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August 2009

RISO ComColor 9050

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With the launch of the ComColor® series, RISO continues to maintain its mantra of providing the

worlds fasted cut-sheet inkjet printers in the industry. RISO’s ComColor 9050 breaks down obstacles

and opens up a new set of prospects for end-users who require high speed, color printing at a

significantly low expense per page. This device is very well suited to meet the demands of growing

businesses.

The ComColor 9050 employs RISO‘s latest innovative FORCEJET imaging system and robust piezo

drop-on-demand technology that within RISO’s high speed inkjet printers is leading the pack with its

lighting fast print speeds of 150 pages per minute (A4) / 146 ppm (Letter). The system is designed

with a 30% reduction in size and weight, a robust recommended monthly volume of up to 500,000

pages, and durability yields of up to 6 million prints.

This device is intended for applications where the output is disposable and used for a short period of

time. Print service providers who produce monochrome output can use one or several ComColor

9050s as an entry point and bridge to full color production in a scalable, low cost, low risk color

strategy. Suggested applications are general office documents, direct mail, letters, statements,

proofing, short run books, booklets, policies, trans-promotional mailing pieces. The clear advantage

with this device is its exceptional speeds and cost per page value proposition. Businesses that

produce trans-promotional mailing pieces and are used to outsourcing their work can know seriously

consider bringing in that work back in house by taking advantage of the features offered with the

RISO ComColor 9050.

The ComColor® 9050 provides excellent paper-handling capabilities required for printing. The

standard tray supports paper up to 13

3/8”

x 21

5/8”

, while the feed tray supports 11

11/16”

x 17” in

several markets including financial services, government, manufacturing, education, just to name a

few. The system can make short work of printing on heavy stock—up to 56 lb. bond (210 gsm) from

the standard tray and 28 lb. bond (104 gsm)—in both simplex and duplex modes. Of note is a broad

range of document-finishing options including a saddle-stitch booklet maker for producing trimmed

booklets up to 15 sheets (tabloid) 60 pages long, and a folding unit with post-insertion and

document-hole punching. Maximum paper capacity is a robust 9,999 sheets for longer

uninterrupted operation.

In testing, the ComColor® 9050 performed flawlessly. The system produced smooth prints with a

durable and consistently good overall image quality. All routine maintenance is performed at the

front of the device, and replacing ink cartridges was clean and easy. This device offers users

productivity, versatility, durability, cost containment, is environmental friendly, easy to operate,

comes in a sleek compact design offering monthly duty cycles of 500,000 compares to units costing

two to four times as much.

Consequently, BERTL awards its highest “Exceptional” rating to the ComColor® 9050 for use in

production-printing applications in enterprises such as corporate data centers and central

reprographic departments, print-for-pay and commercial-printing establishments, and service

bureaus performing transactional printing. In these enterprises, this powerful color workhorse

system equipped with the tested ComColorExpress IS900C External Controller

will prove productive,

easy to live with on a daily basis, and capable of producing consistently good color image quality

and a wide variety of light-production, digital printing applications.