RISO, Inc., a leader in digital printing technology, today introduced a new website dedicated to educating the document production marketplace about Mid-Volume Transactional Output (MVTO). RISO has defined the mid-volume transaction output segment as transactional printing (invoices, bills, statements, notices, checks, letters, etc.) in the range of 50,000 to five million pages per month.

Organizations routinely print and mail transactional documents to current and prospective customers, members, and stakeholders to generate revenue, communicate account status, and promote products and services. These documents can be produced at corporate data centers and in-plant print shops or from external print service suppliers such as service bureaus, commercial printers and fulfillment houses.

At the high end of the transactional printing space, documents are typically produced on roll-fed monochrome electrophotographic (EP) and full-color inkjet presses with system costs ranging from several hundred thousand to several million dollars. At the low end of this range, transactional documents are typically printed on cut-sheet electrophotographic (EP) printers and MFPs based on traditional copier platforms. In between these high volume and low volume segments is the mid-volume segment, which is a widely underserved market space for affordable, full-color document production.

“RISO has pioneered the Mid-Volume Transaction Output (MVTO) segment with an affordable cut-sheet inkjet technology that complements roll-fed inkjet technology,” said David Murphy, Vice President of Marketing for RISO, Inc. “Our systems are being installed across North America as both a primary device in mid-volume environments and as a secondary device in high-volume environments. For ultra high-volume users of the industry’s biggest names in roll-fed inkjet systems, RISO is serving as a simple and affordable solution for reprints, proofs and short-runs.”

With the increasing adoption of TransPromo document designs, color print volumes in the MVTO volume range are growing dramatically. RISO’s full color production cut-sheet inkjet printers uniquely serve this market by employing industrial grade Piezo inkjet printing technology, high-yield pigment inks and an advanced paper handling system to reliably feed paper stocks from 12 lb bond to 210 lb index.