
Ricoh DDP 184 Digital Document Publisher
The cost-effective way to improve productivity.
Offering high-speed duplex with spot color, the RICOH
DDP 184 produces mission-critical documents such as
invoices and billing statements, as well as booklets,
direct mail, and more with minimal interruptions.
All these advantages make it a perfect fit for highvolume, variable-data environments such as data
centers, in-plant print shops, central reproduction
departments and print-for-pay businesses.
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ProductiveVersatileReliable
Fast, high-volume production.
Keep your production moving with tandem print
engines that can output 184 images/minute in duplex
black mode and up to 1.6 million images/month.
• Enjoy virtually unattended and uninterrupted printing by adding up to two
Container Stackers for up to 6,000 sheets of output.
• Eliminate production delays when you replace toner or load paper while
continuing to print.
Process and queue jobs to keep both engines printing at full speed thanks to
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the powerful front-end server. Standard emulations supported by the server
include PCL5e, PCL 5c, TIFF, native PDF and Adobe
• Save time and minimize network congestion by sending compressed files—PDF,
, PostScript
TIFF
• Save hours of production time with job management capabilities that enable
you to manage job queues, create and even staple subsets within large jobs and
cluster printers for load balancing.
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and ASCII—dir
ectly to the printer without opening an application.
Impressive Versatility.
Add in-line spot color for attention-grabbing
documents and assign paper on a page-by-page basis
in the same job, all from one, cost-effective system.
• Get attention by adding a second highlight color. Simply swap out the
customer-replacable black toner and developer to print either black with
black, red, warm red, green, cyan, blue or reflex blue.
• Create finished documents in a single pass using three standard, fully
adjustable input trays that accept a wide range of custom paper sizes and
weights, a bypass tray for heavier stocks, and a high-capacity feeder.
• Produce professional, customized mailings with the Ricoh Database Print
Manager that merges templated documents with database records.
Edge-to-edge printing provides more design flexibility to get attention.
Total Reliability.
Spend less time servicing your printer and more
time building productivity.
Minimize service time and costs with the DDP 184’
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• Handle high-volume production month after month—even two- or three-shift
workloads and above “normal” volumes—without worrying about long downtime due to failures or service calls.
Connected and Accessible.
A high-performance print controller and network
capabilities make the DDP 184 the perfect complement
to any high-volume environment.
• Produce precision spot-color documents with user-friendly color separation
controls. Easily separate and map characters, graphic shapes and image
pixels to black or spot color
• Easily access all printer functions and monitor queues, active jobs, finished
jobs and RIPs using an intuitive DocXPLORER or web br
• Integrate the system easily into your network with data stream solutions that
help you print form a mainframe.
• Improve your document workflow with custom applications—the flexible
architecture of the DDP 184 accommodates most third-party software.
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PostScript®3™.
s user-replaceable consumables.
owser interface.
Rely on continuous printing with easy-to-change
consumables.
Get attention by changing black toner to one of
six different colors with minimal effort.
Your
Environmental
Partner
Ricoh continues our longstanding commitment to
developing environmentally
friendly office solutions with
superior energy- and supplysaving features, including:
• Power-saving Sleep Mode
• Mixed Plex and MOPy Modes
• Minimal Ozone Emissions
• Restriction of Hazardous Substances
(RoHS) Compliant

Ricoh DDP 184 Digital Document Publisher
System Specifications
Specifications
Print Speed (black/black) Letter/LEF: 92/92 ppm;
(simplex/duplex) 92/184 ipm
Print Speed (black/color) Letter/SEF: 50/25 ppm;
(simplex/duplex) 50/50 ipm
PM Cycle (# of images) Standar
Duty Cycle A
(images/month) Maximum: 1,600,000
d Input
Standar
Maximum Input 6,150 sheets total
Standard Output 2,700 sheets total
Letter/SEF: 50/50 ppm;
50/100 ipm
Legal/SEF: 50/50 ppm;
50/100 ipm
Ledger/SEF: 46/46 ppm;
46/92 ipm
Legal/SEF: 50/25 ppm;
50/50 ipm
Ledger/SEF: 46/23 ppm;
46/46 ipm
d Finisher: 400,000
verage: 600,000
3,150 sheets total
Tray 1: 2,000 sheets (based on
20 lb. Bond)
8.27” x 11” to 12” x 18”
ray 2: 500 sheets (based on
T
20 lb. Bond)
5.5” x 7.2” to 12” x 18”
ray 3: 500 sheets (based on
T
20 lb. Bond)
5.5” x 7.2” to 12” x 18”
ray: 150 sheets (based
Bypass T
on 20 lb. Bond)
5.5” x 7.2” to 12” x 18”
Printer Engine: 3,150 sheets
High Capacity Feeder: 3,000
sheets (based on 20 lb. Bond)
8.5” x 11” (LEF)
Standard Finisher: Multi-Position
Stapling, Stacking, Offset
Elevator Tray: 2,500 sheets
Top Tray: 200 sheets (non-stapled)
Face-up/Face-down stacking
Optional Output 6,000 sheets total
Paper Sizes/Weights** Letter/LEF and SEF: 8.5” x 11”/
(black/black) 16 lb. Bond-90 lb. Index; 20 lb.
Custom Sizes* Minimum: 5.5” x 7.2”/16 lb.
*Maximum paper weight varies with type of paper stock used. Edgeto-edge printing (full bleed) is supported.
**17-43 lb. Bond (90 lb. index) for bypass tray.
ocessor
Pr
Memory DDR-SDRAM DIMM (PC2100)
Hard Disk Drive 40 GB ATA HDD
Printer Ready PDF, TIFF
Page Description PCL5e, Adobe® PostScript®3
Languages
Fonts
Resolution 600 x 600 dpi
MOP (Multiple Standard
Original Printing)
Duplex, Simplex Standard
Error Recovery Paper Jams
Embedded Web Server Real-time device monitoring and
Standard Interface Ethernet 10 Base-T/100 Base-TX
Protocols TCP/IP
Drivers Drivers for Windows
Container Stackers: Up to two
container stackers (4 containers)
Letter and Ledger
Maximum: 6,000 sheets (based
on 20 lb. Bond)
Bond-90 lb. Index
Legal/SEF: 8.5” x 14”/17 lb.
Bond-90 lb. Index; 20 lb.
Bond-90 lb. Index
Ledger/SEF: 11” x 17”/16 lb.
Bond-90 lb. Index; 20 lb.
Bond-90 lb. Index
Bond-90 lb. Index
Maximum 12” x 18”/16 lb.
Bond-90 lb. Index
2 x PowerPC 750FX (800 MHz)
128 MB RAM
Maximum: 256 MB RAM
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PCL5e: 80 Fonts
PostScript 3: 136 Fonts
configuration
(autosensing)
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95/98/2000/NT 4.0/XP
Server2003, PPD for Apple
Macintosh OS 8/9/X
Power Printer: 2 x 220V-240V, 15A (2
equired/Nema 6-15P
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(U.S.)
DDP Print Server: 100-240V
Hz/60 Hz
Weight Printer: Minimum: 1,335 lbs.;
Maximum: 2,217 lbs.
DDP Print Server: 15.4 lbs.
o-Tower PC
Micr
Dimensions (H x W x D) Printer: Minimum: 44” x 110” x
30”; Maximum: 58” x 228” x
45”; DDP Print Server: 14” x 7”
o-Tower PC
ed Maintenance
Requir
ea (W x D)
Ar
x 17”; Micr
156” x 104”
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Consumables (avg. yields)
Black toner 36,000 images @ 5% coverage
(per bottle)
Color toner 80,000 images @ 1.5% coverage
arm Red,
(Red, W
Green, Blue, Cyan,
Reflex Blue)
Black Developer 480,000 images @ 80%
Color Developer 480,000 images @ 80%
Drum (2) 400,000 images @ 80%
Fuser Cleaning Web (2) 320,000 images
Staple Cartridges 5,000 staples per cartridge
Ricoh Consumables: For maximum performance and yield,
ecommend using genuine Ricoh parts and supplies.
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(per bottle)
utilization
utilization
utilization
(two cartridges per finisher)
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