CHICAGO, Sept. 9 - Oce, a global leader in digital document management and delivery solutions, joined other exhibitors in printing, graphic arts and allied industries as the PRINT 05 trade convention opened today. The company's exhibit, themed "Print Shop for the 21st Century," portrays the end-to-end workflow of a state-of-the-art digital print shop for the event's projected audience of 70,000 industry professionals.
Oce also used the industry event, which runs through September 15, as a venue to announce an array of new printing industry products for commercial printers and graphic arts professionals.
Mal Baboyian, President of Oce North America, Digital Document Systems division, said, "We're announcing new products in every area of the business: black & white and color, cut-sheet and continuous feed printers and digital workflow software."
The new products include:
-- The Oce VarioStream(R) 9230 continuous-feed printing system, which
brings three-over-three color capability to the Oce VarioStream 9000
family;
-- The Oce VarioPrint(R) 3110 cut-sheet transaction printing system, a
faster model in the Oce VarioPrint 3000 family;
-- Significant increase in speed for cut sheet, full-color printing with
the Oce CPT60 and CPT90 cut-sheet color printers with rated speeds of
64 pages-per-minute (ppm) and 96 ppm respectively, bringing a new
level of quality, image consistency and affordability to the full-
color digital printing market;
-- An array of enhancements for the Oce VarioStream 7000 family of
continuous feed printers;
-- Oce DPconvert(TM) software, a package that transforms proprietary
print files created with Xerox(R) DigiPath(TM) production software
into industry-standard formats or Oce print streams keeping intact the
embedded "job ticket" instructions such as automated paper stock, tab
insertion or binding instructions;
-- A new version of Oce PRISMAweb(TM) software that creates multiple
"digital storefronts" for print providers allowing them to emulate the
look-and-feel of their customers' web sites; and
-- A new version of Oce PRISMAproduction(TM) which supports JDF/JMF-based
job ticketing.
For more information on Oce at PRINT 05, visit http://www.oceusa.com/print05 . For more information on the Oce product announcements, visit http://www.oceusa.com/news .
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 21,500 people and 2004 revenues of $3.3 billion, maintains research and manufacturing centers in the Netherlands, the United States, Germany, France, Belgium, the Czech Republic and Japan. Oce's North American headquarters is located in Chicago with major business units in Chicago; New York City; Boca Raton, Fla.; Salt Lake City; Coventry, R.I.; and Vancouver. North American revenues were $1.2 billion for fiscal 2004, and employment is approximately 8,100. For more information about Oce, visit http://www.oceusa.com . Outside the U.S., consult http://www.oce.com .
"Oce VarioStream," "Oce VarioPrint," "Oce DPconvert" are registered trademarks, and "Oce PRISMAweb" and "Oce PRISMAproduction" are trademarks of Oce-Technologies, B.V. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks and are the property of their owners and are respectfully acknowledged.

