce costs, boost productivity, streamline your production environments, and, of course, improve profitability.

Benefits

  • Reduce costs by automating manual tasks and streamlining mail handling.
  • Achieve output integrity and satisfy reporting requirements.
  • Minimize the risk of human error with simplified multi-channel communications personalization and management.

Increase throughput and equipment utilization

Integrate disparate systems into a single, vendor-neutral, and centralized workflow.

  • Order management functionality allows you to view and control jobs, manage due dates, and automatically or manually add orders to associated jobs, all through an intuitive dashboard.
  • Achieve a high level of integrity in a “touch and toss” environment.
  • Rule-based processing saves time by expanding the ability to work with fully composed PDF files.

Achieve output integrity and satisfy reporting requirements

Easily generate audit trails down to an individual piece level to respond to queries or audit requests.

  • Gain visibility from receipt to delivery.
  • Automate reprinting of damaged or missing pieces.
  • Enhance capacity planning, production optimization, and problem identification with reporting data.

Minimize mailing costs

Maximize postal discounts by using business rules, pooling documents, pre-sorting mail, and streamlining mail handling.

  • Reduce waste by updating document addresses before printing.
  • Combine documents for the same recipient into a single mail piece.
  • Qualify for the highest postal discounts.

Integrate more and do more

  • Achieve more visibility including insights into production volume, printer and inserter throughput and operator productivity via an award-winning integration with RICOH Supervisor.
  • Add VDP composition and imposition functionality to RICOH ProcessDirector workflows, streamlining production processes with the FusionPro Server Connect feature.
  • Oversee business management details, analyze estimated vs. actual cost, manage inventory, track all jobs and more with the Avanti Slingshot Connect feature.
*Requires licensing/subscription to associated software and RICOH ProcessDirector Connect add-on.

Choose from more than a dozen add-on features

From preprinted forms replacement to postal automation to third-party integrations with web services enablement, you will find the features you need to build the production print workflow automation solution that matches your business need.

See the full list of current Process Director Add-On Features

Plus, you will have the skills and know-how of our consulting and professional services experts to help with implementation. Our teams have built workflows for organizations around the globe and are ready to help you too.

Specifications

System Requirements

• 8GB RAM minimum, 16 GB RAM or more if any document processing function is required
• 200 GB or more disk storage
• SLES 12 with Service Pack 1 or later for x86_64
• SLES 15 with Service Pack 1 or above for x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 through latest 8.x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 through latest 9.x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux®️ (RHEL) 9
• Rocky Linux 8.4 through latest 8.x
• Rocky Linux 9.0 through latest 9.x
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 SP4 or above
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15.0 with Service Pack 1 or above
• Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022
• Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Chromium Edge browser

Submission Methods

• LPR
• File copy to hot folder
• Poll directories on secure FTP site
• z/OS® AFP Download Plus (with optional AFP Support feature)
• Download for z/OS
• REST and SOAP web services
• Authorized users can drag and drop onto RPD GUI

We've had a long, successful relationship with the Ricoh team… so when we began our search for a software solution, we didn't have to look very far. We evaluated the competition, but ultimately, they were no match for RICOH ProcessDirector.
Kevin Sullivan
President
CCS Printing