KIP 3000

Here you go!
One or two roll. 4.5 "D" size per minute.
All in one design with the scanner on top.
Touch screen control panel.
Fully configured system with print, scan and copy for $12,995.00 retail.
Street price for above should be around $10,500.00
Will launch in November but should ship in first quarter of 06'.
Have heard that Oce' is going to have a unit similar and in the price range that will be manufactured by Syntex and that Xerox is either going to have a same class system that will come from Fuji or will relabel the Kip system.

The window is only open for a short time. I would hope that Ricoh will be agressive to hold onto the market share that they have gained and will repostion the MSRP of the 240W in time for the release of the new product from KIP and OCE.

I was at the Print On Demand/AIIM show today in Phili and KIP was not present and OCE did not have their wide format products their either.

I was at the IRgA show in Las Vegas and saw the deom on the KIP3000. The machine looked good and the op panel looks like it is off of a Canon color machine. The guy who was doing the presentation was getting nervous with all of the Ricoh, Sieko-i and Oce guys standing around staring at him. It was fun to heckle him. A little unprofessional, but fun none the less.

KIP did not have the machine up and running, so there were no print/copy samples.

The controller is internal, leading everybody in the audience to believe that this will create some network bottlenecks.