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News Release from: Infotec | Subject: DDP 184
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 March 2005
High-Speed Duplex Print For Data Centres
Danka, the vendor-independent provider of high-volume production printers, has announced the addition of the Ricoh Printing Systems Digital Document Publisher (DDP) 184 to its portfolio.
Danka, the vendor-independent provider of high-volume production printers, has announced the addition of the Ricoh Printing Systems (formerly Hitachi Printing Solutions) Digital Document Publisher (DDP) 184 to its portfolio The company said it is a robust, high-volume, centralised print system that enables high-speed duplex printing with spot colour
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 29 Oct 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The DDP 184 is claimed to meet the increasing need for data centres, central reprographics departments (CRD) and print-for-pay businesses to produce direct mail or include one-to-one marketing messages on transactional output.
The company said that there are nearly 10,000 data centres in Europe, typically found in the financial services sector, insurance, utilities, telecoms, mail order and central and local government.
Data centres handle fluctuating volumes of output - usually peaking at end of month print runs.
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Danka said its research highlighted that European private and public sector organisations could save around two billion Euros over the next five years by converging data centre and CRD printing operations.
Graham Moore, the director of marketing at Danka Europe, commented: "The addition of the DDP 184 to our portfolio is significant for us as it underlines our dedication to providing Danka customers with market-leading solutions to meet the full range of production print requirements.
As IT and marketing printing operations are increasingly brought together, modern production print facilities, especially data centres, need to produce more than the traditional output of invoices and statements, for instance booklets, fliers and direct mail.
The result is that systems must offer variable, spot colour printing in addition to high volume production and fast throughput.
Our adoption of the DDP 184 provides our customers with a compelling proposition to meet these needs." Jim Nevin, the European marketing manager at Ricoh Printing Systems Europe, added: "Danka has an impressive history of providing best-in-breed products and service and we have full confidence that the DDP 184 will see high take-up through Danka.
The system is unique in that it combines two 92 page per minute printer engines that print at 184 images per minute in duplex mode.
With spot colour capability, long service intervals and daily maintenance such as replacing toner and fuser units carried out by the user, the DDP 184 lends itself perfectly to data centre environment." Amongst its features, the DDP 184 allows data stream conversion from AFP/IPDS, SCS, LCDS/Metacode to Adobe PostScript or PCL.
It has a web browser interface for network management and user software includes a printer driver, installer, direct printing, a database print manager and DocXplorer, to allow monitoring and controlling a cluster of RIPs.
Worklow controls that provide cluster printing features, job archiving (which stores bitmaps for reprinting), forms management for e-forms downloaded to the DDP 184 RIP and booklet printing on demand.
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