Helping you spend public money efficiently
At Océ we understand that environmental and financial issues are becoming an increasing concern for Local Government. We work with you to help you meet your goals and deliver cutting-edge, money-saving technology in an entirely environmentally conscientious way. Click on the tabs above for a more indepth look.
Improve your resource efficiency
Outsourcing volume to third parties is costly and time consuming. Océ can assess your Council and discover where you can reduce your outsourcing costs and review your in-house printing capabilities to see what works best for you.
Enhance your processes
We can help you to enhance your internal processes to cope with large amounts of time-critical, personalised transactional material. From A4 personalised transactional material such as council tax correspondence benefit statements to Map, GIS and CAD applications on large format machines.
Océ can integrate your systems to improve consistency across the council’s printers, which means you will have one port of call for service, support and consumables.
Achieve Cost Effectiveness
Not only can you reduce your printing costs by optimising your printing capabilities, by using Océ technology, you can increase awareness of print costs to all employees. Our technology allows users to view their print jobs and how much they cost before hitting the print button, this will encourage users to think about which printers the print from and how necessary the print job is.
Enhance Security
We understand the importance of secure printing in your council. Out technology allows all staff to print securely from any printer on the network using secure PIN numbers or ID swipe cards.
People focused partnership
We will support you throughout the process from planning to installation to after sales support and service.
Production printers that improve your Council’s printroom
At Océ we work in partnership with you to build a solution tailored to your authorities needs, therefore each set of products we deliver to local Government may be slightly different. Below is an example of some of our products, built to meet high standards and achieve the goals of local authorities.
Océ high speed, high volume mono cutsheet printer series
The Océ Black and White cutsheet printer series are the most productive digital perfecting systems in their class. Based on Océ Gemini Instant Duplex technology, this duplex printer series takes monochrome speed to new heights. With ultra-fast speed and benchmark reliability, councils can take on more jobs and turn them around faster. All while reducing costs and environmental impact.
Océ VarioPrint 6000 Ultra Line of high volume duplex printers come in four upgradeable speed bands, from 170 to 314 A4/Letter and 155 A3/12 x 18 inch images per minute. Allowing councils to send out time-critical, personalised, transactional material such as benefit statements and council tax correspondence.
The fastest duplex printer in the series, the Océ VarioPrint 6320 Ultra high volume printer is up to 70 per cent faster than its nearest competitor, making it ideal for grueling double-sided printing requirements.
Typical jobs carried out on the Océ VarioPrint mono production series:
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Testimonials:
“The Océ VarioPrint 6160 gives me consistent ultra fast turnaround, plus a perfect front to back register. In addition it has been an easy task to implement and to train the team”
Simon Dawson, Principal Design and Print Officer, South Tyneside Council
The Océ Production Colour Series
The Océ Production Colour Series addresses the growing digital colour requirements of diverse users within Local Government printrooms. With our all-in-one production colour printers, you can impress the different departments with excellent quality, rapid turnaround and a broader suite of services – providing all the benefits of a one-stop shop.
The imagePRESS C7010VPS digital colour press teams Canon digital colour technology with Océ PRISMAsync workflow innovation to deliver flowing productivity, impressive colour and a world of new possibilities. Together, a built-to-last design, generous capacity, exceptional throughput and Océ PRISMAsync operation and workflow efficiencies help you make the most of every resource.
Typical jobs carried out on the imageRUNNER series:
Full colour information leaflets
Order of service cards
Marketing information for the public
Parent/Education leaflets
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Océ Software
Contain your budget and reduce waste with cost control functionality
Océ Software can track activity by device, user or department allowing you to reduce the money you spend on document production by modifying wasteful user behaviour.
Control document distribution with print management software
Automatically route print jobs to the most cost-effective printer. Send documents across the office, to a branch office across town or a subsidiary across the world. Our software improves document distribution in all forms: hard copy or editable digital via scan-to –pc, -email, or –network folders with automatic OCR.
Improve document and device security
Keep sensitive company and public information private with state-of-the-art document and device security. Our ‘simple-to-use’ technology ensures documents sent to the printer cannot be read, go astray or get mixed up with other print jobs. It is quick and easy to use. All printed jobs are held in a ‘queue’ until the release to print is authorised by the sender’s swipe-card, ID badge or biometric signature.
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Testimonial:
“I’ve experienced first hand the huge reduction in waste through Océ’s Follow-me technology. Users walk up to a device and view their list of jobs and how much each job is going to cost. Seeing this before they hit the print button allows them to think ‘I don’t actually need that any more’. They then delete that job rather than print it, or print it in mono rather than colour.”
Jason Mason, Basildon Borough Council
Increase efficiency across the office floor with our multifunctional printers
Our group of experts can help audit your office environment to assess how effectively your current devices are being used. This will help to discover your current document production costs and analyse where we can increase efficiencies within the council. For example this could be minimising the use of desktop printers and utilising multifunctional machines, which allow you to copy, print, scan and fax in one easy to use system.
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Testimonials:
“The new arrangement allowed us to add more functionality and services in the form of the Follow-me technology and centralised fax services, while still achieving further savings. We've got more for less, rather than the same features for less and the biggest impact has been increased efficiency and cost savings.” Jason Mason, Basildon Borough Council.
Large format Printing for Local Government
Océ ColorWave 600
The Océ ColorWave 600 is the world’s first colour toner wide format printer using Océ CrystalPoint technology. This unique technology uses TonerPearls for high quality prints on plain and recycled paper at a high print speed of up to 31 seconds per A0. The ColorWave 600 prints colour and black & white with excellent results from CAD up to full colour posters.
The Océ ColorWave 600 is designed as a single platform to address multiple applications. Local authorities can now use one printer for CAD, GIS, Mapping and Marketing applications. The new technology provides an ultra fast, and highly productive shared resource - one that is helping councils up and down the country to improve value for money, and enable reprographic budgets to stretch much further.
GIS/CAD and Map applications
The ColorWave 600 allows extensive use of colour for engineering drawings and legal deeds, historic records and plans and maps for bridges drains and roads.
Graphics and Marketing applications
The Océ ColorWave 600 also prints high quality, full colour posters at world-class speed of up to 31 seconds per A0 allowing council design teams to keep their graphics printing in-house.
The ColorWave also uses plain paper at standard sizes (A0, A1 etc) so there is no need for any trimming in production process.
 | Local Government ColorWave 600Using robust new technology developed by Océ in The Netherlands many councils and public authorities have transformed their productivity, and optimised their reprographic budgets. |
 | Southend-on-Sea Borough CouncilOcé technology saves tax payers’ money and cuts C02 emissions. |
 | Newcastle Central LibraryThe opening of Newcastle’s flagship Central Library was the first step in a revitalisation of the city’s library services. |
 | Basildon Borough CouncilBack in 2009 Basildon Borough Council, like every organisation in the public sector, was searching for solutions to bring down costs and improve efficiency. |
 | Newcastle City CouncilWhen Newcastle City Council decided to replace all its office printing and copying systems, this resulted in a large cost saving and increased efficiency. |
 | Leicester City CouncilThe machine is saving the Council significant sums of money, and its quality is proving good enough for both graphics and CAD applications. |
 | South Tyneside CouncilSouth Tyneside Council printroom re-design results in expansion of services, and one third cost saving. |