The Pro 8400S is the kit for the in-plant print room that’s outgrown its biggest office MFP but doesn’t have the volume or budget to justify the Pro 8420. Government departments running internal print bureaux. Schools and universities doing high-volume exam booklets and course readers. Local commercial print shops adding production capacity at entry tier.
The differentiator from the office MFPs is duty cycle and finishing options. 1.65M pages a month rated, perfect-binding and booklet-making available, paper weights from rice paper to thick card. The differentiator from the Pro 8420 is speed and price — fewer pages per minute, smaller capital outlay, simpler operator training.
When the volume justifies stepping up, the Pro 8420 is the natural next move; the Pro 8400S and Pro 8420 share Ricoh’s production stack so an operator trained on one transfers cleanly to the other.
Features
- Entry-tier production mono — the step between the IM 9000 (top office mono) and Pro 8420 (mid production)
- Heavy stocks: 52 to 360 gsm — handles cover-weight, banner, transparency
- Optional perfect-binder, booklet-maker, ring-binder for full in-plant production runs
- EFI Fiery DFE option for production workflow control on coloured paper + mono jobs
- Long duty cycle (~1.65M pages/month) — sized for in-plant central production, not a workgroup
Specifications
- Function
- Mono production printer
- Print speed
- 80 ppm A4 mono
- Resolution
- 1200 × 1200 dpi
- Paper sizes
- A6 to A3, SRA3, banner via optional tray
- Paper weight
- 52 to 360 gsm
- Duty cycle
- Up to 1.65M pages per month
- Finishing
- Booklet-maker, perfect-binder, ring-binder, multi-folding (optional)
- Front end / DFE
- EFI Fiery options for production workflow control
