Ricoh Production Printers
Ricoh offers production printers that meet critical commercial business needs, including wide-format printing and cut-sheet printing. Production printing includes digital presses, commercial printers, and industrial printing. These heavy-duty commercial printers provide more reliable operation, higher quality print resolution, and blazing-fast output unmatched by standard office equipment. These devices produce advertising banners, flyers, catalogs, statements, reports, and other documents for corporations, non-profits, and other businesses requiring their own in-house printing.
What Are Ricoh Digital Printers for Production Printing?
Production printers utilize digital information to provide high-volume printing. Typically, production printing offers key benefits to commercial printing applications not commonly found in ordinary printing appliances. These benefits include exceptional print quality, increased capacity, and higher print speeds–all at a lower cost than outsourcing. Ricoh industrial printers can print on a variety of thin and thick card stock media, gloss, or coated paper, and offer specialty finishes. Digital production printers offer the advantage of customizing media to small groups and individuals by integrating a prospect or client database with the marketing content to create personalized messages. These commercial-grade printers offer the reliability, speed, and quality that enterprises require to secure greater cost efficiencies.
Who Needs a Ricoh Industrial Printer?
The need for businesses or enterprises to increase their print capacity at a lower cost is the biggest factor driving the decision to purchase a production printer. These heavy-duty Ricoh business printers achieve high-volume printing while giving the business more control. Companies that have the greatest need for a production printer include businesses with graphic art needs, large-format printing, high-speed production, high-quality print, and large-volume printing. Often these companies need printing on a variety of media, including signage, banners, heavy card stock, envelopes, thin paper, and coated stock.
Ricoh production print offers considerable flexibility in the media printed upon and the type of documents. These documents can include reports, proposals, government legislation, invitations, and any other need for high-volume/high-quality documents. Achieve print resolutions of 2400×4800 dpi for exceptional rendering, color contrasts, and shadows for reproducing fine art. Coupled with high resolutions is the addition of a 5th or 6th color to meet corporate branding requirements, metallic colors, or achieve color-critical print requirements. Blending neon colors offers marketing departments the ability to produce the most vibrant oranges, yellows, and deep purples. Using invisible red offers businesses entry-level security applications. Below are some of the common business needs for publishing documents.
List of Common Commercial Printing Projects
Introducing 5th Color Options to make Prints Stand Out
Imagine the Possibilities!
Choosing the Best Commercial Printer
Ricoh Digital Press Options
Not all production printers can print the items listed above. Some items require a wide-format printer while others are more efficiently printed by cut-sheet printers. Ricoh offers both types of these industrial printers with selectable options to meet individual business needs. Many of Ricoh’s sheet-fed printers offer multifunction print, copy, and document scanning capabilities. Some of these cut-sheet devices mimic wide format printers with the ability to print on media approaching 50 inches. Below is a product quadrant to help guide businesses in selecting the best printer for their specific needs.
Selection Quadrant Ricoh Commercial Printer
Selection Continuum for Ricoh Cut-sheet Printers
As displayed above, Ricoh Cut-Sheet Printers to the left of the continuum have a lower price tag than the premium, high-volume models on the right. Of the printers listed, the Pro 9200 Series Printers are the fastest at 115 pages per minute (PPM) in both color or black & white. Ricoh multifunction printers (print, copy, scan) include the Ricoh Pro C5300s, C5310s,C7200S, C7210S, C7210SX, C8300s, C8310s, and the C8320s identified by the red text color above. Note that all of the printers with an s
in the product number designates that it is a multifunction printer. The remaining Ricoh commercial models offer printer-only functions.1 The Ricoh Pro C7200 and C9200 series printers provide wide format printing up to 49.6 inches. The Ricoh Pro C9200 and C9210 Graphic Arts Printers offer exceptional quality at speeds of 115 to 135 ppm. Their max volume capacity is a stunning 1.75 million pages per month. The models indicated in red text have multifunction capabilities of print, copy, and scan. You may also find the following blog article useful to narrow your product selection, covering the topic of the Top Benefits of Production Printers.
Selection Continuum for Ricoh Large Format Printers
As shown in the continuum above, the wider the printing material and the use of color in printed products, the longer it takes to print. Each of the Ricoh Wide Format Printers utilizes a roll-fed system. The design of these Ricoh wide-format printers favors AEC and CAD designers but fits multiple roles, including GIS, graphic arts, and print shops. The Ricoh Pro L5160e uses latex ink which has exceptional durability for outdoor signage. Latex offers faster curing and provides wider applications with superior quality. Latex ink works on an assortment of uncoated and coated media and substrates. That fact makes the Pro L5160e an excellent choice for backlit translucent vinyl, mesh vinyl, fence wraps, vehicle wraps, and perforated see-thru vinyl. This device also offers 5- and 6-color configurations.2 & 3
Specifications Comparison Chart Ricoh Production Printer
| Sheet-Fed Printers | PPM | Monthly Volume |
Max Resolution (dpi) |
Max Width |
Max GSM |
Max Tray Capacity |
Footprint (WxDxH, Inch) |
B&W | Color | 5th Color |
Energy Star Compliant |
Print Copy Scan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cut-Sheet Color | ||||||||||||
RICOH Pro C5300s |
65 | 150,000 | 2400x4800 | 13 | 360 | 8550 | 31.5x34.6x64.9 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
RICOH Pro C5310s |
80 | 150,000 | 2400x4800 | 13 | 360 | 8550 | 31.5x34.6x64.9 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
RICOH Pro C7200X |
85 | 240,000 | 2400x4800 | 49.6 | 360 | 16200 | 51.9x35.8x47.9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Ricoh Pro C7210SX |
85 | 240,000 | 2400x4800 | 49.6 | 360 | 16200 | 51.9x35.8x47.9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Ricoh Pro C7210XM |
95 | 240,000 | 2400x4800 | 49.6 | 360 | 16200 | 51.9x35.8x47.9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Ricoh Pro C7210X |
95 | 240,000 | 2400x4800 | 49.6 | 360 | 16200 | 51.9x35.8x47.9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Ricoh Pro C7210S |
95 | 240,000 | 2400x4800 | 49.6 | 360 | 4400 | 51.9x35.8x48.4 | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
RICOH Pro C9200 |
115 | 1.75 million | 2400x4800 | 49.6 | 470 | 18100 | 49.2x38.6x73.6 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
RICOH Pro C9210 |
135 | 1.75 million | 2400x4800 | 49.6 | 470 | 18100 | 49.2x38.6x73.6 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Cut-Sheet B&W | ||||||||||||
Ricoh Pro 8300s |
96 | 1 million | 2400x4800 | 13 | 350 | 8800 | 45x35.4x61.3 | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
Ricoh Pro 8310s/8320s |
111 - 136 | 1 million | 2400x4800 | 13 | 350 | 12600 | 45x35.4x68.3 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Ricoh Pro 8310/8320 |
111 - 136 | 1 million | 2400x4800 | 13 | 350 | 12600 | 45x35.4x68.3 | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Wide-Format Printers | Ft2/Hr or PPM |
Max Resolution (dpi) |
Max Width |
Max GSM (inch) |
Max Tray Capacity |
Footprint (WxDxH, Inch) |
B&W | Color | Color Cartridge Capacity |
Energy Star Compliant |
Print Copy Scan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large Format Color | |||||||||||
Ricoh Pro L5160e |
502 ft2/hr | 600x1200 | 63.6 | - | roll | 129.9x39.3x59 | Yes | Yes | 8 | No | No |
Ricoh Pro TF6251 |
1251 ft2/hr | 635x1800 | 51.2 | 4.3 | flatbed (optional roll fed) |
189.4x86.6x62.2 | Yes | Yes | 5+clear+primer | No | No |
Ricoh Pro T7210 |
719 ft2/hr | 635x1800 | 82.8x126 | 4.3 | flatbed | 168.6x152x62 | Yes | Yes | 5+clear | No | No |
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Footnotes
- 1OZAWA, Noriaki, and Toyotsune INOUE.
Development of Water-Based Ink for High-Speed Cutsheet Inkjet Printer.
NIHON GAZO GAKKAISHI (Journal of the Imaging Society of Japan) 61.6 (2022): 580-586. Accessed 16 Jan. 2023. www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/isj/61/6/61_580/_article/-char/en - 2Pro L5160e Color Wide Format Printer. Ricoh. Accessed 18 Jan. 2023. www.ricoh-usa.com/en/products/pd/equipment/commercial-and-industrial-printing/wide-format/pro-l5160e-color-wide-format-printer
- 3Double, Philip, and John Stoffel.
Aqueous Inks and Their Application Areas in Industrial Inkjet Printing and Desktop Printing.
Handbook of Industrial Inkjet Printing: A Full System Approach (2017): Abstract. Accessed 18 Jan. 2023. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9783527687169.ch8