{"id":21708,"date":"2016-12-07T16:31:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=21708"},"modified":"2016-12-07T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:31:59","slug":"yurchak-printing-teams-with-ricoh-to-thrive-in-todays-changing-book-printing-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/news\/2016\/12\/yurchak-printing-teams-with-ricoh-to-thrive-in-todays-changing-book-printing-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Yurchak Printing Teams with Ricoh to Thrive in Today\u2019s Changing Book Printing Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malvern, PA (December 5, 2016)<\/em> \u2013 Ricoh USA, Inc. today announced that Yurchak Printing, a book manufacturer serving book printing and commercial print industries, has grown its capabilities and streamlined its operations to better handle growing demand for short runs. By partnering with Ricoh to replace three aging toner devices with a single InfoPrint 5000 GP production print inkjet platform, Yurchak has increased productivity, quality and reliability. In addition, the company has added RICOH TotalFlow BatchBuilder which has resulted in the reduction of waste, increased accuracy and decreased turnaround times.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1998, family-owned Yurchak quickly established itself as a leader in digital short-run book manufacturing. Yurchak offered an array of finishing options to serve a wide variety of clients, producing directories, periodicals, journals, reference books, illustrated and children\u2019s books, university books and more. As the book manufacturing market continues to move toward shorter runs, Yurchak worked closely with Ricoh to implement a solution that would significantly streamline job submission, imposition and production; reduce waste; and grow capabilities to efficiently produce very short runs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have made our name on high quality short runs, and we did not intend to let the trend toward shorter and shorter runs interfere with that,\u201d said John Yurchak, CEO, Yurchak Printing. \u201cThe combination of Ricoh\u2019s InfoPrint 5000 and RICOH TotalFlow BatchBuilder has helped us deliver the quality our customers expect at the run lengths they want. With BatchBuilder\u2019s automated imposition feature, we\u2019ve been able to reduce waste by roughly half. And by batching similar jobs, we can turn short runs out quickly, back to back, without leaving hard-to-use amounts of paper on the roll.\u201d<\/p>\n

RICOH TotalFlow BatchBuilder, software that simplifies and automates short-run digital workflows, empowers users to set up rules based on run length and trim size, for example. It \u201cbatches\u201d like jobs to make the monitoring and management of high volume short run jobs easier, while helping to meet deadlines and to more efficiently use resources. Shorter runs often introduce more manual touch points into book manufacturing. RICOH TotalFlow BatchBuilder enabled Yurchak Printing to automate and streamline key tasks, from ordering to finishing, helping to improve accuracy and decrease turnaround times.<\/p>\n

Ricoh\u2019s InfoPrint 5000 continuous feed platform reliably produces high-volume, high-quality applications with small environmental and real estate footprints. With print speeds up to 420 feet per minute and dynamic drop sizes to ensure speed and quality, the InfoPrint 5000 addresses the efficiency needs of operations of many types.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past five to ten years, demand for increasingly shorter runs in the book industry has absolutely exploded. Today, customers are looking for short runs that can be turned around in a day, or even a few hours,\u201d said Andre Brazeau, vice president, Production Printing Business Group, Ricoh USA, Inc. \u201cWith shorter runs, many book manufacturers look to take on a higher volume of jobs, but manually switching between those jobs and their various steps can be overwhelming and time consuming, and it introduces additional manual touch. RICOH TotalFlow BatchBuilder helps not only automate those tasks and remove those touch points, but it also helps ensure those many jobs are monitored, managed and executed simply and efficiently, with minimal waste.\u201d<\/p>\n

For details on Ricoh\u2019s full line of products, services and solutions for the production print market, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com\/rpp<\/a> and follow @RicohProPrinton Twitter and Ricoh USA Production Print on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n

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About Ricoh:<\/strong>
\nRicoh is a global technology company that has been transforming the way people work for more than 80 years. Under its corporate tagline \u2013 imagine. change. \u2013 Ricoh continues to empower companies and individuals with services and technologies that inspire innovation, enhance sustainability and boost business growth. These include document management systems, IT services, production print solutions, visual communications systems, digital cameras, and industrial systems.<\/p>\n

Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in approximately 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2016, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 2,209 billion yen (approx. 19.6 billion USD).\u00a0For further information, please visit www.ricoh.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malvern, PA (December 5, 2016) \u2013 Ricoh USA, Inc. today announced that Yurchak Printing, a book manufacturer serving book printing and commercial print industries, has grown its capabilities and streamlined its operations to better handle growing demand for short runs. By partnering with Ricoh to replace three aging toner devices with a single InfoPrint 5000 GP production print inkjet platform, Yurchak has increased productivity, quality and reliability. In addition, the company has added RICOH TotalFlow BatchBuilder which has resulted in the reduction of waste, increased accuracy and decreased turnaround times. Founded in 1998, family-owned Yurchak quickly established itself as a leader in digital short-run book manufacturing. Yurchak offered an array of finishing options to serve a wide variety of clients, producing directories, periodicals, journals, reference books, illustrated and children\u2019s books, university books and more. As the book manufacturing market continues to move toward shorter runs, Yurchak worked closely with Ricoh to implement a solution that would significantly streamline job submission, imposition and production; reduce waste; and grow capabilities to efficiently produce very short runs. \u201cWe have made our name on high quality short runs, and we did not intend to let the trend toward shorter and shorter runs interfere with that,\u201d said John Yurchak, CEO, Yurchak Printing. \u201cThe combination of Ricoh\u2019s InfoPrint 5000 and RICOH TotalFlow BatchBuilder has helped us deliver the quality our customers expect at the run lengths they want. With BatchBuilder\u2019s automated imposition feature, we\u2019ve been able to reduce waste by roughly half. And by batching similar jobs, we can turn short runs out quickly, back to back, without leaving hard-to-use amounts of paper on the roll.\u201d RICOH TotalFlow BatchBuilder, software that simplifies and automates short-run digital workflows, empowers users to set up rules based on run length and trim size, for example. It \u201cbatches\u201d like jobs to make the monitoring and management of high volume short run jobs easier, while helping to meet deadlines and to more efficiently use resources. Shorter runs often introduce more manual touch points into book manufacturing. RICOH TotalFlow BatchBuilder enabled Yurchak Printing to automate and streamline key tasks, from ordering to finishing, helping to improve accuracy and decrease turnaround times. Ricoh\u2019s InfoPrint 5000 continuous feed platform reliably produces high-volume, high-quality applications with small environmental and real estate footprints. With print speeds up to 420 feet per minute and dynamic drop sizes to ensure speed and quality, the InfoPrint 5000 addresses the efficiency needs of operations of many types. \u201cIn the past five to ten years, demand for increasingly shorter runs in the book industry has absolutely exploded. Today, customers are looking for short runs that can be turned around in a day, or even a few hours,\u201d said Andre Brazeau, vice president, Production Printing Business Group, Ricoh USA, Inc. \u201cWith shorter runs, many book manufacturers look to take on a higher volume of jobs, but manually switching between those jobs and their various steps can be overwhelming and time consuming, and it introduces additional manual touch. RICOH TotalFlow BatchBuilder helps not only automate those tasks and remove those touch points, but it also helps ensure those many jobs are monitored, managed and executed simply and efficiently, with minimal waste.\u201d For details on Ricoh\u2019s full line of products, services and solutions for the production print market, please visit www.ricoh-usa.com\/rpp and follow @RicohProPrinton Twitter and Ricoh USA Production Print on LinkedIn. ### About Ricoh: Ricoh is a global technology company that has been transforming the way people work for more than 80 years. Under its corporate tagline \u2013 imagine. change. \u2013 Ricoh continues to empower companies and individuals with services and technologies that inspire innovation, enhance sustainability and boost business growth. These include document management systems, IT services, production print solutions, visual communications systems, digital cameras, and industrial systems. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in approximately 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2016, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 2,209 billion yen (approx. 19.6 billion USD).\u00a0For further information, please visit www.ricoh.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[955,312,2860],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21709,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708\/revisions\/21709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}