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Color at Work
®
Product Dynamics
The Ricoh Aficio 3228C is the latest in a
series of successful business color MFP
solutions that have made Ricoh a leading
player in the aggressively fought business
color marketplace.
Replacing the Aficio 2228C, the new Aficio
3228C brings a wealth of new functionality,
higher speed, greater processing power,
and an equally aggressive price point.
The most obvious physical advantages
that the Aficio 3228C offers over its
predecessor include:
Max Color Speed - 24 ppm vs 20 ppm
Max Black speed - 28 ppm vs 28 ppm
Processor Power - 600 MHz vs 533 MHz
System Memory - 1 GB
vs 76 8MB
First Page Out
- 6/8
vs 8/10
(Color/Mono)
However, go beneath the surface and
there are many more new advancements
in technology that distinguish the Aficio
3228C including:
PxP Toner —
A major advance in image
quality within the laser/LED printing
industry has been the advent of chemically
grown toners. In the past, toner was
produced by literally smashing up and
grinding down colored resins until the
particles were deemed small enough to
use. This approach resulted in uneven
particle size which had an impact on image
quality. With ever-increasing scrutiny being
placed upon image quality, especially in an
ever more colorful world the need to move
to a more controlled method of producing
toner is required. Ricoh’s new PxP toner
does just that. Instead of starting large and
pulverizing down to small sizes, the PXP
toner process starts small — chemically
growing the toner particles from individual
chemical building blocks. The result is a
toner particle made up from polyester
resin, coloring agents and wax with a very
closely controlled particle size. As you will
read later in the report, the results are
impressive, with bright vibrant color, crisp
fine lines, smooth grayscales and excellent
halftone reproduction.
Embedded Software Architecture (ESA)
—
With digital MFPs being positioned by
their makers as more than just an output
device, the industry is opening up the
doors to third party developers by moving
away from the age-old, difficult to work
with proprietary firmware and instead
moving to industry recognized platforms
with SDK (Software Developer Kit)
support.
Ricoh’s ESA is an open, scalable platform
built on an object-oriented Java backbone
that will allow for far greater and easier
integration than the previous proprietary
firmware. As this technology gets
embraced by software resellers, VARs and
other solution providers, expect to see
more customized solutions and a whole
new way in which the walk up experience
to the office copier of old will be judged.
BERTL analyst hands-on
with the Ricoh Aficio 3228C
