HP looking to be a big commercial printer....Part Duex

This twin-engine duplex printing engine press runs at a speed of 122 meters/minute (400 ft/min) and this equates to 2,600 Letter or A4 pages/minute.

HP’s new Inkjet Web Press is built around HP’s Edgeline scaleable printing architecture.

The press has a 30-inch (762 mm) web width compared with all the competitions’ 20-inch web widths. This twin-engine duplex printing engine press runs at a speed of 122 meters/minute (400 ft/min) and this equates to 2,600 Letter or A4 pages/minute. This press is expected to sell for around $2.5 million.

HP says that a color page with 30% coverage will cost $0.01 and a monochrome page $0.0015. You can check out a really good article on this unit here.

HP looking to be a big commercial printer

Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of HP's imaging and printing group, said
"the move to digital printing is more environmentally friendly because it gives distributors the ability to print on-demand. He said, for example, 40 percent of books that are printed today are never read."

Another angle on Green. Full article.

Ricoh - A great, American Company? - Great ? yes, American? sorta...

I ran across this articlein on of our local papers about Ricoh. Sarah Tolkoff, of the Orange County Business Journal speaks with a 20 year employee.

Most don't think of Ricoh's being manufactured in the US - I've been through this plant, and seen the process and commitment to quality control and "Zero Waste to Landfill" philosophy in action.

Very cool.