Adding a second color gives every one of your documents extra impact and immediacy. MZ series printers offer you all that extra power at just a single pass, letting you enjoy ease and convenience as you give your documents a professionally-finished look.


It's hard to imagine a document that doesn't look better in two colors. Advertising fliers and leaflets, announcements, newsletters, tickets, business applications such as letterheads, reports and name cards, lesson materials, invitations, coupons...the list just goes on and on. If you can print it, it's sure to look better with a second color.
RISO MZ series printers make two-color printing quick and easy, thanks to an advanced printer driver that virtually does the job for you.
Of course, you also enjoy manual control for those times when you want something the printer driver doesn't do for you automatically. And PC connectivity lets you use software you already know to create your originals, so you're always in familiar territory. There's no faster or easier way to carry out two-color printing than RISO MZ series printers.
For users who create originals on a PC, the included printer driver software automatically handles color separation when the data is sent to the printer. Layering color printing is also available
AutoColour separation couldn't be simpler - just use the auto separation function in the printer driver and the job's done, with colours separated to match the print drums loaded in the printer. For example, if you have red and black drums, red and black tones in your image will be separated and sent to the respective drum, with other colours tones set to layering between red and black.
Manual If you want more precise control, there's a manual mode that lets you specify individual colors for text/line art and photos on your original data and print with whichever drum you like.
Combination print allows you to do split print runs of documents such as school tests with the first half of the run showing only the questions in, for example, black and the second half of the print run showing questions in black and the answers in red.
You can even use color separation data from drawing and other applications.
You can preview the results of color separation on your PC monitor before you print to be sure the actual results will be exactly what you want. If you're not satisfied with the displayed separation, you can edit it by specifying precise areas and changing the color as you wish.
Even if your MZ series printer is not connected to your PC or network, you can still print directly from your data file. Just save the file through the printer driver to a USB flash drive, connect the flash drive to the printer via the built-in USB port, and you're ready to print.
An optional network card offers ethernet connection via your LAN giving you bi-directional communication with the printer. And this means you can remotely monitor the printer's status such as the progress of a print job, color of loaded ink drums, and remaining paper, master and ink quantities.
Easy-to-read screen for handy touchpanel operation
Enjoy clear, at-a-glance viewing of functions - and even a preview of how your printed document will look - with the large touchpanel screen. Thanks to logical grouping of functions, you simply step through the menus until you reach your desired operation.
What's more, you can customize the panel layout and even place your most-frequently used functions on the top screen.
Swapping a print drum for one of a different color is easier than ever thanks to the front loading design and lightweighting of the print drums.
Front panel access makes changing the ink bottle quick and easy, too. You simply insert the ink bottle and twist it into place.
The master unit is side-mounted and slides out like a drawer for simple replacement of the master roll: just remove the old roll and drop a fresh one into place.The MZ series "easy 2-colour" process not only makes it quick and easy to create two-color masters, it also offers you a choice of how to do it so you can select the method you find easiest or the one that's most suitable for your print job.
The RISO Editor lets you directly specify on the touchpanel which areas should be in which color, or even move photos, illustrations or blocks of text to give you precise placement and enhance theappearance of your finished document.
Preview mode shows you exactly how your finished document will look when printed, offering you a final check to ensure it exactly matches your vision.
Standard modeStandard mode is the basic setting designed to give excellent results with the majority of photographs.
Portrait mode
Portrait mode is optimized to give clear gradations of skin tones, resulting in superbly lifelike output.
Group mode
This mode uses a special algorithm to clearly show faces in group photos, so subjects can easily pick themselves out.
Pencil mode
Often, illustrations drawn in pencil fail to scan cleanly. Pencil mode is optimized to clearly scan and print such illustrations to assure you of superb results.
Normally, finished work is output in the order it is scanned or sent to the printer via your network - all copies of page one are printed first, followed by page two, etc. Sometimes, though, you may want the pages in reverse order, for example if you have an auto collator that will only accept pages that way. Output reversal is the answer, printing the last page sent to the printer first and the first page last.
If you're printing a confidential document, you want to make sure no unauthorized person sees it, even while it's printing. ID print lets you do this by holding your document in the printer's memory until you come to the machine and input your PIN. Then printing starts and you can stand by the printer to keep prying eyes away from your confidential material.
The user management function lets you monitor the number of prints/masters and set up usage limits for individual users. Users input their PIN number whenever they print, so you always know how much any person has used the printer. You can receive ID counter reports by printing them out, saving the CSV file to a USB flash drive, or if your printer is connected to your network, you can receive ID counter reports via e-mail. 
