Fast production print speeds enable higher throughput on rigid or roll media TRUMBULL, Conn., Oct. 9
TRUMBULL, Conn., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Oce, an international leader in
digital document management and delivery solutions, today announced the new
Oce Arizona(R) 350 GT UV curable flatbed printer, which includes support for
white ink printing and high production print speeds. The Oce Arizona 350 GT
printer will be on display in the Oce booth #1041 at the Specialty Graphic
Imaging Association (SGIA) Expo, October 15-18 in Atlanta, and the Oce booth
#2400 at Graph Expo, October 26-29 in Chicago.
The Oce Arizona 350 GT is the next generation model in the award-winning
Oce Arizona printer line. It uses UV curable inks and Oce VariaDotTM imaging
technology to deliver near-photographic image quality for nearly any
application. Designed as a true flatbed system, it can print on a wide variety
of rigid substrates and features a Roll Media Option for printing onto
flexible media.
The Oce Arizona 350 GT expands the popular Oce Arizona family of UV
curable, flatbed printers, which also includes the Oce Arizona 200 GT and the
Oce Arizona 250 GT printers.
White ink expands capabilities
The Oce Arizona 350 GT printer includes a White Ink Option that can be
added at the factory or in the field. The White Ink Option enables
under-printing on non-white media or objects, over-printing for backlit
applications on transparent media and printing white as a spot color.
Under-printing white ink provides a base for non-white surfaces upon which
color can be added, giving users the ability to expand their range of
offerings to include specialty applications. Over-printing white ink provides
a diffusion layer for backlit applications that will be viewed from the
unprinted side, enabling users to produce high quality backlit images for
point-of-purchase applications. The ability to also print white ink as a spot
color enables white features of images to be highlighted for greater effect.
Production print speeds
The Oce Arizona 350 GT printer features production print speeds up to 239
square feet per hour on rigid media and up to 188 square feet per hour using
the Roll Media Option. This enables users to print nearly sixty full-sized
(4' x 8') boards in a single eight-hour shift, or more than 1,615 square feet
of flexible media.
Printer basics
The Oce Arizona 350 GT combines a true flatbed design with a separate,
dedicated roll-to-roll system. It can print onto rigid media up to 49" wide x
98" long x 1.89" thick. With the Roll Media Option installed, users can print
onto flexible media up to 87" wide. It uses four-color (CMYK) plus White UV
curable inks and Oce VariaDot imaging technology with near-photographic image
quality.
The Oce Arizona 350 GT is a true flatbed design that uses a vacuum system
to hold media stationary on a flat surface, ensuring accurate registration
even on multiple imaging passes. Full bleeds can be printed, saving time and
labor costs in finishing. No minimum print size means just the necessary
materials are used with no substrate waste. Unlike all other flatbed or
rigid-capable printers, the Oce Arizona 350 GT prints along the long axis of
rigid media to optimize throughput -- the fewer the number of printing passes
over the media, the higher the average productivity.
The Oce Arizona 350 GT joins the popular Oce Arizona family of UV curable,
flatbed printers at the top of the range. The Oce Arizona 250 GT printer uses
four-color (CMYK) ink and prints at speeds of up to 172 square feet per hour.
The Oce Arizona 200 GT printer also uses four-color (CMYK) ink and prints at
speeds of up to 101 square feet per hour. All share the same robust
architecture and deliberate design that offer the Oce values of quality,
reliability, productivity and user-friendliness.
Outstanding image quality, designed for productivity
The Oce Arizona 350 GT printer uses Oce VariaDot imaging technology that
enables a printhead to produce dots of variable size versus printheads using
fixed-droplet technology. Oce VariaDot technology creates these variable dots
by dispensing ink droplets that vary in size from 6 to 42 picoliters. The
ability to vary the drop size to as little as 6 picoliters produces sharp
images with smoother gradients and quarter-tones. The ability to jet larger
droplets up to 42 picoliters produces dense, uniform solids. The result is
near-photographic image quality with a sharpness only before seen at
resolutions of 1,440 dpi or higher.
In addition to superior image quality, Oce VariaDot imaging technology
with four-color inks uses significantly less ink compared to six-color
printers with fixed-droplet inkjet technology. This lower ink consumption
results in ink savings of up to 50 percent over fixed-droplet, six-color
printers.
Opportunities for applications that command premium prices
The Oce Arizona 350 GT printer can print on irregularly shaped or
non-square items, heavy substrates such as glass, or materials that have an
uneven surface such as wood. This is an advantage over competitive
rigid-capable printers that use belt or friction-based media feed systems, as
they can only print on square-cornered, lightweight materials of uniform
thickness. The Oce Arizona 350 GT printer, along with the White Ink Option,
opens the printing possibilities to more exotic applications that command
premium prices.
A Roll Media Option can be added in the factory or in the field, giving
customers the ability to print onto flexible media including vinyl,
self-adhesive vinyl, scrim banner, paper and blue backed paper without
compromising the rigid printing workflow. Once a rigid print is finished, the
printhead assembly is positioned over the roll module and begins printing on
flexible media, while the rigid material is swapped out and the new board is
placed on the vacuum table and prepared for printing. When the flexible media
printing is completed, the printhead assembly moves back to the table to
resume printing on the rigid media. The media roll can be unloaded at any time
without interrupting rigid printing, and there is no down time to reconfigure
the system to change from one print mode to the other.
Beyond display graphics applications
The Oce Arizona 350 GT printer is ideal for producing a wide variety of
display graphics such as event graphics, point-of-purchase displays,
limited-term signage, banners, backlit and reflective rigid displays, transit
advertising, and directional signage. But because of its ability to print on a
range of materials not predetermined simply by "square, flat and thin" and its
support of white ink, the Oce Arizona 350 GT printer can produce applications
beyond the norm including custom furniture, glasswork, fixture enhancement,
fine art, or nearly anything that the imagination can conceive.
Availability
The Oce Arizona 350 GT printer and the White Ink and Roll Media options
are expected to be ready for customer delivery in the United States in
November 2008. For other geographies, please contact your local Oce office. To
drive the Oce Arizona 350 GT printer, ONYX(R) ProductionHouseTM Oce Edition
software is available as an option.
Oce Display Graphics Systems
Oce Display Graphics Systems is a leading provider of professional, wide
format solutions for indoor and outdoor color display graphics applications.
Oce solutions are specifically designed to enhance the revenue and profit
opportunities for service providers by combining hardware with workflow
software and the expertise to help companies expand into digital wide format
color. From extremely high-quality photo laser printers to outdoor-durable
systems, Oce offers a total solution including hardware, software, services
and financing. Customers benefit in working with a full-service partner they
can count on to help their businesses grow.
About Oce
Oce N.V. is a leading international 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.
Oce employs around 24,000 people, with 2007 revenues of approximately $4.6
billion, operates in more than 90 countries and maintains research and
manufacturing centers in the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, Germany,
France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Romania and Singapore. Oce North America
is headquartered in Trumbull, CT, with additional business units in Chicago,
IL; New York City; Boca Raton, FL; Salt Lake City, UT and Vancouver, BC.
North American revenues represented approximately half of Oce's worldwide
business in 2007, and employment is currently 11,000. For more information
about Oce, visit http://www.oceusa.com. Outside the U.S., consult
http://www.oce.com.
Listing information for this release:
Oce North America
5450 North Cumberland Ave.
Chicago, IL 60656
U.S. toll free 800-714-4427
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fax 773-714-4056
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trademark of Oce-Technologies B.V. "Oce Arizona" is a registered trademark of
Oce Display Graphics Systems, Inc. "ONYX" is a registered trademark and
"ProductionHouse" is a trademark of ONYX Graphics, Inc. All product and
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