The Week the Universe Changed
High-speed Ink Jet Color with Integrated MICR
Got Color?
Digital Nirvana
When Color is Not Enough
Closing the Functionality Gap
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One of the great things about digital printing technology is is that if you look hard enough, rather than delaying decisions, you'll often find what you want. Consider for a moment, the need for full color and MICR printing.
Most big, fast electrophotographic printers that print countless transactional documents have always been able to use MICR toner, the magnetically charged particles essential for certain machine-readable characters on checks and some other documents. It was thought to be a unique advantage over other types of printing.
The new range of ink jet machines brought full-color, ultra-high speed printing capabilities to transactional documents, much to the pleasure of some leading transactional printers. But the absence of MICR capability limited the utility of the big devices, making it harder for IT departments, in-house print operations and service bureaus to justify the investment in the powerful systems, despite the appeal of color and lower operating costs. Printing MICR lines was deemed essential, yet conventional wisdom held that MICR wasn't possible on ink jet devices.
This week, in Chicago, the universe changed.
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Raising the Bar on Ink Jet Capabilities
High-speed Inkjet Color with Integrated MICR
At Graph Expo, Océ North America is rolling out new MICR ink jet technology, proving that conventional wisdom can be wrong. Océ has long been a leader in delivering MICR solutions on both continuous feed and cut-sheet products. In response to market demand, Océ has integrated MICR capabilities directly into the Océ JetStream platform. Having the new print heads integrated into the printer, rather than bolted on as an
afterthought or standalone system, provides the utmost in flexibility
and versatility. This is accomplished by adding a fifth head that uses a new, proprietary MICR ink. This enables customers combine print checks and full-color documents in the same job with complete reliability, security and error recovery. The fifth head uses the same Océ DigiDot drop-on-demand ink delivery technology as the other ink jet heads, ensuring consistent state-of-the-art MICR ink formulation without affecting the rest of the printing process.
MICR: the Essential Ingredient of Transactional Print
MICR output is essential in production environments that print insurance, financial, marketing offers, and other applications involving checks. For direct mailers, commercial print providers and service bureaus, the ability to print clearly legible MICR and professional full color output in one pass on one system creates an unmatched competitive and productivity advantage. In addition, the system's color capabilities have been expanded with built-in ICC color management resources, and comply fully with the AFP Color Management Architecture to support a wider range of applications than ever before. This new MICR capability, combined with Océ multi-level printing for output versatility, gives customers more choices for leveraging their investment.
“The Océ JetStream platform is being enthusiastically adopted by customers around the world who are creating amazing campaigns and other applications using full color and variable content," says Guy Broadhurst, Vice President of New Technology and Client Development, Production Printing Systems, Océ North America. "These new enhancements make the Océ JetStream platform a powerful combination of multi-level printing, speed, quality, ink, MICR, and media options unmatched in today's high-speed ink jet market. It opens a world of possibilities that goes well beyond trans-promo and direct mail into graphic arts.”
In addition, like all Océ products, the Océ JetStream family fully complies with the provisions of the RoHS directive, which restricts the use of certain hazardous substances in new electrical and electronic equipment. The Océ JetStream system is the first product in its class to be RoHS compliant, further demonstrating continued Océ leadership in environmental sustainability.
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Got Color?
New models add quality and capabilities
Bringing new color capabilities to commercial printers and in-house print operations with moderate production requirements is the new Océ CS 665 Pro, the latest evolution of the successful Océ Color System family. These versatile, cut-sheet devices print, copy and scan with quality suitable for high-end color applications. They also offer improved performance, greater productivity and support for a wider range of jobs.
How to build a book
Two versions of the Océ CS665 system are being shown at Graph Expo. The CS665 Pro system with an EFI Fiery color server will print the color pages for Roll over Gutenberg, a fully finished book that explores the changing world of book publishing. Another version of the Océ CS665, powered by a Creo Color Server, will print covers for an application guide, a color calendar, and a full-color Chicago travel guide.
With a mix of monochrome and color pages, such documents are not simple to produce --unless the right tools are available. Demonstrating unique capabilities for handling monochrome and color workflows, Océ PRISMAprepare software automatically splits color and black-and-white pages and directs the color output to the Océ CS665 Pro printer and black-and-white pages to an Océ VarioPrint 6250 system. If you're at Graph Expo you can see it first hand.
The Océ Color System family is the first product in its class to receive Fogra certification, an internationally approved standard for sheet-fed and web offset printers. Munich-based Fogra is a leading research center for the printing industry. Certification demonstrates a printer's commitment to the highest quality ISO standards, based on measurable criteria for proofing and printing in a production environment. Fogra certification recognizes that Océ CS printers achieve predictable, measurable quality according to these exacting requirements.
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When Color is Not Enough
Native IPDS adds productivity to transactional printing
Native IPDS capability tops the list of features sought by transactional service bureaus and data centers alike. Once primarily found on large continuous-feed printers, it's now available on the Océ VarioPrint 6000 family, expanding the support and productivity available for a full array of transaction applications. This eliminates the time required by most other systems to transform an IPDS datastream and print a job, as well as the potential for time-consuming or costly errors. Still more productivity comes from the inherent versatility of this system.
Format switching
For greater convenience, operators can instantly switch between IPDS, PostScript and PCL data streams without rebooting or losing data. For example, users can continue sending PostScript jobs to the printer even if the workflow is in IPDS mode. All job activity resides on the easy-to-use Océ scheduler that's built into the Océ VarioPrint 6000 family. This unique capability increases production uptime and reduces delays, giving complex convergent environments the benefits of uninterrupted throughput.
At 250 letter-sized prints per minute, the Océ VarioPrint 6250 system is the market’s most productive simultaneous duplex printer, and now customers can apply this industry-leading productivity to their IPDS transaction applications. Print operations can increase productivity by as much as 70 percent by moving more work to the extremely reliable Océ VarioPrint 6250 cut-sheet printer. The system is powered by Océ Gemini Instant Duplex technology, which presses images into both sides of the page in a single pass, resulting in higher productivity, offset-class quality, near-perfect registration, and greater efficiency.
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Closing the Functionality Gap
High-end features for light production
Wouldn't it be great if a smaller printer had more of the features of larger machines? The new Océ VarioPrint 4000 family of cut-sheet printers is designed to close the gap between light production and very-high-volume production. 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 2,500,000 documents per month. The systems bring sophisticated printing, copying, scanning and finishing to commercial and in-house printshops.
Near offset quality
The Océ VarioPrint 4000 family features unique Océ Copy Press imaging, which presses toner directly onto the paper and delivers near offset quality for text and halftones. The toner fuses at much lower temperatures than conventional systems and without waste or dust. With lower temperature fusing, print media doesn’t curl when put through the system, resulting in fewer jams and less downtime.
Further productivity advantages of the new systems include an intuitive interface for comprehensive control. Excellent registration ensures reliable accuracy when printing books, manuals and other publications. The systems run at rated speed on a variety of media, including coated and heavy stock, and deliver productive printing even on oversized and custom media.
Integration support enables seamless interoperability in Xerox and other proprietary environments. The Océ VarioPrint 4000 family is compatible with Adobe Postscript, PCL, PDF, and IPDS data streams, opening new opportunities for customers in transactional and trans-promo environments, as well as for mixed shops that have other printers connected to the IPDS workflow. As a result, customers can easily integrate Océ VarioPrint 4000 systems into their existing operations.
The Océ VarioPrint 4000 family also continues the Océ commitment to environmental sustainability. It is designed for low power consumption, energy-saving performance, zero ozone emissions, quiet operation and RoHS compliance.
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Océ helps the people who make
our world. Companies everywhere use Océ technical documentation systems
in manufacturing, architecture, engineering and construction. Each
week, high-speed Océ printing systems produce millions of transaction
documents such as bank statements and utility bills. And in offices
around the world, people use Océ professional document systems to keep
the wheels of business and government turning. Océ is also at work in
publishing on demand, newspaper production and wide format color for
spectacular display graphics. It all helps our professional customers
go 'Beyond the Ordinary' in printing and document management.
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