That, combined with Ricoh’s strong reputation for support, let us know that Ricoh was the real deal.” “They took us to the Customer Experience Center in Boulder, Colorado, and let us see firsthand what can be done with the technology, including how spectacular and precise the output is, and how quickly it can be produced.
Ricoh’s technology perfectly fit our needs and exceeded our expectations, but what really persuaded us was how firmly Ricoh stands behind its products,” said Steven Kuczwara, Vice President of Operations, Kirkwood Direct. “The quality and versatility of our Kirkwood brands had really taken off in recent years, and we knew it was time to take Kirkwood Direct’s capabilities to the next level.
In recent months, Kirkwood Direct’s senior management team made the decision to upgrade technology and invest in new equipment, but they needed a press that could keep up with its customers’ high-volume, fast-turn demands and print to different papers, such as glossy, uncoated stock or cover stock. Kirkwood continues to build on this impressive growth, represented by a nearly 900% increase in annual revenue over the past 15 years (today totaling $75M) and a sprawling 80,000-square-foot headquarters in Wilmington, Massachusettsįor the past several years, Kirkwood Direct’s VDP operation relied on the deployment of multiple digital sheet-fed presses for production This approach met the interim needs for VDP, however it was not the company’s long-term strategic solution. Over the next four decades, the company grew to become a global full-service print communications provider, with in-house services ranging from award winning offset printing, variable data direct mail, database management, mailing services, digital print, wide-format, grand-format printing as well as fulfillment and postal logistic planning.
Kirkwood US began in 1973 with a single press printing technical manuals for Boston-area technology companies. This partnership makes Kirkwood Direct the first VDP printer in the New England region to implement Ricoh’s Expanded Gamut Inks, allowing the company to deliver near-offset image quality at high speeds, even on coated media.
By implementing a RICOH Pro VC60000 with brand-new Expanded Gamut Inks, Kirkwood Direct will significantly reduce time and costs associated with VDP.
MALVERN, Pa., May 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ - Ricoh USA Inc. today announced Kirkwood Direct, an industry leading end-to-end direct marketing company and a subsidiary of award-winning integrated communications provider Kirkwood US, has partnered with Ricoh to streamline and enhance its variable data printing (VDP) technology.
Fast-growing printer adds RICOH Pro VC60000 with Expanded Gamut Inks to empower its direct mail division with expanded capabilities, enabling single-pass VDP, even on coated media