Ricoh Aficio GX3050 GelSprinter Color Printer

• 29 page per minute in both monochrome and color
• Embedded Network Interface Card
• 250 standard paper tray
• High quality color printing on plain paper
• 64MB standard memory

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Fast color printing for less. The Ricoh Aficio GX3050N color printer with GelSprinter technology gives you the speed and quality of other color printers for a fraction of the cost. Now you don't have to settle for dull, black and white documents. Color adds impact, attracts attention, and emphasizes critical facts. And you don't have to sacrifice your budget either. The Aficio GX3050N, gives you the speed and quality of color printing for a fraction of the cost. View larger. Easy to use interface. View larger. The design of the GelSprinter began with the development of a very special ink. GelSprinter Liquid Gel is viscous and penetrative pigmented ink that is resistant to bleeding, smudging, spills, and sunlight. View larger. What is GelSprinter technology? The hybrid technology between laser and inkjet printer offering the optimal balance and maximization of print speed and image quality at affordable cost under the business environment.GelSprinter offers you high speed printing by combining three innovative technologies: Liquid Gel, Wide Heads, and the Belt Feeding System. About GelSprinter Liquid Gel Gel Sprinter is an economical alternative to laser printing that utilizes a uniquely formulated viscous ink to address the shortcomings of traditional low viscosity inks. There are two types of low viscosity ink: Dry-based, which soak into the paper, spread, dry slowly, and produce dull images, and Pigment-based which dry faster that Dry-based inks, but not fast enough to provide the quality necessary for duplex printing. GelSprinter Liquid Gel has virtually none of these limitations. They are thicker, Pigment-based inks that dry instantly on contact with paper. About Wide Print Heads GelSprinter print heads are three times wider that those of conventional inkjet printers. Each print head nozzle is durable, allowing ink to be ejected at greater pressure, which prevents clogging. These extra-wide print heads move in tandem for greater coverage per pass, delivering superior speeds over a much larger printable area that any other inkjet printer. Unlike laser printers, the GelSprinter color printers do nt need to fuse print images to paper, allowing for faster warm-up, recovery, and first-prints, and increased overall productivity. Belt Feeding System Traditional inkjet printers use rollers that can leave sheets of paper unsupported, causing them to ripple and jam. Double-sided printing can also cause problems. By contrast, the GelSprinter series of color printers used high-speed electrostatic attraction to hold each sheet firmly in place on its path through the machine, eliminating misalignment, blurring, and other problem and other problems that accompany registration. Additionally, GelSprinter uses a sophisticated Belt Feeding System that practically eliminates paper jams and allows speedy double-sided printing over a laser-like print area GelSprinter printers maximize page `real estate' without compromising image quality or output speed. GelSprinter technology delivers photo-like images in beautiful color without blurring or bleeding, eliminating the need for a separate photo printer. Speed up production. Perfect for small offices or workgroups, the Ricoh GX3050N advanced GelSprinter technology prints 29 and 30 pages per minute in color or black and white--you'll get more done, faster than ever before. Get your documents faster since the system quickly warms up from Energy Saver Mode. Plus, the first print is ready in less than 8.5 seconds. The large, 250-sheet capacity paper tray and optional 100-sheet multibypass tray and long lasting print cartridges let you print more jobs and longer jobs without interruption. GelSprinter wide print heads speed up printing while precisely controlling color saturation for high-quality results. The standard duplex mode lets you reduce paper consumption and print at 75 percent the speed of simplex. Convenient network flexibility make this series ideal for workgroup settings. Quick, reliable paper feeds are obtained with the GelSprinter beltfeeding system. Create crisp, full-color documents. GelSprinter viscous inks dry fast so they don't smudge, blur or bleed through--even on plain paper--which is important when you need to print and deliver your documents right away. Delivers high quality, bright color and razor-sharp text--all on regular office paper so you can save money on supplies. Prints photo-like color images with 3600 x 1200 maximum dpi for professional sales presentations, newsletters, proposals, marketing pieces and more all in house. Viscous inks dry completely for less smearing with highlight pens. Save money upfront and every day after with the affordable business printer Combining the economy of inkjets with the speed and quality of laser printers, the Ricoh GX3000 color printer are the budget-friendly series. Built-in cost-saving features such as permanent print heads keep the cost of ownership attractively low for the life of the system. Level Color Mode reduces supply usage on color images and photos by almost half without affecting text for eye-catching color documents that cost about the same as black and white. Energy Saver Mode keeps operating costs low. Electrostatic Belt-Transfer System lets you professionally print two-sided documents as well as saving you paper, filing space and postage when you mail large documents. Cost per page is reduced, thanks to the large-capacity print cartridge. Booklet printing allows you to print two pages side-by-side on one page. Print heads last the life of printer and never need replacement. Features exclusive to the Ricoh Aficio GX3050N color printer with GelSprinter 29 page per minute in both monochrome and color Embedded Network Interface Card Supports PCL5c/6 Waterproof and sun-resistant viscous ink 250 standard paper tray Optional 100-sheet Multi-Bypass tray Permanent print head Cost-efficient "Level Color" mode High quality color printing on plain paper 64MB standard memory Supports glossy paper Standard Duplexing

Ricoh Gelsprinter GX 3050n:
I was excited to get what I thought would be a very speedy, newly hi-tech inkjet system (this "new" gel thing) and a little extra capacity in the input tray. For the most part, that's what this is. I have not really put it to the test yet. I have used it for an unusual purpose, namely, numbering printed forms (in my small print shop with inexpensive numbering software). The first case was to number 22000 coupons that had been printed 8-up with a production digital color printer. The numbers were to overprint the color image. At first it seemed ok, but after the test sheet, the numbers stopped printing. After several other false starts, I tried other plain paper. Fine. Then I tried switching paper choice to glossy, and that went ok, except I had lost the speed. But I had to keep going to get the job done. It took over 10 hours. Oh well...and one other bugaboo was that, randomly, a number would be missing here and there. Not good; hard to say if that is printer or some sort of software glitch. Another failure was numbering on 60# Brite-Hue text. It would not do that whether on glossy or plain. It was a short run, so I used the old HP inkjet (just fine). The next was on carbonless, and I'd been getting paranoid that it might not work, but it ran well at full speed with no problem, except it did lay down some feed-through tracks on the imaging sides. Not very noticable, but certainly not wanted. I'll need to reserve judgement on other types of originals until I've had some experience with them. I had also expected that the ink cost might be lower with this machine, but from what I can glean so far, I may be in for a rude awakening on that score as well. So it goes.