Ricoh Europe, London – Ricoh’s creative print production hardware and software solutions have won two EDP awards. They were presented at yesterday’s EDP Award Ceremony, FESPA, Hamburg.

Winning the prestigious awards were Ricoh’s digital book printing solution and Ricoh Pro C5200s and Ricoh Pro C5210s. They were chosen from more than 150 entries.

Eef De Ridder, Director Commercial Printing, Ricoh Europe,comments: “Both these Ricoh solutions are designed to address the daily challenges our clients face. It is an honour that the EDP agrees that they are leaders in their field and tuned to the need of today’s print production environments.”

Ricoh’s digital book printing solution is a TotalFlow solution that streamlines short run and on demand book production. It enables book printers to seamlessly track and efficiently complete jobs. Developed to simplify and automate many short run digital production steps, it has a single web-based interface helping to automate production workflows, finishing operations and batch similar jobs together.

The Ricoh Pro C5200s and Ricoh Pro C5210s compact digital colour sheetfed production systems help print-for-pay businesses, commercial printers, in-house print centres and corporate reprographics, and marketing environments, deliver highly responsive creative print.

The EDP Association aims to assist the technology-appliers in their task to find the right solution for their applications. The awards honour the best developments in print production tools, software developments, substrates, inks, materials and finishing systems.