Oce Shows High Speed Digital Printer At Northprint

This year will see Oce 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.

This year will see Oce 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, which is claimed to be the world's fastest perfecting digital system.

The decision to be at Northprint was taken following what the company described as positive feedback to shows such as Ipex and various other events Oce has attended and hosted over recent months.

It believes that Northprint is an important route to market for the commercial printers based in the north of the UK and it provides Oce with the opportunity to demonstrate its claimed strength in duplex mono printing technology and highlight its colour product range to a key audience.

The Varioprint 6250 cut sheet digital press incorporates Oce's Gemini Copypress perfecting technology, which enables it to image both sides of a range of media simultaneously at a speed of 250 A4 images per minute, claimed Oce.

By imaging at a constant speed on all materials, the Varioprint 6250 is said to be able to produce high volume mono print.

It is suitable for a number of applications in the commercial printing industry, for example with the production of technical publications, medical printing, music printing and it is particularly well suited to the fast growing digital book production sector, added the company.

Ed Hudson, Oce's DDS Imagistics marketing manager, said: "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." He added: "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 the industry 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 introduced to produce colour print and copy at a claimed 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, said Oce.

Also exhibited on stand M430 will be two products from Oce, the Colour Production System 900 (CPS900) Platinum digital colour press and the Varioprint 2110 Titanium mono production system.

Claimed to be designed to provide consistent and reliable colour, the CPS900 automates the colour management process through the printer's workflow, which has the effect of 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 providing consistent colour output across multiple systems, times and locations, added Oce.

The Varioprint 2110 Titanium is a monochrome digital printer for the commercial print and corporate production environment.

It is said to be suitable for handling complex or varying applications and enables the efficient handling of documents requiring mixed-stock, inserts, or variable data printing within one workflow.

The system has already been awarded the 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, said Oce.

Northprint 2007 will run from April 24 - 26 at the Harrogate Exhibition Centre in the UK.

Expected to attract 4,300 visitors from the printing, packaging and graphic communications industry, it is the only national mainstream graphic arts exhibition for the UK this year and celebrates it 40th birthday this year.

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