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High-volume full-colour transactional and TransPromo printing at PostServis

Czech hybrid post provider offers new type of service with high-productivity Océ JetStream 1000 digital full-colour inkjet printing solution

Venlo, The Netherlands, 22 November 2010 - Océ, an international leader in digital document management and delivery, today announces that PostServis, a division of Czech Post and the main Czech provider of hybrid post services, is installing a second full-colour inkjet production printer Océ JetStream® 1000. Both printing systems – one located in České Budějovice and one in Brno – significantly widen the portfolio of services offered by PostServis in the transactional and TransPromo printing market and will help Czech Post maintain its leadership position in this dynamically growing segment.

PostServis continues to improve and optimise services for end customers

The hybrid mail scheme provides a full solution for bulk mailers of business correspondence. The customer simply emails a data file to a PostServis centre, where it is transformed into a physical mail. The centre does the printing and envelope insertion and immediately dispatches the mail for delivery. The reverse process – converting physical documents into electronic form – is also available. The customer can also order evaluations of the scanned documents, for example evaluation of returns.

PostServis has used toner-based b/w production printing systems, primarily from Océ, for several years to print mostly b/w transactional documents. At the beginning of 2010, Postservis´s printer park was strengthened by the first Océ JetStream 1000 full-colour inkjet web-fed production printer to be installed in the Czech Republic, in České Budějovice, and currently the installation of a second JetStream printer is being prepared in the city of Brno. Both printers will significantly widen the portfolio of PostServis services on offer, enabling this print provider to strengthen its leading position in transactional printing business and grow into new, full-colour TransPromo applications that represent the future of transactional printing.

Josef Kadlec, Director of the Hybrid Post Division, comments on the reasons for, and the circumstances surrounding, this decision: “By installing these Océ JetStream 1000 printers we are reacting to new trends in document printing and moving to TransPromo document production. Our target is to both satisfy our clients’ requirements and keep our leading position in printing and enveloping services.”

The Océ JetStream 1000 printer brings many benefits

The Océ JetStream 1000 full-colour web-fed digital inkjet production printer uses Océ DigiDot® piezoelectric drop-on-demand technology and water-based inks. Its nominal speed is 1,010 full-colour A4 pages per minute, adding up to 20 million A4 pages per month. It allows double-sided printing up to the full width of the roll (520mm). The system allows quick, high quality and cost-effective b/w and full colour (CMYK) printing, with upgrading options up to 6/6 mode printing. It is ideal not only for the production of transactional and TransPromo prints, but also for printing collaterals, brochures, magazines, books and many other applications.

“We’re pleased that a second Océ JetStream 1000 will soon be in use at Czech Post,” notes Sebastian Landesberger, Executive Vice President, Océ Production Printing. “The Czech market shows lots of innovative potential for high-speed variable data printing in full colour. The Océ JetStream 1000 offers the smallest footprint in its class and provides everything required in an adaptable, powerful, digital printing engine. With printing speeds of 75 metres a minute, the Océ JetStream 1000 perfectly suits Czech Post and its clients, since it can be readily adapted to meet changing requirements.”

Colourful future for production printing at PostServis

Josef Kadlec concludes “our clients are very interested in transitioning to TransPromo printing, but the process is not easy. Cooperation on both sides – the client and the provider – is absolutely necessary with regard to the optimal quality of data delivered, including the TransPromo document layout. Based on the volumes of the currently produced and prepared jobs, a transition of more than 50% of printed volume to TransPromo applications is likely.”

About Océ

Océ is one of the world’s leading providers of document management and printing for professionals. The broad Océ offering includes office printing and copying systems, high speed digital production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and colour display graphics. Océ is also a foremost supplier of document management outsourcing. Many of the world’s Fortune 500 companies and leading commercial printers are Océ customers. The company was founded in 1877. With headquarters in Venlo, The Netherlands, Océ is active in approximately 100 countries and employs some 22,000 people worldwide. Total revenues in 2009 amounted to € 2.6 billion. Océ is listed on Euronext in Amsterdam. For more information on Océ, visit www.oce.com.

Creating the global leader in printing

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• Enterprise printing in the office and corporate printroom

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• Production printing for marketing service bureaus and graphic arts

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