OCE win Must see ’em award October 30, 2008
Posted by Julian Bradder in Uncategorized.Tags: color printer, colorwave, customer communications management, direct marketing, must see 'em, OCE, production printing
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OCE have won a major award at Graph Expo for their OCE ColoWave 600 printer. The award which only goes to those that have notably shined in terms of innovation, is one of a number received by OCE this year. The award is sponsored by PrintCom Consulting Group.
The new Oce ColorWave 600 printer is the first large format color toner printer to utilize a fundamentally new printing technology called Oce CrystalPoint(TM) that combines the best of toner and inkjet printing in one machine. The Oce CrystalPoint process converts solid Oce TonerPearls(TM) color toner into a gel. This “tonergel” is then jetted and crystallized onto any type of paper for waterfast, high quality images with extremely accurate dot placement. The Oce ColorWave 600 printer brings new applications to the technical color market including short run and disposable indoor/outdoor signage. Print speeds — 30 seconds for a 3’x4′ print — are at least twice as fast as conventional inkjet systems. Prints can be handled immediately since they dry instantly. The printer produces no ozone, odor or fine powder emissions thanks to solid Oce TonerPearls color toner.
Oce announce VarioPrint 4120 and 4110 black and white printers for mid volume marketing communications October 27, 2008
Posted by Julian Bradder in Uncategorized.Tags: mid-range production printer, OCE, variable printing, varioprint
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Océ today announced the launch of the new Océ VarioPrint® 4000 series of cutsheet printers, designed to close the gap between light production and very-high-volume production. Print operations can now leverage functions and productivity typically available only with higher-volume machines.
The 120 ppm Océ VarioPrint 4120 and the 106 ppm Océ VarioPrint 4110 black-and-white digital printing systems are designed for environments that print between 100,000 and 1,500,000 pages per month, with peak volumes up to 2,500,000. The systems bring sophisticated printing, copying, scanning and finishing to commercial and in-house printshops and printrooms. Enjoy accurate, reliable Océ CopyPress printing combined with seamless integration into the workflow of the most demanding production printing environment.
Credit Crunch Cost Reductions – OCE announce measures to reduce print costs in workgroup printing October 20, 2008
Posted by Julian Bradder in Uncategorized.Tags: credit crunch, document management, document scanning, duplex printing, OCE, printer, reduce office costs, return on investment, roi, workgroup
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OCE, the leading manufacture of printing technology have announced a set of guidelines to reduce the total cost of print. And very sensible measures they are:
1. Leverage Workgroup Printers
Personal printers and small local laser printers have a very high relative cost per page. By shutting down output to these devices and using larger, more effective work group machines, organisations can leverage a lower cost to page. OCE claim one customer reduced 1,100 personal / smaller machines with 400 workgroup machines.
2. Elminate printing banner pages
Many printers print a banner page for every print job. This is very wasteful and companies can save thousands by eliminating banner pages. OCE believe that a 1,000 man organisation could reduce paper usage by 1.3 million per annum
3. Implement Document Scanning
Already discussed on this site, the implementation of document scanning and electronic archiving can greatly reduce to amount of paper, copies and staff time spent collating and distributing paper. It will also save on office space storage.
4. Encourage Duplex Printing
Print two pages on one piece of paper. Use machines can support a duplex approach.
5. User Authorisation
Implement a PIN authorisation system for printing. Up to 1 in 10 documents are never collected from the printer. Give users control about what they print and eliminate over-printing.
6. Save on Paper & Toner
Buy in bulk! Reduce costs.
A great set of measures but not entirely comprehensive. The change has to be cultural as much as anything else. One of the things that I wonder is that if desktops had better, larger screens would people feel the need to print as much?
Full Colour Variable Printing and its use in one to one marketing October 18, 2008
Posted by Julian Bradder in Uncategorized.Tags: Color, Colour, hvto, marketing, OCE, print, printing, statement design, variable printing, xerox
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Colour printing is now viable. Over the last 4 – 5 years, offerings from the likes of Xerox and OCE have brought down cost per page and enabled efficient full colour printing at fairly high production speeds.
However, whilst cost per page is lower than it has been, some users of full colour printing are estimating that costs can still be up to 4 times as high as straight forward monochrome transactional printing. This suggests that judicious use of colour should be a consideration.
There have been a number of challenges with colour printing in a variable data environment. Getting the colour right not the least of them. One of the bigger challenges specifically with variable printing is the fact that each printed image changes. This means that all the graphics have to be loaded with each page, and in full colour, graphics are what you want. With a colour graphic likely to be anything between 5 and 15mb and with the potential for a number of these on the page, you can see the performance drag on big variable print runs.
Now, with printers and print streams supporting the concept of object embedding, it is now possible to overcome this barrier meaning that full colour customer communications can be a reality.
It seems that it is all about careful use of colour. Too much and you lower the value of the document, too little and things don’t seem right. Perhaps the answer is to deliver print streams by market segment. So those with the most to spend get the high quality colour documents those with little growth potential receive the old style monochrome documents.
One thing for sure is that full colour will improve response rates and customer loyalty. Breakdown of bills using summary pie charts, graphs and other illustrations in full colour is useful for the customer and helps them to better understand how to work with you. On page promotions will certainly get better results with the opportunity to place beautiful graphics that sell your product in the best possible way.
Combine full colour printing capability for variable print with the latest capabilities in one-to-one document creation software and you can see that we are on the verge of an exciting new era in high volume transactional output.
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