Oce Imagistics Unveils New Strategy for In-plant Print Shop Market
Professional Printroom Program Strategy Mobilizes Nationwide Sales, Service and Support
TRUMBULL, Conn., May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Signaling a strong focus on corporate print shops, Oce Imagistics today announced a comprehensive program developed to evaluate the rapidly-changing needs of today's back-office print operation, and address them with customized digital printing equipment, software, services and support. The Oce Professional Printroom Program is the centerpiece of the company's Digital Print Centers group.
"The pressure is on," said Eric de Goeijen, vice president, Marketing, Digital Print Centers, Oce Imagistics. "Today's corporate print shop manager needs to satisfy the CFO with stringent cost controls and, at the same time, offer internal customers the value-added, state-of-the-art services they need to compete in the marketplace."
A complete marketing proposition that helps organizations establish or expand their centralized printing capability, the Professional Printroom Program calls upon a team of professionals who focus solely on in-house print shop operations. The team combines a level of skill and specialization that is unmatched in the industry with a product portfolio that is wide and deep, vastly increasing the shop's productivity and helping print shop managers build a greater level of client trust.
A three-pronged approach
Popular printers offered under the Professional Printroom Program include monochrome products such as the Oce VarioPrint 2100 and 2110 cut-sheet printers and the VarioPrint 5160 Advanced printer. The recently-unveiled Oce VarioPrint 6250, the world's fastest duplex printer, is a watershed product for this market. Also featured are color devices such as the Oce CPS 800 and 900 printers and multi-engine CPT systems. The color systems have been lauded for their remarkably consistent color output, achieved without calibration, at speeds as fast as 90 pages per minute.
At the heart of the proposition is Oce PRISMA workflow software, the most comprehensive architected suite of software available. Oce PRISMA modules such as DPconnect, DPconvert and DPlink, make it easy to integrate with or migrate from legacy printers from Xerox Corp.
Professional services comprise the third part of the Professional Printroom Program. Trained analysts and specialized sales consultants co-manage the process every step of the way, backed up by a service staff who won BERTL's platinum reader choice award in 2005.
Implementing the Professional Printroom Program
The program is based on a realistic phased approach, with each step including tangible and measurable business objectives. Following an initial assessment period, it delineates four phases: digital printroom; service printroom; convergence printroom; and enterprise printroom. Clients can advance through phases as quickly or slowly as their needs dictate.
The program offers two options for the assessment phase. The Oce Printroom Business Scan, conducted by a certified Oce account manager, provides relatively fast insight into current state and growth opportunities. More complex operations can benefit from the Oce Printroom Assessment, an in-depth 360-degree evaluation that identifies both challenges and opportunities along with realistic ways to address each.
Entering the digital printroom phase gives clients many of digital printing's incremental capabilities. Operators control workflow by editing, prioritizing and queuing incoming jobs. Remote access to printing devices maximizes uptime. The digital printroom phase also can add basic finishing options such as stapling and collating -- needed for complex jobs that include tabs, covers, inserts, chapterization or a mix of color and monochrome pages. At this phase, organizations already will experience a jump in productivity.
The next level of service is achieved with the service printroom, which combines digital printroom functionality with more sophisticated capabilities that provide the best possible level of service to internal customers. Sophisticated capabilities such as advanced job submission, convenient re-ordering, automatic document design, make ready and clean-up as well as scan to archive, CD or e-mail enable a new level of productivity and customer satisfaction. Load balancing and integration of non-Oce hardware optimize the shop's equipment investment.
The print shop becomes a strategically-significant resource at the convergence printroom phase where transaction-oriented datastreams and traditional print shop functions merge. Personalization capabilities mean more effective documents and sizeable cost-savings are achieved by around-the-clock utilization of equipment.
In the enterprise printroom model, all of the organization's print shops are centralized -- regardless of geography. The oft-discussed distribute-then-print architecture becomes reality at this stage, offering substantial savings in transportation and energy costs and expanding just-in-time delivery of print jobs. Centralized, multi-site management enables a comprehensive, enterprise-wide load-balancing and asset utilization model, and establishes global synergies with business processes.
About Oce Imagistics
In January 2006, Oce established Oce Imagistics, a new division that combines the office business of Imagistics International Inc. with the office and Digital Printing Centers business of Oce's North American operations. Imagistics International Inc. has been a leading direct sales and service provider of document imaging solutions for the past 39 years. The new Oce Imagistics, with a full range of hardware and software products that cover the entire spectrum of imaging needs, continues to specialize in national account management, document cost management and solutions for their best-of-class products including high performance, leading edge black-and-white and color MFPs. Its direct sales and service organizations are located throughout the United States and Canada. For additional information about Oce Imagistics Inc., please visit http://www.imagistics.com/.
About Oce
Oce is a leading provider of digital document management technology and services. The company's solutions are based on Oce's advanced software applications that deliver documents and data over internal networks and the Internet to printing devices and archives -- locally and around the world. Supporting the workflow solutions are Oce digital printers and scanners, considered the most reliable and productive in the world. Oce also offers a wide range of display graphics, consulting and outsourcing solutions.
Netherlands-based Oce N.V. (NASDAQ:OCENY), with a workforce of around 24,000 people and pro forma annualized revenues of nearly $3.7 billion, active in approximately eighty countries, maintains research and manufacturing centers in the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Romania. Oce's North American headquarters is located in Chicago with major business units in Trumbull, Conn.; Chicago; New York City; Boca Raton, Fla.; Salt Lake City; Coventry, R.I.; and Vancouver, B.C. North American revenues were $1.7 billion for fiscal 2005, and employment is currently 11,000. For more information about Oce, visit www.oceusa.com/ . Outside the U.S., consult www.oce.com/ .
Source: Oce
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