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Digital book production with Océ—discover potential, offer solutions, secure profitability

The Internet and e-business are changing the world for your customers. Technical, business and scientific publishers, the fiction side of the industry as well—all are grappling with the same issues. The variety of titles is on the increase, and press runs are getting smaller. And your clients are demanding faster turnaround on orders and updates, excellent quality and affordable prices. You want to be sure you remain a contender in the market of tomorrow—with fast, flexible book production that still turns in a profit for your business.

Digital book production is the way to generate new, profitable business, and Océ can provide you with turnkey solutions to make it possible: advanced digital printing lines with inline and nearline finishing equipment. The right software to control the workflow, and professional services to make your move to e-business a success. If you're looking to keep customers loyal, win new customers and generate additional revenue and profit, it's exactly the right move to make.

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Produce and deliver ultra-short runs profitably

Digital book production empowers you to offer better service
You can be more flexible in your approach to ultra-short runs, turning orders round faster than ever before. Remain profitable on orders from just a few dozen copies to a thousand or more. Accelerate your workflow with fast just-in-time production on end-to-end systems from Océ, like the Océ VarioPrint 3070/3090/3110 Titanium, and achieve same-day turnaround every time: from the time the orders come in, through digital printing and finishing, right to the point at which the ready-finished books leave your plant.
You can take on the small, interesting orders that offset-only printers would have to turn down, unable to compete on speed or price. And these small jobs make a big impression. When you're looking for new business, your expanded portfolio of products and services is impressive evidence of your position as a customer-centric service provider. And it will set you off clearly from your less flexible rivals.
As well as delivering added value to your clients, digital book production is above all a strategic benefit for your image.

Summary: Digital book production enables you to respond to burgeoning demand for short and medium-length runs. Existing and new customers will be impressed - and you will increase revenue and profits.
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Produce a variety of applications
Digital book production gives you maximum flexibility
Digital book production with Océ systems gives you maximum flexibility for handling a variety of applications. There are turnkey solutions for a vast choice of high quality print products:
  • Loose-leaf sets, hardcover and softcover books
  • Technical documentation (user and service manuals)
  • Training material
  • Patent documents, official gazettes
  • Light weight paper applications (40g/m)
Summary: Digital book production systems open up a host of opportunities for printers. Offer your customers added value with a fascinating new choice of services. Create an additional revenue and profit stream alongside your usual business. Secure your competitive strength for the future!
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Keep customers loyal and secure a steady stream of orders
Digital book production is a strategic selling point
Digital book production is a key selling point. It sets you clearly apart from your competitors and extends the strategic positioning of your enterprise in two ways.
As well as producing the conventional offset runs of books, you can also offer high quality digital products with ultra-fast delivery - short test runs, for instance, preliminary runs or reprints. On identical paper and in identical quality, with 8, 16, 24 or 32-page signatures. Perfect binding or thread-stitching. Never again will you need to turn down a job because you can't handle it.
The rapid order turnaround also gives your clients the confidence that you are a competent provider—and well able to handle their offset orders.
Summary: Digital book production secures relationships with existing customers and helps you acquire new orders. Thanks to the digital warehouse, there's virtually no limit to what your print shop can deliver, making you a partner for the entire life cycle of every book product. Benefit from the increased revenue and profit of these new business opportunities. PRISMAweb guarantees a permanent in the publishers value chain.
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Expand the portfolio of services
Digital book production is your key to a range of new digital services
Digital book production is your key to a whole new range of services that will expand your portfolio. You can become a one-stop shop for the entire workflow:
  • Digitising
  • Archiving
  • E-business solution for order handling
  • Printing of book blocks and covers
  • Softcover and hardcover binding
  • Finishing and delivery
Use the opportunities of the entire digital process chain. Océ is your provider for them all—so you can become a one-stop shop for your clients' needs. From Océ PRISMAweb, the e-procurement solution, to the Océ Demandstream book-printing line and PRISMA+PoD, the workflow management software, every element harmonises to create a complete integrated solution for digital book production. Flanked, of course, by a full range of professional services to ensure you derive maximum benefit from the operational system.
As a general contractor we put together exactly the right solution for your company, comprising our own hardware and software plus carefully selected system components made by best-in-class partner suppliers.
 
Summary: The product portfolio of your company is not complete without digital services to offer your customers sustained added value.
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Automate the Order-to-Production process

Effecient online order of to be printed books - reducing transaction costs

As the entire value chain goes digital - from book production to the point of sale - this inevitably affects how orders for the digital production of Books are placed. More orders are now being submitted over the WEB. Which is where e-procurement comes in: it enables you to reduce your transaction overhead and accelerate order turnaround. You can generate added value every single day with Océ PRISMAweb, the order-to-production solution that automates and integrates each step of the print buying process. Customers place their orders over the Internet, and the orders are processed and fulfilled completely automatically.
Océ PRISMAweb creates a digital warehouse for books which your customers can browse before placing their orders online. You can manage print capacity more efficiently, and improve your order throughput. Océ PRISMAweb is utterly reliable, which is decisive to the speed and security of the solution. This helps keep your customers satisfied - and keeps them coming back for more. Océ PRISMAweb integrates perfectly with other systems. It's the ideal way to equip you for the WEB economy.
Summary: Océ PRISMAwebis the smart, simple solution for effeciently managing and ordering digitally produced books, delivering greater profitability for every stakeholder in the value chain.
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