Brentwood, Essex – February 20, 2007 – This year will see Océ exhibiting at the Northprint show for the first time in five years, where the company will showcase its flagship VarioPrint 6250 high-speed, cut sheet printer, known to be the world’s fastest perfecting digital system on the market.
The strategic decision to be at Northprint was taken following substantial positive feedback to shows such as IPEX and various other events Océ has attended and hosted over recent months. Northprint is an important route to market for the many significant commercial printers based in the north of the UK, and provides Océ with the opportunity to demonstrate its strength in duplex black and white printing technology, and highlight its high-quality colour offering to this key audience.
The VarioPrint 6250 cut sheet digital press is unique in that it incorporates Océ’s Gemini CopyPress perfecting technology, which enables it to image both sides of a wide range of media simultaneously at a speed of 250 A4 images per minute. By imaging at a constant speed on all materials, the VarioPrint 6250 is able to produce high volume, high quality, black and white print. It is ideal for a number of applications in the commercial printing industry, for example the production of technical publications, medical printing, music printing and it is particularly well suited to the fast growing digital book production sector.
Ed Hudson, Océ’s DDS / Imagistics marketing manager says: “Northprint 2007 will provide the stage for the VarioPrint 6250’s debut in the North of England, where two systems will be on show; one as a stand-alone system with a high-capacity stacker; and one running online to the Watkiss PowerSquare 200 complete book making system.
“Feedback from the worldwide graphic arts industry since the VarioPrint 6250’s launch last year has been extremely positive and Northprint 2007 presents us with a further opportunity to demonstrate its many features and benefits to printers and industry members in this thriving region. Alongside the VarioPrint 6250, we are looking forward to showcasing a number of our highly acclaimed digital machines to visitors, such as our new Colour System 650 Pro.”
Oce’s Colour System 650 Pro (CS650 Pro) has been recently introduced by the company to produce colour print and copy at 65 pages per minute. It comes with a number of finishing, media and controller options and is particularly suitable for commercial printers, printshops and corporate printrooms.
Also exhibited on stand M430 will be two award winning products from Océ, namely the Colour Production System 900 (CPS900) Platinum digital colour press and the VarioPrint 2110 Titanium black and white production system.
Designed to deliver consistent and reliable colour, the CPS900 automates the colour management process through the printer’s workflow; which has the effect of significantly reducing the time spent calibrating and testing colour output required with other digital processes. The CPS900 Platinum has received the BERTL four-star highly recommended award, demonstrating that it has the productivity to keep up with much larger, costlier digital printers, as well as delivering consistent colour output across multiple systems, times and locations.
The VarioPrint 2110 Titanium is a monochrome digital printer for both the commercial print and corporate production environment. It is the ideal solution for handling complex or varying applications and enables the efficient handling of documents requiring mixed-stock, inserts and/or variable data printing within one workflow. The system has already been awarded the coveted five-star exceptional rating from BERTL. The award recognises that the VarioPrint 2110 Titanium surpasses other digital production printers in terms of quality, productivity simplicity and operating costs, enabling corporate and commercial printrooms to produce higher volumes more efficiently.
Northprint 2007 will run from 24-26th April at the Harrogate Exhibition Centre. Expected to attract over 4300 visitors from the printing, packaging and graphic communications industry, it is the only national mainstream graphic arts exhibition for the UK and celebrates it 40th birthday this year.
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