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More than 500,000 RICOH MH5420/5421 Series printheads, Ricoh’s fifth generation of printheads, have already been chosen by worldwide solutions developers to drive digital transformation revenue of tens of billions of dollars across all industrial sectors.
Confidence in the versatility of these printheads and their ability to deliver consistent and repeatable high quality results in testing industrial environments has been central to the achievement of this milestone.
Ricoh’s MH5420/5421 Series printheads are compatible with a broad range of inks from water-based, to UV, solvent, and oil. OEMs use them for a wide range of applications, including signage, textiles, labels, and industrial décor.
Among the users worldwide is signage and textile printer manufacturer d.gen, where the printhead’s consistency with different inks was key. Chris Kang, COO, said: “It matches many different types of inks including pigment, so the end users can choose the right ink types for their unique applications.”
Doug Edwards, EFI Inkjet CTO, added: “The Ricoh printhead compatibility with EFI inks offers the highest versatility available, allowing EFI to address many application segments.” He also valued the ability to deliver the highest print quality at production speeds while offering best in class ROI and Ricoh’s technical support in enabling EFI to bring products to market faster.
Graham Kennedy, director Industrial Print Solutions, Graphic Communications, Ricoh Europe, concluded: “The robustness, reliability and performance of Ricoh’s MH5420/5421 Series printheads, our fifth generation of printheads, have allowed these, and many other, global partners to develop and launch new systems that have acheived sales of tens of billions. They have confidence in Ricoh’s technology. And the versatility of the printheads has also supported innovation in a wide range of sectors enabling acceleration of development while minimising the risk in time and cost.
“Furthermore, I am proud that Ricoh is meeting the market’s demand for a quickening of the transition from analogue to digital technologies, and enabling our partners to take advantage of the upstream process benefits and downstream added value benefits that digitalisation brings.”
