"Océ and Autodesk share many customers and the inter-operability between their design creation tools and our large format devices has always been vital, but not always simple. Together with Autodesk, we are streamlining the process, enhancing our customers' productivity and giving them a new competitive edge," said Joyce Virnich, vice president of marketing for the Océ-USA, Inc. Wide Format Printing Systems business unit.

DWF is an enhanced collaboration and publishing format to help customers share data for seamless design collaboration and communication throughout project lifecycles, allowing designers, engineers, developers, and their colleagues to quickly and easily communicate design information to anyone needing it. Through this agreement, Océ will enable the printing of the DWF file format, allowing users to immediately and effectively print complex, multi-dimensional design documents.

"DWF was specifically engineered for the communication and distribution of complicated design, engineering, and mapping information. By working with Océ, we are enabling our customers to rely on DWF from creation to distribution to print-on-demand," said Tony Peach, director of Autodesk's DWF Corporate Strategy. "Océ supplies high quality, large format printing that users can depend on for sharing business critical information along the continuum of their product or project's lifecycle."

This arrangement strengthens a long-standing strategic partnership between Océ and Autodesk.

The fast, easy way to view rich design information
DWF files can be viewed and printed to scale with the Autodesk® Express Viewer, a free viewing product included with all AutoCAD® 2004 products and downloadable at www.autodesk.com/expressviewer. The viewer is a lightweight, high-performance application that is easily distributed to anyone on the project team, even those who do not use an AutoCAD product but need to view digital design data. For these who need mark-up capabilities, Volo® View 3, (www.autodesk.com/voloview), enables redline, markup, measure, view, and plot of DWF files, as well as native file formats (DWG, IPT, IAM, IDW). DWF is an open format with a published specification and developer's toolkit enabling anyone to read and write a DWF file for free.

Powerful, easy print automation from a solution provider
Océ's technical document, multifunction printing solutions range from the departmental Océ TDS400 to the high production Océ TDS800. Océ's line of printroom automation software enables users to easily build print jobs, monitor progress, and account for all printing, copying, and scanning tasks. More information on the Océ Technical Document solutions is available at www.peopleplacesprinters.com

About Autodesk
Autodesk is the world's leading design software and digital content company, offering customers progressive business solutions through powerful technology products and services. Autodesk helps customers in the building, manufacturing, infrastructure, digital media, and wireless data services fields increase the value of their digital design data and improve efficiencies across their entire project lifecycle management processes.

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