Printing Press can mix color and monochrome in one run.
Press Release Summary:
Suited for commercial printers, direct mail services, and data centers, Oce ColorStream 10000 Flex delivers up to 1.425 A4/1.515 letter size prints per minute. As color press, 168/172 ppm system delivers over 5 million full-color prints/month. Toner-based, continuous feed, digital printing press can print on wide range of paper stocks and provides Oce Job Appropriate Color to ensure customers can choose best color capabilities for their business needs.
Original Press Release:
Océ ColorStream Family Offers Customers Speed and Color Flexibility
Printing professionals gain efficiency for mixed color and monochrome environments
Venlo, The Netherlands, 22 September 2009 - Oce, an international leader in digital document management and delivery, announces a significant increase in monochrome productivity for the Oce ColorStream® family of continuous feed digital printing presses. The new Oce ColorStream 10000 Flex delivers the fastest toner-based, color-capable black and white productivity in the market, with up to 1.425 A4 /1.515 letter size prints per minute (ppm). As a color press, the 168 / 172-ppm Oce ColorStream system powers through over five million full-color prints a month.
Best color capabilities
The newest release encompasses high speed monochrome printing for the Oce ColorStream family and further enhances the overall flexibility of the line. The Oce ColorStream 10000 Flex product family provides Oce Job Appropriate Color to ensure customers can choose the best color capabilities for their business needs, without overinvesting. Commercial printers, direct mail services in-house printers and datacenters benefit from the highest productivity along with the appropriate color and quality for a wide range of applications, all from a single, upgradeable system.
Print operations can take on jobs that weren't previously affordable or even possible on just one system. For example, users can print the first few pages of a document in color and the next 50 pages in black and white. With the ability to mix color and monochrome pages in one run, printers can extend their application variety with a single, straightforward workflow. The innovative Oce ColorStream digital press automatically adapts speed and costs within one job according to the application's color use.
Consistent solid core technology paired with outstanding versatility
"Oce already enjoys a very good reputation in the production color market, marked by the introductions of the toner-based Oce ColorStream family along with the Oce inkjet-based JetStream family. The latest launch of high-speed black and white capabilities within the ColorStream family turns this platform into a versatile product line capable of handling a multitude of configurations that address most diverse requirements. Our customers are now offered a consistent and solid core technology paired with an outstanding level of versatility which allows them to grow the platform as new business opportunities emerge," says Sebastian Landesberger, Executive Vice
President, Oce Production Printing.
To maximize return on investment, print operations demand flexibility from their equipment, and the new Oce ColorStream 10000 Flex system offers a solution for the range of requirements encountered in today's market. Some operations face a moderate increase in color workload, but still need the productivity of a high quality continuous feed printing system for heavy monochrome volumes. The Oce ColorStream platform is designed to support these mixed environments. Customers investing in a monochrome system today can also easily grow into additional color capabilities when necessary.
"A surprising number of customers still produce a large volume of their workload in monochrome, and they look for a solution that can secure their business now and give them a future as they move into color," said Sebastian Landesberger. "For those customers, Oce combines both benchmark black and white speed with continuous feed color productivity, all switchable with a click."
The Oce ColorStream 10000 Flex can print on a wide range of paper stocks and will be supported by two front-end systems to address the widest variety of customer requirements. Oce PRISMAproduction workflow provides extensive capabilities especially in AFP-driven operations, while the new Oce PRISMAcolorworks software enabled by Creo Color Server Technology features easy-to-use graphic arts functionality for enhancing pre-press work, along with excellent connectivity into traditional printing environments.
Key Application: Transaction
In the transactional printing market, the Oce ColorStream system allows customers to grow into color incrementally at their own pace, without compromising existing job requirements and budgets. With Oce CustomTone® spot color, print providers can add corporate colors to invoices and statements as the first step, and then expand to full color TransPromo communications. In keeping its commitment to full investment protection, all installed Oce ColorStream products will be field upgradeable to the new Oce ColorStream systems.
Key Applications: Direct Mail
In the direct mail market, print providers can take advantage of Oce Job Appropriate Color to offer their customers the most appropriate choices for their business goals. The Oce ColorStream system brings the direct mail market maximum monochrome productivity combined with premium color printing for special mailing applications. This positions print providers for the widest range of direct mail business opportunities.
Key Application: Books and manuals
The Oce ColorStream system is the ultimate machine for mixed color and monochrome job environments found in many markets. Many books and manuals consist of either spot color or a small number of full color pages, applications that are perfectly supported by the printer's dynamic versatility and productivity. For customers in book and manual printing and other segments of the graphic arts market, Oce ColorStream 10000 Flex system offers distinct advantages, including excellent front-to-back print registration and the ability to print on lightweight stocks giving it a place in the pharmaceutical industry.
The new monochrome high-speed extension of the Oce ColorStream 10000 Flex system will be available spring 2010.
