Advanced Career Education (ACE)
Ricoh Advanced Career Education (ACE) provides educators with a complete curriculum that prepares students to find successful employment in the growing commercial print and sign & graphics industry. From training for instructors to course materials for students, ACE is a comprehensive program. Instructors will receive an “out-of-the-box” curriculum (modifications can be made as needed to meet your institution’s desired outcomes). Technical experts will also be available to provide ongoing remote support for teachers.
Appropriate for college students, K-12, continuing education learners and adults in search of new careers, ACE gives graduates core concepts and command of technical skills for the production of in-demand print products. Culminating in certification, job-search guidance and help with placement, the ACE program gives your organization the ability to offer students a path to gainful employment.
Design & Education
A surge in digital technology and the emergence of new media platforms has altered the skillsets needed to thrive in graphic communications and commercial print. From one-on-one design services to our digital literacy program, we help our customers keep staff up to date on digital design skills such as typography, layout and color manipulation. These services provide hands-on guidance on how to efficiently maximize resources and further develop skillsets through continued advancement. Expand your services and be more valuable to clients with a strong design team.
Grow Your Business with Specialty Color
This competitive differentiator takes the form of a workshop, provided in an interactive, on-site session led by a Ricoh Solution Engineer. The workshop explores ways to utilize 5th Color applications using gold, silver, clear, white, neon pink, neon yellow and invisible red toner, as well as specialty substrates to add more value to your products.
Delivered in one full day or two half-days, this workshop is designed to help you adopt, market and design using the specialty color capabilities of your RICOH 5th Color Station. Attendees receive an overview, access to specialty calculator tools and much more.
Ricoh Advanced Finishing Services
Make the most of your production printer, EFI Fiery® controller and finishing equipment. In keeping with Ricoh’s commitment to bring you services that respond to current market conditions, we’ve developed comprehensive training courses covering in-demand topics. Combining a range of solutions from Ricoh and other leading manufacturers, we provide an integrated approach for all your production finishing workflows and upstream production needs.
Flatten the learning curve with easy-to-use, turnkey solutions — and start offering new products in just one to three days. Courses are available at one to three levels based on your business needs.
Service Offerings Include:
- Book and Publication Production
- Labels, Decals and Tags
- Embellishments
- Digital Packaging
- Finishing Automation
- Promotional Products
- Cards, Tickets and Perforations
Ricoh Certified Operator Program (RCOP)
The Ricoh Certified Operator Program is designed to maximize the effectiveness of your staff with a series of proven, hands-on training sessions.
This training helps the operators understand the print device to maintain optimal performance, run jobs with the proper settings, handle specialty jobs, unique color requirements, and maximize machine uptime and image quality. Ricoh trainers work on-site in your facility and deploy training instructions, reference materials and exercises with live jobs for your Ricoh devices.
Service Offerings Include:
- RICOH Pro C7200 Series Graphic Arts Edition
- RICOH Pro C9200 Series Graphic Arts Edition
- RICOH Pro 8300 Series
Ricoh Creative Coaching
Many print providers have a creativity gap. They market CMYK-only applications mainly because that is what they know, but there is so much more than CMYK. With Ricoh Creative Design Coaching Services, we help you go beyond the ordinary. This service offers a Ricoh Creative Coach to help discover the power of the entire operation. It starts with a survey with the customer to assess their entire print operation, from the RICOH Pro C7200 Series Graphic Arts Edition 5th Station to software and finishing, then the coach helps the customer see what can be marketed while creating design work to showcase available applications to end clients.
Providing customers with a highly creative, innovative, direct mail campaign (print-ready PDF) tailored to your production print and finishing abilities.
Ricoh Digital Packaging
Unique to the industry, the Ricoh Digital Packaging Service is designed to train you on how to use your existing production print equipment to enter the packaging market with a wide variety of new and unique applications, such as gift boxes, golf ball sleeves, table-tents, labels, folders, POP displays and more.
Ricoh’s Digital Packaging service offers two program options to meet your goals based on your business needs. Option 1 trains you on how to design for and print on pre-perforated media with 10 packaging and marketing products. Option 2 addresses variable data, design and/or advanced packaging software to design an unlimited number of unique packages to finish with a die or flatbed cutter.