 Production
Ready High-speed Duplex with Spot Color and MICR
If production volume and fast throughput are your main requirements,
then the DDP 184 with an industrial strength engine and high-speed
duplex printing is the best solution for you. Equipped with two,
industrial strength, production-ready engines, the DDP 184 is capable
of printing up to 184 images per minute (ipm) in duplex mode. The
DDP 184 is spot color capable and can begin producing highlight color
documents when color developer and toner are added. In addition to
being color capable, the DDP 184 is also planned to be MICR capable.
MICR toner can be added to this device in much the same way that
color toner is added. This expands the printing flexibility even
more by providing the ability to print documents that require MICR
characters. With a small physical footprint, comprehensive network
support system and robust printing engines, the DDP 184 is well suited
for any high-volume printing application when fast throughput and
high reliability are critical.
The DDP 184 is able to handle production volumes month in and month
out without any problem. Two- or three-shift workloads have minimal
impact on spares and consumables utilization. And peak production
runs with above “normal” volumes are well tolerated.
Production printing often means mainframe output, and Ricoh offers
solutions for easily converting AFP/IPDS or Xerox Metacode data streams
to PostScript® or PCL. Many in-plant print shops, Central Reproduction
Departments and Print for Pay businesses have production applications
that require high-speed duplex printing of documents with spot
color. The DDP 184 easily produces booklets, direct mail pieces,
invoices,
statements, fliers, and large paper size output for offline finishing.
Connectivity
For very large data streams the DDP 184 boosts your production
with on board spooling. Or it turbo charges your output with multiple
original print (MOPy) capability that keeps your printer producing
digital originals while it is processing input for the next job.
And the DDP 184 is ready for action on the network with:
- Support for standard network printing protocols
- Access to all printer and finishing functions via the network
- Network management of the printer through a Web browser interface
- Custom queues for easy-to-use printing profiles
- Increased throughput and responsiveness by intelligent printer sharing
- Job archiving that stores bitmaps for reprinting
- Forms management with e-forms downloaded to the DDP 184 RIP
- Personalized printing of text, image and graphics substitution in large documents
- Booklet printing on demand
- Network printing from the Windows and Macintosh operating systems
Add
Value with Spot Color
The DDP 184 supports red, blue and green toner and developer for
spot color applications. And the printer has Customer Changeable
Developer units so it is ready to switch colors when you are. Spot
color separation controls are provided when the printer engines
have black and color toner. Each element of the document (character,
graphic
shape, image pixel) is color separated and mapped to either black
or a color.Desktop and Web Controls
User software includes a Printer Driver, an Installer, Direct Printing,
DocXPLORER, and a Database Print Manager. The Adobe® PostScript® printer
driver is available with Plug Ins for Windows and extensions for
Macintosh which provide extended access to printer functionality.
All printer functions are accessible via the printer driver and
are also available through DocXPLORER and the Web Browser.
These printer driver features are available:
- Layout - imposition and finishing control
- Direct printing of PostScript®, PDF, TIFF, and ASCII files
- Page specific tray selection
- Forms / overlay management
- Color separation
- Screening
- Installable options
- Printer Installer
- Workflow controls that provide cluster printing features such as splitting jobs into smaller packets, dividing print jobs into
subsets by pages, and splitting jobs by copies. Email notification is provided after completion of your job.
The DDP Print Server contains a Web Server that offers monitoring and control functions via a Web Browser. The features include:
- Queue list, job list availability
- Archive, Forms
- RIP details, queue details, job details
- Active jobs, finished jobs
- Accounting
- Router to make the web pages of the engine accessible
- RIPs, queues and jobs as lists or in detail.
- DocXPLORER - allows monitoring and controlling a cluster of RIPs.
- Database Print Manager - merges a template document with records from a database to produce instant documents. Merging is performed
separately as a preview on the client workstation or for printing.
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