Fiery's new digital front ends for Ricoh ProTM C9500

Fiery, LLC and Ricoh Europe have expanded their long-term partnership with the launch of two new Fiery digital front ends (DFEs) for the new Ricoh Pro C9500 digital color sheetfed press. The Fiery servers are the exclusive DFEs driving the Ricoh Pro C9500, providing customers with digital print performance to elevate productivity, improve quality, and automate workflows for greater labor savings, the company said in a release. The Ricoh Pro C9500 customers have a choice of Fiery Color Controller N-70, based on the high-performance Fiery NX Premium platform, or Fiery Color Controller N-50, based on the Fiery NX Pro platform. Both are based on Fiery FS500 Pro software. “Our clients have come to depend on the exceptional performance delivered by Fiery DFEs, and that’s why we have partnered again with Fiery as the core DFE provider for our next-generation sheetfed presses," said Eef de Ridder, vice-president, Graphic Communications Group, Ricoh Europe. "Our long-term and clos...