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News Release from: Oce Printing Systems | Subject: Variostream 9000 series
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 June 2007
Digitally Printed Newspaper Better Than
Offset
With print quality claimed to be 'even better than offset', Oce systems have printed some of the world's most famous international newspapers, including the Financial Times, digitally in full colour.
Oce's short-run digital newspaper printing systems have completed tests and produced full digital colour copies of the Financial Times, Guardian and Sydney Morning Herald, as well as Spanish newspaper, El Pais, and Germany's Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Each day Oce produces a total of more than 5,000 international editions around 15 different titles at six separate commercial print sites - in London, New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, Singapore and Zurich
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 8 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The newspapers are produced on Oce's latest digital continuous feed technology, such as the Variostream 9000 series.
In addition to the full colour version the next groundbreaking development in the Oce Variostream 9000 line-up is a system for ultra-productive output, raising the print speed benchmark by over 50 per cent, claimed the company.
The samples were first shown at an Oce open house event in Poing, near Munich (Germany) which is Europe's largest annual digital printing exhibition.
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Ian Denhard, the FT's head of logistics, said: "Through its world-acclaimed digital offering, Oce has played an important part in opening up new markets throughout the world for the Financial Times and has been an integral part of our development strategy for new printing locations.
Producing newspapers in colour is another quantum leap forward and, quite frankly, the quality from Oce's digital printing is better than offset." The digital printing systems company also produces 20,000 copies of the Handelsblatt News Am Abend newspaper per day at 26 separate print sites in 14 locations across Germany.
The final editorial deadline is at 2.00pm and special news copies are available at 3.30pm on Air Berlin flights and on trains of the Deutsche Bahn.
Oce's international market segment manager for the newspaper industry, Michaela Frisch, said: "Printing in full colour is another massive leap forward for this unique way of producing international editions of some world-famous titles across the world.
Publishers have said that the high quality is even better than offset quality of the originals." She added: "We are focusing strongly on areas that are of strategic importance to publishers, where digital production technology can make a real difference through adding value to publishers' businesses." And she explained: "Apart from the introduction of colour we're also introducing dramatically faster black and white machines, a development that opens up even more opportunities for publishers.
Taking in consideration the progress we are making in technology every year and our intensive work on business models mixed with our six years activity and experience in this market I am very positive about the future outlook for Oce in the newspaper industry.
We still have seen only the beginning of what digital print can do for newspapers.".
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