El Gran negocio del color a bajo costo! http://tinyurl.com/r5tlca

Take a look at this video from Friendship West Baptist Church. This church saves $100,000 per year by using RISO digital duplicators and inkjet printers. They print offering envelopes, bulletins, and newsletters in color at a fraction of the cost of outsourcing. Video the video here.

See how Walter Silva of Conceptual Product Development is meeting his customers' book printing needs with a high-speed low-cost inkjet printer. View a brief video here: http://tinyurl.com/pkbckg

Do you have a RISO HC5500 inkjet printer or are you just interested in seeing how this high-speed inkjet printer operates? Take a look at this video here: http://tinyurl.com/ornpu7

A new NAPL white paper shows that more than 80% of printers surveyed are either pursuing or soon intend to pursue environmental sustainability measures. The survey, conducted by NAPL’s Printing Economic Research Center (PERC), also reveals that 55% of printers indicate that their thinking on sustainability has changed over the last two years. They say that “regardless of current business conditions, sustainability issues have definitely gained some traction.” To read the article, click here.

For information on RISO's environmentally friendly printers and duplicators, click here.

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View this webinar featuring three print service providers in three different environments. Hear how a service bureau, a mail house, and a quick printer produce digital color output faster and more profitably than with other technologies. Visit this site to view the webinar on demand, hosted by Barb Pellow of InfoTrends. https://us.riso.com/PIRiso136162Webinar/index.html

What's that? You need to do some fancy image retouching but the current fiscal crisis is pinching your wallet just a little to hard for you to spring for Photoshop?


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An article in yesterday's New York Times previewed a new solid ink printing system from Xerox called Color Qube. Reportedly, this system "can pull the average cost of color documents down to about 3 cents a page." I suppose this is good news for organizations who spend 6-8 cents per page for color now, but color at 'about 3 cents per page' is nothing new to RISO high-speed inkjet customers. This new product announcement will probably create a lot of buzz in the market and we will probably soon be hearing about other new 'low-cost' color offerings from Ricoh, Canon, Konica-Minolta and others. But don't forget that RISO has been leading the high-speed low-cost color battle for the past four years with its 120-ppm HC Series piezo inkjet printers. Depending on ink coverage, many of our customers are currently averaging 1.5 to 2 cents per full color page. But you probably won't read that in the Times.

Head on over to LifeHacker and check out Gina Trapani's great article on Typography Tools and Free Font's.

The article covers tools to organize and preview fonts and others that help you to identify and compare various typefaces. There's also a list free font downloads and applications on how to make your own fonts.

Props to LifeHacker

Selecting the right digital papers for your electrophotographic (EP) printing/copying device can have a significant effect on your image quality and hardware performance. Here are some characteristics to consider. Paper should have moisture levels of four to five percent. Paper that is too dry may result in static discharge within the print engine, resulting in paper jams.

With toner fused to paper at temperatures of up to 400 degrees, it is not surprising that paper can become warped or deformed as it moves through the complex paper paths used in full-color EP digital printing devices. With higher volumes, frequent paper jams create a burden on productivity.

Paper buyers should therefore consider various sheet properties such as stiffness, moisture level, edge quality, and dimensional integrity. One consideration is caliper or paper thickness. The electrostatic force that pulls toner towards the sheet surface varies depending upon the thickness of the substrate.

Digital papers must also be able to maintain adequate dimensional stability in toner fusing cycles to enable the accurate registration of images on both sides of the paper. High temperatures can cause expansion, contraction, curl, and in some cases accelerated creep.

These considerations are not as significant when buying paper for cool ink-based technologies such that RISO uses. So consult with your paper vendor and let him/her know what imaging device you are using. Not all paper works well with all devices. For info on RISO's recommended papers for its digital duplicators and inkjet printers, go to us.riso.com and type 'paper' in the search window

Recently, I discussed the relationship between print speed and cost. Today, I want to highlight how a device’s print speed has a direct effect on your production time. Maybe that's a bit obvious, but take a look a the details. For example, printing 2,000 single-sided full color flyers would take about 45 minutes to print on a 45-ppm color copier. That same job would take about 17 minutes to print on a RISO 120-ppm inkjet printer. So you could reduce your production time for this print job by 28 minutes. With a wage of $15 per hour for your employee, you save $7 in labor costs. Multiply this rate out over 20,000 or 40,000 copies month and you can see that higher speed can make a dramatic impact on your ROI and employee efficiency. RISO speed does pay!